List of ecoregions in Iran
This a list of ecoregions in Iran.
Terrestrial ecoregions
Iran is in the Palearctic realm. Ecoregions are listed by biome.[1]
Temperate broadleaf and mixed forests
- Caspian Hyrcanian mixed forests
- Zagros Mountains forest steppe
Temperate coniferous forests
Flooded grasslands and savannas
- Tigris-Euphrates alluvial salt marsh
Montane grasslands and shrublands
- Kopet Dag woodlands and forest steppe
- Kuhrud-Kohbanan Mountains forest steppe
Deserts and xeric shrublands
- Azerbaijan shrub desert and steppe
- Badghyz and Karabil semi-desert
- Caspian lowland desert
- Central Persian desert basins
- Kopet Dag semi-desert
- Mesopotamian shrub desert
- South Iran Nubo-Sindian desert and semi-desert
Freshwater ecoregions
- Baluchistan
- Caspian Highlands
- Esfahan
- Helmand-Sistan
- Kavir and Lut Deserts
- Kura-South Caspian Drainages
- Namak
- Northern Hormuz Drainages
- Orumiyeh
- Lower Tigris and Euphrates
- Upper Tigris and Euphrates
- Turan Plain
- Upper Amu Darya
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References
- Olson, D. M., Dinerstein, E., Wikramanayake, E. D., Burgess, N. D., Powell, G. V. N., Underwood, E. C., D'Amico, J. A., Itoua, I., Strand, H. E., Morrison, J. C., Loucks, C. J., Allnutt, T. F., Ricketts, T. H., Kura, Y., Lamoreux, J. F., Wettengel, W. W., Hedao, P., Kassem, K. R. (2001). Terrestrial ecoregions of the world: a new map of life on Earth. Bioscience 51(11):933-938
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