Back سهوب غابات جبال زاغروس Arabic Zagros-montara arbarstepo Esperanto Bosque estepario de los montes Zagros Spanish استپ جنگلی کوههای زاگرس Persian Steppe boisée des monts Zagros French Steppa boscosa dei monti Zagros Italian Лісостеп Загросу Ukrainian 扎格羅斯山脈森林草原 Chinese
| Zagros Mountains forest steppe | |
|---|---|
 Landscape near Shadegan | |
 Map of the ecoregion | |
| Ecology | |
| Realm | Palearctic |
| Biome | temperate broadleaf and mixed forests |
| Borders | |
| Geography | |
| Area | 397,555 km2 (153,497 sq mi) |
| Countries | |
| Conservation | |
| Conservation status | Critical/endangered[1] |
| Protected | 20,339 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.
- ^ "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.
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