It is covering an area of approximately 55.000 ha. It has many habitats and ecosystems due to ecotones intermingled between Mediterranean and Irano-Turanian. The Irano-Turanian which forms the north-western and western parts are within Niğde province and the northern parts are within Kayseri province. The Mediterranean which forms the southern and eastern parts are within Adana province (Halıcı & Aksoy, 2009). These phytogeographical regions have given Aladağlar National Park the richness of floristic diversity. It is situated in the C13 square in grid system of Turkey adopted by Henderson (1961) (Fig. 1).Unfortunately, there is no weather station in the Aladağlar National Park. The nearest stations are located in Pozantı (Adana), Yahyalı (Kayseri) and Çamardı (Niğde). According to the values from these stations, the climate type of the research area is mainly Mediterranean characterized by dry and warm summers. Average annual precipitation at Pozantı is 707.2 mm, 451.2 mm at Yahyalı, and 388.7 mm at Çamardı. Accordingly, the study area has an arid climate type in Kayseri and Niğde and semi-arid Mediterranean climate type in Adana (Akman, 1990).The main types of vegetation in Aladağlar National Park are forest, steppe and rock vegeta-
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.