Zagros Mountains forest steppe

Zagros Mountains forest steppe
Landscape near Shadegan
Map of the ecoregion
Ecology
RealmPalearctic
Biometemperate broadleaf and mixed forests
Borders
Geography
Area397,555 km2 (153,497 sq mi)
Countries
Conservation
Conservation statusCritical/endangered[1]
Protected20,339 km2 (5%)[2]

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.

  1. ^ "Zagros Mountains forest steppe". Terrestrial Ecoregions. World Wildlife Fund.
  2. ^ 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.