Forest steppe
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Forest steppe is an ecoregion of mixed forests and grasslands. A belt of forest steppes cross Eurasia from eastern Europe to Eastern Siberia, forming a transition between temperate broadleaf and mixed forests and temperate grasslands, while other forest steppe ecoregions are found in the mountains of the Iranian Plateau.
[edit] 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 forest steppe lies east of the Urals, between the West Siberian broadleaf and mixed forests and the Kazakh steppe.
- Altai montane forests and forest steppe
- South Siberian forest steppe
- Selenge-Orkhon forest steppe
- The Daurian forest steppe lies between the Trans-Baikal conifer forests and East Siberian Taiga to the north and the Mongolian-Manchurian grassland to the south.
- Zagros Mountains forest steppe
- Elburz Range forest steppe
- Kopet Dag woodlands and forest steppe
- Kuhrud-Kohbanan Mountains forest steppe
