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Eurasian Steppe

Plowing with tractor on the Great Hungarian Plain (Alföld), Hungary

Steppe fire in the Kostanay Region, Kazakhstan

Hungarian invasions of Europe in the 9–10th century

Territories of the Golden Horde under Öz Beg Khan.

The Pannonian steppe in Seewinkel, Austria

The Pannonian steppe in Devínska Kobyla, Bratislava, Slovakia

The Pontic–Caspian steppe near Krynychne, Ukraine.

The Pontic–Caspian steppe in Henichesk, Ukraine.

Steppes in Gagauzia, Dezghingea, Moldova.

Wooded Ural Mountains of Beloretsky District, Russia.

The Bashkiriya National Park is situated in the southern end of the Ural Mountains, Russia.

The Bashkiriya National Park, Ural Mountains, Russia.

The steppe in Akmola Region, Kazakhstan.

The steppes in Akmola Province, Kazakhstan.

The Kazakh Steppe in the Ayagoz District, Kazakhstan.

Dus-Khol Lake, Tandinsky District, Tuva Republic, Russia.

The Mongolian-Manchurian grassland in the Khövsgöl Province, Mongolia.

Grass steppe in the Khövsgöl Province, Mongolia.

Daursky Nature Reserve in the southern part of the Zabaykalsky Krai in Siberia, Russia, close to the border with Mongolia.

The Mongolian-Manchurian grassland in Inner Mongolia, China.

The Eurasian Steppe, also simply called the Great Steppe or the steppes, is the vast steppe ecoregion of Eurasia in the temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands biome.

Steppe

Ecoregion characterized by grassland plains without trees apart from those near rivers and lakes.

The Eurasian Steppe Belt (in on the map), a path of passage for cultures – a possible origin for the Indo-European languages, the domesticated horse, the wheel and chariot

Southern Siberian steppe: windbreaker trees in the wintertime

Cold Patagonian steppe near Fitz Roy, Argentina

Sagebrush steppe in northeastern Nevada along US 93

the temperate grasslands, savannas and shrublands biome

Tallgrass prairie flora (Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie)

Prairies are ecosystems considered part of the temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands biome by ecologists, based on similar temperate climates, moderate rainfall, and a composition of grasses, herbs, and shrubs, rather than trees, as the dominant vegetation type.

Biome

Distinct biogeographical unit consisting of a biological community that has formed in response to a shared regional climate.

Holdridge life zone classification scheme. Although conceived as three-dimensional by its originator, it is usually shown as a two-dimensional array of hexagons in a triangular frame.

The distribution of vegetation types as a function of mean annual temperature and precipitation.

Terrestrial biomes of the world according to Olson et al. and used by the WWF and Global 200.

8) Temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands (temperate, semiarid)

Poaceae

Large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants commonly known as grasses.

Inflorecence scheme and floral diagram. 1 – glume, 2 – lemma, 3 – awn, 4 – palea, 5 – lodicules, 6 – stamens, 7 – ovary, 8 – styles.

Wind-blown grass in the Valles Caldera in New Mexico, United States

The gray area is the cricket pitch currently in use. Parallel to it are other pitches in various states of preparation which could be used in other matches.

Leaves of Poa trivialis showing the ligules

Bamboo stem and leaves, nodes are evident

Illustration depicting both staminate and pistillate flowers of maize (Zea mays)

A grass flower head (meadow foxtail) showing the plain-coloured flowers with large anthers.

Anthers detached from a meadow foxtail flower

Grasses dominate certain biomes, especially temperate grasslands, because many species are adapted to grazing and fire.

Wildebeest

Wildebeest, also called gnu ( or ), are antelopes of the genus Connochaetes and native to Eastern and Southern Africa.

Taxidermied Lion and Blue Wildebeest, Namibia

The wildebeest is the mascot of the free software project GNU.

It inhabits open plains, grasslands, and Karoo shrublands in both steep mountainous regions and lower undulating hills at altitudes varying between 1350 and 2150 m. In the past, it inhabited the highveld temperate grasslands during the dry winter season and the arid Karoo region during the rains.

Nearctic realm

One of the eight biogeographic realms constituting the Earth's land surface.

The Eastern North America bioregion includes the temperate broadleaf and mixed forests of the Eastern United States and southeastern Canada, the Great Plains temperate grasslands of the Central United States and south-central Canada, the temperate coniferous forests of the Southeastern United States, including Central Florida.

The northern short grasslands (WWF terminology) shown here on a map of North America in green, is a type of true prairie (grassland) that occurs in the southern parts of the Prairie Provinces.

Canadian Prairies

Region in Western Canada.

Palliser's Triangle, delineating prairie soil types in the Prairie provinces

A canola field in the Qu'Appelle Valley in Southern Saskatchewan.

The prairies in Canada are a temperate grassland and shrubland biome within the prairie ecoregion of Canada that consists of northern mixed grasslands in Alberta, Saskatchewan, southern Manitoba, as well as northern short grasslands in southeastern Alberta and southwestern Saskatchewan.

Emin Valley

Located on the China–Kazakhstan border, in Central Asia.

The Emin Valley Steppe is a Palearctic ecoregion in the Temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands Biome.

Smoky Hills

Upland region of hills in the central Great Plains of North America.

The Environmental Protection Agency divides the region into two Temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands ecoregions: the Smoky Hills proper constituting the Smoky Hills Ecoregion in the east; and the Blue Hills and Chalk Bluffs constituting the Rolling Plains and Breaks Ecoregion in the west.