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| Pannonian mixed forests | |
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_4.jpg) Buchlov Nature Reserve | |
 location of the Pannonian mixed forests | |
| Ecology | |
| Realm | Palearctic |
| Biome | temperate broadleaf and mixed forests |
| Borders | List |
| Geography | |
| Area | 307,720 km (118,810 sq mi) |
| Countries | List |
| Conservation | |
| Conservation status | Critical/endangered |
| Protected | 55,223 km (18%) |
The Pannonian mixed forests is a temperate broadleaf and mixed forests ecoregion in Europe. It covers an area of 307,720 km 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.
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, Carpinus orientalis, Acer pseudoplatanus, Malus sylvestris, Viburnum lantana, Fraxinus excelsior, Tilia cordata, Aesculus hippocastanum, Rhamnus cathartica, Juglans regia, Prunus padus and Corylus avellana. 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, Taxus baccata and Juniperus communis.
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.
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
- Hermann's tortoise
- nose-horned viper
- field adder
- European green lizard
- great crested newt
- Carpathian newt
- Danube crested newt
- Italian crested newt
- smooth newt
- alpine newt
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.
- "Eastern Europe: Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Ukraine | Ecoregions | WWF".
External links
- "Pannonian mixed forests". Terrestrial Ecoregions. World Wildlife Fund.
- "Pannonian Mixed Forests". One Earth.
- "Pannonian Mixed Forests". ecoxplore.
- "Pannonian mixed forests". DOPA Explorer. European Commission.