The Central Black Earth Nature Reserve, an example of forest steppe terrain, in Kursk Oblast, Russia
Ecoregion territory (in purple)
Ecology
Realm
Palearctic
Biome
temperate broadleaf and mixed forests
Borders
List
Balkan mixed forests
Central European mixed forests
Kazakh forest steppe
Pontic steppe
Sarmatic mixed forests,
Urals montane tundra and taiga
Geography
Area
727,269 km2 (280,800 sq mi)
Countries
List
Russia
Ukraine
Moldova
Romania,
Bulgaria
Conservation
Conservation status
Critical/endangered
Protected
35,989 km² (5%)[1]
The East European forest steppe ecoregion (WWF ID: PA0419) is a patchwork of broadleaf forest stands and grasslands (steppe) that stretches 2,100 km across Eastern Europe from the Ural Mountains in Ural, through Povolzhye, Central Russia to the middle of Ukraine. There are isolated areas of similar character off the western end in eastern Romania, Moldova, and Bulgaria.[2]
The region forms a transition zone between the temperate forests to the north, and the steppe to the south. The forest-steppe is an area of Russia in which precipitation and evaporation are approximately equal.[2] The ecoregion is in the Palearctic realm, with a Humid Continental climate. According to one definition of its boundaries, it covers 727,269 km2 (280,800 sq mi).[3]
^Eric Dinerstein, David Olson, et al. (2017). An Ecoregion-Based Approach to Protecting Half the Terrestrial Realm, BioScience, Volume 67, Issue 6, June 2017, Pages 534–545; Supplemental material 2 table S1b. doi:10.1093/biosci/bix014
^ abCite error: The named reference rusnature was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^"East European forest steppe". Ecoregions of the World. GlobalSpecies.org. Retrieved July 23, 2018.
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