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The Azores temperate mixed forests is a temperate broadleaf and mixed forests ecoregion of southwestern Europe. It encompasses the Azores archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean. These volcanic islands are an autonomous region of Portugal , and lie 1500 km west of the Portuguese mainland.
Map Photo PA0401 Apennine deciduous montane forests [Note 1] Italy PA0402 Atlantic mixed forests: Belgium, Denmark, France, Netherlands, Germany PA0403 Azores temperate mixed forests: Portugal PA0404 Balkan mixed forests: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Greece, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Turkey PA0405 Baltic mixed forests [Note 2]
The following is a list of ecoregions in Portugal, including the Azores and Madeira, according to the Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF). Terrestrial ecoregions [ edit ]
Scandinavian montane birch forest and grasslands; Selenge–Orkhon forest steppe; Sichuan Basin evergreen broadleaf forests; South Apennine mixed montane forests; South Iran Nubo–Sindian desert and semi-desert; South Saharan steppe and woodlands; South Sakhalin–Kurile mixed forests; South Siberian forest steppe; Southeast Tibet shrub and ...
The central Azores consist of the islands of Terceira, São Jorge, Pico, Faial, and Graciosa. Terceira is home to the oldest city in the Azores, Angra do Heroísmo, a UNESCO World Heritage site.
In Madeira, around 36% [10] and in the Azores, around 70% species are exotic. [11] [12] Due to this, Portugal was placed 168th globally out of 172 countries on the Forest Landscape Integrity Index in 2019. [13] Chameleo from Algarve. Portugal is the second country in Europe with the highest number of threatened animal and plant species (488 as ...
Extent of temperate broadleaf and mixed forests An example of temperate broadleaf and mixed forest in La Mauricie National Park, Quebec.. Temperate broadleaf and mixed forest is a temperate climate terrestrial habitat type defined by the World Wide Fund for Nature, with broadleaf tree ecoregions, and with conifer and broadleaf tree mixed coniferous forest ecoregions.
The Azores bullfinch, or Priolo, is restricted to remnant laurisilva forest in the mountains at the eastern end of São Miguel [50] and is classified by BirdLife International as endangered. Monteiro's storm petrel , described to science as recently as 2008, is known to breed in just two locations in the islands but may occur more widely.