Aegean and Western Turkey sclerophyllous and mixed forests

Aegean and Western Turkey sclerophyllous and mixed forests
Aegean and Western Turkey sclerophyllous and mixed forests
	Landscape at Cape Sounion
	Map of the ecoregion
Ecology
Realm	Palearctic
Biome	Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub
Borders	List Anatolian conifer and deciduous mixed forests; Balkan mixed forests; Illyrian deciduous forests; Pindus Mountains mixed forests; Southern Anatolian montane conifer and deciduous forests;
Geography
Area	126,377 km2 (48,794 sq mi)
Countries	Greece; Turkey; North Macedonia; Bulgaria;
Conservation
Conservation status	critical/endangered
Protected	23,189 km2 (18%)

The Aegean and Western Turkey sclerophyllous and mixed forests is an ecoregion in the lands around the Aegean Sea. The ecoregion covers most of mainland Greece, the Greek Aegean Islands (except for Crete), the western coast of Turkey, the southern Vardar river valley in North Macedonia, the southern Struma river valley at the extreme south-western corner of Bulgaria.^[2]

The ecoregion has a Mediterranean climate, and is in the Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub biome.

^ 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. [1]
^ "Ecoregions of Bulgaria". Retrieved 6 February 2015.

[dinerstein-1] 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. [1]

[2] "Ecoregions of Bulgaria". Retrieved 6 February 2015.

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