Azerbaijan shrub desert and steppe

Azerbaijan shrub desert and steppe
Azerbaijan shrub desert and steppe
	Landscape in Gobustan State Reserve, Azerbaijan
	Location of the ecoregion
Ecology
Realm	Palearctic
Biome	deserts and xeric shrublands
Borders	Caspian Hyrcanian mixed forests; Caucasus mixed forests; Eastern Anatolian montane steppe,; Elburz Range forest steppe;
Geography
Area	64,090 km2 (24,750 sq mi)
Countries	Azerbaijan; Georgia,; Iran;
Conservation
Conservation status	Critical/endangered
Protected	3,693 km2 (6%)

The Azerbaijan shrub desert and steppe is a deserts and xeric shrublands ecoregion in western Asia. It lies in the lowlands west of the Caspian Sea, and covers portions of Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Iran.

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