Zagros Mountains forest steppe

Zagros Mountains forest steppe
Zagros Mountains forest steppe
	Landscape near Shadegan
	Map of the ecoregion
Ecology
Realm	Palearctic
Biome	temperate broadleaf and mixed forests
Borders	List Central Persian desert basins; Eastern Anatolian montane steppe; Eastern Mediterranean conifer-sclerophyllous-broadleaf forests; Kuh Rud and Eastern Iran montane woodlands; Mesopotamian shrub desert; Middle East steppe; South Iran Nubo-Sindian desert and semi-desert; Tigris-Euphrates alluvial salt marsh;
Geography
Area	397,555 km2 (153,497 sq mi)
Countries	Iran; Iraq,; Turkey;
Conservation
Conservation status	Critical/endangered
Protected	20,339 km2 (5%)

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.

^ "Zagros Mountains forest steppe". Terrestrial Ecoregions. World Wildlife Fund.
^ Dinerstein, Eric; Olson, David; et al. (June 2017). "An Ecoregion-Based Approach to Protecting Half the Terrestrial Realm". BioScience. 67 (6): 534–545. doi:10.1093/biosci/bix014. PMC 5451287. PMID 28608869.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link) Supplemental material 2 table S1b.