Euxine-Colchic deciduous forests
The Euxine-Colchic deciduous forests ecoregion, in the Temperate broadleaf and mixed forests Biome, is located along the southern shore of the Black Sea. The ecoregion extends along the thin coastal strip from the southeastern corner of Bulgaria in the west, to Georgia in the east, across Turkey to the north, where it wraps around the eastern end of the Black Sea.
Sub-regions
The ecoregion is divided into two sub-regions.
Colchian forests
The Colchic or Colchian forests are found around the southeast corner of the Black Sea in Turkey and Georgia. The Colchian forests are mixed, with deciduous Black Alder (Alnus glutinosa), hornbeam (Carpinus betulus and C. orientalis), Oriental Beech (Fagus orientalis), and Sweet Chestnut (Castanea sativa), together with evergreen Nordmann Fir (Abies nordmanniana, the tallest tree in Europe at 78m), Caucasian Spruce (Picea orientalis) and Scots Pine (Pinus sylvestris). The Colchic region has high rainfall, averaging 1,500-2,500 mm annually, with a maximum in excess of 4,000 mm, and is home to some of Europe's temperate rain forests.
Euxinic forests
The drier Euxine or Euxinic forests lie west of the Melet River, and extend across the Bosporus along the Black Sea coast of European Turkey to Bulgaria. The Euxine forests receive an average of 1,000 to 1,500 mm precipitation annually. The Bulgarian part of the ecoregion lies with Strandzha Nature Park.
Rare habitat types include coastal sand dunes and peatlands.
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Palearctic temperate broadleaf and mixed forests |
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 |