Sarmatic mixed forests

Sarmatic mixed forests
	Deciduous trees mixed with conifers
	Ecoregion PA0436
Ecology
Realm	Palearctic
Biome	temperate broadleaf and mixed forests
Borders	List Scandinavian and Russian taiga; Urals montane tundra and taiga; East European forest steppe; Central European mixed forests; Baltic mixed forests;
Geography
Area	846,100 km2 (326,700 sq mi)
Countries	List Norway; Sweden; Åland; Finland; Estonia; Latvia; Lithuania; Belarus; Russia;
Coordinates	56°43′N 27°27′E
Conservation
Protected	84,571 km² (10%)[1]

The Sarmatic mixed forests constitute an ecoregion within the temperate broadleaf and mixed forests biome, according to the World Wide Fund for Nature classification (ecoregion PA0436).

Distribution

This ecoregion is situated in Europe between boreal forests/taiga in the north and the broadleaf belt in the south and occupies about 846,100 km² (326,700 mi²) in southernmost Norway, southern Sweden (except southernmost), southwesternmost Finland, northern Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, northern Belarus and the central part of European Russia.

It is bordered by the ecoregions of Scandinavian and Russian taiga (north), Urals montane tundra and taiga (east), East European forest steppe (southeast), Central European mixed forests (southwest) and Baltic mixed forests (west), as well as by the Baltic Sea.

Description

The ecoregion consists of mixed forests dominated by Quercus robur (which only occasionally occurs farther north), Picea abies (which disappears further south due to insufficient moisture) and Pinus sylvestris (in drier locations). Geobotanically, it is divided between the Central European and Eastern European floristic provinces of the Circumboreal Region of the Holarctic Kingdom.

Stockholm - Swamp in a sarmatic mixed forest.
Norway - Winter in the beech forest in Larvik, Norway. Aside from conifers, black alder, white birch and elm are more common in the Sarmatic mixed forest.
Coniferous trees in southernmost Finland dominate this Sarmatic mixed forest.
South Estonia - Deciduous and coniferous trees clearly differentiate on this springtime photo.

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.

"Sarmatic mixed forests". Terrestrial Ecoregions. World Wildlife Fund.

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[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.

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

Sarmatic mixed forests

Distribution

Description

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References

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