Sarmatic mixed forests

Sarmatic mixed forests
Sarmatic mixed forests
	Deciduous trees mixed with conifers
	Ecoregion PA0436
Ecology
Realm	Palearctic
Biome	temperate broadleaf and mixed forests
Borders	List Scandinavian and Russian taiga; Urals montane tundra and taiga; East European forest steppe; Central European mixed forests; Baltic mixed forests;
Geography
Area	846,100 km2 (326,700 sq mi)
Countries	List Norway; Sweden; Åland; Finland; Estonia; Latvia; Lithuania; Belarus; Russia;
Coordinates	56°43′N 27°27′E / 56.717°N 27.450°E
Conservation
Protected	84,571 km2 (10%)

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).^[2]^[3] The term comes from the word "Sarmatia".

^ 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]
^ "Sarmatic mixed forests". World Wildlife Federation. Retrieved October 21, 2020.
^ "Sarmatic mixed forests". Encyclopedia of the Earth. Retrieved September 12, 2020.