Abstract
The variety of fauna and flora of the Spanish natural spaces is enormous. Many of the species are endemic and some are relicts, which notably increases their geographical interest. There are an estimated 60,000 different species of flora and fauna, including 770 terrestrial vertebrates. The biological treasure of such biodiversity is a valuable resource that often goes unnoticed by the specificity of its study but which represents one of the most important geographical values of Spain. This chapter lists extensively the resources in order to gauge its importance (A detailed analysis of the geographical importance of this biodiversity is very much needed, but outside the scope of a synthesis. This chapter will be subject to extensive development in the fully fledged follow-up of this work, but at present, I can only comprehensively list and map the more geographically-important species).
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For example, the last bear in the Basque Country was hunted in 1871 in Urkiola (Biscay).
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Tapiador, F.J. (2020). Biodiversity: A Lively Country. In: The Geography of Spain. World Regional Geography Book Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18907-5_11
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