Po Basin mixed forests

Po Basin mixed forests
Po Basin mixed forests
	Po River at San Benedetto
	Location of the Po Basin mixed forests
Ecology
Realm	Palearctic
Biome	Temperate broadleaf and mixed forests
Borders	Alps conifer and mixed forests; Dinaric Mountains mixed forests; Illyrian deciduous forests,; Italian sclerophyllous and semi-deciduous forests;
Geography
Area	42,149 km2 (16,274 sq mi)
Countries	Italy; Switzerland;
Conservation
Conservation status	Critical/endangered
Protected	3,572 km2 (8%)

The Po Basin mixed forests is a temperate broadleaf and mixed forests ecoregion in the basin of the Po River in northern Italy and Switzerland's Ticino canton.

^ 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]