Pannonian mixed forests
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.
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 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) |
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| Conservation | |
| Conservation status | Critical/endangered |
| Protected | 55,223 km² (18%)[1] |
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
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.
- https://www.worldwildlife.org/ecoregions/pa0431
External links
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- "Pannonian mixed forests". Terrestrial Ecoregions. World Wildlife Fund.
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