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Sarmatic mixed forests

Ecoregion in Europe

Field	Value
name	Sarmatic mixed forests
image	File:Haanja Upland.jpg
image_caption	Deciduous trees mixed with conifers
map	File:Ecoregion PA0436.png
map_caption	Ecoregion PA0436
country1	Norway
country2	Sweden
country3	Åland
country4	Finland
country5	Estonia
country6	Latvia
country7	Lithuania
country8	Belarus
country9	Russia
border	Scandinavian and Russian taiga
border1	Urals montane tundra and taiga
border2	East European forest steppe
border3	Central European mixed forests
border4	Baltic mixed forests
protected	84,571 km2 (10
protected_ref	)
area	846100
biogeographic_realm	Palearctic
biome	temperate broadleaf and mixed forests
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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). The term comes from the word "Sarmatia".

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 happens further 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. Sarmatic forest Stockholm.JPG|Stockholm - Swamp in a sarmatic mixed forest. Fagus sylvatica.jpg|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. Keskuspuisto.jpg|Coniferous trees in southernmost Finland dominate this Sarmatic mixed forest. Haanja Upland.jpg|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. [https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/bix014]
"Sarmatic mixed forests". World Wildlife Federation.
"Sarmatic mixed forests". Encyclopedia of the Earth.
"Sarmatic mixed forests". Digital Observatory for Protected Areas.

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