Northeast Badakhshan, Afghanistan Photograph by Jerry Hassinger   South Asia: Northeastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan Montane Grasslands and Shrublands   10,900 square miles (28,300 square kilometers) -- about the size of Maryland Vulnerable

· 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, generally above 3000 meters of elevation, is located in the high eastern mountains of Afghanistan. The boundaries are derived from the alpine meadows and nival zone in Freitag’s (1971) map of natural vegetation.

References

Freitag, H. 1971. Studies in the natural vegetation of Afghanistan. Pages 89-106 in P. H. Davis, Harper, and I. C. Hedge, editors. Plant life of South-West Asia. The Botanical Society of Edinburgh, Edinburgh.

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