Hazarganji-Chiltan National Park, Pakistan Photograph by © WWF-Canon/Hartmut JUNGIUS   Southern Iran, eastern Iraq, and western Pakistan Deserts and Xeric Shrublands   135,700 square miles (351,500 square kilometers) -- about the size of North Dakota and Washington 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 concentrated in the hills north of the Persian Gulf and south of the mountain ranges of Iran. Boundaries were defined using using Zohary’s (1973) geobotanical map of the Middle East. He defines this region as Acacietea flavae iranica and Nubo-Sindian vegetation in the Sudanian and Sub-Sudanian vegetation zone. In Pakistan, the boundary conforms to the thorn scrub forest, part of the Thar-Indus bioregion, in Mackinnon’s (1997) original vegetation map of the Indo-Malayan biogeographic realm.

References

Mackinnon, J., M. Sha, C. Cheung, G. Carey, Z. Xiang, and D. Melville. 1996. A biodiversity review of China. World Wide Fund for Nature, Hong Kong.

Zohary, M. 1973. Geobotanical foundations of the Middle East, volume1,2. Gustav Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart, Germany.

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