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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 Altai montane forest and forest steppe ecoregion (WWF ID: PA0502) covers patches of the subalpine forest belt on the Altai Mountains, crossing the border region where Russia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia and China meet. The region has high biodiversity, as it is located in transition zones between different ecoregions, altitudes, and climate zones.
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.
The Kazakh forest steppe ecoregion (WWF ID: PA0809) is a long thin strip of transition zone between the forested taiga of Siberian Russia (to the north), and the Kazakh steppe to the south. The ecoregion stretches over 2,000 km from the southern Ural mountains in the west to the foothills of Altai mountains in the east, yet averages only 200 km ...
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 .
The region begins at the western foothills of the Kopet Dag, about 100 km east of the Caspian Sea.It stretches for 650 km from northwest to southeast, with the Turkmenistan-Iran border running mostly down the main central ridge, and ends at the border with Afghanistan.
The Daurian forest steppe ecoregion (WWF ID: PA0804) is a band of grassland, shrub terrain, and mixed forests in northeast Mongolia and the region of Siberia, Russia that follows the course of the Onon River and Ulz River, and part of the northwestern China.