Western European broadleaf forests

Typical beech forest

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


    Apennine deciduous montane forests Italy
    Atlantic mixed forests Denmark, France, Belgium, Germany, Netherlands
    Azores temperate mixed forests Portugal
    Balkan mixed forests Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Turkey
    Baltic mixed forests Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Poland
    Cantabrian mixed forests Spain, Portugal
    Caspian Hyrcanian mixed forests Iran, Azerbaijan
    Caucasus mixed forests Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Russia, Turkey
    Celtic broadleaf forests United Kingdom, Ireland
    Central Anatolian deciduous forests Turkey
    Central China loess plateau mixed forests China
    Central European mixed forests Austria, Germany, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Belarus, Czech Republic
    Central Korean deciduous forests North Korea, South Korea
    Changbai Mountains mixed forests China, North Korea
    Changjiang Plain evergreen forests China
    Crimean Submediterranean forest complex Russia, Ukraine
    Daba Mountains evergreen forests China
    Dinaric Mountains mixed forests Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovenia, Croatia
    East European forest steppe Bulgaria, Moldova, Romania, Russia, Ukraine
    Eastern Anatolian deciduous forests Turkey
    English Lowlands beech forests United Kingdom
    Euxine-Colchic deciduous forests Bulgaria, Georgia, Turkey
    Hokkaido deciduous forests Japan
    Huang He Plain mixed forests China
    Madeira evergreen forests Portugal
    Manchurian mixed forests China, North Korea, Russia, South Korea
    Nihonkai evergreen forests Japan
    Nihonkai montane deciduous forests Japan
    North Atlantic moist mixed forests Ireland, United Kingdom
    Northeast China Plain deciduous forests China
    Pannonian mixed forests Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine, Croatia
    Po Basin mixed forests Italy
    Pyrenees conifer and mixed forests France, Spain, Andorra
    Qin Ling Mountains deciduous forests China
    Rodope montane mixed forests Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, Serbia
    Sarmatic mixed forests Russia, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Belarus
    Sichuan Basin evergreen broadleaf forests China
    South Sakhalin-Kurile mixed forests Russia
    Southern Korea evergreen forests South Korea
    Taiheiyo evergreen forests Japan
    Taiheiyo montane deciduous forests Japan
    Tarim Basin deciduous forests and steppe China
    Ussuri broadleaf and mixed forests Russia
    West Siberian broadleaf and mixed forests Russia
    Western European broadleaf forests Switzerland, Austria, France, Germany, Czech Republic
    Zagros Mountains forest steppe Iran, Arabian Peninsula