Map of North Africa with ecoregion territory in purple
Ecology
Realm
Palearctic
Biome
Deserts and xeric shrublands
Borders
List
Arabian Desert and East Sahero-Arabian xeric shrublands
Atlantic coastal desert
Mediterranean dry woodlands and steppe
Nile Delta flooded savanna
Sahara desert
Saharan halophytics
Sahelian Acacia savanna
South Saharan steppe and woodlands
West Saharan montane xeric woodlands
Geography
Area
1,675,300 km2 (646,800 sq mi)
Countries
List
Algeria
Egypt
Libya
Mauritania
Morocco
Tunisia
Western Sahara
Conservation
Conservation status
relatively intact
Protected
0.69%[1]
The North Saharan steppe and woodlands is a desert ecoregion, in the deserts and xeric shrublands biome, that forms the northern edge of the Sahara. It extends east and west across Northern Africa, south of the Mediterranean dry woodlands and steppe ecoregion of the Maghreb and Cyrenaica, which is part of the Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub biome. Winter rains sustain shrublands and dry woodlands that form an ecotone between the Mediterranean climate regions to the north and the hyper-arid Sahara Desert ecoregion to the south.
^North Saharan steppe and woodlands. Digital Observatory for Protected Areas (DOPA) Explorer. Accessed 9 October 2022.
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