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The Central Great Plains are a prairie ecoregion of the central United States, part of North American Great Plains. The region runs from west-central Texas through west-central Oklahoma, central Kansas, and south-central Nebraska. It is designated as the Central and Southern Mixed Grasslands ecoregion by the World Wide Fund for Nature.
The Great Plains (United States) and the Canadian Prairies. The term "Great Plains" is used in the United States to describe a sub-section of the even more vast Interior Plains physiographic division, which covers much of the interior of North America.
The ecology of the Great Plains is diverse, largely owing to their great size. Differences in rainfall, elevation, and latitude create a variety of habitats including short grass, mixed grass, and tall-grass prairies, and riparian ecosystems. [1] The Great Plains extend from Mexico in the south through the central United States to central ...
The adjoining forests in Canada are generally referred to as the Mixedwood Plains Ecozone or the Great Lakes-St.Lawrence Forest Region. 32 Texas Blackland Prairies; 33 East Central Texas Plains; 34 Western Gulf Coastal Plain; 36 Ouachita Mountains; 37 Arkansas Valley; 38 Boston Mountains; 39 Ozark Highlands; 51 North Central Hardwood Forests ...
Great Plains: 9.2: Temperate Prairies 9.2.1: Aspen Parkland/Northern Glaciated Plains: 9.2.2: Lake Manitoba and Lake Agassiz Plain 9.2.3: Western Corn Belt Plains: 9.2.4: Central Irregular Plains 9.3: West-Central Semi-Arid Prairies 9.3.1: Northwestern Glaciated Plains 9.3.3: Northwestern Great Plains 9.3.4: Nebraska Sand Hills 9.4: South ...
Biogeographical map of the Great Plains. Showing the different Temperate grasslands ecoregions of the Great Plains in territory claimed by the United States . Short-grass prairie —( High Plains )
Illinois' ecology is in a land area of 56,400 square miles (146,000 km 2); the state is 385 miles (620 km) long and 218 miles (351 km) wide and is located between latitude: 36.9540° to 42.4951° N, and longitude: 87.3840° to 91.4244° W, [1] with primarily a humid continental climate.
SVG map of the Great Plains (shaded in green), focusing on its placement within United States borders. The 100th meridian west is marked in red. Date: