Over View
Palestine has a rich floristic and vegetation
diversity due to its geography, topography,
as well as the high climatic, lithologic, and
edaphic diversity. Our current knowledge of
the floral biodiversity within the West Bank
is based upon literature data and the observed
field records of Al-Sheikh; yet these data
do not provide information regarding the
location or the distribution range of the plant
species. Data were accumulated and updated
based upon field observations (Herbarium
of Palestine Institute for Biodiversity and
Sustainability), published and unpublished
available records, and biodiversity databases
(BioGIS and GBIF). These studies focus on
the southern hills of Jerusalem because it
is a newly declared protected area and falls
within the Mediterranean key biodiversity
areas.
