Biome plant group[edit]
Fynbos in South Africa
Similarly, shrubland is a category used to describe a type of biome plant group. In this context, shrublands are dense thickets of evergreen sclerophyll shrubs and small trees,[5] called:
Chaparral in California
Matorral in Chile, Mexico, and Spain
Maquis in France and elsewhere around the Mediterranean
Macchia in Italy
Fynbos in South Africa
Kwongan in Southwest Australia
Cedar scrub in Texas Hill Country
In some places shrubland is the mature vegetation type, and in other places the result of degradation of former forest or woodland by logging or overgrazing, or disturbance by major fires.[citation needed]
A number of World Wildlife Fund biomes are characterized as shrublands, including: