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Zagros Mountains forest steppe information


Zagros Mountains forest steppe
Landscape near Shadegan
Map of the ecoregion
Ecology
RealmPalearctic
Biometemperate broadleaf and mixed forests
Borders
List
  • Central Persian desert basins
  • Eastern Anatolian montane steppe
  • Eastern Mediterranean conifer-sclerophyllous-broadleaf forests
  • Kuh Rud and Eastern Iran montane woodlands
  • Mesopotamian shrub desert
  • Middle East steppe
  • South Iran Nubo-Sindian desert and semi-desert
  • Tigris-Euphrates alluvial salt marsh
Geography
Area397,555 km2 (153,497 sq mi)
Countries
  • Iran
  • Iraq,
  • Turkey
Conservation
Conservation statusCritical/endangered[1]
Protected20,339 km2 (5%)[2]

The Zagros Mountains forest steppe is a temperate broadleaf and mixed forests ecoregion in Western Asia. The ecoregion extends along the Zagros Mountains, stretching from eastern Turkey and northern Iraq to southern Iran.

  1. ^ "Zagros Mountains forest 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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