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Ymyyakhtakh
11-30-2019, 07:57 AM
https://i.imgur.com/muQrrMk.jpg
https://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/data/set/nagdc-population-landscape-climate-estimates-v3/maps?facets=region:europe

https://i.imgur.com/KaGcIga.jpg
https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/figures/dmeer-digital-map-of-european-ecological-regions

https://indo-european.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/19-palearctic-biomes.jpg
https://indo-european.eu/maps/

https://i.imgur.com/fPVoSjD.jpg
https://www.wur.nl/en/Research-Results/Research-Institutes/Environmental-Research/Projects/EBONE/Products/European-Environmental-Stratification.htm

Description of the zones in the last map above:


- Alpine North: Scandinavian mountains; these have been named Alpine north, because they show environmental conditions as the Alps on a higher latitude, but in lower mountains.
- Alpine South: the high mountains of central and southern Europe that show the environmental conditions of high mountains. Unlike the biogeographical zonation of Europe as presented by the EEA here also small Alpine patches are found in mountain areas outside the Alps Pyrenees and Carpathians.
- Atlantic Central is the area with moderate climate where the average winter temperature does not go far below 0°C and the average summer temperatures are relatively low.
- Atlantic North: is the area under influence of the Atlantic ocean and the North sea, humid with rather low temperatures in summer and winter, but not extremely cold.
- Boreal: is the environmental zone covering the lowlands of Scandinavia, mainly characterised by Conifer forests.
- Continental: is the part of Europe with an environment of warm summers and rather cold winters and where Beech is a dominant tree species
- Lusitenean: is the southern Atlantic area from western France to Lisbon. Here the summer temperatures are rather high and there are some dry months occur, winters are mild and humid. It is the region of the southern European heathlands and the Pyrenean oak.
- Mediterranean Mountains: these mountains are influenced by both the Mediterranean zone they are situated in, but still they show an influence of mountain climate. This is the area where Mediterranean Beech forests are found
- Mediterrenean North: the Mediteranean northern represents the major part of the Mediterranean climate zone with Holm oak, Cork Oak many fruit plantations and Olive groves.
- Mediterrenean South: this zone represents the extreme Mediterranean climate that is shared with northern Africa, short precipitation periods and long hot, dry summers.
- Nemoral: the zone covering the southern part of Scandinavia, the Baltic states and Belarus. It is the environmental zone characterised by mixtures of Taiga forest and Deciduous broadleaved forests.
- Pannonian-Pontic: this is the most steppic part of Europe, with cold winters and dry hot summers. Most precipitation falls in spring. One of the characteristic plant species is Stipa ssp.
- Anatolian: represents the steppes of Turkey, a Mediterranean steppic environment.

In the third map made by Carlos Quiles, the Baltic states, Southern Sweden, and Turku and Åland region are part of the "Sarmatic mixed forests" zone, but the Malmö region and Denmark are part of the "Central European mixed forests" zone.

In the fourth map, Jutland is part of a Northern Atlantic zone, along with about half of the British Isles and parts of the Netherlands and Germany.

True Northern Europe = boreal zone + tundra + Scandinavian alpine zone. Denmark, Götaland, and half of Svealand are only semi-Northern Europe. The European peoples whose population is mostly concentrated in the northernmost ecoregions (excluding the nemoral zone / sarmatic mixed forest zone) are the Icelandics, Norwegians (possibly depending on what ecoregion the coastal areas are considered to be part of), Saami, Finns, Karelians, Vepsans, Komi, and Nenetses. Based on the second and third maps above, the population of Sweden and the Baltic states is mostly concentrated in the nemoral zone / sarmatic mixed forest zone.

In the map below, the Helsinki area is included as part of the boreonemoral zone, which might actually cause almost half (but not more than half) of the population of Finland to live outside the proper boreal zone:

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Christer_Nilsson/publication/273711261/figure/fig1/AS:294934902001672@1447329369114/The-study-area-includes-Denmark-the-Faroe-Islands-Finland-Iceland-Norway-and.png
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/The-study-area-includes-Denmark-the-Faroe-Islands-Finland-Iceland-Norway-and_fig1_273711261

Rocinante
11-30-2019, 09:34 AM
https://i.imgur.com/muQrrMk.jpg
https://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/data/set/nagdc-population-landscape-climate-estimates-v3/maps?facets=region:europe

https://i.imgur.com/KaGcIga.jpg
https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/figures/dmeer-digital-map-of-european-ecological-regions

https://indo-european.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/19-palearctic-biomes.jpg
https://indo-european.eu/maps/

https://i.imgur.com/fPVoSjD.jpg
https://www.wur.nl/en/Research-Results/Research-Institutes/Environmental-Research/Projects/EBONE/Products/European-Environmental-Stratification.htm

Description of the zones in the last map above:


- Alpine North: Scandinavian mountains; these have been named Alpine north, because they show environmental conditions as the Alps on a higher latitude, but in lower mountains.
- Alpine South: the high mountains of central and southern Europe that show the environmental conditions of high mountains. Unlike the Biogeographical zonation of Europe as presented by the EEA here also small Alpine patches are found in mountain areas outside the Alps Pyrenees and Carpathians.
- Atlantic Central is the area with moderate climate where the average winter temperature does not go far below 0°C and the average summer temperatures are relatively low.
- Atlantic North: is the area under influence of the Atlantic ocean and the North sea, humid with rather low temperatures in summer and winter, but not extremely cold.
- Boreal: is the environmental zone covering the lowlands of Scandinavia, mainly characterised by Conifer forests.
- Continental: is the part of Europe with an environment of warm summers and rather cold winters and where Beech is a dominant tree species
- Lusitenean: is the southern Atlantic area from western France to Lisbon. Here the summer temperatures are rather high and there are some dry months occur, winters are mild and humid. It is the region of the southern European heathlands and the Pyrenean oak.
- Mediterranean Mountains: these mountains are influenced by both the Mediterranean zone they are situated in, nbut still they show an influence of mountain climate. This is the area where Mediterranean Beech forests are found
- Mediterrenean North: the Mediteranean northern represents the major part of the Mediterranean climate zone with Holm oak, Cork Oak many fruit plantations and Olive groves.
- Mediterrenean South: this zone represents the extreme Mediterranean climate that is shared with northern Africa, short precipitation periods and long hot, dry summers.
- Nemoral: the zone covering the southern part of Scandinavia, the Baltic states and Belarus. It is the environmental zone characterised by mixtures of Taiga forest and Deciduous broadleaved forests.
- Pannonian-Pontic: this is the most steppic part of Europe, with cold winters and dry hot summers. Most precipitation falls in spring. One of the characteristic plant species is Stipa ssp.
- Anatolian: represents the steppes of Turkey, a Mediterranean steppic environment.

In the third map made by Carles, the Baltic States, Southern Sweden, and Turku region are part of the "Sarmatic mixed forests" zone, but the Malmö region and Denmark are part of the "Central European mixed forests" zone.

In the fourth map, Jutland is part of a Northern Atlantic zone, along with the northern half of the British Isles and parts of the Netherlands and Germany.

True Northern Europe = boreal zone + tundra. Götaland, half of Svealand, and Denmark are not really Northern Europe.

Cantabrian mixed forest and northwest iberian montane forest :thumb001:

Jana
11-30-2019, 09:54 AM
My natural habitat are Illyrian deciduous forests. :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illyrian_deciduous_forests

Belongs to the biome of Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub, and to the Palearctic ecozone.
The Illyrian deciduous forests stretch along the eastern coast of the Ionian and Adriatic Seas (including the islands) and occupy 40,600 km2 (15,700 sq mi) in Northern Greece, Albania, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Slovenia and Northern Italy near Trieste.

The climate of the ecoregion is mostly of Köppen's Mediterranean type with hot summers (Csa).
https://st3.depositphotos.com/1154025/16499/i/1600/depositphotos_164996578-stock-photo-island-of-zlarin-waterfront-view.jpg

Crimean
12-01-2019, 12:21 PM
Crimean Submediterranean forest complex sounds right for me.
This is a rather unique place (not Socotra, but still), there is a certain amount of endemic animals and plants.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimean_Submediterranean_forest_complex

https://i.postimg.cc/VLg8vb1q/image13-997x664.jpg

Bakha
12-01-2019, 12:26 PM
My beautiful steppe
http://lh5.ggpht.com/-Mk0jFdMz3t4/U2hGyqJqzxI/AAAAAAAAZMs/ndKtBzageHM/s0/DSC_4229.jpg

Samnium
12-01-2019, 12:35 PM
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/638825419436720148/650689249082867713/unknown.png

Here there is the Parco Nazionale della Sila, should be considered as Temperate biomes.

Seriously this is mediterranean forest ?

https://calabria.jblasa.com/turismo/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Parco-nazionale-della-Sila.jpg
https://www.quicosenza.it/news/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/parco-nazionale-della-sila-735x400.jpg
https://i0.wp.com/www.bb-alma-crotone.it/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Sila-gallery-7.jpg?resize=600%2C338&ssl=1
https://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/03/0c/2b/04/grand-hotel-parco-dei.jpg
https://www.jamaluca.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/20171029_105355-e1509647597712.jpg
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/2b/b0/65/2bb06570e9ac1c2c51958c31e0e80ff2.jpg
http://www.strettoweb.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/neve-sila-11-febbraio-2018-8-560x420.jpeg
http://www.meteoweb.eu/wp-content/uploads/timthumb.php?src=http://www.meteoweb.eu/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/sila-autunno-7.jpg&q=100&w=759&h=536&zc=2&cc=FFFFFF&a=t

Kyp
12-01-2019, 12:38 PM
deciduous/oniferous forests & calcareous grasslands, of Franconia
https://www.bayern.by/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/frankenwald-nurner-brocken-steinwueste-1920-1024x384.jpg
https://vcdn.bergfex.at/images/downsized/28/83d7a2337a087928_173d13f30579a85a@2x.jpg
http://www.travelmyne.de/photos/deutschland/franken-landschaft-fruehling.jpg
https://www.reiseerlebnisfuehrer.de/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/header-franken.jpg

Samnium
12-01-2019, 12:43 PM
double

Mens-Sarda
12-01-2019, 10:07 PM
Bioclimatic map of Sardinia


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Ülev
12-01-2019, 10:09 PM
this one is the best EVER!!!

http://www.globalbioclimatics.org/form/bi_med.jpg

Moje ime
12-01-2019, 10:18 PM
...

Faklon
12-01-2019, 10:44 PM
Pindus forests

https://mygreekholiday.gr/media/k2/items/cache/62ce28ec99c2fa1d4d37c00276d38905_XL.jpg
https://valueforlife.gr/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/3-1.jpg

Aegean sea

https://www.clickatlife.gr/fu/t/131043/1200/10000/0000000000596b91/1/samothraki.jpg

https://www.ekirikas.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/amorgos.jpg

http://fanpage.gr/pictures/2017/04/prevel-25.jpg

Ymyyakhtakh
12-02-2019, 02:06 AM
this one is the best EVER!!!

http://www.globalbioclimatics.org/form/bi_med.jpg

Here's some differences in that map compared to the maps I posted in the case of Northern Europe:

- Fairly large parts of the coast of Norway are part of the temperate oceanic zone.
- Parts of the southern coast of Finland (even though not necessarily Helsinki -- it's hard to tell) are included in the temperate continental region.
- Iceland is mostly part of the same region as the mountain areas of Norway (boreal oceanic).
- Götaland is part of the same region as Denmark and Germany (temperate oceanic) and not the same region as the Baltic states (temperate continental).

It's nice how rivers are marked in that map, so the federal subjects of Russia are easier to locate. About half of Udmurtia is part of the boreal zone. However the area of Tatarstan, which roughly corresponds to some estimates of the Proto-Uralic urheimat, is entirely within the temperate zone.

BTW, depending on how the boreal zone is defined, the only country in the world that is almost entirely or entirely within the boreal zone is Finland. Based on the borders of the boreal zone drawn in the maps in this thread, out of the federal subjects of European Russia, Karelia, Vologda Oblast, and Komi Republic are also entirely or almost entirely within the boreal zone. Archangelsk Oblast is not, unless Nenets AO, Novaya Zemlya, and Franz Josef Land are excluded.

Ymyyakhtakh
12-22-2019, 07:17 AM
Here's a map from Jeong et al. 2019 (The genetic history of admixture across inner Eurasia) (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/332747456_The_genetic_history_of_admixture_across_ inner_Eurasia), which shows that the area of the peoples of the Volga-Ural region (apart from Komis, who are not included on the map) is mostly within the temperate broadleaf and mixed forest zone:

https://i.imgur.com/6BV3ZdZ.jpg

Even the borders of Bashkortostan roughly follow the border between the steppe and the forest zone:

https://i.imgur.com/mXzSsn5.jpg

Ymyyakhtakh
01-28-2020, 06:08 PM
Here's another map which also includes Siberia. It's retarded how it uses nearly identical shades of green to indicate two different regions though.

https://i.imgur.com/7uWEZ18.jpg
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Potential-natural-vegetation-of-the-Northern-Eurasia-region-at-present-day-predicted-by_fig7_228950497

The southern border of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug follows the border of the "cold evergreen needleleaf forest" zone pretty closely.