Forest steppe

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Forest steppe is a temperate-climate habitat type composed of grassland interspersed with areas of woodland or forest.

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. 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