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  2. Steppe - Wikipedia

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    Another large steppe area is located in the central United States, western Canada and the northern part of Mexico. The shortgrass prairie steppe is the westernmost part of the Great Plains region. The Columbia Plateau in southern British Columbia , Oregon , Idaho , and Washington state , is an example of a steppe region in North America outside ...

  3. East European forest steppe - Wikipedia

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    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]

  4. Forest steppe - Wikipedia

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    The East European forest steppe (ecoregion PA0419) Forest steppe landscape on the Volga Upland near the city of Saratov, Russia Devín forest steppe in Slovakia. A forest steppe is a temperate-climate ecotone and habitat type composed of grassland interspersed with areas of woodland or forest.

  5. Mediterranean dry woodlands and steppe - Wikipedia

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    The Mediterranean woodlands and forests occupy an area of 291,700 square kilometers (112,600 sq mi) in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, and Egypt.The main portion of the ecoregions extends from the southern slopes of the High Atlas in eastern Morocco across Algeria and Tunisia, where it meets the Mediterranean shore at the Gulf of Gabes.

  6. Central Anatolian deciduous forests - Wikipedia

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    The steppe plants include herbs, grasses, and low shrubs, with species of Artemisia, Bromus, Achillea, Trifolium, and Astragalus prominent. [2] Trees are absent from areas with less than 400 mm of annual rainfall. These areas constitute the 'true steppe' of the Central Anatolian steppe ecoregion. [2]

  7. Mediterranean woodlands and forests - Wikipedia

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    Foliage and cone of the Aleppo pine (Pinus halepensis).. The natural vegetation consists of forests, woodlands, and shrublands.The five chief plant communities are: Xeric pine forests and woodlands: The xeric pine forests are found mainly in the drier interior, near the transition to the Mediterranean dry woodlands and steppe, where rainfall averages 300 to 600 mm per year.

  8. Privolzhskaya Lesostep Nature Reserve - Wikipedia

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    The steppe area is primarily composed of associations herb-turf-grass, with some young Scots pine. 555 species of vascular plants have been recorded. Ostrovtsovskaya steppe (352 hectares). Ostrovtsovskaya is located on terraces of the right bank of the Khopyor River floodplain in Kolyshleysky District, near the village of Ostrovtsy. The ...

  9. South Siberian forest steppe - Wikipedia

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    The South Siberian forest steppe ecoregion (WWF ID: PA0817) is a patchwork of grasslands and forests in the low-lying areas of south central Siberia.The region is one of high biodiversity as a transition zone between the West Siberian taiga to the north, and the Altai Mountains to the south.