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: Austria, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, and Switzerland.

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

• WWF profiles: Western European broadleaf forests

Palearctic Temperate broadleaf and mixed forests
Appenine deciduous montane forests	Italy
Atlantic mixed forests	Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany. Netherlands
Azores temperate mixed forests	Portugal
Balkan mixed forests	Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Turkey
Baltic mixed forests	Denmark, Germany, Poland, Sweden
Cantabrian mixed forests	Portugal, Spain
Caspian Hyrcanian mixed forests	Azerbaijan, Iran
Caucasus mixed forests	Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Russia, Turkey
Celtic broadleaf forests	Ireland, United Kingdom
Central Anatolian deciduous forests	Turkey
Central China loess plateau mixed forests	China
Central European mixed forests	Austria, Belarus, Czech Republic, Germany, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland
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, Croatia, Italy, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovenia
East European forest steppe	Bulgaria, Moldova, Romania, Russia, Ukraine
Eastern Anatolian deciduous forests	Turkey
English Lowlands beech forests	United Kingdom
Euxine-Colchic deciduous forests	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, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine
Po Basin mixed forests	Italy
Pyrenees conifer and mixed forests	Andorra, France, Spain
Qin Ling Mountains deciduous forests	China
Rodope montane mixed forests	Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, Serbia
Sarmatic mixed forests	Belarus, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Russia, Sweden
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	Austria, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Switzerland
Zagros Mountains forest steppe	Iran