Colorado Plateau shrublands

Colorado Plateau shrublands
Colorado Plateau shrublands
	Landscape Arch in the Arches National Park
	Location map of Colorado Plateau shrublands
Ecology
Realm	Nearctic
Biome	deserts and xeric shrublands
Borders	List Arizona Mountains forests; Chihuahuan Desert; Colorado Rockies forests; Mojave Desert; Wasatch and Uinta montane forests; Western shortgrass prairie,; Wyoming Basin shrub steppe;
Geography
Area	283,435 km2 (109,435 sq mi)
Countries	United States
States	Arizona; Colorado; New Mexico; Utah;
Climate type	Cold desert (BWk) and cold semi-arid (BSk)
Conservation
Conservation status	Relatively stable/intact
Protected	33,203 km2 (12%)

The Colorado Plateau shrublands is an ecoregion of deserts and xeric shrublands in the Western United States.

^ Dinerstein, Eric; Olson, David; et al. (June 2017). "An Ecoregion-Based Approach to Protecting Half the Terrestrial Realm". BioScience. 67 (6): 534–545, Supplemental material 2 table S1b. doi:10.1093/biosci/bix014. PMC 5451287. PMID 28608869.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)