Rodope montane mixed forests

Rodope montane mixed forests
Rodope montane mixed forests
	Forests near Smolyan in the Rhodope Mountains, southern Bulgaria
	Location of the Rodope montane mixed forests
Ecology
Realm	Palearctic
Biome	Temperate broadleaf and mixed forests
Borders	Aegean and Western Turkey sclerophyllous and mixed forests; Balkan mixed forests;
Geography
Area	31,689 km2 (12,235 sq mi)
Countries	Bulgaria; Greece; North Macedonia; Serbia;
Conservation
Conservation status	critical/endangered
Global 200	European-Mediterranean montane mixed forest
Protected	17,723 km² (56%)

The Rodope montane mixed forests is a terrestrial ecoregion of Europe defined by the WWF. It belongs in the temperate broadleaf and mixed forests biome and the Palearctic realm.

^ 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]