Faroe Islands, Denmark Photograph by Galen R. Frysinger   Northern Europe: Island group north of United Kingdom Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands   500 square miles (1,400 square kilometers) -- about half the size of Rhode Island Vulnerable

· 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

This ecoregion is equivalent to the DMEER (2000) unit of the same name. It consists entirely of Bohn et al.’s (2000) Atlantic dwarf shrub heaths in the Faroe Islands.

References

Bohn, Udo, Gisela Gollub, and Christoph Hettwer. 2000. Reduced general map of the natural vegetation of Europe. 1:10 million. Bonn-Bad Godesberg 2000. Digital Map of European Ecological Regions (DMEER), Version 2000/05

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