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English. Read; Edit; View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. Actions Read; ... Pages in category "Flora of Austria" The following 116 pages are in this ...
English. Read; Edit; View history; Tools. ... Fauna of Austria may refer to: List of birds of Austria; List of mammals of Austria; See also. Outline of Austria
Austria has six national parks, all of them internationally accepted according to the IUCN standard. The first national park, Hohe Tauern , was established in 1981. [ 1 ] They include each of Austria's most important natural landscape types — alluvial forest , Alpine massif , Pannonian steppe and rocky valleys .
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As said before this park is known for its wide variety of flora and fauna and one typical example is the reed bed surrounding the Josefsteg covering a large part of the area. The common reed ( Phragmites australis ) is a cosmopolite [ clarification needed ] species of perennial plant that belongs to the Poaceae, which is a sub-family of the ...
Flora typical of the Alpine Region of the Alps. The Alps are one of the great mountain range systems of Europe stretching approximately 1,200 kilometres (750 mi) across eight Alpine countries from Austria and Slovenia in the east, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Germany, France to the west and Italy and Monaco to the south.
The fauna of Europe is all the animals living in Europe and its surrounding seas and islands. Europe is the western part of the Palearctic realm (which in turn is part of the Holarctic ). Lying within the temperate region , (north of the equator) the wildlife is not as rich as in the hottest regions, but is nevertheless diverse due to the ...
Donau-Auen National Park (German: Nationalpark Donau-Auen) covers 93 square kilometres in Vienna and Lower Austria and is one of the largest remaining floodplains of the Danube in Middle Europe. The German word Aue (variant Au ) means " river island , wetland , floodplain, riparian woodland ", i.e. a cultivated landscape in a riparian zone .