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Colorado Plateau shrublands information


Colorado Plateau shrublands
Landscape Arch in the Arches National Park
Location map of Colorado Plateau shrublands
Ecology
RealmNearctic
Biomedeserts and xeric shrublands
Borders
List
  • Arizona Mountains forests
  • Chihuahuan Desert
  • Colorado Rockies forests
  • Mojave Desert
  • Wasatch and Uinta montane forests
  • Western shortgrass prairie,
  • Wyoming Basin shrub steppe
Geography
Area283,435 km2 (109,435 sq mi)
CountriesUnited States
States
  • Arizona
  • Colorado
  • New Mexico
  • Utah
Climate typeCold desert (BWk) and cold semi-arid (BSk)
Conservation
Conservation statusRelatively stable/intact
Protected33,203 km2 (12%)[1]

The Colorado Plateau shrublands is an ecoregion of deserts and xeric shrublands in the Western United States.

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

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