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Macaronesia

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Much of the original native vegetation has been displaced because of human activity, including felling forests for timber and firewood, clearing vegetation for grazing and agriculture, and introducing foreign plants and animals into the islands. The laurisilva
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In 2022, Macaronesia had an estimated combined population of 3,222,054 people; 2,172,944 (67%) in the Canary Islands, 561,901 (17%) in Cape Verde, 250,769 (8%) in Madeira, and 236,440 (7%) in the Azores.
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is named after Macaronesia. Because none of the Macaronesian islands were ever part of any continent, all of the native plants and animals reached the islands via long-distance dispersal.
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regulations, have resulted in the protection of large stretches of land and sea in the Azores, Madeira, and the Canary Islands, totalling 5,000 km (1,900 sq mi).
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is in the African plate, the rest of the islands are in the diffuse boundary between the Eurasian and the African plates.
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and rabbits, the abundance of such prey sustains such a large feline population that it has initiated a so-called
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process, which further increases that population's negative impact on the number of endemic reptiles and birds.
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that is unique in the world. They are home to several distinct plant and animal communities. Notably, the
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Marques, Fernando; Catalão, João; Hildenbrand, Anthony; Costa, Ana; Dias, Nuno (21 October 2014).
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has been reduced to small disconnected pockets. As a result, many of the endemic
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Since 2001, the European Union's conservation efforts, mandated by its
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The name is occasionally misspelled "Macronesia" in false analogy with
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places the whole of Macaronesia in its botanical continent of Africa.
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in the Azores. Macaronesian islands are created by volcanic activity.
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on the ocean floor whose peaks have risen above the ocean's surface.
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in origin, and are thought to be the product of several geologic
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In some locations, there are variations in climate due to the
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Archipelagos off the Atlantic coast of North Africa and Europe
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and northwestern Africa before the cooling and drying of the
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Each of the archipelagos is a distinct political entity: the
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These forests resemble the ancient forests that covered the
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World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions
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Remaining patches of Macaronesia's threatened primeval
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European Union: Report on biodiversity in Macaronesia
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Micronesia
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Portuguese
Spanish
archipelagos
North Atlantic Ocean
North Africa
Europe
Atlantic oceanic islands
seamounts
Azores
Madeira
autonomous regions
Portugal
Canary Islands
autonomous community
Spain
Cape Verde
sovereign state
member
United Nations
European Union
African tectonic plate
Azores
triple junction
African
Eurasian
North American
biogeographical

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