Black Sea, Caucasus-Anatolian Mixed Forests & Steppe bioregion

The bioregion’s land area is provided in units of 1,000 hectares. The protection goal 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.

  • 58,534
    Total Land Area (1000 ha)
  • 7
    Number of Ecoregions
  • 32%
    Protection Target
  • 2
    Protection Level

The Black Sea, Caucasus-Anatolian Mixed Forests & Steppe bioregion is located in the Western Eurasia realm (western Palearctic) and contains seven ecoregions – Caucasus Mixed Forests (650), Central Anatolian Steppe and Woodlands (652), Crimean Submediterranean Forest Complex (658), Eastern Anatolian Deciduous Forests (662), Euxine-Colchic Broadleaf Forests (665), Northern Anatolian Conifer and Deciduous Forests (703), Central Anatolian Steppe (725) – totaling approximately 58.5 million hectares of land area.

The Black Sea, Caucasus-Anatolian Mixed Forests & Steppe bioregion is part of the Black Sea Forests & Steppe subrealm and is made up of seven ecoregions: (1) Central Anatolian Steppe (2) Central Anatolian Steppe and Woodlands (3) Northern Anatolian Conifer and Deciduous Forests (4) Euxine-Colchic Broadleaf Forests (5) Eastern Anatolian Deciduous Forests (6) Caucasus Mixed Forests (7) Crimean Submediterranean Forest Complex.

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