Sarmatic mixed forests


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

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 in southernmost Norway, southern Sweden, 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, Urals montane tundra and taiga, East European forest steppe, Central European mixed forests and Baltic mixed forests, as well as by the Baltic Sea.

Description

The ecoregion consists of mixed forests dominated by Quercus robur, Picea abies and Pinus sylvestris. Geobotanically, it is divided between the Central European and Eastern European floristic provinces of the Circumboreal Region of the Holarctic Kingdom.