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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.
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 km 2 (280,800 sq mi).
The Eurasian Steppe, also called the Great Steppe or The Steppes, is the vast steppe ecoregion of Eurasia in the temperate grasslands, savannas and shrublands biome. It stretches through Hungary , Bulgaria , Romania , Moldova , Ukraine , southern Russia , Kazakhstan , Xinjiang , Mongolia and Manchuria , with one major exclave , the Pannonian ...
A steppe is usually covered with grass and shrubs, depending on the season and latitude. The term steppe climate denotes a semi-arid climate, which is encountered in regions too dry to support a forest, but not dry enough to be a desert. [2] [3] Steppes are usually characterized by a semi-arid or continental [citation needed] climate. Extremes ...
Crimean Submediterranean forest complex [Note 1] Russia, Ukraine PA0418 Dinaric Mountains mixed forests [Note 1] Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Italy, Kosovo, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovenia PA0419 East European forest steppe: Bulgaria, Moldova, Romania, Ukraine, Russia PA0421 English Lowlands beech forests: United Kingdom PA0422
Forests and forest remnants of Quercus brantii and/or Q. boissieri occur from 700 to 800 meters elevation to about 1,700 m. The treeline is at 1,900 to 2,000 meters elevation, with sub-alpine vegetation above it. [1] At the southern end of the range, the trees are sparser and more open, and the steppe vegetation is more prominent.
The Pontic–Caspian steppe covers an area of 994,000 km 2 (384,000 sq mi) of Central and Eastern Europe, that extends from northeastern Bulgaria and southeastern Romania, through Moldova, and southern and eastern Ukraine, through the Northern Caucasus of southern Russia, and into the Lower Volga region of western Kazakhstan, to the east of the Ural Mountains.
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.