Black Sea Coast, near Novorossiisk, Russia Photograph by Olga Berlova   Central Asia: Southwest Russia and the Crimean Peninsula on the Black Sea coast Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests   11,600 square miles (30,100 square kilometers) -- about twice the size of Hawaii Critical/Endangered

· Location and General Description
· Biodiversity Features
· Current Status
· Threats
· Ecoregion Justification
· References
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Location and General Description

Biodiversity Features

Current Status

Types and Severity of Threats

Justification of Ecoregion Delineation

The Caucasus ecoregion boundary was derived from low montane natural vegetation units in the northwest Caucasus region and the Crimean peninsula (Bohn et al. 2000). It consists of montane mixed coniferous forests dominated by fir and spruce with Caucasian colline Oriental hornbeam-downy oak forests along the Black Sea coast and surrounding the Crimean mountains.

References

Bohn, Udo, Gisela Gollub, and Christoph Hettwer. 2000. Reduced general map of the natural vegetation of Europe. 1:10 million. Bonn-Bad Godesberg

Biodiversity Support Program. 1999. Priority-setting in Conservation: A new approach for Crimea. WWF, TNC,and WRI. Washington, DC

Chernichko I., Siokhin V., Kostiushin V. 2000. Program and Action Plan for Waterbird Monitoring in the Azov-Black Sea region of the Ukraine. Wetlands International.

Golubev V. 1996. Biological flora of Crimea. Yalta, Ukrainian Academy of Sciences.

The Red Data Book of Ukraine. 1994-1996.

WWF and IUCN. 1994. Centers of Plant Diversity: a guide and strategy for their conservation. Cambridge, UK

For more general information on this ecoregion, go to the WildWorld version of this description.