{{Short description|Vegetation zone}} {{More citations needed|auto=yes|date=December 2009}} [[File:Ecoregion PA0419.svg|thumbnail|300px|The [[East European forest steppe]] ([[ecoregion]] PA0419)]] [[Image:Stipa lessingiana habitat.jpg|thumb|300px|Forest steppe landscape on the [[Volga Upland]] near the city of [[Saratov]], Russia]] [[Image:Devínska Kobyla forest-steppe in Slovakia.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 lowlands of [[Europe]] to eastern [[Siberia]] in [[northeast Asia]]. It forms transition ecoregions between the [[temperate grasslands]] and [[temperate broadleaf and mixed forests]] [[biome]]s. Much of Russia belongs to the forest steppe zone, stretches from [[Central Russia]], across [[Volga region|Volga]], [[Ural (region)|Ural]], [[Siberia]]n and [[Russian Far East|Far East Russia]].<ref>{{Cite book|title=A geography of Russia and its neighbors|url=https://archive.org/details/geographyrussiai00blin|url-access=limited|last=Blinnikov|first=Mikhail|publisher=Guilford Press|year=2011|isbn=9781606239339|pages=[https://archive.org/details/geographyrussiai00blin/page/n60 44]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Martynenko|first=A. B.|date=2007-04-01|title=The steppe insect fauna in the Russian Far East: Myth or reality?|journal=Entomological Review|language=en|volume=87|issue=2|pages=148–155|doi=10.1134/S0013873807020030|bibcode=2007EntRv..87..148M |s2cid=44269225 |issn=1555-6689}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.worldwildlife.org/ecoregions/pa0817|title=South Siberian forest steppe {{!}} Ecoregions {{!}} WWF|website=World Wildlife Fund|language=en|access-date=2019-08-13}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/316022718|title=On the Southern Border of the Forest and Forest-Steppe Cultures in the Urals in the Ist Millennium BC|website=ResearchGate|language=en|access-date=2019-08-13}}</ref>
In upper North America another example of the forest steppe ecotone is the [[aspen parkland]] in the central [[Prairie Provinces]], northeastern [[British Columbia]], [[North Dakota]], and [[Minnesota]]. It is the transition ecoregion from the [[Great Plains]] [[prairie]] and [[steppe]] temperate grasslands in the south 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 [[Balochistan]].
==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 forest and forest steppe]] * The [[Southern Siberian rainforest]] includes forest-steppe areas. * [[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, Minnesota, and Canada
== External links == *{{Commons-inline|Category:Forest steppes|Forest steppes}}
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