primeval beech forests
states: [albania] [austria] [belgium] [bosnia and herzegovina] [bulgaria] [croatia] [czechia] [france] [germany] [italy] [poland] [romania] [slovakia] [slovenia] [spain] [switzerland] [macedonia] [ukraine]
category: natural
year: 2007
region: Europe and North America
latitude/longitude: 49.0097222222, 22.3388888889
visited: 2019
This transboundary property stretches over 12 countries. Since the end of the last Ice Age, European Beech spread from a few isolated refuge areas in the Alps, Carpathians, Dinarides, Mediterranean and Pyrenees over a short period of a few thousand years in a process that is still ongoing. The successful expansion across a whole continent is related to the tree’s adaptability and tolerance of different climatic, geographical and physical conditions.
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