Sentence examples for mediterranean provided from inspiring English sources

The deep, three-basined harbor, the largest in the eastern Mediterranean, provided a safe stopover for large ships sailing from Rome to Alexandria.

The cork-oak forests of the western Mediterranean provided a habitat for many threatened species, including the Iberian lynx (Lynx pardinus) and the cinereous vulture (Aegypius monachus).

In the second and third centuries CE, this idea gripped the religious imagination of the Eastern Mediterranean, providing a distinctive understanding of the self that has survived in various forms throughout the centuries, down to the present.

Understanding cladogenesis, ecological divergence and varying degrees of reproductive isolation despite gene flow (i.e. introgression) remains a major challenge for evolutionary geneticists and thus shads in the Atlantic-Mediterranean region provide a unique model for population genetic studies of these processes.

The complexity of the Mediterranean-type biome provides a good context for addressing these issues.

For people who prefer a rather higher intake of fat, a Mediterranean-type diet is perfectly acceptable provided the fat sources are derived from monounsaturated and polyunsaturated oils.

The alluvial deposits from the numerous Andean rivers in central Chile have provided mineral-rich soils that support the flourishing Mediterranean-type agriculture of the Central Valley of the intermediate depression.

This correlation between areas of high plant richness and the MCE does not diminish the need for conservation action in all areas of the mediterranean biome, but it does provide support for the theory that the core mediterranean climate is an important driver of plant endemism and diversity, and that changes in climate could threaten the survival of these endemic plants.

Mussolini, too, provided planes, and within weeks more than ten thousand troops were flown across the Mediterranean the first major airlift in history.

In Crete a collection of stone tools dated to at least 130,000 years ago provided the earliest-known evidence for seafaring in the Mediterranean and possibly the world pushing back the date by more than 110,000 years.

While rising atmospheric CO2 levels could provide benefits to mediterranean plant species [34], the effects are altered when multiple factors of change are considered, including fire, drought, temperature increase, nitrogen deposition, and invasive species [35] [38].