Central Great Plains | |
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Ecology | |
Realm | Nearctic |
Biome | Temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands |
Borders | List
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Bird species | 228[1] |
Mammal species | 88[1] |
Geography | |
Country | United States |
State | Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska |
Climate type | Humid continental (Dfa) and humid subtropical (Cfa) |
Conservation | |
Habitat loss | 50.68%[1] |
Protected | 0.48%[1] |
The Central Great Plains are a prairie ecoregion of the central United States, part of North American Great Plains. The region runs from west-central Texas through west-central Oklahoma, central Kansas, and south-central Nebraska.
It is designated as the Central and Southern Mixed Grasslands ecoregion by the World Wide Fund for Nature.