Forest steppe

{{Unreferenced stub|auto=yes|date=December 2009}} [[Image:Stipa lessingiana habitat.jpg|thumb|300px|Forest steppe landscape on the [[Volga Upland]] near the city of [[Saratov]], Russia.]] [[Image:Sandberg 07.jpg|thumb|300px|[[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]]. ==Locations== Forest steppe primarily occurs in a [[forest steppe belt|belt of forest steppes]] across northern [[Eurasia]] from the eastern European [[Ural Mountains]] to eastern [[Siberia]] in [[northeast Asia]]. It forms transition ecoregions between the [[temperate grasslands]] and [[temperate broadleaf and mixed forests]] [[biome]]s. In upper North America another example of the forest steppe ecotone is the [[aspen parkland]], in the central [[Prairie Provinces]], northeastern [[British Columbia]], and [[North Dakota]]. It is the transition ecoregion from the [[Great Plains]] [[prairie]] and [[steppe]] temperate grasslands to the [[Taiga]] biome forests in the north. In central Asia the forest steppe ecotone is found in ecoregions in the mountains of the [[Iranian Plateau]], in [[Iran]], [[Afghanistan]], and [[Baluchestan]]. ==Forest steppe ecoregions== * [[East European forest steppe]] forms a transition between the [[Central European mixed forests|Central European]] and [[Sarmatic mixed forests]] to the north and the [[Pontic-Caspian steppe]] to the south. It extends from [[Romania]] in the west to the [[Ural Mountains]] in the east. * The [[Kazakh forest steppe]] lies east of the Urals, between the [[West Siberian broadleaf and mixed forests]] and the [[Kazakh steppe]]. * [[Altai montane forests and forest steppe]] * [[South Siberian forest steppe]] * [[Selenge-Orkhon forest steppe]] * The [[Daurian forest steppe]] lies between the [[Trans-Baikal conifer forests]] and [[East Siberian Taiga]] to the north and the [[Mongolian-Manchurian grassland]] to the south. * [[Zagros Mountains forest steppe]] * [[Elburz Range forest steppe]] * [[Kopet Dag woodlands and forest steppe]] * [[Kuhrud-Kohbanan Mountains forest steppe]] * [[Aspen parkland|Canadian Aspen forests and parklands]]—North Dakota and Canada == External links == {{Commons category|Forest steppes}} {{coord missing}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Forest Steppe}}