Forest steppe
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A forest steppe is a temperate-climate ecotone and habitat type composed of grassland interspersed with areas of woodland or forest.
Locations
Forest steppe primarily occurs in a
temperate grasslands and temperate broadleaf and mixed forests biomes. Much of Russia belongs to the forest steppe zone, stretches from Central Russia, across Volga, Ural, Siberian and Far East Russia.[1][2][3][4]
In upper North America another example of the forest steppe ecotone is the
Prairie Provinces, northeastern British Columbia, North Dakota, and Minnesota. It is the transition ecoregion from the Great Plains prairie and steppe temperate grasslands to the Taiga
biome forests in the north.
In central Asia the forest steppe ecotone is found in ecoregions in the mountains of the Iranian Plateau, in Iran, Afghanistan, and Balochistan.
Forest steppe ecoregions
- East European forest steppe forms a transition between the Central European and Sarmatic mixed forests to the north and the Pontic–Caspian steppe to the south. It extends from Romania in the west to the Ural Mountains in the east.
- The Kazakh steppe.
- Altai montane forest and forest steppe
- The Southern Siberian rainforest includes forest-steppe areas.
- Selenge-Orkhon forest steppe
- The Mongolian-Manchurian grasslandto the south.
- Zagros Mountains forest steppe
- Elburz Range forest steppe
- Kopet Dag woodlands and forest steppe
- Kuhrud-Kohbanan Mountains forest steppe
- Canadian Aspen forests and parklands—North Dakota, Minnesota, and Canada
External links
- Media related to Forest steppes at Wikimedia Commons
References
- ISBN 9781606239339.
- S2CID 44269225.
- ^ "South Siberian forest steppe | Ecoregions | WWF". World Wildlife Fund. Retrieved 2019-08-13.
- ^ "On the Southern Border of the Forest and Forest-Steppe Cultures in the Urals in the Ist Millennium BC". ResearchGate. Retrieved 2019-08-13.