Yagodnaya Polyana, Saratovskaya, Russia Photograph by Kris Ball   Palaearctic Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands   383,800 square miles (994,000 square kilometers) -- about thrice the size of New Mexico Critical/Endangered

· Location and General Description
· Biodiversity Features
· Current Status
· Threats
· Ecoregion Justification
· References
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Location and General Description

Biodiversity Features

Current Status

Types and Severity of Threats

Justification of Ecoregion Delineation

This ecoregion is equivalent to the DMEER (2000) unit of the same name. It comprises Bohn et al.’s (2000) lowland-colline herb-rich grass steppes, herb-grass steppes, grass steppes, and desert steppes.

References

Bohn, Udo, Gisela Gollub, and Christoph Hettwer. 2000. Reduced general map of the natural vegetation of Europe. 1:10 million. Bonn-Bad Godesberg

Digital Map of European Ecological Regions (DMEER), Version 2000/05 (http://dataservice.eea.eu.int/dataservice/metadetails.asp?table=DMEER&i=1)

For more general information on this ecoregion, go to the WildWorld version of this description.