Steppe
A steppe is a region characterised by grassland plain without trees.
Connected Sites
| Site | Rationale | Link |
| Deer Stone Monuments | "The steppe and river valleys provided ideal environments for pastoral communities to develop complex societies. There is a uniformity of construction and erection techniques for deer stones and related funeral/ritual monuments throughout the steppe region." - AB Evaluation | |
| Dinosaur Provincial Park | "Dinosaur Provincial Park is an outstanding example of major geological processes and fluvial erosion patterns in semi-arid steppes." (UNESCO) | |
| Golden Mountains of Altai | "the most complete sequence of altitudinal vegetation zones in Central Siberia from steppe, forest-steppe" (AB ev) | |
| Hawraman/Uramanat | "In addition to the valleys, high mountain ridges, steep-sided valleys, and rivers, the nominated property includes many other natural values, such as chestnut forests, scrubby woodland, and steppe habitats." (AB Ev – IUCN) | |
| Hortobágy | Pannonian Steppe. Conservation importance for some threatened species that also occur in the Kazakh steppe. However, it is a man-made or secondary steppe. (AB ev Saryarka) | |
| Landscapes of Dauria | "several protected areas in the northern part of the Daurian steppe ecoregion which occupy large areas of the transition from taiga to desert, including various steppe ecosystems" (OUV) | |
| Los Glaciares | semiarid Patagonian steppe lies to the east under 400m(UNEP-WCMC) | |
| Peninsula Valdes | The dominant vegetation is Patagonian desert steppe scrub (UNEP-WCMC) | |
| Qinghai Hoh Xil | Central Tibetan Plateau alpine steppe ecoregion, "an extensive area of alpine mountains and steppe systems at elevations of over 4,500m above sea level" (AB ev) | |
| Saryarka | "They lie within a temperate Eurasian steppe grassland" (AB ev) | |
| Tajik National Park | "localized areas of steppe and riverine meadows ...part of a WWF priority ecoregion “Middle Asian Montane Woodlands and Steppe"" (AB ev) | |
| Tugay forests | "The reserve hosts various ecological units, not only tugay lowland forests, but also steppe and semi-desert areas" (AB ev) | |
| Uvs Nuur Basin | Mongolian-Manchurian Steppe. One of the best remaining natural steppe landscapes of Eurasia (AB ev Saryarka) | |
| Wrangel Island | ... a mosaic of tundra and steppe types co-exist in quilt-like patterns (AB ev) |
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