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Ecological Processes
Fig. 1 | Ecological Processes

Fig. 1

From: Improving the knowledge of plant potential biodiversity-ecosystem services links using maps at the regional level in Southern Patagonia

Fig. 1

Characterization of the study area. a Location of Argentina (dark grey) and Santa Cruz Province (black). b Mean annual temperature (8.6 to 13.5 °C) where blue is low and red is high. c Mean annual rainfall (136 to 1681 mm year−1) where dark blue is higher values. d normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) (0–1) where red is low and green is high. e Main ecological areas, where light grey is dry steppes (central plateau, shrub-steppes of San Jorge Gulf, and mountains and plateaus), grey is humid steppes (humid and dry Magellanic grass steppes), medium grey is shrublands, dark grey is sub-Andean grasslands, and black is forests and alpine vegetation (modified from Oliva et al. 2004)

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