Faroe Islands boreal grasslands
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The Faroe Islands boreal grasslands ecoregion covers all 18 mountainous islands of the Faroe archipelago in the North Atlantic, set roughly equidistant between Scotland, Norway, and Iceland. There are no trees here; the predominant cover is grassland and dwarf-shrub heath, arranged in elevational zones, with moist heath below about 200 metres dominated by common heather (Calluna vulgaris) and crowberry, moist grassland higher up, and open alpine grassland with Racomitrium moss above roughly 400 metres, where dwarf willow and alpine bistort persist. The climate is oceanic and strongly moderated by the warm North Atlantic Current, making it humid, windy, and mild for its latitude, with summers averaging near 11 degrees Celsius and winters around 4 degrees Celsius. The islands' steep cliffs host vast seabird colonies, including a globally important share of the breeding European Storm-Petrel population, alongside Atlantic puffins, guillemots, and razorbills. Soil remains of birch suggest trees were more common before human arrival in the 9th century, and the ecoregion currently has no officially protected areas.
About the temperate grasslands, savannas & shrublands biome
Temperate prairies, steppes, and pampas of grasses and forbs with few trees, under continental climates of hot summers and cold winters. Their deep, fertile soils have made them among the most extensively converted biomes for agriculture.
Collections for this ecoregion
No curated collection's plants all fit this ecoregion's zone range. We surface a collection only when every member would grow here — partial fits get filtered out rather than mislead. As the catalog and the curated set both grow, this section will fill in.