Europe’s biodiversity – biogeographical regions and seas: The Steppic Region – the plains of Europe

(2006) Europe’s biodiversity – biogeographical regions and seas: The Steppic Region – the plains of Europe. Technical Report. European Environment Agency, Copenhagen, UK.

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Summary

This is the first report to describe the condition and influences on main habitat types and species groups in the eleven biogeographical regions and the seven seas around Europe. The report covers Europe from the Arctic to the Mediterranean and from the Atlantic to the Ural Mountains. It is based on expert contributions and comments from the countries involved in the biogeographical regions and seas.

The Steppic region stretches from Bucharest in the west, across the lower section of the floodplain of the Danube, along the north of the Black Sea and the foothills of the Caucasus. It is bordered in the east by the northwest coast of the Caspian Sea and the Ural River. Its boundary in the north is the beginning of the wooded steppe, which is part of the Continental region. It represents the European part of the steppes, a continuous band as far as to the Altai mountains on the borders of Mongolia

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