Forest steppe

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

Forest steppe primarily occurs in a belt of forest steppes across northern Eurasia from the eastern lowlands of Europe to eastern Siberia in northeast Asia. It forms transition ecoregions between the temperate grasslands and temperate broadleaf and mixed forestsbiomes. 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 aspen parkland in the central Prairie Provinces, northeastern British Columbia, North Dakota, and Minnesota. It is the transition ecoregion from the Great Plainsprairie and steppe temperate grasslands in the south 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.

• 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 forest and forest steppe
• The Southern Siberian rainforest includes forest-steppe areas.
• Selenge-Orkhon forest steppe
• La estepa forestal de Dauria se extiende entre los bosques de coníferas del Transbaikalia y la taiga de Siberia Oriental al norte, y las praderas mongolas-manchúes al sur.
• estepa forestal de las montañas Zagros
• Estepa forestal de la cordillera de Elburz
• Bosques y estepa forestal de Kopet Dag
• Estepa forestal de las montañas Kuhrud-Kohbanan
• Bosques y parques de álamos canadienses — Dakota del Norte, Minnesota y Canadá

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