Pannonian mixed forests

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Pannonian mixed forests
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location of the Pannonian mixed forests
Ecology
Realm Palearctic
Biome temperate broadleaf and mixed forests
Borders
Geography
Area307,720 km2 (118,810 sq mi)
Countries
Conservation
Conservation status Critical/endangered
Protected55,223 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 all of Hungary, most of Slovakia, about half of Croatia and Slovenia, around a third of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Romania, and Serbia, and minor parts of Austria, Czech Republic, and Ukraine.

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Flora

The plant communities include mixed oak-hornbeam forests, azoal floodplain vegetation and lowland to montane herb-grass steppes.

Mixed oak-hornbeam forests are mixed forests of pedunculate oak and sessile oak and hornbeam. Sub-Mediterranean thermophilous bitter oak forests grow in warmer areas. These forests are dominated by Quercus pubescens , Quercus cerris , and Quercus frainetto mixed with other trees, mainly Fraxinus ornus and Carpinus orientalis . Higher altitude areas are dominated by European beech and silver birch, downy birch, European aspen and sometimes by conifers Abies alba , Picea abies , Pinus sylvestris , Pinus nigra .

Riparian forest and azoal floodplain vegetation occurs along rivers and lakes. It is dominated by Populus nigra , Populus alba , Salix alba , Alnus glutinosa , Fraxinus oxycarpa , Ulmus minor and Quercus robur . Phragmites australis is dominant in most wetlands.

Lowland to montane herb-grass steppes dominate large areas of the ecoregion. The dominant species are Stipa zalesskii , Bromus riparius and the shrubs Prunus fruticosa and Prunus spinosa . [2]

Fauna

Mammals

Reptiles and amphibians

Birds

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References

  1. 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.
  2. "Eastern Europe: Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Ukraine | Ecoregions | WWF".