Pannonian mixed forests
Pannonian mixed forests | |
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Ecology | |
Realm | Palearctic |
Biome | temperate broadleaf and mixed forests |
Borders | |
Geography | |
Area | 307,720 km2 (118,810 sq mi) |
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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
Reptiles and amphibians
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.