Mongolian Grasslands, Alpine Meadows & Forest Steppe (PA44) Mongolian Grasslands, Alpine Meadows & Forest Steppe (PA44) Mongolian Grasslands, Alpine Meadows & Forest Steppe (PA44)

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Mongolian Grasslands, Alpine Meadows & Forest Steppe 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.

  • 139,018
    Total Land Area (1000 ha)
  • 6
    Number of Ecoregions
  • 33%
    Protection Target
  • 3
    Protection Level

The Mongolian Grasslands, Alpine Meadows & Forest Steppe bioregion is located in the Eastern Eurasia realm (eastern Palearctic) and contains six ecoregions – Khangai Mountains Conifer Forests (700), Daurian Forest Steppe (726), Mongolian-Manchurian Grassland (734), Selenge-Orkhon Forest Steppe (737), Nenjiang River Grassland (743), Khangai Mountains Alpine Meadow (755) – totaling approximately 139 million hectares of land area.

The Mongolian Grasslands, Alpine Meadows & Forest Steppe bioregion is part of the Mongolian Grasslands subrealm and is made up of six ecoregions: (1) Selenge-Orkhon Forest Steppe (2) Khangai Mountains Alpine Meadow (3) Khangai Mountains Conifer Forests (4) Mongolian-Manchurian Grassland (5) Daurian Forest Steppe (6) Nenjiang River Grassland.

Learn more about each of the Mongolian Grasslands, Alpine Meadows & Forest Steppe ecoregions below.

Mongolian marmot

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