ECOLOGIA MEDITERRANEA -Tome XIII (fascicule 4) -1987

Ecological factors restricting the regeneration of Pinus brutia in Turkey.

Z. ERON*

KEYWORDS

I -Introduction

Turkey is located in the northern hemisphere between 36-42° latitude North and 26-45°

longitude East. The country is surrounded by the Black Sea in the north, the Aegean Sea in the west

and the Mediterranean Sea in the south. On the east, it is separated from Russia by the

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Trans-Caucasian mountains. The total area of the country is 780,000 km . Forest covers approximately 20,2 million hectares or 26 percent of the total land area.

The distribution of this forest land between the various forest categories is as

follows :