Western European broadleaf forests

The palaearctic Western European broadleaf forests is an ecoregion, in the Temperate broadleaf and mixed forests Biome, that covers a large area in Western Europe including: Switzerland, Austria, France, Germany and Czech Republic.

Geography

The total Western European broadleaf forests area is around 490,000 km² (189,190 sq mi). In particular the ecoregion is found in the Massif Central, Central German Uplands, Jura Mountains, Bavarian Plateau, and Bohemian Massif. It is essentially composed of lowland and alti-montane beech and mixed beech forests. It also includes small part of sub-Mediterranean regions.

Habitation

This area has been inhabited for thousands of years. It hosts large cities (Lyon, Nancy, Munich), some forests, but most of the countryside is agricultural land, cultivated with cereals (corn, wheat, oats). This ecoregion hosts a good variety of animal species, birds in particular, but most large mammals are in decline.

References

"Western European broadleaf forests". Terrestrial Ecoregions. World Wildlife Fund.

v t e Palearctic temperate broadleaf and mixed forests ecoregions
Western Europe	Apennine Atlantic Azores Baltic Cantabrian Celtic English Lowlands Madeira North Atlantic Po Basin Pyrenees Western European
Eastern Europe	Balkan Central European Crimean Submediterranean Dinaric Mountains East European forest steppe Pannonian Rodope Sarmatic
West Asia	Caspian Hyrcanian Caucasus Central Anatolian Eastern Anatolian Euxine–Colchic Zagros Mountains
East Asia	Central China loess plateau Central Korean Changbai Mountains Changjiang Plain Daba Mountains Hokkaidō Huang He Plain Manchurian Nihonkai evergreen Nihonkai montane Northeast China Plain Qin Ling Mountains Sichuan Basin South Sakhalin–Kurile Southern Korea Taiheiyo evergreen Taiheiyo montane Tarim Basin Ussuri West Siberian