South Caspian Coastal & Mountain Mixed Forests bioregion
The bioregion’s land area is provided in units of 1,000 hectares. The conservation target is the combined Global Safety Net (GSN1) areas for the component ecoregions. The protection level indicates the percentage of the GSN goal that is currently protected on a scale of 0-10. N/A means data is not available at this time.
The South Caspian Coastal & Mountain Mixed Forests bioregion is part of the Persian Deserts & Forests subrealm located in the Central Eurasia realm (central Palearctic). It contains two ecoregions—Caspian Hyrcanian Mixed Forests (649), Elburz Range Forest Steppe (695)—totaling nearly 12 million hectares of land area.
The South Caspian Coastal & Mountain Mixed Forests bioregion is part of the Persian Deserts & Forests subrealm and is made up of two ecoregions: (1) Caspian Hyrcanian Mixed Forests (2) Elburz Range Forest Steppe.
Learn more about each of the South Caspian Coastal & Mountain Mixed Forests ecoregions below.
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