Northwest Iberian montane forests

Northwest Iberian montane forests
Northwest Iberian montane forests
	Montesinho Natural Park, Portugal
	Location map of the Northwest Iberian montane forests
Ecology
Realm	Palearctic
Biome	Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub
Borders	Cantabrian mixed forests; Iberian conifer forests; Iberian sclerophyllous and semi-deciduous forests; Southwest Iberian Mediterranean sclerophyllous and mixed forests;
Geography
Area	57,407 km2 (22,165 sq mi)
Countries	Spain; Portugal;
Regions of Portugal and autonomous communities of Spain	Norte; Centro (Portugal); Castile and León; Extremadura; Galicia,; La Rioja (Spain);
Conservation
Conservation status	critical/endangered
Protected	15,628 km2 (27%)

The Northwest Iberian montane forests is a Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub ecoregion in southwestern Europe. It lies in the northwestern Iberian Peninsula and includes inland mountains, foothills and plateaus in northwestern Spain and northeastern Portugal.

^ 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]