Sunday, December 23, 2012

Western European Broadleaf Forests (5)

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There are a few patches of Western European broadleaf forest ecosystems on the western fringes of the areas occupied by the Early Medieval Slavic-speaking communities, in Austria, Czech Republic (Bohemian Massif), western Germany (Central German Uplands, Bavarian Plateau) and adjacent areas.  It is essentially composed of lowland and alti-montane beech and mixed beech forests  It also includes small areas of sub-Mediterranean and meso-supra-Mediterranean downy oak forests and mixed oak hornbeam forests. This ecoregion hosts a good variety of animal species, birds in particular, and formerly a range of larger mammals.

 Beech forest, Vtáčnik, Slovakia (Wikipedia)

Broadleaf  forest (naturepl.com)
 
Map of distribution of W. European Broadleaf Forest (Encyclopedia of the Earth)


Globalspecies.org Google map of the western European Broadleaf forests 
 

 Globalspecies.org Google map of the western European Broadleaf forests




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