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MAP 4.3
Major Biomes and Ecoregions in ECA
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Temperate broadleaf & mixed forests 1 Caucasus mixed forests 2 Crimean Submediterranean forest complex 3 Euxine-Colchic broadleaf forests 4 Ussuri broadleaf and mixed forests
Temperate coniferous forests 5 Altai montane forest and forest steppe 6 Carpathian montane forests 7 Northern Anatolian conifer and deciduous forests 8 Sayan montane conifer forests 9 Tian Shan montane conifer forests
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Terrestrial major biomes & selected terrestrial ecoregions
Boreal forests/taiga
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Terrestrial biome 18 Altaimajor alpine meadow and tundra 10 East Siberian taiga Khangai Mountains alpine meadow 11 Kamchatka-Kurile meadows and sparse forests 19 Temperate broadleaf Sayan Alpine meadow and tundra 20 & 12 Kamchatka-Kurile taiga mixed forests 13 Ural montane forests and tundra Tundra 14 Chukchi Peninsula tundra 15 Kamchatka Mountain tundra and forest tundra 16 Kola Peninsula tundra 17 Northeast Siberian coastal tundra
Temperate grasslands, Temperate coniferous forests savannas & shrublands 21 Alai-Western Tian Shan steppe 22 Boreal Daurian forests/tiaga forest steppe 23 Gissaro-Alai open woodlands 24 Sayan Intermontane steppe 25 Tian Shan foothill arid steppe
Mediterranean forests, woodlands & scrub
26 Aegean & Western Turkey sclerophyllous Temperate grasslands, Tundra and mixed forests Anatolian conifer and deciduous mixed forests savannas & 27 shrublands forests 28 Eastern Mediterranean conifer-sclerophyllous-broadleaf Mediterranean forests, 29 Illyrian deciduous forests woodlands & scrub Flooded grasslands & savannas 30 Pindus Mountains mixed forests xeric shrublands conifer and&deciduous forests 31 Southern Anatolian montane Deserts
Montane grasslands & shrublands Deserts & xeric shrublands
Flooded grasslands & savannas
Source: World Bank map using WWF data. Note: The ECA region contains nearly 100 terrestrial major biomes and ecoregions. This map only includes labels of the areas discussed in detail in table 4.4. A map with a full listing of numbered areas is available in Cenacchi (2008b).
Adapting to Climate Change in Eastern Europe and Central Asia
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