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Figure 5. North Carolina recognizes discrete ecoregions based on Bailey's ecoregions and subregions of the U.S. including Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands (Bailey 2016). This classification draws on climatic gradients based on temperature and precipitation, vegetation natural land covers, and terrain.
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