Pannonian mixed forests
Pannonian mixed forests | |
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![]() Buchlov Nature Reserve | |
![]() location of the Pannonian mixed forests | |
Ecology | |
Realm | Palearctic |
Biome | temperate broadleaf and mixed forests |
Borders | |
Geography | |
Area | 307,720 km2 (118,810 sq mi) |
Countries | |
Conservation | |
Conservation status | Critical/endangered |
Protected | 55,223 km² (18%)[1] |
The Pannonian mixed forests is a temperate broadleaf and mixed forests ecoregion in Europe. It covers an area of 307,720 km2 in Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine, and Croatia.
Flora[]
The plant communities include mixed oak-hornbeam forests, mixed pedunculate and sessile oak forests, and other mixed forests as well as sub-Mediterranean thermophilous bitter oak forests, azonal floodplain vegetation, and lowland to montane herb-grass steppes.[2]
Fauna[]
Mammals[]
- brown bear
- black fox
- speckled ground squirrel
- European ground squirrel
- common mole
- white toothed pygmy shrew
- Eurasian pygmy shrew
- alpine shrew
- particolored bat
- European free-tailed bat
- wild boar
Reptiles and amphibians[]
- Hermann's tortoise
- nose-horned viper
- field alder
- siirt lizard
- great crested newt
- Carpathian newt
- Danube crested newt
- Italian crested newt
- smooth newt
- alpine newt
Birds[]
- little tern
- lapwing
- common redshank
- barn owl
- ural owl
- tawny owl
- Western capercaillie
- black grouse
- Eurasian hoopoe
- mistle thrush
- song thrush
- ring ouzel
- fieldfare
- redwing
- common blackbird
- Eurasian wren
- wallcreeper
- common starling
- barred warbler
- lesser whitethroat
- Eastern subalpine warbler
- orphean warbler
- common whitethroat
- garden warbler
- blackcap
- European turtle dove
- Eurasian collared dove
- western rock nutthatch
- wood nuthatch
References[]
- ^ Eric Dinerstein, David Olson, et al. (2017). An Ecoregion-Based Approach to Protecting Half the Terrestrial Realm, BioScience, Volume 67, Issue 6, June 2017, Pages 534–545; Supplemental material 2 table S1b. [1]
- ^ "Eastern Europe: Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Ukraine | Ecoregions | WWF".
External links[]
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- "Pannonian mixed forests". Terrestrial Ecoregions. World Wildlife Fund.
Categories:
- Ecoregions of Austria
- Ecoregions of Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Ecoregions of Croatia
- Ecoregions of the Czech Republic
- Ecoregions of Romania
- Ecoregions of Serbia
- Ecoregions of Slovakia
- Ecoregions of Slovenia
- Ecoregions of Ukraine
- Palearctic ecoregions
- Temperate broadleaf and mixed forests