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Azerbaijan shrub desert and steppe
Landscape in Gobustan State Reserve, Azerbaijan
Location of the ecoregion
Ecology
RealmPalearctic
Biomedeserts and xeric shrublands
Borders
  • Caspian Hyrcanian mixed forests
  • Caucasus mixed forests
  • Eastern Anatolian montane steppe,
  • Elburz Range forest steppe
Geography
Area64,090 km2 (24,750 sq mi)
Countries
  • Azerbaijan
  • Georgia,
  • Iran
Conservation
Conservation statusCritical/endangered[1]
Protected3,693 km2 (6%)[2]

The Azerbaijan shrub desert and steppe is a deserts and xeric shrublands ecoregion in western Asia. It lies in the lowlands west of the Caspian Sea, and covers portions of Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Iran.

  1. ^ "Azerbaijan shrub desert and steppe". Terrestrial Ecoregions. World Wildlife Fund.
  2. ^ Dinerstein, Eric; Olson, David; et al. (June 2017). "An Ecoregion-Based Approach to Protecting Half the Terrestrial Realm". BioScience. 67 (6): 534–545. doi:10.1093/biosci/bix014. PMC 5451287. PMID 28608869.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link) Supplemental material 2 table S1b.

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