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Restoring the steppe When mammoths roamed in a northern area known as the "mammoth steppe," that ecosystem was rich in grasses .

Broadly speaking, the climate "switched from cold and arid, open steppe environments during glacial periods to warmer and usually wetter periods with forest steppe during interglacial periods," explained Morley.

But officials have not discovered any link to Grizzly Steppe.

The report also gave the Russian operation a name: Grizzly Steppe.

In this case, the dense, tinderlike shrub-steppe of Rattlesnake Mountain.

The landscape kept flipping between temperate forest and cold, treeless steppe.

TURNING BACK TIME ON THE SIBERIAN STEPPE Nikita Zimov and his father, Sergei, two scientists at the Northeast Science Station of Chersky, Russia, are trying to revive the Ice Age steppe ecosystem in today's Siberian Arctic.

The movie's tagline is "The queen born to make the steppe great".

His mother's people are Tatars, Muslim nomads from the Central Asian Steppe.

The federal government refers to the Russian malicious cyber activity as Grizzly Steppe.

And so is the Steppe eagle, found in Asia and parts of Africa.

There's something very unique about the endless steppe that goes on and on.

Now, he was breathless at 2100,26 feet, with a treeless steppe before him.

Russia had fewer than 10,000 steppe eagles in 2013, according to the conservation group.

Even the legendary Chinese girl-warrior Mulan turns out to have steppe nomad origins.

She, as many such migrants, brought steppe Crimea back to life after the war.

Even a steppe bison would offer 612,000 calories, enough for 10 days of nourishment.

He had collected geckos and snakes, whatever he could catch on the Mongolian steppe.

And instead of being dotted across the steppe, they are arranged in tightly packed clumps.

HONG KONG (Reuters Breakingviews) - Rio Tinto has sounded a copper warning from the Mongolian steppe.

Steppe peoples moved across the region for most of recorded history, according to Encyclopedia Britannica.

The units are healthcare chain Medsi, timber and paper producer Segezha and agricultural holding Steppe.

They include a male steppe bison, a woolly rhinoceros, a mummified pony and several mammoths.

But the mysterious earthworks, known as the Steppe Geoglyphs, are thousands of years in the making.

The elephants on our planet right now can&apost tolerate the cold climate of the steppe.

Half a century ago, 1,000 families roamed the Anatolian steppe but now there are just 86.

Mr. Cronauer, who lived in Troutville, was married to Jeane Steppe Cronauer, who died in 2016.

On a section of steppe the Marines called "the eastern desert," Siatta adjusted the rifle's scope.

This was not the arid steppe or brown hills that dominate much of the Afghan landscape.

The early spring sun is warm, the constant wind that blows across this steppe has ebbed.

While nomads mostly rely on their DIY tech, three modern technologies have become common on the steppe.

In 2015, the steppe eagle was listed as endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.

As my grandmother told, there was nothing in Crimea — except salted soils, sunburnt steppe and the sea.

After a while we stopped at a roadside diner lying out in the middle of a steppe.

For each successful convergence between hunter and eagle, gasps and cheers of awe erupted across the steppe.

Many of the cars are right-hand drive, bought secondhand from Japan and driven across the steppe.

The park is divided into four zones representing the specific geography of Russia: wetland, forest, steppe and tundra.

This particular Igor Akinfeev is a steppe eagle, which in the wild ranges from eastern Europe to Mongolia.

You'd send your simple tank sprites racing along the sparse but evocative hex-grid map of the steppe.

It is surrounded on all sides by a great and wild steppe, from which storms blow in regularly.

The capsule landed in the windswept and snow-covered steppe in Kazakhstan's central Karaganda region at 2.37 p.m.

Importantly, an analysis of the 20-year-old woman's DNA showed she wasn't genetically related to the migrants from the Eurasian steppe—an observation which suggests the Gok2 strain was making the rounds in Europe prior to their arrival, and that Steppe Eurasians weren't responsible for introducing the plague to Europe.

Siberian unicorns, as this analysis revealed, lived in a dry steppe environment where they chomped on tough, dry grasses.

They also fought courageously in the second world war, distinguishing themselves in battles from Ethiopia to the Russian steppe.

The code is said to be connected to a Russian hacking outfit the US government has named Grizzly Steppe.

ASTANA in Kazakhstan is one of the world's most remote capitals, surrounded by thousands of kilometres of empty steppe.

The capsule landed on its side, a frequent occurrence in the windy steppe area, after parachuting for 14 minutes.

Several were taken aside and made to kneel on the ground, an arid steppe green in places from recent rains.

The project's findings instigated a National Geographic expedition that was able to confirm 55 archaeological sites across the Mongolian steppe.

Twelve thousand years ago, it served as a grassy safe haven for megafauna—woolly mammoths, steppe bison, and ancient horses.

Perhaps steppe peoples acquired plague, developed some immunity with exposure, and transmitted it to unexposed European farmers, thereby decimating them.

Each of these, he explained, represents an aspect of Russia's varied regional landscapes: tundra, the steppe, the wetlands, birch forests.

While easily traversable deserts define Iraq's terrain, Iran is characterized as defined by mountains, the steppe, and even forested areas.

European bison only appeared in the fossil record around 11,700 years ago, which coincided with the disappearance of the Steppe bison.

It sent groups of cowboys to train in North Dakota and brought in American cowboys to help out on the steppe.

The capsule landed in the snow covered steppe some 90 miles southeast of the central city of Zhezkazgan at 8.31 a.m.

Combating infectious disease is a particular challenge for Mongolia's vast and thinly populated steppe, which lacks hospitals and even basic infrastructure.

They landed unscathed in the Kazakh steppe after plunging 31 miles (50 km) in a capsule with parachutes slowing their descent.

After a harrowing 30-minute descent, the Soyuz MS-10 module, with the two men on board, landed in the Kazakh steppe.

The touchdown on a snow-covered steppe also marked the return to earth of Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano and Russia's Alexander Skvortsov.

The court also froze Sistema's stakes in other companies, including the Steppe agricultural holding, MTS-Bank, and Sistema Telecom Assets, TASS said.

The steppe is a belt of grassland that runs from modern-day Hungary through Ukraine and Central Asia then east to China.

Numbers are vague, but one study from 2009 estimated there were about 2,700 boars in just one part of Argentina's central steppe.

In the 764,000-acre Patagonia National Park, the arid Patagonia steppe meets wetter forests, making for a rich diversity of wildlife habitats.

At stake are 250 million acres of grassland, steppe, desert, and forest that BLM oversees, along with the agency's 700 million subsurface

The pair say they were inspired by Mongolian folk religion and frequent childhood visits to the vast steppe undulating in every direction.

What's more, the plague was not introduced by settlers from the Eurasian steppe, the researchers argue, but instead had an eastern European origin.

The unearthly chorus this makes—think of a mobile orchestra of chicken-sized didgeridoos—rises up from the vast and glorious Wyoming steppe.

This event was an unexpected product of the interbreeding between the now-extinct Steppe bison and the aurochs, an ancestor of modern cattle.

"'Grizzly Steppe' created a wedge, whether real or perceived, between the U.S. President, the Intelligence Community (IC), and the American public," wrote Hurd.

Nunes did not rule out the possibility, nor did he deny Russian involvement in the campaign, nicknamed "Grizzly Steppe" by the U.S. government.

They were yanked out of their lives and sent by freight car to a barren spot in the middle of the empty steppe.

Beginning in 2500 BC, the researchers discovered, Iberians were joined by people from central Europe whose showed genetic ancestry from the Russian steppe.

He said Sistema had set a target for Steppe of doubling profits this year and that it was seeking more acquisitions in the sector.

Using a GPS device programmed with the hangar's coordinates, they hiked across the rocky steppe for seven hours, wearing headlamps to see their way.

According to the report, which cited anonymous senior administration officials, a code linked to the Grizzly Steppe operation was found within the utility's system.

In contrast to the Uighurs in Xinjiang, the Yugurs clung to their traditional steppe culture for centuries and did not settle into farming oases.

Scientists previously thought that the plague arrived in Europe with migrants from the Eurasian Steppe, who effectively moved in and replaced the Neolithic communities.

The FBI/DHS also provided some handy visuals to understand how it all went down, and gave the Russian operation a name: Grizzly Steppe.

The modern people of Basque Country, in northern Spain, are genetically similar to the Iberian Iron Age people with ancestry from the Russian steppe.

Baraba steppe as seen from the window of the Trans-Siberian railway. Map of the Baraba steppe The Baraba steppe, also known as Barabinsk steppe, Barabinskaya steppe , is a grassland steppe and wooded flat plain situated in western Siberia. The steppe has an area of 117,000 km² and stretches between the Irtysh and the Ob Rivers. Barabinsk is the largest city on the steppe.

A steppe belt is a contiguous phytogeographic region of predominantly grassland (steppe), which has common characteristics in soil, climate, vegetation and fauna. A forest-steppe belt is a region of forest steppe. The largest steppe and (forest-steppe) belt is the Eurasian steppe belt which stretches from Central Europe via Ukraine, southern Russia, northern Central Asia, southern Siberia, into Mongolia and China,"Impact of the Environment on Human Migration in Eurasia: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop, Held in St. Petersburg, 15–18 November 2003", , pp. xi-xii often called the Great Steppe.

Steppe landscape Yurts in the steppe The Chuya Steppe () in the Siberian Altai Mountains is a depression formed by tectonic movement of major faults in the Earth's crust. Its name comes from the large river which runs through the steppe, the Chuya River.

East European forest steppe (ecoregion PA0419) Forest steppe landscape on the Volga Upland near the city of Saratov, Russia Devín forest steppe in Slovakia A forest steppe is a temperate-climate ecotone and habitat type composed of grassland interspersed with areas of woodland or forest.

Black Sea region (steppe not marked). South-flowing rivers are the Dnieper, Don and Volga. The Eurasian Steppe Belt (in ) The marking includes a good bit of forest-steppe. In the far west note the Carpathian Mountains separating the Hungarian plain from the main steppe.

The Baraba steppe also contains an important Russian agricultural district. Lake Chany is located in the Baraba steppe.

Konur, konyr "dark, grey-brown, brown". In the dictionary of V.V. Radlov Konyran means "steppe". Hence, "steppe river".

These beetles mainly feed on wild grasses, but can damages crops. They live in steppe and forest-steppe areas.

The Kazakh Steppe (, Қазақ даласы, also Uly dala, Ұлы дала "Great Steppe"), also called the Great Dala, ecoregion, of the Palearctic temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands biome, is a vast region of open grassland in northern Kazakhstan and adjacent portions of Russia, extending to the east of the Pontic steppe and to the west of the Emin Valley steppe, with which it forms part of the Eurasian steppe. Before the mid-nineteenth century it was called the Kirghiz steppe, 'Kirghiz' being an old name for the Kazakhs.

The Turan Lowland lies in the southwestern part of the steppe, but elevation increases as one travels east or to the northern parts of the steppe, with a few exceptions. The Pontic Steppe lies to the west and northwest. To the north and northeast of the Kazakh Steppe lies the Kazakh forest steppe, an ecoregion of pine groves interspersed with grasslands that forms a transition between the Kazakh steppe and the forests of Siberia. To the south lies the Kazakh semi-desert and the Kazakh upland ecoregions.

Ukrainian Steppe Nature Reserve () is a protected nature reserve of Ukraine that protects a collection of primitive steppe tracts in Donetsk Oblast region of the Ukrainian southeast. Each tract is a different sub-type of Ukrainian steppe.

It is a companion to History of the central steppe and History of the western steppe. Most of its recorded history deals with conflicts between the Chinese and the steppe nomads. Most of the sources are Chinese.

The majority of people in the steppe are nomads called Mongolians. Families in mongolian steppe live in "gers" which is a large portable tent. Mongolians are also master horse riders so many families own many horses that roam the steppe. The people in the steppe use the animals there for their food and drink.

The Wyoming Basin shrub steppe ecoregion, within the deserts and xeric shrublands biome, is a shrub steppe in the northwestern United States.

Some areas in the southwest were taken from Turkey. In the nineteenth century the steppe between the Caspian and Black Sea was colonized. By 1900 steppe nomadism had almost completely disappeared in the western steppe, although it continued further east.

Plant communities include desert steppe, semi-desert steppe, mountain steppe, woodland, alpine, and wetlands. Desert steppe is found in the driest areas, and consists of low xerophytic plants covering 25-30% of the ground. The semi-desert steppe consists of low annual herbs and grasses, including Artemisia fragrans, Capparis spinosa, Bassia prostrata, and Poa bulbosa. Mountain steppes consist of herbs, shrubs, and grasses, which grow higher and are more diverse than the desert and semi-desert steppes.

Streltsovskaya Steppe, a preserved area in Milove Raion in Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine. The steppe is often dominated by plumes of Stipa in early summer. Tulipa suaveolens is one of the most typical spring flowers of the Pontic- Caspian steppe. The Pontic steppe or Pontic–Caspian steppe is the steppeland stretching from the northern shores of the Black Sea (called Euxeinos Pontos [Εὔξεινος Πόντος] in antiquity) as far east as the Caspian Sea, from Dobruja in the northeastern corner of Bulgaria and southeastern Romania, through Moldova and eastern Ukraine across Russian Northern Caucasus, Southern and lower Volga regions to western Kazakhstan, forming part of the larger Eurasian steppe, adjacent to the Kazakh steppe to the east.

Eurasian steppe belt (turquoise) The Eurasian Steppe, also called the Great Steppe or the steppes, is the vast steppe ecoregion of Eurasia in the temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands biome. It stretches from Bulgaria, Romania, Moldova, Ukraine, Western Russia, Siberia, Kazakhstan, Xinjiang, Mongolia, and Manchuria, with one major exclave, the Pannonian steppe or Puszta, located mostly in Hungary. Since the Paleolithic age, the Steppe Route has connected Central Europe, Eastern Europe, Western Asia, Central Asia, Eastern Asia, and Southern Asia economically, politically, and culturally through overland trade routes. The Steppe route is a predecessor not only of the Silk Road which developed during antiquity and the Middle Ages, but also of the Eurasian Land Bridge in the modern era.

Sagebrush steppe with Artemisia tridentata, of the Great Basin region in Owyhee County, Idaho Sagebrush steppe is a type of shrub-steppe, a plant community characterized by the presence of shrubs, and usually dominated by sagebrush, any of several species in the genus Artemisia.Sagebrush steppe. National Park Service. This ecosystem is found in the Intermountain West in the United States.

For unknown reasons, almost all movements on the steppe have been from east to west. For unknown reasons, from about 500 AD the original Iranian languages were replaced by Turkic languages. Unlike the central and eastern steppe, the western steppe has now been converted to agriculture. Steppe history must be reconstructed from scattered reports from neighboring literate societies, with some help from archeology.

An adult steppe eagle on its nest in Baikonur. The steppe eagle, like most raptors, breeds in pairs. Otherwise, it displays a preference for solitude whilst summering on the steppe. Like other Aquila eagles, this species may engage in a territorial aerial display.

The steppe area is also important as a place of preservation of unique reference sites of natural steppe ecosystems subjected to degradation in other parts of Kazakhstan in its various degrees. Steppe ecosystems are habitats of conventional, as well as endemic, rare and endangered species.

The steppe plants include herbs, grasses, and low shrubs, with species of Artemisia, Bromus, Achillea, Trifolium, and Astragalus prominent. Trees are absent from areas with less than 400 mm of annual rainfall. These areas constitute the 'true steppe' of the Central Anatolian steppe ecoregion.

The steppe bison or steppe wisent (Bison priscus)"Steppe Bison" – Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre. Beringia.com. Retrieved on 2013-05-31. is an extinct species of bison that was once found on the mammoth steppe where its range included British IslesKirkdale Cave (Pleistocene of the United Kingdom), Europe,Вестник Кирилло-Белозерского музея 9 (Май 2006) О. Яшина, Т.В. Цветкова – Кирилловский бизон. Kirmuseum.ru. Retrieved on 2013-05-31.

The vast and quite flat steppe is the unique home of breeding steppe eagles. The steppe eagle tends to breeds in open dry country, within the characteristic habitat it is named after: the steppe both in both upland and lowland areas. In Kazakhstan, it is known to generally occur in drier parts of the steppe than some other raptors like harriers. This species generally avoids utilizing agricultural land such as arables and most other human-fragmented areas, however, they can be somewhat tolerant of nesting near roads.

Kalmyk Steppe Kalmuk Steppe, or Kalmyk Steppe is a steppe with a land area of approximately 100,000 km², bordering the northwest Caspian Sea, bounded by the Volga on the northeast, the Manych on the southwest, and the territory of the Don Cossacks on the northwest. The historic home to the Kalmuck or Kalmyks it is in the Federal subject of Astrakhan Oblast in Russia. Before the appearance of the Kalmyks to this region, the area was long known as the Povoletsk steppe by the Russians. The western Kalmuck Steppe occupied by the Ergeni hills, is deeply trenched by ravines and rises 300 and occasionally 630 ft.

Holmosh Woods is in the transition zone between the East European forest steppe ecoregion (on the north) and the Pontic–Caspian steppe ecoregion (on the south).

The Shirvan steppe () is part of the Kur-Araz Lowland of Azerbaijan and is located on the left bank of the Kura River. The elevation of the steppe ranges between and . The steppe has grey desert soil. Its vegetation is halophytic and wormwood, with estuary meadows.

Jankowitz, M. (1976). Tawny or Steppe Eagle. Bokmakierie, 28(3), 64-65. Beyond steppe eagles, comparisons to various other groups of sympatric booted eagles may be made.

Coleophora glaucicolella is a moth of the family Coleophoridae, found in Asia, Europe and North America. It occurs in forest-steppe biotopes, wet meadows and meadow-steppe.

"Central steppe" is an informal term for the middle part of the Eurasian steppe. It is grassland with some semi-desert and becomes dryer toward the south. On the east it is separated from Dzungaria and the eastern steppe by the low mountains along the current Chinese border. On the west it merges into the western steppe along the narrowing between the Ural Mountains and the Caspian Sea.

This article summarizes the History of the western steppe, which is the western third of the Eurasian steppe, that is, the grasslands of Ukraine and southern Russia. It is intended as a summary and an index to the more-detailed linked articles. It is a companion to History of the central steppe and History of the eastern steppe. All dates are approximate since there are few exact starting and ending dates.

The sectors of the reserve were selected to protect different biological communities and environmental surroundings. The forest-steppe sectors are on grey soil, with pine and mixed forest and some oak groves. The steppe areas are meadows, with some sedge-grass marsh, on black soil. The Poperechenskaya sector, for example, is 54% meadow steppe, 8% shrub steppe, and the remainder of patchwork of small forest stands and other floral communities.

Starikov, S.V., Akentieva, E.V. & Shevchenko, A.A. (2016). The ruin of the nest of the steppe eagle Aquila nipalensis by the steppe harrier Circus macrourus. Russian Ornithological Journal , 25 (1282). Apart from the vulnerable young on the nesting ground, steppe eagles appear to be seldom killed by natural predators.

High day count of migrating Steppe Eagles. Once migrating steppe eagles enter Africa in autumn, no mass migrations have been recorded anywhere for the species in the continent.

In the same period peasant agriculture expanded east from the Polish- Lithuanian Commonwealth. During the Khmelnitsky Uprising (1648) Polish power on the steppe was broken. When things settled down the steppe was partitioned between Russia and Poland along the Dnieper. The Polish steppe was annexed by Russia in 1772–1795.

Mullaly, p. 105 It was described as a table-land or steppe (in comparison to the Southern Andean Steppe),Mullaly, p. 106 and sometimes called the Atlantic steppe.Rozwadowski, pp.

The genetic data suggested that the Andronovo culture and its Sintastha predecessor were ultimately derived of a remigration of Central European peoples with steppe ancestry back into the steppe.

The pronounced rainy season in the steppe is usually observed in the months of July, August, and September. The steppe also encounters extreme temperatures that often reach over in the summer and drop below in the winter. The steppe zone is an important agriculture zone due to an extensive development of canals exploiting several rivers that flow down from the mountains. The steppe zone is the most populated area of the state.

Some were ransomed back to Russia and some were sold east as far as Bukhara. By one estimate Michael Khodarkovsky, 'Russia's Steppe Frontier', 2002, page 22, some 150,000 to 200,000 captives were taken from Russia in 1600–1650, but of course there are no exact figures. The numbers for Poland would be comparable. Forest and Steppe: There was no clear line between steppe and forest, but rather a broad transition zone of forest-steppe.

The Tarutyns'kyj steppe is a protected landscape located in Tarutyne Raion, Odessa Oblast, Ukraine. It is one of the largest preserved steppe fragments in Ukraine, and of significant local importance.

Climate occurs primarily on the outside of true deserts in low-latitude semiarid steppe regions. The Köppen Climate Classification subtype for this climate is BSk (Tropical and Subtropical Steppe Climate).

The Cretaceous steppes with Caragana is a clearly expressed steppe with the tracks of the former forest. Most likely, there were pine-oak scaffolding with the chalky sections. Forms have migrated from this territory and the forest became a steppe. At present in the steppe there is a very rich composition of flora.

The Poltavka culture flourished on the Volga-Ural steppe and the forest steppe. It is contemporary with the Catacomb culture, which was located on the Pontic steppe to its southwest. It seems to have co- existed at times with the Abashevo culture. The Poltavka culture appears to have expanded eastwards throughout its existence.

In this zone, there are several types of soil, such as: dark or red brown chernozem, washed or levigated chernozem (characteristic to steppe and silvo-steppe zones), regosols, and alluvial soils.

The steppe bison spread across Eurasia and was the bison that was pictured in the ancient cave paintings of Spain and Southern France. The European bison arose from the steppe bison, without fossil evidence of other ancestral species between the steppe bison and the European bison, though the European bison might have arisen from the lineage that led to American bison if that lineage backcrossed with the steppe bison. Again, the web of relationships is confusing, but some evidence shows the European bison is descended from bison that had migrated from Asia to North America, and then back to Europe, where they crossbred with existing steppe bison. At one point, some steppe bison crossbred with the ancestors of the modern yak.

Caiguna experiences a steppe climate (Köppen climate classification BSk).

Balladonia experiences a steppe climate (Köppen climate classification BSh).

Merredin experiences a steppe climate (Köppen climate classification BSh).

The territory of Kazakhstan consists of 22 zoogeographic sites. The city of Aktobe and the entire northern part of the Aktobe region belongs to the western steppe site, in which, unlike other steppe sites, representatives of European forest species live. In addition, in the western steppe area, the desert fauna is richer than in other steppe areas. The widespread desert species of dressings here is found only occasionally, from the Mongolian fauna you can usually see an Eversman hamster.

The mammoth steppe had a cold, dry climate. During the past interglacial warmings, forests of trees and shrubs expanded northward into the mammoth steppe, when northern Siberia, Alaska and the Yukon (Beringia) would have formed a mammoth steppe refugium. When the planet grew colder again, the mammoth steppe expanded. This ecosystem covered wide areas of the northern part of the globe, thrived for approximately 100,000 years without major changes, and then suddenly became extinct about 12,000 years ago.

To make the things even more complicated, in Moldova sometimes Bălți steppe and Middle Prut Valley are lumped together into one term, Bălți steppe. Together, they cover the municipality of Bălți, the districts of Glodeni, Rîșcani, and Fălești, as well as parts of Drochia, Sângerei, and Ungheni districts. The waters of the Bălți steppe fall into the Răut river, while those of the Middle Prut Valley fall into the Prut river. Bălți steppe has altitudes of ca.

The shortgrass prairie steppe is the westernmost part of the Great Plains region. The Columbia Plateau in Southern British Columbia, Oregon, Idaho, and Washington state, is an example of a steppe region in North America outside of the Great Plains. In South America, cold steppe can be found in Patagonia and much of the high elevation regions east of the southern Andes. Relatively small steppe areas can be found in the interior of the South Island of New Zealand.

The different sectors were each chosen for a particular habitat for study and conservation, with the two general environments being steppe and mountain taiga. In the steppe area, the typical landscape features shores of developed upland meadows, with small larch groves and birch, and thickets of steppe shrubs. Where rivers enter the lakes are narrow strips of reed swamps, saline steppes and meadows. The reserve has recorded more than 852 species of vascular plants in the steppe areas.

Combined with their deep-set eyes, it lends steppe eagles an altogether rather fierce facial expression. Steppe eagle juveniles are almost invariably paler than adults, with some ranging overall from umber- brown to tawny-buff but then some are darker and more deeply brown.Clark, W. S. (1996). Ageing Steppe Eagles. Birding World, 9, 269–274.

Ilmen is located in the Kazakh forest steppe ecoregion. Steppe with long ""ribbon forests"" of pine; about 300–500 miles more northerly than the European Russian forest. This ecoregion has more wetlands and more continental climate than the European forest steppe. The climate of Ilmen is Humid continental climate, warm summer (Köppen climate classification (Dfb)).

Moving further east in the central steppe, it acquired ~9% ancestry from a group of people that possessed West Siberian Hunter Gatherer ancestry, thus forming the Central Steppe MLBA cluster, which is the primary source of steppe ancestry in South Asia, contributing up to 30% of the ancestry of the modern groups in the region.

After that crossbreeding, a population of steppe bison crossed the Bering Land Bridge to North America. The steppe bison spread through the northern parts of North America and lived in Eurasia until around 11,000 years agoGuthrie, R. D., 1990. Frozen Fauna of the Mammoth Steppe: the Story of Blue Babe. University of Chicago Press: Chicago.

Rostov Oblast Government building Steppe of the Rostov Oblast in the Ust- Donetsky District belongs to the Pontic-Caspian steppe It was formed in 1937 out of the Azov-Black Sea Krai.

Climate type occurs primarily on the periphery of the true deserts in low-latitude semiarid steppe regions. The Köppen climate classification subtype for this climate is BSk (tropical and subtropical steppe climate).

The area was declared as a protected area with the goal to protect a mosaic of steppe, forest-steppe and floodplain forest communities. It is used for scientific research and educational purposes.

The Steppe Route centers on the North Asian steppes and connects eastern Europe to north-eastern China. The Eurasian Steppe has a wide and plane topography, and a unique ecosystem. The Steppe Route extends from the mouth of the Danube River to the Pacific Ocean. It is bounded on the north by the forests of Russia and Siberia.

Excerpt: "The Girls from the Follies" With Harry Steppe in the Two-Act Musical Burlesque "Cohen on the East Side." Steppe performed at several well-known theaters on the Columbia, Mutual and Orpheum circuits. Steppe was one of Bud Abbott's first partners."Abbott and Costello in Hollywood," by Bob Furmanek and Ron Palumbo, 1991, Page 18.

In 1887, exhausted from overwork and ill health, Chekhov took a trip to Ukraine, which reawakened him to the beauty and vastness of the steppe."There is a scent of the steppe and one hears the birds sing. I see my old friends the ravens flying over the steppe." Letter to sister Masha, 2 April 1887.

Following the Mongol conquest the western steppe broke off and became the Golden Horde (c. 1240-1502). In the fifteenth century parts of the Horde broke off as follows: 1438: Khanate of Kazan, 1441: Khanate of Crimea, 1466: Astrakhan, 1480: Russia. The steppe remnant ended in 1502 and steppe peoples around Astrakhan became the Nogai Horde.

Plant adaptations to different soil moisture regimes influence their distribution. A frequent fire regime in the shrub-steppe similarly adds to the patchwork pattern of shrub and grass that characterizes shrub steppe ecosystems.

Mainly steppe fauna is represented by: hare, hedgehog, fox, deer, wild boar, raccoon dog, badger, wolf and red deer. Of birds there are: stork, egrets, quail, heron, steppe eagle, crow, nightingale and others.

Anisoplia is distributed in the steppe zones of Europe, Asia Minor, Iran. The beetle is a major pest in the lower and middle Volga and steppe regions of Ukraine, North Caucasus and Transcaucasia.

350px Kurumbel Steppe () is a steppe in Omsk and Novosibirsk oblasts, Western Siberia, Russia. It is located between the Irtysh River and Lake Chany. The name comes from the former village of Kurumbel.

Roby's climate type occurs primarily on the periphery of the true deserts in low-latitude semiarid steppe regions. The Köppen climate classification subtype for this climate is BSk (tropical and subtropical steppe climate).

The village is located in steppe, on the Caspian Depression.

The village is located in steppe, on the Kurtlak River.

The village is located in steppe, on the Krepkaya River.

The village is located in steppe, on the Donshchinka River.

The village is located in steppe, on the Krepkaya River.

The village is located in steppe, on the Kurtlak River.

Machala features a steppe climate (BSh) under Köppen climate classification.

Throughout most of the steppe, the annual rainfall is about .

The flight was safely terminated in Kazakh Steppe, in Kazakhstan.

Lake Grace experiences a steppe climate (Köppen climate classification BSh).

The steppe extends more than 2,200 km from the area east of the Caspian Depression and north of the Aral Sea, all the way to the Altai Mountains. It is the largest dry steppe region on earth, covering approximately 804,450 square kilometers. The Kazakh Steppe lies at the southern end of the Ural Mountains, the traditional dividing line between Europe and Asia. Much of the steppe is considered to be semi-desert, grading into desert as one goes further south.

The vast territory stretching alongside the Eurasia route is diversified and includes dry steppe, desert, mountains, oases, lakes, rivers and river deltas, lowland steppe, mountain steppe, and forest steppe regions. Its wildlife was a permanent source of inspiration for artists and early craftsmanship. Hippocrates reflected on the impact of climatic changes, on subsistence, and advanced the idea of their influence on the organisation of human communities, as an explanation to populations migration. The demographic pressure on farming areas on the Steppe Route probably led the more fragile groups located at the periphery of those farming areas to migrate in search of better living conditions.

The Pontic steppe covers an area of of Europe, extending from Dobrudja in the northeastern corner of Bulgaria and southeastern Romania, across southern Moldova, Ukraine, through Russia and northwestern Kazakhstan to the Ural Mountains. The Pontic steppe is bounded by the East European forest steppe to the north, a transitional zone of mixed grasslands and temperate broadleaf and mixed forests. To the south, the Pontic steppe extends to the Black Sea, except the Crimean and western Caucasus mountains' border with the sea, where the Crimean Submediterranean forest complex defines the southern edge of the steppes. The steppe extends to the western shore of the Caspian Sea in the Dagestan region of Russia, but the drier Caspian lowland desert lies between the Pontic steppe and the northwestern and northern shores of the Caspian.

WSH ancestry from this period is often referred to as Steppe Early and Middle Bronze Age (Steppe EMBA) ancestry. This expansion led to the rise of the Corded Ware culture, whose members were of about 75% WSH ancestry, and the virtual disappearance of the Y-DNA of Early European Farmers (EEFs) from the European gene pool, significantly altering the cultural and genetic landscape of Europe. During the Bronze Age, Corded Ware people with admixture from Central Europe remigrated onto the steppe, forming a type of WSH ancestry often referred to as Steppe Middle and Late Bronze Age (Steppe MLBA) ancestry. Through the Sintashta culture, Andronovo culture and Srubnaya culture, Steppe MLBA was carried into Central Asia and South Asia along with Indo-Iranian languages, leaving a long-lasting cultural and genetic legacy.

Forests occupy 8.5 percent of the district, and consist of oak, acacia, poplar, ash, maple, elm and hazel. Undergrowth includes blackthorn and blackberry. Steppe and forest steppe vegetation includes grasses, knotweed, clover and wormwood.

This lemming is found in steppe, forest-steppe and semidesert parts of western Mongolia, northwest China, many parts of the former USSR, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, the southern and middle Ural, and western and eastern Siberia.

A cooling, drying trend has been interpreted from the Bruneau, Idaho sediment core. As this trend unfolded, woodland-arid steppe oscillations began to occur across thousands of years with the sagebrush steppe ultimately succeeding.

Chilbilyov, Alexander. "Steppe and Forest-steppe", in The Physical Geography of Northern Eurasia, Maria Shahgedanova, ed. Oxford University Press, 2003. For centuries, scientists have speculated on the causes of variations in stands of trees.

Although a continental climate is characteristic for the area, Bayanaul does not usually experience the strong winds and dust storms common in the steppe regions of Pavlodar Province. Bayanaul is in the Kazakh Steppe ecoregion.

Journalist Nick Fielding later wrote the book South to the Great Steppe: The Travels of Thomas and Lucy Atkinson in Eastern Kazakhstan, 1847–1852, which described the expedition of the Atkinson family to the Steppe.

Wintering steppe buzzards occur far more irregularly in Transvaal than Cape region in winter.Schmitt, M. B., Baur, S., & Von Maltitz, F. (1980). Observations on the Steppe Buzzard in the Transvaal. Ostrich, 51(3), 151–159.

The village is located in steppe, 25 km south from Gmelinka.

The village is located in steppe, from Uryupinsk and from Volgograd.

The village is located in steppe, 43 km from Staraya Poltavka.

The village is located in steppe, 12 km south from Gmelinka.

Central Anatolian steppe are classified as Temperate grasslands, savannas and shrublands.

The village is located in forest steppe, on Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain.

The village is located in forest steppe, on the Volga Upland.

The village is located in steppe, 24 km NNW from Danilovka.

The village is located in steppe, 22 km NNW from Danilovka.

The village is located in steppe, on south of Volga Upland.

The village is located in steppe, 18 km east from Bykovo.

The village is located in steppe, 23 km WNW from Gorodishche.

The village is located in forest steppe, on Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain.

The village is located in steppe, 9 km north from Leninsk.

The village is located in forest steppe, on Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain.

The village is located in steppe, on the Khopyorsko- Buzulukskaya Plain.

The village is located in steppe, on the Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain.

The village is located in steppe, on the Khopyorsko- Buzulukskaya Plain.

The village is located in steppe, on the Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain.

The village is located in forest steppe on the Volga Upland.

The village is located in steppe on the Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain.

The village is located in steppe, 17 km east from Savinka.

The village is located in steppe, on the Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain.

The movie Tulpan was shot and set in the Kazakh Steppe.

Keola's father is Odell Steppe. Keola is also a cancer survivor.

There are two theories about the decline of the mammoth steppe.

The species name refers to the steppe habitat of the species.

The first zapovedniks were set up in the steppe region of the Russian Empire in the 1890s. Some were equipped with research stations. Dokuchaev was the guiding spirit behind these early zapovedniks. Areas of steppe were chosen for the first zapovedniks because of the rapid disappearance of virgin steppe as it was ploughed up, and because it was thought that ploughing might be exacerbating the effects of drought; clearly, research was needed in order to understand the steppe and how it could be best exploited.

The study infers, "The Rors stand out in South Asia as the population with the highest proportion of Steppe ancestry". Lazaridis et al. (2016) notes "The demographic impact of steppe related populations on South Asia was substantial, as the aboriginal Mala community, a south Indian Dalit population with minimal Ancestral North Indian (ANI) along the 'Indian Cline' of such ancestry is inferred to have a minimum~ 18 % steppe-related ancestry, while the Kalash of Pakistan are inferred to have ~ 50 % steppe-related ancestry." Lazaridis et al.

Generally, the steppe polecat only occupies one home range for a few days or up to a few months. In winter, the steppe polecat is more active, and will move 12–18 km a day. During heavy snowfall, the steppe polecat migrates to more favourable areas, such as along the slopes of steppe ravines, near settlements and winter encampments. The species does not usually dig its own burrow, instead using those of marmots, ground squirrels, hamsters, moles, voles, jerboas and others, after slightly widening them.

Central Asia is bounded on the north by the forests of Siberia. The northern half of Central Asia (Kazakhstan) is the middle part of the Eurasian steppe. Westward the Kazakh steppe merges into the Russian-Ukrainian steppe and eastward into the steppes and deserts of Dzungaria and Mongolia. Southward the land becomes increasingly dry and the nomadic population increasingly thin.

Kamennaja Steppe main building with the museum in front The Russian Federal Nature Preserve Kamennaya Steppe is located in Talovsky District in Voronezh Oblast in the watershed of rivers Bitug and Khoper (both tributaries of Don River). It is a research institute, where the study of Kamennaya Steppe soils began in 1892 by the father of modern soil science Vasily Dokuchaev.

In the centuries around 3000 BC we find the semi-nomadic and probably Indo-European Yamnaya culture west of the central steppe. East of the central steppe was the rather similar Afanasevo culture. The Yamnaya-Afanasevo complex is probably connected to the eastward spread of the Indo-European languages, especially Tokharian. Between them on the central steppe was the horse-using Botai culture.

Other endangered species protected there include the argali mountain sheep, the steppe eagle, and the black stork. It is also one of the last remaining remnants of the mammoth steppe. There are several threats to the preservation of the Ukok Plateau, including overuse of the steppe by ranchers, a proposed road, and plans for a gas pipeline between China and Russia.

Feather grass is a notable feature. Scientists on the reserve have recorded 860 total vascular plant species across the sectors. The animal life of the reserve is characteristic of the forest-steppe region: marten, badger, elk and wild boar among the mammals. The steppe mammals also include the Great jerboa (a large, jumping mouse), the European hamster, and Steppe lemming.

The genetic data suggested that the Sintashta culture was ultimately derived of a remigration of Central European peoples with steppe ancestry back into the steppe. Some Sintastha individuals displayed similarites with earlier samples collected at Khvalynsk.

Because of the vast distribution habitats are hard to define but broadly are forest edge, forest-steppe and meadow steppe habitats up to 2,000 m above sea level, cultivated lands (meadow, forest plantations, parks and orchards).

The Kuban steppe is one of the major steppes in Europe, located in southeastern Russia between the city of Rostov on Don and the Caucasus Mountains. The Kuban steppe is the historic home of the Cossacks.

A new species of eagle (Aves: Accipitridae) close to the Steppe Eagle, from Pleistocene of Corsica and Sardinia, France and Italy. Despite being even more strongly distinctive from the steppe eagle than the tawny eagle, the eastern imperial eagle has been seen to hybridize with the steppe eagles in the wild, once in Turkey and at least three times in Kazakhstan. Each hybrid with imperial eagles has been known to involve pairs of subadult or juvenile eagles and all known hybrid pairings were between male steppe eagles (or apparent steppe-imperial hybrids themselves) mated to female imperial eagles. Some of these hybrid pairs also produced seemingly healthy young with roughly intermediate characteristics.

Spotted eagles appear to be almost invariably dominated by steppe eagle, as has been recorded at carcass dumps during winter. In Bharatpur, spotted eagles of all three species are quite often the targets of piracy by steppe eagles. Egyptian vultures (Neophron percnopterus) appear to be subordinate to steppe eagles at carrion but most other vultures are larger (sometimes considerably so) and may be avoided by steppe eagles, although they often fed at carcass dumps alongside assorted vultures. Many other diurnal raptors may share the ground squirrel and other prey that the steppe eagle often subsists on but are generally less specialized and tend to use different nesting habits, usually nesting in trees.

The world's largest steppe region, often referred to as "the Great Steppe", is found in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, and neighbouring countries stretching from Ukraine in the west through Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan to the Altai, Koppet Dag and Tian Shan ranges in China. The inner parts of Anatolia in Turkey, Central Anatolia and East Anatolia in particular and also some parts of Southeast Anatolia, as well as much of Armenia and Iran are largely dominated by cold steppe. The Pannonian Plain is another steppe region in Central Europe, primarily Hungary. Prairie in Alberta, Canada Another large steppe area (prairie) is located in the central United States, western Canada and northern part of Mexico.

The landscape is quite varied, with sandy-steppe, semi-arid steppe, meadows, reed beds, and forest stands. The dunes of the Radensk sector are interspersed with patches of shrubs, lakes and birch groves (12% of the area).

Entomological reserve of the local value is "Studentok" The area is 4,9 hectares. The land is on the steppe slopes of the beam near the village of Studenok. The area is 4,9 hectares. There grows steppe vegetation.

Her pieces are typically large and very detailed. A relief in the Steppe series is held by the National Gallery of Jamaica. The Steppe series was largely inspired by her the business of her family, furniture making.

Their breeding habitat is grassland adjacent to shallow marshes and steppe lakes.

The village is located in steppe, 8 km south-east from Gmelinka.

The village is located in steppe, 17 km south- west from Kotelnikovo.

The village is located in steppe, on south of the Volga Upland.

The village is located in steppe, 4 km north-east from Gorodishche.

The village is located in steppe, 6 km north-west from Gorodishche.

The village is located in steppe, 13 km north-east from Leninsk.

The village is located in forest steppe on the Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain.

The park lies in the northern end of the Southern Andean steppe.

Bayantal (, Rich steppe) is a sum of Govisümber Province in central Mongolia.

Juveniles are targeted by foxes, steppe eagles, golden eagles, dogs, and ravens.

The Eurasian Steppe is the term often used to describe the vast steppe ecoregion of Eurasia stretching from the western borders of the steppes of Hungary to the eastern border of the steppes of Mongolia. Most of the Euro-Asian Steppe is included within the region of Central Asia while only a small part of it is included within Eastern Europe (the steppes of western Russia, Ukraine and Pannonian Plain - see Pontic-Caspian steppe). Characteristic are some small mammals (golden jackal, voles, European ground squirrel, Russian desman among others).

The East European forest steppe ecoregion (WWF ID:PA0419) is a patchwork of broadleaf forest stands and grasslands (steppe) that stretches 2,100 km across eastern Europe from the middle of Ukraine to the Ural Mountains in Russia. There are also isolated areas of similar character off the western end in eastern Romania, Moldova, and Bulgaria. The region forms a transition zone between the temperate forests to the north, and the steppe to the south. The forest-steppe is an area of Russia in which precipitation and evaporation are approximately equal.

First case of Aquila nipalensis Steppe eagle flying in Yakutia. Russian Ornithological Journal, 1860: 5773–5775. the Korean PeninsulaKaryakin, I. V. (2013). Review of the modern population status of the Steppe Eagle in the world and in Russia.

Soaring migration of Steppe Eagles Aquila nipalensis in southern Israel: flight behaviour under various wind and thermal conditions. Journal of Avian Biology, 289–301. Steppe eagles tend not to be very vocal especially when not breeding.Shirihai, H. (1994).

It is probable that Poltavka herders explored areas of the Kazakh Steppe. The arrival of Poltavka people onto the Kazakh Steppe is associated with various technological innovasions in the area. Poltavka pottery has been discovered in northern Kazakhstan.

It was characterized by coniferous forests consisting mostly of pines, spruces and larches. Hokkaido, Sakhalin, and the Kuril islands had mammoth steppe biome (steppe-tundra). The vegetation was dominated by palatable high-productivity grasses, herbs and willow shrubs.

Sagebrush Shrub-steppe is a type of low-rainfall natural grassland. While arid, shrub-steppes have sufficient moisture to support a cover of perennial grasses or shrubs, a feature which distinguishes them from deserts. The primary ecological processes historically at work in shrub-steppe ecosystems are drought and fire. Shrub-steppe plant species have developed particular adaptations to low annual precipitation and summer drought conditions.

Steppe eagles have been recorded in both Kazakhstan and Mongolia to tactfully avoid casting a shadow before descending onto prey and may drop stones to provide a distraction, a probable form of tool use. In the Kazakh observation, the steppe eagles quickly became used to agricultural activity adjacent to prey accesses while they hunted.Ivanov, V. V. (2016). New in the Ecology of the Steppe Eagle Aquila nipalensis.

Journal of insect physiology, 31(6), 435–440. It has been estimated that a steppe eagle would have to eat approximately 1600–2200 termites a day, which can be attainable in about 3 hours of feeding. The stomachs of 2 dissected steppe eagles contained 630 and 930 termite heads, respectively. In Zimbabwe, steppe eagles have also been seen in feeding masses in stubble fields picking out insects.

Its director is Nurtai Abykayev. Since 2002, the joint tactical peacekeeping exercise "Steppe Eagle" has been hosted by the Kazakhstan government. "Steppe Eagle" focuses on building coalitions and gives participating nations the opportunity to work together. During the Steppe Eagle exercises, the KAZBAT peacekeeping battalion operates within a multinational force under a unified command within multidisciplinary peacekeeping operations, with NATO and the US Military.

Bud & Lou: the Abbott & Costello story. 1977. Page. 33 & 37\. Excerpt: "Bud joined with Harry Steppe, a funny Jewish comic but one subject to spells of melancholia." Other paramours of Harry Steppe included Vaudeville performers Victoria "Vic" Dayton, whom he married in 1920,Photo of Harry Steppe and his wife Vic Dayton (Cover), The New York Clipper: The National Theatrical Weekly, December 1, 1920.

Other woody plant communities include wild rose shrublands dominated by Rosa pimpinellifolia and Rosa canina, and low woodlands of dwarf juniper (Juniperus communis ssp. nana) with an understory of Convolvulus calvertii. Areas of steppe are interspersed among the forests and woodlands, and anthropogenic steppe has expanded where woodlands and forests have been degraded or destroyed. Steppe of Artemisia fragrans is common at lower elevations.

Yelanets Steppe Nature Reserve () is a protected nature reserve of Ukraine that covers a section of the largest virgin steppe tract in the Northern Black Sea Coast area. It is the only steppe reserve in Right-bank Ukraine (the area on the west side of the Dnieper River. A herd of American bison was introduced and lives within the territory. The reserve is in Mykolaiv Oblast.

The best grazing lands are in the north around such places as the Orkhon River and Onon Rivers. To the east the steppe extends into "Manchuria" but does not reach the coast because of mountains and moisture from the Pacific. The Manchurian steppe merges northward to a deciduous forest-steppe and then the coniferous forest of Siberia. To the south it merges into agricultural China.

Sagebrush Steppe Conservation Project /ID National Lab. Wildlife Conservation Society. The most common sagebrush species in the sagebrush steppe in most areas is big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata). Others include three-tip sagebrush (Artemisia tripartita) and low sagebrush (Artemisia arbuscula).

Permanent ice and snow lies above . To the north, the Western Himalayan alpine shrub and meadows transition to the drier Central Tibetan Plateau alpine steppe of central Tibet. The Karakoram-West Tibetan Plateau alpine steppe lies to the southwest.

The Bugeac steppe is located in the south of Moldova from the Dnister to Prut rivers reaching down to the Black Sea.Welcome to Moldova! The Bugeac Steppe has a total surface of 3,210 km², of which 6.1% is forest.

The village is located in steppe, on the bank of the Volga River.

The village is located in steppe of Transvolga, 48 km east from Nikolayevsk.

The village is located in steppe, 18 km south- east from Krasny Oktyabr.

Tulelake has a steppe climate (BSk) according to the Köppen climate classification system.

Cedarville has a steppe climate (BSk) according to the Köppen climate classification system.

Bronze Age graves of south Russian steppe nomads were found in the village.

Riverside has a steppe climate (BSk) according to the Köppen climate classification system.

Warfare, State and Society on the Black Sea Steppe. pp. 15–26. Routledge.

Bronze Age graves of south Russian steppe nomads was found in the village.

The stanitsa is located 8 km south from Giaginskaya in the steppe zone.

There are no federally protected areas in the South Siberian forest steppe ecoregion.

Leadore has a steppe climate (BSk) according to the Köppen climate classification system.

To the south of the territory is the transition to the steppe zone.

The Sclaveni then raided Illyricum and returned home with booty. In 558 the Avars arrived at the Black Sea steppe, and defeated the Antes between the Dnieper and Dniester. The Avars subsequently allied themselves with the Sclaveni. The Pontic steppe, c.

McDonald, J., 1981. North American Bison, Their classification and Evolution. University of California Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles, London. The steppe bison spread across Eurasia, and all proceeding contemporary and successive species are believed to have derived from the steppe bison.

The area is 5,6 hectares. The area is on the South-Western steppe area near the village of Mykhailivka. There grows vegetation of steppe type. There live about 40 types of insects, among which there is the main fertilizer of alfalfa.

The Eurasian Steppe Belt (in on the map). The origins of the Huns and their links to other steppe people remain uncertain: scholars generally agree that they originated in Central Asia but disagree on the specifics of their origins. Classical sources assert that they appeared in Europe suddenly around 370. Most typically, Roman writers' attempts to elucidate the origins of the Huns simply equated them with earlier steppe peoples.

Scheme of Indo-European migrations from c. 4000 to 1000 BCE according to the widely held Kurgan hypothesis. These migrations are thought to have spread WSH ancestry and Indo-European languages throughout large parts of Eurasia. In archaeogenetics, the term Western Steppe Herders (WSH), or Western Steppe Pastoralists, is the name given to a distinct ancestral component that represents descent closely related to the Yamnaya culture of the Pontic- Caspian steppe.

Striltsivskyi Steppe Nature Reserve () is a protected nature reserve of Ukraine that covers representative steppe habitat in eastern Ukraine. The site has been a nature reserve since 1931, providing scientists with a long history of study of steppe ecological processes. It is known for its population of European Marmot. The reserve is in the administrative district of Milove in Luhansk Oblast Striltsivskyi is administratively a unit of Luhansk Nature Reserve.

However, steppe polecat numbers dropped noticeably during 1926-1929 and 1956–1959. This decline was attributed to changes in steppe landscapes and a decrease in the species' natural prey in connection with the application of chemical methods in controlling rodent populations, the plowing of Virgin Lands and changes in agrochemical methods. The steppe polecat is fairly easy to harvest. It is primarily caught with jaw traps located near inhabited burrows.

The Veydelevka steppe is an area of remnant steppe vegetation in Veydelevsky District, Belgorod Oblast in Russia. Together with a small tract of adjacent forest, it forms part of the Gniloye conservation area. Most of the reserve is covered in feather grass steppe dominated by Stipa tirsa.Ковыльные степи Вейделевского района Белгородской области / А. В. Полуянов, Н. И. Золотухин, И. Б.Золотухина, Т. Д. Филатова, //Бюллетень Брянского отделения Русского ботанического общества.

The landscape of Zdvisk is plain; there are some forests and steppe areas around.

The village is located in steppe, 53 km from Serafimovich, 230 km from Volgograd.

The village is located in steppe, 32 km from Serafimovich, 230 km from Volgograd.

Davies B. L. Warfare, state and society on the Black Sea steppe, 1500—1700.

The village is located in steppe, 140 km from Volgograd, 37 km from Kletskaya.

The village is located in steppe, 220 km from Volgograd, 15 km from Kotelnikovo.

The village is located in steppe, 220 km from Volgograd, 11 km from Kotelnikovo.

The village is located in steppe on Khopyorsko- Buzulukskaya plain, 24 km from Preobrazhenskaya.

The village is located in steppe, on the left bank of the Volgograd Reservoir.

The village is located in steppe on the left bank of the Volgograd Reservoir.

The village is located in forest steppe on the bank of the Buzuluk River.

The village is located in steppe on the left bank of the Volgograd Reservoir.

The village is located in steppe of the Transvolga, 42 km ESE from Nikolayevsk.

The village is located in steppe on the left bank of the Volgograd Reservoir.

The village is located in steppe of the Transvolga, 49 km ESE from Nikolayevsk.

The village is located in steppe on the left bank of the Volgograd Reservoir.

The village is located in steppe, on Yergeni, 21 km north-west from Oktyabrsky.

The village is located in steppe, 270 km from Volgograd, 49 km from Rudnya.

The village is located in steppe, 150 km from Volgograd, 16 km from Olkhovka.

The village is located in steppe, 60 km from Serafimovich, 230 km from Volgograd.

According to the Köppen climate classification system, Hermiston has a steppe climate (Köppen BSk).

Milton-Freewater has a steppe climate (BSk) according to the Köppen climate classification system.

Shopino Steppe - botanical reserve of regional importance in the Belgorodsky District of Belgorod Oblast.

Here has remained the protogenic flora which has disappeared everywhere and animals of steppe.

However, it would reductive to consider the steppe eagle largely insectivorous in winter, since disproportionately the eagles seen feeding on termites in southern Africa were juveniles and immatures and many of the species winter outside of southern Africa; often wintering steppe eagles from other areas do not seem to live predominantly on insects. In east Africa, the diet of steppe eagles is poorly documented but is reported to consist largely of silvery mole-rats (Heliophobius argenteocinereus) and blesmols of the genus Cryptomys.Meyburg, B.U., P. F. D. Boesman, J. S. Marks, and C.J. Sharpe (2020). Steppe Eagle (Aquila nipalensis), version 1.0.

In Zambia and Malawi, it was found that the steppe eagle was only frequent in high-elevation plateau areas from metres above sea level. Use of plateaus was also frequent in Zimbabwe, often where open savanna woods of Acacia stand as well as the use of cultivated areas such as wheat stubble fields by eagles. Iraqi wintering steppe eagles often used dump sites as well as deserts and semi-arid areas, with more steppe, other grassland and mountain slopes used in northern Iraq in winter. In Armenia steppe eagles are apparently frequent in old fields and orchards.

Although rarely observed to halt movements or to eat while migrating in Israel, one steppe eagle was seen to suddenly strike down and consume an adult common buzzard while both species were in passage there. A Brahminy kite that seen attempting to mob a steppe eagle in Tamil Nadu was observed to be killed by the eagle, while at least one other Brahminy there was also injured by an aggressive steppe eagle.Alagar, R. S., Balasubramanian, P., & Natarajan, V. (1992). Eastern steppe eagle Aquila rapax nipalensis Hodgson killing mobbing brahminy kite Haliastur indus (Boddaert) at Pt. Calimere Wildlife Sanctuary, Tamil Nadu.

A mean of 13.3 individual steppe eagles in Kazakhstan were estimated to be killed by each of powerline.Berezovikov, N.N. (2012). Finding a nest of the steppe eagle Aquila nipalensis on Kulanotpes in the Teniz-Kurgaldzhinsky Depression (Central Kazakhstan). Russian Ornithological Journal , 21 (728).

Furious, Tokhtamysh turned back and made war on his former ally. Eventually, Tokhtamysh conceded defeat and withdrew to the steppe. However, in 1387 he suddenly invaded Transoxiana, the heart of Timur's realm. Unfortunately for Tokhtamysh, heavy snow forced him back to the steppe.

During the Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age, Western Steppe Herders (WSHs) from the Pontic-Caspian steppe embarked on a massive expansion, which further displaced the WHGs. Among modern-day populations, WHG ancestry is most common among populations of the eastern Baltic.

The region is located in the West Siberian Plain, consisting of mostly flat terrain. In the south is the steppe, gradually turning into steppe, forest and swampy taiga to the north. The soil is sandy and silty. Along the Irtysh River, in t.

In the north it lies between areas of Dry Chaco and Southern Andean Yungas to the east, and Central Andean puna and Southern Andean steppe to the west. In south it lies between Espinal to the east and Patagonian steppe to the west.

About a third of the reserve territory is forest, surrounded by steppe. The forests are typically of chalk pine or birch. The steppe is of the multi-grass variety found in the mid-Ukrainian regions, on chalky soils and sow-hummus black soils.

Since there is little wood on the steppe, dry animal dung is gathered as fuel for fire. Bruun notes, "...horse dung especially (and perhaps surprisingly to the uninitiated) gives off a nice fragrance resembling that of incense."Bruun, Ole. Precious Steppe, p. 62.

Bloomsbury Publishing.Karyakin I.V. (2015). The Steppe Eagle (Aquila nipalensis). – Russian Raptor Research and Conservation Network.

Subadult and Pale Steppe Eagles Breeding in Mongolia. J. Raptor Res. 37 (1) :75–77.

The eastern half, along the Orkhon River, is in the Selenge-Orkhon forest steppe ecoregion.

The village is located in steppe, 45 km from Uryupinsk and 380 km from Volgograd.

The village is located in steppe, 37 km from Uryupinsk and 360 km from Volgograd.

The village is located in steppe, 34 km from Uryupinsk and 370 km from Volgograd.

Brian L. Davies, Warfare, State and Society on the Black Sea steppe, 1500-1700, 161.

The village is located in steppe, 33 km from Uryupinsk and 360 km from Volgograd.

The village is located in steppe, 53 km from Uryupinsk and 380 km from Volgograd.

The village is located in steppe, 16 km from Okladnensky and 370 km from Volgograd.

The village is located in steppe, 22 km from Uryupinsk and 360 km from Volgograd.

The village is located in steppe, 32 km from Uryupinsk and 370 km from Volgograd.

The village is located in steppe, 43 km from Uryupinsk and 370 km from Volgograd.

The village is located in steppe, 60 km from Uryupinsk and 380 km from Volgograd.

The village is located in steppe, 61 km from Uryupinsk and 380 km from Volgograd.

The village is located in steppe, 35 km from Uryupinsk and 340 km from Volgograd.

The village is located in steppe, 24 km from Uryupinsk and 350 km from Volgograd.

The village is located in steppe, 11 km from Uryupinsk and 330 km from Volgograd.

The village is located in steppe, 57 km from Uryupinsk and 330 km from Volgograd.

The village is located in steppe, 26 km from Uryupinsk and 360 km from Volgograd.

The village is located in steppe, 22 km from Uryupinsk and 350 km from Volgograd.

The village is located in steppe, 52 km from Uryupinsk and 380 km from Volgograd.

The village is located in steppe, 41 km from Uryupinsk and 263 km from Volgograd.

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The village is located in steppe, 34 km from Uryupinsk and 360 km from Volgograd.

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The village is located in steppe, 26 km from Uryupinsk and 360 km from Volgograd.

The village is located in steppe, 33 km from Uryupinsk and 370 km from Volgograd.

The village is located in steppe, 35 km from Uryupinsk and 370 km from Volgograd.

The village is located in steppe, 46 km from Uryupinsk and 380 km from Volgograd.

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The village is located in steppe, 23 km from Uryupinsk and 350 km from Volgograd.

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The village is located in steppe, 29 km from Uryupinsk and 360 km from Volgograd.

The village is located in steppe, 8.8 km from Uryupinsk and 340 km from Volgograd.

The village is located in steppe, 26 km from Uryupinsk and 360 km from Volgograd.

The village is located in steppe, 24 km from Uryupinsk and 360 km from Volgograd.

The village is located in steppe, 18 km from Uryupinsk and 350 km from Volgograd.

The village is located in steppe, 29 km from Dubovka and 81 km from Volgograd.

The village is located in steppe, 37 km from Dubovka and 87 km from Volgograd.

The village is located in steppe, 25 km from Dubovka and 74 km from Volgograd.

The village is located in steppe, 41 km from Dubovka and 93 km from Volgograd.

The village is located in steppe, on the Pichuga River, 11 km WSW from Dubovka.

The village is located in steppe 36 km from Danilovka and 270 km from Volgograd. .

The village is located in steppe, 25 km from Danilovka and 250 km from Volgograd.

The village is located in steppe, 11 km from Danilovka and 250 km from Volgograd.

The village is located in forest steppe of Volga Upland, 13 km west from Novinka.

The village is located in steppe, on the Volga Upland, 7 km NNE from Ilovlya.

The village is located in steppe, on the Volga Upland, 2 km south from Ilovlya.

The village is located in steppe, 110 km from Volgograd and 35 km from Ilovlya.

The village is located in steppe, 25 km from Volgograd and 27 km from Gorodishche.

The village is located in steppe, 69 km from Volgograd and 60 km from Gorodishche.

The village is located in steppe, 68 km from Volgograd and 70 km from Gorodishche.

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The village is located in steppe, 44 km from Volgograd and 38 km from Gorodishche.

The village is located in forest steppe, on Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, on the Rastverdyayevka River.

The village is located in steppe, on the Khopyorsko- Buzulukskaya Plain, near the Kleyevsky pond.

The village is located in steppe, on the Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, near the Biryuchy Pond.

The village is located in steppe, on the Caspian Depression, 27 km south from Pallasovka.

The village is located in steppe, on the Caspian Depression, 36 km south from Pallasovka.

The village is located in steppe, on the Caspian Depression, 43 km SSW from Pallasovka.

The village is located in steppe, on the Caspian Depression, 52 km SSW from Pallasovka.

The village is located in steppe, on the Caspian Depression, 35 km SSW from Pallasovka.

The village is located in steppe, on the Caspian Depression, 24 km SSW from Pallasovka.

The village is located in steppe, on the Khopyorsko- Buzulukskaya Plain, near the Ruzheynikov Pond.

The village is located in forest steppe, 300 km from Volgograd, 22 km from Rudnya.

The village is located in steppe, on the Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, 340 km from Volgograd.

The village is located in forest steppe, 280 km from Volgograd, 38 km from Rudnya.

The village is located in steppe, on the Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, 320 km from Volgograd.

It inhabits warm and dry areas, grasslands and limestone substrate, steppe slopes and dry pastures.

The Köppen Climate Classification subtype for this climate is "BSk". (Tropical and Subtropical Steppe Climate).

Himalayan, Tarbagan, gray and forest-steppe, all were regarded as subspecies of the bobak marmot.

"Patagonian Steppe". International Union for Conservation of Nature. July 9, 2010. "The Andean-Patagonian Forest".

Guliston and Yangier, both in Syrdarya Province, are the main population centers in Mirzacho'l Steppe.

Aberdeen has a semi-arid steppe climate (BSk) according to the Köppen climate classification system.

Notably, the zoo and botanical garden were greatly expanded. Part of the reserve included portions of steppe reserve, an acclimatization zoo, and an arboretum. From 1932 to 1956, the reserve was transformed into the All-Union scientific-research institute for the hybridization and acclimatization of animals of M. Ivanov. It consisted of 12 departments (including the botanical garden, steppe reserve steppe, and zoo), nine laboratories, conducting experimental farming, and four breeding centres for agricultural animals.

Kerzhinski is located towards the eastern edge of the East European forest steppe ecoregion. This ecoregion is a patchwork of broadleaf forest stands and grasslands (steppe) that stretches 2,100 km across eastern Europe from the middle of Ukraine to the Ural Mountains in Russia. The forest-steppe is an area of Russia in which precipitation and evaporation are approximately equal. The climate of Kerzhinski is Humid continental climate, cool summer (Köppen climate classification (Dfb)).

ANI formed out of a mixture of "Indus Periphery-related groups" and migrants from Bronze age steppe. Lazaridis et al. (2016) notes that the demographic impact of steppe related populations on South Asia was substantial. According to the results, the Mala, a south Indian Dalit population with minimal Ancestral North Indian (ANI) along the 'Indian Cline' have nevertheless ~ 18 % steppe-related ancestry, showing the strong influence of ANI ancestry in all populations of India.

The Steppe Route was an ancient overland route through the Eurasian Steppe that was an active precursor of the Silk Road. Silk and horses were traded as key commodities; secondary trade included furs, weapons, musical instruments, precious stones (turquoise, lapis lazuli, agate, nephrite) and jewels. This route extended for approximately . Trans-Eurasian trade through the Steppe Route precedes the conventional date for the origins of the Silk Road by at least two millennia.

Thus, few major cities developed in the region. Nomadic horse peoples of the steppe dominated the area for millennia. Relations between the steppe nomads and the settled people in and around Central Asia were marked by conflict. The nomadic lifestyle was well suited to warfare, and the steppe horse riders became some of the most militarily potent people in the world, due to the devastating techniques and ability of their horse archers.

This state proved to be short lived, as in 1369 Timur, a Turkic leader in the Mongol military tradition, conquered most of the region. Even harder than keeping a steppe empire together was governing conquered lands outside the region. While the steppe peoples of Central Asia found conquest of these areas easy, they found governing almost impossible. The diffuse political structure of the steppe confederacies was maladapted to the complex states of the settled peoples.

The park is located in the Black Sea Lowlandon the farthest north of the western Black Sea, where the Dnieper River and the Southern Bug enter the sea together. The site is about 150 km west of the land bridge to the Crimean Peninsula. Along the north of the park is representative steppe and forest-steppe habitat. In the south are a patchwork of dry steppe, wetlands and adjacent salt water habitat.

The Oghurs were the first wave of Turkic-speakers to move west across the steppe. They were followed westward by the Oghuz Turks and then the Kipchaks. Most of the Oghuz turned southwest and left their languages in Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan and Turkey while the Kipchaks remained on the steppe and became the modern Kazakhs. From about 376, the Huns moved west onto the western steppe, raided Europe and broke up after 453.

The mountain taiga sectors to the south are about 80 covered with coniferous forests, with smaller communities of dark-coniferous-birch forest. All told, the various sectors of the reserve have recorded 1195 species of vascular plants, from 429 genera and 105 families. The animal life of the reserve is characteristic of the northern Sayan mountain steppe and forest region. Characteristics mammals of the steppe are the steppe lemming, vole, and common field mouse.

Counts of Steppe Eagles Aquila nipalensis at a carcass dump in Jorbeer, Rajasthan, India. A concentration of around 50 steppe eagle was seen to feed on swarms of locusts in Nepal.Fleming, R. L., Rand, A. L., & Traylor, M. A. (1961). Notes on Nepal birds.

Soaring flight in the steppe eagle (Aquila nipalensis) (Doctoral dissertation, University of Oxford).Gillies, J., Bacic, M., Thomas, A., Taylor, G., & Yuan, F. (2008). Modeling and identification of steppe eagle (Aquila nipalensis) dynamics. In: AIAA Modeling and Simulation Technologies Conference and Exhibit (p. 7096).

It is the transition ecoregion from the Great Plains prairie and steppe temperate grasslands to the Taiga biome forests in the north. In central Asia the forest steppe ecotone is found in ecoregions in the mountains of the Iranian Plateau, in Iran, Afghanistan, and Balochistan.

Steppe of herbs and low shrubs, including Astragalus spp., Gundelia tournefortii, Noaea mucronata, Thymus spp., and Salvia cryptantha, is found in oak forest clearings. These are known as tragacanthic steppe, after tragacanth, a natural gum derived from several species of Astragalus that grow there.

Over the last few hundred years, the Russian steppe and much of Inner Mongolia has been cultivated. The fact that most of the Russian steppe is not irrigated implies that it was maintained as grasslands as a result of the military strength of the nomads.

Anton Chico has a cold steppe climate (BSk) under the Köppen Classification of climates. Under the Trewartha climate classification the climate is a cold steppe with hot summers and cool winters (BSak). Most precipitation is received in the warmer six months of the year.

Euphydryas sibirica is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found in north-eastern Asia, where it is found in steppe or steppe-like meadows.Russian Insects Adults are on wing from June to July. The larvae of subspecies eothena feed on Scabiosa lachnophylla.

Eastern Asia. Color is proportional to rainfall. Note the oval Tarim Basin at the west end of the Kansu Corridor. This article summarizes the History of the eastern steppe, the eastern third of the Eurasian Steppe, that is, the grasslands of Mongolia and northern China.

Bruun, Ole. Precious Steppe, p. 54, 58. For example, during a spring celebration, a lama may sprinkle the first mare's milk of the year over an ovoo.Bruun, Ole. Precious Steppe, p. 130. Horse meat sausageHorses are considered meat animals in Mongolia. Each 600 lb.

Catatinagma kraterella is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in Russia (the southern Ural, Buryatia and Transbaikalia).Fauna Europaea The habitat consists of grassy steppe slopes with open, gravelly patches, as well as sandy steppe. The wingspan is 11–14 mm.

The Ukrainian Spotted Steppe (, Ukrajinska stepowa ryaba poroda) is a lard- type pig breed from Ukraine.

Nikolenko, E.G. (2013). The conservation status of the steppe eagle should be reviewed. Raptor Research, (26).

The village is located in forest steppe, 38 km from Uryupinsk and 360 km from Volgograd.

The village is located in forest steppe, 19 km from Uryupinsk and 350 km from Volgograd.

The village is located in forest steppe, 40 km from Uryupinsk and 360 km from Volgograd.

The village is located in forest steppe, 31 km from Uryupinsk and 360 km from Volgograd.

The village is located in forest steppe, 34 km from Uryupinsk and 360 km from Volgograd.

The village is located in forest steppe, 29 km from Uryupinsk and 360 km from Volgograd.

The village is located in forest steppe, 34 km from Uryupinsk and 160 km from Volgograd.

The village is located in forest steppe, 30 km from Uryupinsk and 350 km from Volgograd.

The village is located in forest steppe, 47 km from Uryupinsk and 370 km from Volgograd.

The village is located in forest steppe, 7.1 km from Uryupinsk and 340 km from Volgograd.

The village is located in forest steppe, 9 km from Uryupinsk and 340 km from Volgograd.

The village is located in forest steppe, 17 km from Uryupinsk and 350 km from Volgograd.

The village is located in forest steppe, 29 km from Uryupinsk and 350 km from Volgograd.

The village is located in forest steppe, 25 km from Uryupinsk and 350 km from Volgograd.

The village is located in forest steppe, 24 km from Uryupinsk and 350 km from Volgograd.

The village is located in forest steppe, 30 km from Uryupinsk and 350 km from Volgograd.

The village is located in forest steppe, 45 km from Uryupinsk and 370 km from Volgograd.

The village is located in forest steppe, 36 km from Uryupinsk and 370 km from Volgograd.

The village is located in forest steppe, 25 km from Uryupinsk and 350 km from Volgograd.

The village is located in forest steppe, 24 km from Uryupinsk and 350 km from Volgograd.

The village is located in forest steppe, 36 km from Uryupinsk and 360 km from Volgograd.

The village is located in forest steppe, 40 km from Uryupinsk and 360 km from Volgograd.

The village is located in forest steppe, 32 km from Uryupinsk and 360 km from Volgograd.

The village is located in forest steppe, 12 km from Uryupinsk and 340 km from Volgograd.

The vegetation consisted of an open forest steppe with species like terebinths, almonds and wild cereals.

The village is located in steppe, on Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya plain, 22 km south-east from Preobrazhenskaya.

The village is located in forest steppe, 33 km from Danilovka and 260 km from Volgograd.

The village is located in steppe, on the Don River, on south of the Volga Upland.

The village is located in steppe, on the Volga Upland, 3 km south-west from Ilovlya.

The village is located in steppe, on the Don River, on south of the Volga Upland.

The village is located in forest steppe, on the Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, 310 km from Volgograd.

The village is located in forest steppe on the Khopyorsko- Buzulukskaya Plain, on the Panika River.

The village is located in forest steppe on the Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, on the Ilmen Lake.

The village is located in forest steppe on the Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, on the Panika River.

The village is located in steppe, on the Caspian Depression, 40 km south-west from Pallasovka.

The village is located in steppe, on the Caspian Depression, 38 km south-west from Pallasovka.

The village is located in steppe, on Yergeni, 150 km from Volgograd, 26 km from Oktyabrsky.

The village is located in steppe, on the Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, 39 km east from Novonikolayevsky.

The village is located in steppe, on the Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, 50 km ENE from Novonikolayevsky.

The village is located in steppe, on the Khopyorsko- Buzulukskaya Plain, 35 km east from Novonikolayevsky.

The village is located in steppe, on the Caspian Depression, 50 km south-west from Pallasovka.

The village is located in steppe, on the Caspian Depression, 48 km south-west from Pallasovka.

The village is located in steppe, on the Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, 28 km east from Novonikolayevsky.

The village is located in steppe, on Yergeni, 160 km from Volgograd, 36 km from Oktyabrsky.

The village is located in steppe, 5 km from the left bank of the Medveditsa River.

Upland habitats include moorland, limestone grassland, woodland and hedgerows. Lowland habitats include steppe, heaths and mosses.

Besides the many aforementioned accounts of prey including carnivores like mustelids and foxes, steppe eagles can also on occasion kill other raptorial birds and seems to consider even quite formidable species as viable prey. In the Karaganda region alone, the local steppe eagles were recorded to prey on lesser kestrels (Falco naumanni), long-legged buzzards, Eurasian eagle-owls (Bubo bubo) and seven short-eared owls (Asio flammeus). In the Altai region, in addition to eagle-owls, the black kite has also been recorded as steppe eagle prey. In fact, the steppe eagle apparently is the only bird to have preyed upon Eurasian eagle-owls besides the golden eagle on multiple occasions.

As a geographic area Bălți steppe is one of the three components of the Moldavian Plain, which in turn is one of the six components of the Moldavian Plateau. Despite the name, Bălți steppe is not a flatland, but a region dotted with hills. In Moldova, Bălți steppe, 1,920 km, and Middle Prut Valley, 2,930 km are sometimes together referred to as Moldavian Plain, however one should be warned that in Romania the latter term is used as a synonym for the Jijia Plain. Before 1940 the term used to mean Jijia Plain plus Middle Prut Valley plus Bălți steppe, because the three regions have an identical relief and natural vegetation.

BOC, 125(2). Testing of genetic materials has reinforced the species distinction of the steppe and tawny eagles. Genetically, the steppe eagle is thought to be basal to related species such as the tawny and imperial eagles.White, C. M., Olson, P. D., & Kiff, L. F. (1994).

Biodiversity Observations, 11–18. However, when interactions are of a more competitive nature, the steppe eagle tends to dominate any species of kite.Londei, T. (1998). Defence of a juvenile by an immature Steppe Eagle, Aquila nipalensis, from the kleptoparasitic attacks of a Black-eared Kite, Milvus lineatus.

To the south is the forest-steppe and steppe belt supports most of the population and agriculture of Siberia, and that runs along the northern edge of the Altai mountains. The region is in the Palearctic realm (Euro-Siberian region), with a (Dfb) climate. It covers .

The Kazakh Steppe bounds the Pontic steppe to the east. The Ponto-Caspian seas are the remains of the Turgai Sea, an extension of the Paratethys which extended south and east of the Urals and covering much of today's West Siberian Plain in the Mesozoic and Cenozoic.

The reserve is meadow-steppe and forest steppe, known for wildflowers, feather grass, fescue and other grasses. Many parts are recovering from the influences of humans, particularly hay-making, and are the subject of scientific study of the processes of rebuilding wild plant and animal communities.

The terrain is flat with draws and ravines, with steppe and forest-steppe vegetation. The black soil of the district supports agriculture. The western side of the district is forested. The district is elongated in shape, measuring about 25 km north-south and 50 km west-east.

The steppe mouse is a common species with a wide range, and the International Union for Conservation of Nature has rated its conservation status as being of "least concern" while noting that the intensification of agriculture and destruction of grassy steppe may be a future threat.

Khorinsk was formed by the merger of two villages: Duma and Bazar. Duma was the center of Khorin steppe Duma. In the village Bazar lived yasak peasants and held trade fair. After the abolition of The steppe Duma village became known as the village of Nikolskoye.

A diversity of small passerines has been found in the diet, especially fledgling-age larks of various species, most frequently perhaps in Kazakhstan and Mongolia. A few reptiles found in the diet around nest have included at least sand lizard (Lacerta agilis), Caspian whipsnake (Dolichophis caspius) and steppe viper (Vipera ursinii). Larger prey such as gray marmots are infrequently targeted by steppe eagles. On occasion, during summer, a steppe eagle may be able to take exceptionally large prey.

Smaller raptors like harriers are often the only other diurnal birds of prey to regularly nest on the ground and may co-occur over much of the range of steppe eagles, although usually use damper parts of the steppe as nesting habitats than the eagles. Harriers also often use similar migration routes as do the steppe eagles.Spaar, R., & Bruderer, B. (1997). Migration by flapping or soaring: flight strategies of Marsh, Montagu's and Pallid Harriers in southern Israel.

The steppe plays an important role for the preservation of many rare species of steppe birds. Also, the territory is important for the southern birch mouse. Its population in "Tarutyns'kyj steppe" landscape preserve is one of the last population which has been preserved in Ukraine. The preserve is nominated as the object of the Emerald Network and is included in the Emerald Network database by a Berne Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats Secretariat.

The inter-relation of China with the steppe route resulted in the brilliant progress of the Chinese civilization in the Yin (Shang 商) dynasty on the appearance of three major innovations most probably imported from the Eurasian steppe western communities : wheeled transport, the horse, and metallurgy. The common references which had been travelling alongside the Steppe Route can be traced from the Mediterranean to the Korean Peninsula in similar techniques, styles, cultures, and religions, and even disease patterns.

The reserve is covered 94% by mixed coniferous-deciduous and deciduous forests. The remainder is grassland steppe and grass-forb meadows. The limestone and chalk mountains support some virgin steppe pine forest, with representative rocky steppe habitat, sphagnum bogs, floodplain oak and osokorevo-vetlovye forests, and willow thickets. Biodiversity is high and packed into a small area: although Zhiguli is only 0.16% of the Samara region, it contains over 1,000 of the 1,500 higher plant species of the region.

Tetracis pallidata is a moth of the family Geometridae first described by Clifford D. Ferris in 2009. It is found in British Columbia, Idaho and Washington. Habitats are mixed riparian forest (cottonwood with aspen and willows intermingled with choke cherry) in sage-shrub steppe, riparian in the ecotone between ponderosa pine and shrub steppe, and in Owyhee County in Idaho, sage-shrub steppe with juniper and mountain mahogany (Cercocarpus ledifolius). The length of the forewings 20–23 mm.

The central part of their range as a breeding species occurs in vast areas of steppe and here the species often inhabits forest-steppe mosaics, as well as open woodlands, river valleys and even agricultural areas with trees or wooded patches.Sanchez-Zapata, J. A., Carrete, M., Gravilov, A., Sklyarenko, S., Ceballos, O., Donazar, J. A., & Hiraldo, F. (2003). Land use changes and raptor conservation in steppe habitats of Eastern Kazakhstan. Biological Conservation, 111(1), 71-77.

Steppe mammoths are an extinct species of mammoths that lived in Eurasia in the Middle Pleistocene. Steppe mammoth, as a species, was separated from the Southern mammoth (Mammuthus meridionalis) in the Upper Pleistocene and displaced it in the Middle Pleistocene about from 750 to 500 thousand years ago. Steppe mammoth had a short skull and long tusks. Having a height of up to 4.7 meters and weighing up to 10 tons, it was the largest type of proboscis.

After that cross, a population of steppe bison (Bison priscus) crossed the Bering Land Bridge to North America. Evidence has been found of multiple crossings of bison to and from Asia starting before 500,000 years ago and continuing until at least 220,000 years ago. The steppe bison spread through the northern parts of North America and lived in Eurasia until roughly 11,000 years agoGuthrie, R. D. (1990). Frozen Fauna of the Mammoth Steppe: The Story of Blue Babe.

Tigirekskiy is located in the Kazakh forest steppe ecoregion, a steppe region with long ""ribbon forests"" of pine; about 300–500 miles more northerly than the European Russian forest. This ecoregion has more wetlands and more continental climate than the European forest steppe. The climate of Tigirekskiy is Humid continental climate, warm summer (Köppen climate classification (Dfb)). This climate is characterized by large swings in temperature, both diurnally and seasonally, with mild summers and cold, snowy winters.

The ecoregion is situated between steppe on its south (the Emin Valley steppe ecoregion) and conifer forests to its north (the Altai montane forest and forest steppe ecoregion). To the west is the Kazakh semi-desert ecoregion and to the east is the Junggar Basin semi-desert and Lake Zaysan. The Irtysh River runs along the northeast of the ecoregion, and the Tarbagatay Mountains along the south. A small portion of the ecoregion reaches into China.

Among the herbaceous vegetation marked 7 species listed in the Red Book of the Belgorod region. This steppe (Stipa pennata, Astragalus albicaulis, Clematis integrifolia), meadow-steppe species (wood anemone, Prunella grandiflora) and petrofitic steppe species characteristic of the сretaceous outcrop (Linum ucranicum, Asperula tephrocarpa).Скорбач В. В., Седых К. А. Систематический и экологический анализ флоры участка ООПТ «Шопинская Степь» Белгородского района Белгородской области // Флора и растительность Центрального Черноземья — 2014: материалы межрегион. науч. конф. (г. Курск, 5 апреля 2014 г.).

The onset of migratory movement for steppe buzzards back to the breeding grounds in southern Africa is mainly in March, peaking in the second week. Steppe buzzard molt their feathers rapidly upon arrival at wintering grounds and seems to split their flight feather molt between breeding ground in Eurasia and wintering ground in southern Africa, the molt pausing during migration.Herremans, M. (2000). The 'chaotic’flight feather moult of the Steppe Buzzard Buteo buteo vulpinus. Bird Study, 47(3), 332–343.

Nesting of the Steppe Eagle Aquila nipalensis on dunes in the Eastern Balkhash. Russian Ornithological Journal, 473: 500–502. Other notable prey taken regularly whilst breeding by steppe eagles includes steppe pika (Ochotona pusilla) (especially in the Volga region), alpine pika (Ochotona alpina), yellow steppe lemming (Eolagurus luteus) (especially in eastern Kazakhstan), or the slightly larger types of gerbil such as great gerbils (Rhombomys opimus) and Mongolian gerbils (Meriones unguiculatus). The study of the Karaganda region of Kazakhstan with 400 prey items found illustrated that the steppe eagle is capable of deriving a living from a wide range of prey, with the foods led by rosy starling (Pastor roseus) (mostly fledglings), at 24%, unidentified Microtus voles, at 19.75%, followed by little ground squirrels, unspecified pikas (8.25%), European hares (Lepus europaeus) (5%) and grey partridges (Perdix perdix) (4.5%).

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The village is located in steppe, on Transvolga, 9.5 km from Staraya Poltavka, 280 km from Volgograd.

The village is located in steppe, on Transvolga, 56 km from Staraya Poltavka, 340 km from Volgograd.

Steppe Climate. Retrieved on 2008-04-15. A subarctic climate has little precipitation,Michael Ritter. Subarctic Climate.

The village is located in forest steppe, on Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, 3 km from the Medveditsa River.

The village is located in steppe, on the Khopyorsko- Buzulukskaya Plain, 38 km north-east from Novonikolayevsky.

The village is located in steppe, on the Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, 2.6 km north-west from Martyshevo.

Climate type occurs primarily on the periphery of the true deserts in low-latitude semiarid steppe regions.

The term "steppe belt" may also be applied to some grassland zones in biogeographical zoning of mountains.

Une île dans le désert. La fin du Néolithique précéramique dans la steppe syrienne. Par Alison Betts.

The Steppe Geoglyphs, discovered in 2007 using Google Earth, are an example of earthworks in Central Asia.

According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Paisley has a steppe climate, abbreviated "BSk" on climate maps.

The stanitsa is located 21 km east from Giaginskaya in the steppe zone on the Fars River.

Sedges are characteristic in the steppe areas, resisting low-moisture conditions with much of their biomass underground.

An east- west Aquila eagle migration in the Himalayas. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. Bombay, 80(1), 58–62. Despite the steppe eagle averaging scarcely smaller, data from both breeding and wintering areas indicates that the imperial eagle tends to be behaviorally dominant over steppe eagles.

Trajectories of change in sagebrush steppe vegetation communities in relation to multiple wildfires. Ecological Applications, 22(5), 1562-77. Sagebrush steppe is a threatened ecosystem in many regions. It was once very widespread in the regions that form the Intermountain West, such as the Great Basin and Colorado Plateau.

The Tang destroyed the Khaganate in 657–659. 552-575: Western expansion: The Gokturks and Mongols were the only two empires to rule both the eastern and central steppe. The Gokturks were the first steppe empire to be in contact with three great urban civilizations: Byzantium, Persia and China.

It grows well in garden borders, but it only flowers in dry and sunny positions. Stable in culture, winters without shelter. Can be used for rocky hills, curb and group plantings in the southern forest-steppe and steppe regions. Differ by more than I. ruthenica, confinement to dry soils.

Born in Russia to Orthodox Jewish parents, Steppe emigrated from Moscow to the United States through Ellis Island with his family in 1892.Port of New York Passenger Record Search, Ellis Island Foundation. Retrieved: 16 Jan 2008. Steppe became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1899.

The characteristic vegetation of the ecoregion is dry deciduous forest interspersed with areas of shrub steppe. Human activity has transformed most of the region into anthropogenic steppe or open woodland. The forests which once covered 50 to 55% of the region now cover less than 10%.Atalay, Ibrahim (1986).

The reserve supports mountain-steppe and forest-steppe floral communities. Over 29,000 hectares are forested, with over half being oak. The oak forests are found at elevations of 600-900 meters above sea level. Beech forests cover 7,500 hectares, with some groves as much as 300 years old.

The Syvash sector has a dry-steppe environment, with poor soils, and brackish vegetation. The islands in the bay have remained relatively isolated and exhibit more representative southern steppe habitats. Reed beds line portions of the Syvash sector. The Azov site is an important resting spot for migratory birds.

Volga cossack in 1774. The picture is made before 1841. () The steppe culture of the Russian Cossacks originated from nomadic steppe people which merged with Eastern Slavic people groups into large communities. The early Cossack communities emerged in the 14th century, the first, among others, were the Don Cossacks.

The park is in the Tian Shan montane steppe and meadows ecoregion (WWF #1019), which covers the Tian Shan mountain range of central Asia, with some adjoining ranges such as the Dzungarian Alatau to the north. The ecoregion is known for its isolation and high biological diversity due to altitude zones from steppe to alpine meadows to glaciers, and as a transition zone between boreal, steppe, and desert geographic regions. At mid-elevations, there is sufficient precipitation to support forests.

The Tibetan Plateau is composed of three main regions, based on yearly precipitation levels and types of vegetation, namely the alpine meadow, alpine steppe, and the alpine desert- steppe. Since the Holocene, studies of fossil pollen records have shown that the alpine meadow has extended into areas that were previously alpine steppe as precipitation increased during that period.{Li, Q., Lu, H., Shen, C., Zhao, Y., Ge. Q. 2016. Vegetation successions in response to Holocene climate changes in the central Tibetan Plateau.

Harry Steppe was represented by several theatrical agencies during his career, including Cain & Davenport and Chamberlain and Lyman Brown. Some of his shows were produced by Sam N. Reichblum and well-known burlesque producer I.H. Herk. Steppe also secured theater bookings through the support of entertainment circuits, or "wheels," like the B.F. Keith Vaudeville Exchange, the Columbia Amusement Company (so- called "clean" burlesque) and the Mutual Burlesque Association."In the City's Playhouses: Harry Steppe - Orpheum" Reading Eagle, Sep 27, 1930, page 14.

The steppe lemming or steppe vole (Lagurus lagurus) is a small, plump, light- grey rodent, similar in appearance to the Norway lemming (Lemmus lemmus), but not in the same genus. The steppe lemming eats shoots and leaves and is more active at night, though it is not strictly nocturnal. In the wild, it is found in Russia and Ukraine in steppes and semiarid environments. Fossil remains of this species have been found in areas as far west as Great Britain.

Four kinds of vegetation can be found in the park- forest, forest- steppe, steppe and meadow. The floristic diversity of the park consists of around 460 species, including the Bayanaul pine and the black alder. The Bayanaul pine is characterized by the fact that it grows primarily on rocks, creating a bizarre combination of rock and vegetation. The variety of vegetation in the park is particularly surprising, considering that it is located in the middle of a semi-desert steppe with meager vegetation.

According to the most widely held hypothesis of the origin of the Indo-European languages, the Kurgan hypothesis, their common ancestor is thought to have originated on the Pontic-Caspian steppe. The Tocharians were an early Indo-European branch in the Tarim Basin. At the beginning of written history the entire steppe population west of Dzungaria spoke Iranian languages. From about 500 AD the Turkic languages replaced the Iranian languages first on the steppe, and later in the oases north of Iran.

Chekhov's family and friends in 1890 (Top row, left to right) Ivan, Alexander, Father; (second row) unknown friend, Lika Mizinova, Masha, Mother, Seryozha Kiselev; (bottom row) Misha, Anton In 1887, exhausted from overwork and ill health, Chekhov took a trip to Ukraine, which reawakened him to the beauty of the steppe."There is a scent of the steppe and one hears the birds sing. I see my old friends the ravens flying over the steppe." Letter to sister Masha, 2 April 1887.

Among the diverse peoples of the Scythian cultures, the Scythians are the most famous, due to the reports on them published by the 5th century Greek historian Herodotus. The ancient Persians referred to all nomads of steppe as Saka. In modern times, term Scythians is sometimes applied to all the peoples associated with the Scythian cultures. Within this terminology it is often distinguished between "western" Scythians living on the Pontic–Caspian steppe, and "eastern" Scythians living on the Eastern Steppe.

Migrating steppe buzzards will rise up with the morning thermals and can cover an average of hundreds of miles a day using the available currents along mountain ridges and other topographic features. The spring migration for steppe buzzards peaks around March–April, but the latest vulpinus arrive in their breeding grounds by late April or early May. Distances covered by migrating steppe buzzards in one way flights from northern Europe (i.e. Finland or Sweden) to southern Africa have ranged over within a season .

These are often supported by an exceptionally diverse, dense population of rodents there. The Bale Mountains golden eagles were recorded kleptoparatisizing steppe eagles, augur buzzard (Buteo augur), pallid harrier (Circus macrourus) and lanner falcons (Falco biarmicus) and the eagles were themselves kleptoparatisized by steppe eagles on three occasions. The golden eagles were also observed to chase tawny and steppe eagles out of their nesting territories. In the Bale Mountains, the golden eagle overlaps with perhaps its closest living relative, the Verreaux's eagle.

The village is located in steppe, on the Volga Upland, 180 km from Volgograd, 40 km from Kamyshin.

The village is located in forest steppe, on Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, on the bank of the Kumylga River.

The village is located in forest steppe, on Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, on the bank of the Yedovlya River.

The village is located in forest steppe, on Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, on the bank of the Khopyor River.

The village is located in forest steppe, on Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, on the bank of the Kumylga River.

The village is located in forest steppe, on Khopyorsko- Buzulukskaya Plain, on the bank of the Sukhodol River.

The village is located in forest steppe, on Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, on the bank of the Kumylga River.

The village is located in steppe, on the Krepkaya River, 190 km from Volgograd, 44 km from Kletskaya.

The village is located in steppe, on the Krepkaya River, 150 km from Volgograd, 26 km from Kletskaya.

The village is located in steppe, on the Kurtlak River, 200 km from Volgograd, 71 km from Kletskaya.

The village is located in steppe, 220 km from Volgograd, 23 km from Kotelnikovo, 13 km from Nizhneyablochny.

The village is located in steppe, 230 km from Volgograd, 28 km from Kotelnikovo, 12 km from Poperechny.

The village is located in forest steppe of Volga Upland, 290 km from Volgograd, 57 km from Zhirnovsk.

The village is located in forest steppe, on Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, on the bank of the Kumylga River.

The village is located in forest steppe, on Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, on the bank of the Rastverdyayevka River.

The village is located in forest steppe, on Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, on the bank of the Kumylga River.

The village is located in forest steppe, on Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, on the bank of the Khopyor River.

The village is located in forest steppe, on Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, on the bank of the Yedovlya River.

The village is located in forest steppe, on Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, on the bank of the Kumylga River.

The village is located in forest steppe, on Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, on the bank of the Sukhodol River.

The village is located in forest steppe, on Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, on the bank of the Yedovlya River.

The village is located in forest steppe, on Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, on the bank of the Khopyor River.

The village is located in forest steppe, on Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, on the bank of the Yedovlya River.

The village is located in forest steppe, on Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, on the bank of the Sukhodol River.

The village is located in forest steppe, on Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, on the bank of the Khopyor River.

The village is located in forest steppe, on Khopyorsko- Buzulukskaya Plain, on the bank of the Peskovatka River.

The village is located in forest steppe, on Khopyorsko- Buzulukskaya Plain, on the bank of the Sukhodol River.

The village is located in forest steppe, on Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, on the bank of the Kumylga River.

The village is located in forest steppe, on Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, on the bank of the Khopyor River.

The village is located in steppe on the Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, on the bank of the Podpeshnoye Lake.

The village is located in steppe, 20 km from Novostroyka, 23 km from Pallasovka, 300 km from Volgograd.

The village is located in steppe, on the Khopyorsko- Buzulukskaya Plain, on the bank of the Karavochka River.

The village is located in steppe, on the Olkhovka River, 180 km from Volgograd, 16 km from Olkhovka.

The village is located in steppe, on the Volga Upland, 180 km from Volgograd, 21 km from Olkhovka.

The village is located in steppe, on the Medveditsa River, 290 km from Volgograd, 17 km from Rudnya.

The village is located in steppe, in the valley of the Aksay Yesaulovsky River, 26 km from Oktyabrsky.

The village is located in steppe, on the Olkhovka River, 190 km from Volgograd, 28 km from Olkhovka.

The village is located in steppe, on the Chertoleyka River, 180 km from Volgograd, 21 km from Olkhovka.

The village is located in steppe, on the Olkhovka River, 170 km from Volgograd, 6 km from Olkhovka.

The village is located in steppe, on the Volga Upland, 160 km from Volgograd, 34 km from Olkhovka.

The village is located in steppe, on the Olkhovka River, 200 km from Volgograd, 31 km from Olkhovka.

The village is located in steppe, on the Volga Upland, 140 km from Volgograd, 28 km from Olkhovka.

Barangay Paloyon is said to be a part of the Mount Iriga ridge land, which is elevated steppe.

Tambov Oblast is situated in forest steppe. It borders on the Ryazan, Penza, Saratov, Voronezh and Lipetsk Oblasts.

The village is located in the north-east of the Chui steppe, between the rivers Yustyd and Kyzylshin.

According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Alkali Lake has a steppe climate, abbreviated "BSk" on climate maps.

This climate type occurs primarily on the periphery of the true deserts in low-latitude semiarid steppe regions.

It grows to in dry, grassy meadows in sagebrush steppe and montane plant communities in the Great Basin.

It is usually a part of shrub steppe communities usually in association with a spinifex hummock grassland understorey.

According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Pilot Rock has a steppe climate, abbreviated "BSk" on climate maps.

2017 concluded that haplogroup Haplogroup R2 originated in northern India and was already present before the Steppe migration.

Approximately 88% of the site is grassland (steppe), and 12% is forest (mostly in ravines and along rivers).

4,500 BC. This showed that WSH ancestry appeared outside of the steppe 2,000 years earlier than previously believed.

30-40% steppe ancestry. Genetic differences between the examined Latins and the Etruscans were found to be insignificant.

Senecio patagonicus is an arid land perennial Senecio native to high elevation steppe ecosystems of Patagonia in Chile.

Precious Steppe, p. 56. The nomadic Mongols rides on the horse and hold lassos of horses in hand.

Population structure of the Steppe Eagle Range and preliminary data on the population genetic diversity and status of subspecies. Новости.Khrokov, V. V., Buketov, M. E. & Faustov. L.V. (2020). To the number of Steppe Eagle Aquila nipalensis in Kazakhstan. 1897: 1125–1126. The Altai and Sayan region is thought to hold 43–51% of the current breeding population of steppe eagles in Russia, with the Altai Republic estimated to hold 270–280 breeding pairs. A slight recovery has been noted in the Tuva Basin, going up to as much as 200–300 pairs between 2008 and 2014. A steppe eagle mother with its eaglet; this eagle is still quite young and not in adult plumage.

Tawny eagles occasionally attend the same food sources as wintering steppes, such as carcass dumps, other carrion and termite alates, and appear to largely ignore each other; on the other hand, an assertive steppe can sometimes displace a tawny eagle. Apart from imperial eagles, steppe eagles were said to be dominant over other Aquila eagles and spotted eagles in the guild of raptors in Bharatpur. The steppe eagle is quite similar to the lesser and greater spotted eagles in migratory behaviour, but tends to specialize on entirely different prey during breeding. The spotted eagles tend to nest in well-wooded areas near water and catch diverse prey, although usually focus on fairly small prey as does the steppe eagle.

Similar to montane grasslands, polar Arctic tundra can have grasses, but high soil moisture means that few tundras are grass-dominated today. However, during the Pleistocene glacial periods (commonly referred to as ice ages), a grassland known as steppe-tundra or mammoth steppe occupied large areas of the Northern Hemisphere. These areas were very cold and arid and featured sub-surface permafrost (hence tundra) but were nevertheless productive grassland ecosystems supporting a wide variety of fauna. As the temperature increased and the climate became wetter at the beginning of the Holocene much of the mammoth steppe transitioned to forest, while the drier parts in central Eurasia remained as a grassland, becoming the modern Eurasian steppe.

The steppe has long been depicted as the typical Russian landscape. It is a broad band of treeless, grassy plains, interrupted by mountain ranges, extending from Hungary across Ukraine, southern Russia, and Kazakhstan before ending in Manchuria. Most of the Soviet Union's steppe zone was located in the Ukrainian and Kazakh republics; the much smaller Russian steppe is located mainly between those nations, extending southward between the Black and Caspian Seas before blending into the increasingly desiccated territory of the Republic of Kalmykia. In a country of extremes, the steppe zone provides the most favorable conditions for human settlement and agriculture because of its moderate temperatures and normally adequate levels of sunshine and moisture.

Going extinct around 6,000 BCE in Siberia and around 5,400 BCE in Alaska, outlasted only by B. occidentalis, B. bonasus and B. bison, the steppe bison was the predominant bison pictured in the ancient cave paintings of Spain and Southern France. The modern European bison is likely to have arisen from the steppe bison. There is no direct fossil evidence of successive species between the steppe bison and the European bison, though there are three possible lines of ancestry pertaining to the European wisent. Past research has suggested that the European bison is descended from bison that had migrated from Asia to North America, and then back to Europe, where they crossbred with existing steppe bison.

At the city dumps of Pune as many as 200 steppe eagles have been known to gather and feed. A carcass dump in Jorbeer near Bikaner was recorded to host an average of 43 steppe eagles per day during winter, with a peak number generally occurring in January and February (common dates from November to March and more rarely from September to May), with as many as 136 steppe eagles plus at least 9 other large raptors (mostly vultures), many of which are considered threatened species. It was found the Jorbeer carcass dumps enticed the steppe eagles to venture away from the normal wetland or wetland-adjacent areas used by steppe eagles in the area to the desert-like region, but feral dogs could, in some years, appear to chase off and cause the eagles to avoid this dump.Sharma, P., & Sundar, K. S. (2009).

Free-flying steppe eagles are also being killed in alarmingly large numbers, especially in the stronghold nation for breeding of Kazakhstan, by electrocutions on dangerous electricial wires and pylons.Karyakin, I.V. (2018). The status of the steppe eagle in the world: "white spots" in distribution, abundance, ecology and threats. Raptor Research , (S1).

The latter species resides year-round in the African and Asian areas often used seasonally as wintering grounds by steppe eagle. The species were ultimately separated on the grounds of the differences in morphology, disparate coloring, distinct life histories and behaviours.Clark, W. S. (2005). Steppe Eagle Aquila nipalensis is monotypic. Bull.

Karyakin, I., Kovalenko, A., & Zinevich, L. (2016). The first case of successful breeding of offspring by a mixed pair of steppe eagle and imperial eagle in Western Kazakhstan and registration of probable hybrids between the steppe eagle and burial eagle in Russia and Kazakhstan. Raptor Research , (32).Szilvia, J. (2015).

The gape of the steppe eagle is an easy way to distinguish it from the tawny eagle. The gape extends beyond the centre of the eye as against the tawny. The oval nostril sets it apart from the spotted eagles. The steppe eagle is a large, bulky and robust-looking eagle.

James P. Mallory suggested that the expansion of the Uralic languages across the northern forest zone might have been stimulated by organizational changes within Uralic forager societies, resulting partly from interaction with more complex, hierarchical Proto-Indo-European and (later) Indo-Iranian pastoral societies at the steppe/forest-steppe ecological border.

S. vigintiquatuorpunctata is found in many different habitats (Pontic–Caspian steppe, Pannonian Steppe and unimproved grassland, quarries, wasteland, ruderal areas, Western European broadleaf forests smixed forests and near rivers and in other life zones of central Europe).Koch, K., Die Käfer Mitteleuropas, Ökologie. Vol. 2 (Goecke und Evers Verlag, Krefeld, 1989).

Khan Temir (before 1594 to 1637) was a steppe warlord and raider. He ruled the Budzhak Horde in what is now the southwestern corner of Ukraine (Budjak)along the Romanian border. Budjak is the southwesternmost corner of the Eurasian Steppe. He raided mostly along the eastern frontier of the Polish Commonwealth.

The Hungarian Grey (), also known as Hungarian Steppe Cattle,Zootierliste (undated): "Hungarian grey cattle (Hungarian Steppe cattle)." is an ancient breed of domestic beef cattle indigenous to Hungary.Breed data sheet: Magyar Szürke/Hungary. Domestic Animal Diversity Information System of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Accessed May 2014.

The Künes River originates in the eastern Tianshan in the Eren Habirga Mountains and flows from east to west to merge with the Tekes River and form the Ili. It flows through glacial, alpine, and grassland environments, the latter including semi-arid, dry-steppe, steppe, meadow grassland, and mountain meadow.

Gavrilovsky District is on the eastern edge of the Oka–Don Lowland, leading east into the Volga Uplands. The terrain is flat with draws and ravines, with steppe and forest-steppe vegetation. The black soil of the district supports agriculture. The federal highway R-209 (Penza–Tambov) runs through the district.

In the late 19th century, the Kamasins split into two groups: The Taiga and the Steppe Kamasins. The Taiga Kamasins engaged in hunting, reindeer breeding and fishing. The Taiga Kamasins spoke a Samoyedic language until the early 20th century. The Steppe Kamasins engaged in cattle breeding, horse breeding, farming, and hunting.

The Goths, a Germanic tribe, poured into the Roman Empire from the lower Dniepr River, through the southern part of Bessarabia (Budjak steppe), which due to its geographic position and characteristics (mainly steppe), was swept by various nomadic tribes for many centuries. In 378, the area was overrun by the Huns.

Kosh-Agach is a major village in the north of the steppe. Other large settlements include Chaganuzun and Beltir.

The Chuya Steppe is filled with Cenozoic sediments, derived from the surrounding mountains of the Chuya Range-Chuya Alps.

Esponjeiro (south of Corda) has a steppe climate. The annual rainfall is 351 millimeters. The average annual temperature is .

Brooke, R. K. (1974). The African southern limits of the Steppe Eagle in winter. J. Rapt. Res., 92: 62.

The village is located in forest steppe, on the Volga Upland, 200 km from Volgograd, 6 km from Kamyshin.

The village is located in forest steppe, on Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, on the bank of the Malaya Rasteryayevka River.

The village is located in forest steppe, on Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, on the bank of the Srednyaya Yelan River.

The village is located in forest steppe, on Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, on the right bank of the Don River.

The village is located in forest steppe, on Khopyorsko- Buzulukskaya Plain, on the right bank of the Khopyor River.

The village is located in forest steppe, on Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, on the right bank of the Khopyor River.

The village is located in forest steppe, on Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, on the bank of the Stary Khopyor River.

The village is located in forest steppe, on Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, on the bank of the Srednyaya Yelan River.

The village is located in forest steppe, on the Volga Upland, 250 km from Volgograd, 64 km from Kamyshin.

The village is located in forest steppe, on the Volga Upland, 230 km from Volgograd, 49 km from Kamyshin.

The village is located in steppe, on the right bank of the Beryozovaya River, 50 km NNE from Dubovka.

The village is located in forest steppe, on Volga Upland, 39 km from Zhirnovsk and 320 km from Volgograd.

The village is located in forest steppe of Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, 360 km from Volgograd, 49 km from Zhirnovsk.

The village is located in forest steppe of Volga Upland, 10 km from Alyoshniki and 50 km from Zhirnovsk.

The village is located in steppe, 10 km from Miusovo, 18 km from Danilovka and 250 km from Volgograd.

The village is located in steppe, on the Beryozovka River, 13 km from Danilovka and 13 km from Atamanovka.

The village is located in steppe, on the Chyornaya River, 16 km from Danilovka and 250 km from Volgograd.

The village is located in steppe, 9.4 km from Profsoyuznik, 31 km from Danilovka and 270 km from Volgograd.

The village is located in steppe, on the Beryozovka River, 27 km from Danilovka and 220 km from Volgograd.

The village is located in forest steppe of Volga Upland, 54 km from Zhirnovsk and 340 km from Volgograd.

The village is located in steppe, on the Volga Upland, 89 km from Volgograd and 12 km from Ilovlya.

The village is located in forest steppe, between Don, Ilovlya and Volga Rivers, on south of the Volga Upland.

The village is located in steppe, 110 km from Volgograd, 37 km from Ilovlya and 12 km from Log.

The village is located in steppe, on the bank of the Ilovlya River, on south of the Volga Upland.

The village is located in steppe, on the left bank of the Rossoshka River, 21 km west from Gorodishche.

The village is located in steppe, on the Grachi River, 28 km from Volgograd and 25.1 km from Gorodishche.

The village is located in steppe, on the right bank of the Rossoshka River, 25 km west from Gorodishche.

The village is located in steppe, on the Karpovka River, 45 km from Volgograd and 53 km from Gorodishche.

The village is located in forest steppe, on Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, on the bank of the Stary Khopyor River.

The village is located in forest steppe, on Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, on the bank of the Srednyaya Yelan River.

The village is located in forest steppe, on Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, on the right bank of the Medveditsa River.

The village is located in forest steppe, on Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, on the bank of the Stary Khopyor River.

The village is located in forest steppe, on Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, on the right bank of the Medveditsa River.

The village is located in steppe on the Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, 240 km from Volgograd, 44 km from Novoanninsky.

The village is located in steppe on the Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, 250 km from Volgograd, 48 km from Novoanninsky.

The village is located in steppe on the Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, 240 km from Volgograd, 42 km from Novoanninsky.

The village is located in steppe on the Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, 270 km from Volgograd, 16 km from Novoanninsky.

The village is located in forest steppe on the Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, on the bank of the Panika River.

The village is located in steppe on the Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, 240 km from Volgograd, 34 km from Novoanninsky.

The village is located in steppe, on the Khopyorsko- Buzulukskaya Plain, 310 km from Volgograd, 13 km from Novonikolayevsky.

The village is located in steppe, on the Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, 320 km from Volgograd, 14 km from Novonikolayevsky.

The village is located in steppe, on the Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, on the Kasarka River, 330 km from Volgograd.

The village is located in forest steppe on the Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, on the bank of the Kumylga River.

The village is located in forest steppe on the Khopyorsko- Buzulukskaya Plain, on the bank of the Panika River.

The village is located in steppe on the Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, 260 km from Volgograd, 17 km from Novoanninsky.

The village is located in steppe on the Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, 250 km from Volgograd, 19 km from Novoanninsky.

The village is located in steppe on the Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, 280 km from Volgograd, 37 km from Novoanninsky.

The village is located in steppe on the Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, 250 km from Volgograd, 48 km from Novoanninsky.

The village is located in steppe on the Khopyorsko- Buzulukskaya Plain, 290 km from Volgograd, 40 km from Novoanninsky.

The village is located in steppe on the Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, 240 km from Volgograd, 36 km from Novoanninsky.

The village is located in forest steppe on the Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, on the bank of the Karmanchik River.

The village is located in steppe, on the Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, 320 km from Volgograd, 13 km from Novonikolayevsky.

The village is located in steppe, on the Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, 330 km from Volgograd, 51 km from Novonikolayevsky.

The village is located in steppe, on the Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, 340 km from Volgograd, 18 km from Rudnya.

The village is located in steppe, on the Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, 360 km from Volgograd, 35 km from Rudnya.

The village is located in steppe, on the Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, 330 km from Volgograd, 25 km from Rudnya.

The village is located in steppe, on the Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, 320 km from Volgograd, 19 km from Rudnya.

The village is located in steppe, on the Khopyorsko- Buzulukskaya Plain, 320 km from Volgograd, 14 km from Rudnya.

The village is located in steppe, on the Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, 330 km from Volgograd, 25 km from Rudnya.

Minusinsk, 1885 Minusinsk Steppe, by Vasily Surikov Minusinsk () is a historical town in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia. Population: 44,500 (1973).

The habitat is grazed steppe with dunes, beaches and wetlands. The soil is mainly sandy with some rockier areas.

The protected area was created to safeguard the protection of steppe habitats in the immediate vicinity of floodplain forests.

Forest steppe primarily occurs in a belt of forest steppes across northern Eurasia from the eastern lowlands of Europe to eastern Siberia in northeast Asia. It forms transition ecoregions between the temperate grasslands and temperate broadleaf and mixed forests biomes. Much of Russia belongs to the forest steppe zone, stretches from Central Russia, across Volga, Ural, Siberian and Far East Russia. In upper North America another example of the forest steppe ecotone is the aspen parkland, in the central Prairie Provinces, northeastern British Columbia, and North Dakota.

The Syr Darya flows from the eastern mountains into the Aral Sea Note the east-west Kyrgyz mountains This is a short History of the central steppe, an area roughly equivalent to modern Kazakhstan. Because the history is complex it is mainly an outline and index to the more detailed articles given in the links. It is a companion to History of the western steppe and History of the eastern steppe and is parallel to the History of Kazakhstan and the History of central Asia.

Moreover, the armies of the nomads were based upon large numbers of horses, generally three or four for each warrior. Maintaining these forces required large stretches of grazing land, not present outside the steppe. Any extended time away from the homeland would thus cause the steppe armies to gradually disintegrate. To govern settled peoples the steppe peoples were forced to rely on the local bureaucracy, a factor that would lead to the rapid assimilation of the nomads into the culture of those they had conquered.

The following units were part of the Steppe Front, commanded by Ivan Konev. The front was formed from the Steppe Military District on 9 July, to serve as a reserve if the German attack broke through and to provide fresh troops for a counterattack to begin as soon as the German attack was halted. This order of battle does not show the complete composition of the Steppe Front. In addition to the units listed below, there were also the 4th Guards, 27th, 47th and 53rd Armies.

The wetlands of the Lake Khanka basin (Водно-болотные угодья озера Ханка, Vodno-bolotnye ugod'ya ozera Khanka) represent a unique natural complex. The lowland of the Prihanka and, in fact, the shores of the lake represent a fairly swampy terrain. So-called melt-plant communities, formed by various species of sedge and grass, form a solid turf covering the water mirror for many tens of square kilometers. Diverse ecosystems are represented, such as meadows (from marshy to steppe), meadow forest, forest-steppe and steppe plant communities.

The steppe nomads lived on the steppe north of the Black and Caspian Seas and raided north into the forest-steppe. It was their constant raiding that kept the southern lands free of peasants. With the end of the Great Horde in 1502, they were organized as the independent Nogais north of the Caspian and those north of the Black Sea who were more or less subjects of the Crimean Khan. The Cossacks: The Slavs who lived on the frontier became known as Cossacks.

's 2016 study estimated (6.5–50.2 %) steppe related admixture in South Asians. Lazaridis et al. (2016) further notes that "A useful direction of future research is a more comprehensive sampling of ancient DNA from steppe populations, as well as populations of central Asia (east of Iran and south of the steppe), which may reveal more proximate sources of the ANI than the ones considered here, and of South Asia to determine the trajectory of population change in the area directly." According to Unterländer et al.

The vegetation in the forests is rich in grass (family Poaceae L.). Capparis spinosa L. by Otto Wilhelm Thomé Mountainous steppes are rather heterogenous with different formations named by the name of dominant plant species. Thus, in stipa steppe different species of stipa (Stipa pulcherima K. Koch, S. capillata L., S. tirsa Steven and others) are dominant and in fescue steppe – different species of fescue (Festuca L.). In grass-forb steppe grasses (Poaceae L.) including species of junegrass (Koeleria Pers), timothy (Phleum L.) and others dominate.

Russian expansion in Siberia was confined to the forested area because the Cossacks were skilled in forest travel and were seeking furs while the forest natives were weak and the steppe nomads warlike. In the west, Siberia borders on the Kazakh steppe. North of what is now Mongolia, there are mountains, Lake Baikal and more mountains until the Argun River separates Trans-Baikalia from Manchuria. West of Siberia, Russia slowly expanded down the Volga, around the southern Urals and out into the Kazakh steppe.

The steppe eagle (Aquila nipalensis) is a large bird of prey. Like all eagles, it belongs to the family Accipitridae. The steppe eagle's well-feathered legs illustrate it to be a member of the subfamily Aquilinae, also known as the "booted eagles".Helbig, A. J., Kocum, A., Seibold, I., & Braun, M. J. (2005).

Ostrich, 60(1), 35–42. In Saudi Arabia, 21 steppe eagles at one study site weighed a mean of while 27 eagles at another study site there weighed a mean of .Ostrowski, S., Fromont, E., & Meyburg, B. U. (2001). A capture technique for wintering and migrating steppe eagles in southwestern Saudi Arabia.

A continued primary reliance on little ground squirrels by steppe eagles was also found recent in studies from Saratov and Lake Baskunchak as well.Tabachishin, V. G., Zavyalov E. V., Khrustov, I. A. & Yakushev N. N. (2016). Steppe Eagle Aquila nipalensis in the Saratov Trans-Volga region. Russian Ornithological Journal, 1310: 2580–2584.

Te, D.E., & Ignatenko, B.N. (2006). Interesting ornithological findings on the Ukok plateau, Altai Mountains. Feathered predators and their protection, (6). Red fox make their home in the steppe habitat quite often (as seen) and both the steppe eagle and fox are known to threaten each other, especially the young of the other predator.

The relatively flat steppe valley floor is steppe, with riparian forest along the rivers and streams. The higher slopes are generally forested with larch, pine and mixed forests. There are alpine meadows at the highest elevetions.Endangered species in the park include the Pallas's fish eagle (Haliaeetus leucoryphus) and the Saker's Falcom (Falco cherrug).

Meanwhile, on the steppe Ismail was in conflict with his elder brother Yusuf Bey, the father of the unfortunate Söyembikä of Kazan. He sought support from the Turks. The Sultan turned the matter over to the Crimeans who were in charge of steppe affairs. Devlet said no and Ismail turned to Moscow.

The plant life of the reserve represents a meeting of steppe feather grass and forb steppe/broadleaf grasses. Typical trees are oak coppices, with mixtures of ash, linden, maple and other tree species. Understory contains blackberry, buckthorn, wild rose, and viburnum. Scientists on the reserve have recorded over 1,060 species of vascular plants.

Biodiversity is high as the park stands at a transition point between upland forest and lowland steppe. Scientists on the park have recorded 900 species of plants, and 300 species of vertebrates. The upper plateau is partially forested, the fall zone features rocky terrain of brush and sedges transitioning to steppe vegetation.

An estimate of 14% or more of available pastureland is considered degraded and useless. Consequently, small steppe rivers dry faster, limiting water resources to large lakes and rivers, which are usually populated by human settlements. Moreover, high temperatures in the steppe region lead to springtime floods, in which saiga calves can drown.

The Altai steppe and semi-desert ecoregion (WWF ID:PA0802), as its name indicates, sits in a transition zine between steppe and semi-desert, supporting sparse grass and shrublands. The area is relatively undeveloped, with agriculture mostly represented by grazing livestock. There are a few shallow lakes in depressions used by migratory birds.

Villanueva has a BWk (Semi-arid cold steppe climate) under the Köppen climate classification system. Under the Trewartha climate classification Villanueva has a BSK (Semi- arid steppe with hot summers and cool winters). Precipitation in the community is concentrated from May to October although an average of of snow is received each winter.

San Angelo falls near the boundary between the subtropical semiarid steppe (Köppen BSh) and mid-latitude steppe climates (Köppen BSk). It is located at the region where Central Texas meets West Texas weather. Temperatures reach about 18 times in a typical year. However, in 2011, San Angelo recorded 100 days of or higher.

The steppe polecat is weakly susceptible to sylvatic plague, tularemia and canine distemper. Weakened individuals are susceptible to pasteurellosis. Helminth infections, as well as tick infestations are widespread in the species. Up to 11 flea species are known to infest the steppe polecat, some of which are picked up from its prey.

Different migration strategies among Swedish Common Buzzards Buteo buteo revealed by the proportion of white birds. Ornis svecica, 9(1), 11–18. The entire population of the steppe buzzard is strongly migratory, covering substantial distances during migration. In no part of the range do steppe buzzards use the same summering and wintering grounds.

Juvenile steppe eagles are normally readily identified by distinctive plumage features but can recall juvenile eastern imperial eagles, the latter has longer and less rounded tail, a more prominent (rather than deeply set) bill, has a much paler and more buff overall colour while the chest is overlap with brown streaking and the quills are unbarred. Imperial and steppe eagles are often similar in size, with more western breeding birds usually being somewhat smaller when seen side by side with an imperial eagle and the eastern steppe eagles being of similar average size (but even larger maximum size) compared to full-grown imperial eagles. Steppe eagles are told from tawny eagles by that species being smaller and less bulky with shorter wings, a smaller gape, a more slender neck and a relatively longer tail. Both the tawny and steppe eagle tend to have a distinct S-shape curvature to the trailing edge of the wings.

The species can be found in the forest Noah and the steppe zones. Typically, the kinds of plants manna (Glyceria).

The village is located in steppe, 16 km from Novaya Poltavka, 25 km from Staraya Poltavka, 260 km from Volgograd.

The village is located in steppe, on Transvolga, on the left bank of the Kuba River, 15 km from Gmelinka.

The village is located in steppe, near the left bank of the Yeruslan River, 13 km south from Staraya Poltavka.

The village is located in steppe, on the right bank of the Solyanka River, 28 km south from Staraya Poltavka.

The village is located in the steppe, 250 km from Volgograd, 85 km from Chernyshkovsky and 45 km from Tormosin.

The village is located in forest steppe, on the Volga Upland, 2300 km from Volgograd and 41 km from Kamyshin.

The village is located in steppe, on the left bank of the Berdiya River, 24 km north-east from Ilovlya.

The village is located in steppe, on Yergeni, 84 km from Volgograd and 52 km east from Kalach-na-Donu.

The village is located in steppe, on the left bank of the Volgograd Reservoir, on the bank of Zavolzhsky Canal.

The village is located in forest steppe on the Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, 260 km from Volgograd, 64 km from Novoanninsky.

The village is located in forest steppe on the Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, 290 km from Volgograd, 46 km from Novoanninsky.

The village is located in forest steppe on the Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, 250 km from Volgograd, 48 km from Novoanninsky.

The village is located in steppe, on Yergeni, on the Myshkova River, 120 km from Volgograd, 50 km from Oktyabrsky.

The village is located in steppe, on Yergeni, 180 km from Volgograd, 28 km from Oktyabrsky, 7 km from Sovetsky.

The village is located in steppe, on Yergeni, 120 km from Volgograd, 42 km from Oktyabrsky, 9 km from Shelestovo.

The village is located in steppe, on south of the Volga Upland, 200 km from Volgograd, 35 km from Olkhovka.

The village is located in steppe, on Yergeni, on the Myshkova River, 180 km from Volgograd, 32 km from Oktyabrsky.

The village is located in steppe on Yergeni, on the Myshkova River, 190 km from Volgograd, 37 km from Oktyabrsky.

This article excludes the north slope of the Caucasus which is not steppe and has a distinct geography and history.

Despite these ethnic and linguistic differences, the steppe lifestyle led to the adoption of very similar culture across the region.

Davies, K. W. (2008). Medusahead dispersal and establishment in sagebrush steppe plant communities. Rangeland Ecology and Management 61: 110–115.

On October 20, 1943, the Steppe Front was renamed the 2nd Ukrainian Front, and remained under command of Ivan Konev..

These Axis armies were deployed in open positions on the steppe and lacked heavy equipment to deal with Soviet armor.

Gegeen was assassinated in a coup involving five princes from a rival faction, perhaps steppe elite opposed to Confucian reforms.

In several parts of Africa, steppe eagles may routinely visit and feed off of the colonies of the super-abundant bird, the red-billed quelea (Quelea quelea), with a noted focus on picking off the seemingly innumerous nestlings and fledglings of this small passerine. The steppe eagles will reportedly do so by ungracefully scrambling amongst the branches of the nesting colonies. In the Indian subcontinent, the steppe eagle appears to fulfill the role of a weakly predatory opportunist. Individual Indian wintering steppe eagles are reported to feed at times of vulnerability of prey, including injured birds, eggs and young water birds from heronries, while groups of the eagles often occur around carrion, masses of stranded fish, poultry farms, garbage dumps and livestock carcass dumps.

On occasion, in India, steppe eagles succeed in pirating prey from imperial eagles, normally in cooperating parties of steppe eagles. In at least one case in India, the steppe eagle was the aggressor in an interaction with an eastern imperial eagle, causing the two eagles to lock talons and cartwheel down with uncertain results. While the eagles are expected to correspond their sizes in hierarchy when nests are located in the same general area, with the steppe considered as generally subordinate to the imperial which is itself subordinate to the golden eagle, interactions in the Altai region suggest a more complex interspecific relationship. There one study reported several aggressive interactions with both imperial and golden eagles and the steppes were surprisingly the aggressors in each.

The transition period to the Bronze Age shows varying patterns in the different geographical regions of the steppe route, however, numerous craft activities involved the manufacture of ornaments, instrumental goods and domestic commodities. As early as the 6-5th millennium BCE (Vinča culture, situated in what is now Serbia), the Pontic-Caspian steppe can be traced as the homeland of copper production and then spread throughout the entire steppe zone over two millennia. At the beginning of the fourth millennium, copper technology was introduced in the Altai region by steppe herders. The Bronze Age was marked by an abrupt cooling of the climate, which at the turn of the third-second millennium B.C. gave way to a new temperature rise more favourable to farming and herding.

On Reserve territory it marked more than 60vave species of animals and plants listed in the Red Book. For example,41 species in the list of international Conservation of nature(IVCN).On The Lakes is concentrated to 10% of the world population of Dalmatian pelican(IVCN Red List) and up to 10-20% of the world population of the territory of food during the summer and autumn moult migration in belayet huge number of birds, tens of thousands of geese, hundred of thousands of dabbling and diving ducks and waders. Among the Red bred book species of steppe and around water areas should be nofel steppe sandpiper sociable lapwing, bustard, little bustard, booted eagle, steppe eagle, white tailed eagle, pallid harrier, steppe pustelku, Demoiselle crane and others.

Plant label showing wide range of distribution I. lactea grows in a wide range of habitats. Including steppe meadows, turf slopes, heavily grazed river shore within desert steppe, grasslands, roadsides, grassy slopes and hillsides. It grows at altitudes of between 600–3800m above sea level. It flowers as late as late summer in the wild.

Gonepteryx maxima is a butterfly of the family Pieridae. It was described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1885. It is found from north-eastern China to Korea, Japan, the Russian Far East (Amur, Ussuri) and Japan.Gonepteryx at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms The habitat consists of steppe and forest-steppe areas.

Here the Katun River and the Biya River join to form the Ob River. Further west, between the Ob and Irtysh Rivers are the Baraba steppe in the north and the Kalunda Steppe in the south. To the east, the Western and then Eastern Sayan Mountains extend east to the southern tip of Lake Baikal.

There is snow cover for 110–115 days on average, with depth averaging 21–22 cm. Mezynskyi is located in the East European forest steppe ecoregion, a transition zone between the broadleaf forests of the north and the grasslands to the south.. This ecoregion is characterized by a mosaic of forests, steppe, and riverine wetlands.

The reserve covers many different floral habitats - meadow, swamp, steppe, lacustrine, and forest. About 30% of the meadows are reed grass. The steppe- type areas are grasslands at the feet of the ridges, with characteristic species being bent grass, wild onion, and horsetail. Average height of vegetation in these areas is 20–40 cm.

Three were North American endemics: Bison antiquus, B. latifrons, and B. occidentalis. The fourth, B. priscus (steppe bison), ranged across steppe environments from Western Europe, through Central Asia, East Asia including Japan, and onto North America. The fifth, B. schoetensacki. (woodland bison), inhabited Eurasian forests, extending from western Europe to the south of Siberia.

A steppe eagle flying over the snowy mountains near the Hunza Valley in Pakistan. The steppe eagle once bred in Europe. Here, they bred into the 20th century in southeasternmost Ukraine and still rarely occurs as a breeder in southwest Russia from Stavropol to Astrakhan. The steppe eagle is still mapped to breed down to Makhachkala and Maykop to as far west as Leningradskaya, up north as far as the lower Volga and down to the Caspian Sea nearly as far as Makhachkala and south of Fort- Shevchenko.

A steppe eagle juvenile seen in Kerala. The steppe eagle is sometimes regarded as solitary but is frequently seen in the company of conspecifics throughout the year. Besides the obvious breeding pair, they often flock during migration and aggregate in occasionally ample numbers during non-breeding times, usually at fruitful feeding sites, sometimes briefly cooperating with one another especially to klepoparasitize other birds of prey. Steppe eagles fly with slow, deep and stiff-looking wing beats, holding wings fully extend on upstrokes, rendering a heavier flight pattern than spotted eagles.

Predatory interactions with other carnivorous animals where the steppe eagles are victims are largely restricted to the vulnerable young, with the nest sites often being highly vulnerable due to their often accessible positions on mildly elevated ground. Like other Aquila eagles, when the nest is breached, parent steppe eagles may defend their nest but more often briefly flee on the wing. The steppe eagle parent, due presumably to the vulnerability of its nest site, may take longer to return to their nest than other related eagles, further exacerbating the likelihood of the young being lost.

London: T & AD Poyser. One source that can especially engender potential confusion in its wintering range is the formerly conspecific steppe eagle. The steppe is larger with a shorter neck, relatively longer and narrower wings, a more massive beak, particularly via the exceptional depth of the gape (although in flight can appear smaller headed due its less protruding neck) and has a longer and rounder tail. Furthermore, steppe eagles tends to have much bolder and widely spaced barring on the wings than tawny eagles and more distinct dark trailing wing edges and paler throats.

According to the Köppen climate classifications, the main climate within the ecoregion is snowy, with a small portion in the northwest being warm temperate. There are three snowy climates associated with this ecoregion and one warm temperate. The largest and smallest snowy climates have a steppe precipitation class, while the remaining snowy and the warm temperate climate have a fully humid precipitation class. A steppe precipitation class is one that you would expect to find on a steppe across the globe. Steppes average 10-30 inches (25.4-76.2 cm) of precipitation per year.

Samarskaya Luka lies in the East European forest steppe ecoregion (WWF ID#419), a transition zone between the broadleaf forests of the north and the grasslands to the south, cutting across the middle of Eastern Europe from Bulgaria through Russia. This forest steppe ecoregion is characterized by a mosaic of forests, steppe, and riverine wetlands. The climate in Samarskaya Luka is Humid continental climate, warm summer (Köppen climate classification (Dfb)). This climate is characterized by large swings in temperature, both diurnally and seasonally, with mild summers and cold, snowy winters.

A genetic study published in Nature in May 2018 examined the remains of eight Sakas buried on the central steppe between ca. 900 BC and 500 BC, most of whom were ascribed to the Tasmola culture. The three samples of Y-DNA extracted belonged to the haplogroups R1 (two samples) and E. The eighgt samples of mtDNA extracted belonged to C4a1a, F1b1, A, H101, C4d, U2e, H10 and U7a4. The Sakas of the central steppe were determined to be of about 56% Western Steppe Herder ancestry and 44% southern Siberian hunter- gatherer ancestry.

The mammoth steppe was dominated in biomass by bison, horse, and the woolly mammoth, and was the center for the evolution of the Pleistocene woolly fauna. Notable carnivores found across the whole range of the mammoth steppe included Panthera spelaea, the wolf Canis lupus and the brown bear Ursus arctos. While the cave hyena was part of mammoth steppe faunas in Europe, it did not extend into the core high latitude north asian range of the biome. On Wrangel Island, the remains of woolly mammoth, woolly rhinoceros, horse, bison and musk ox have been found.

Smolny lies in the East European forest steppe ecoregion (WWF ID#419), a transition zone between the broadleaf forests of the north and the grasslands to the south, cutting across the middle of Eastern Europe from Bulgaria through Russia. This forest steppe ecoregion is characterized by a mosaic of forests, steppe, and riverine wetlands. The climate in Smolny is Humid continental climate, warm summer (Köppen climate classification (Dfb)). This climate is characterized by large swings in temperature, both diurnally and seasonally, with mild summers and cold, snowy winters.

200 m, and is composed of the Upper and the Lower Jijia Plains. Before 1940 the term used to mean Jijia Plain plus Middle Prut Valley, plus the Bălți steppe, because the three regions have an identical relief and natural vegetation. To make the things even more complicated, in Moldova sometimes Bălți steppe and Middle Prut Valley are lumped together into one term, Bălți steppe. The Moldavian Plain is surrounded from all three sides by hills: Suceava Plateau to the west, the Northern Moldovan Plateau to the north, and the Bârlad Plateau to the south.

The steppe mammoth (Mammuthus trogontherii, sometimes Mammuthus armeniacus) is an extinct species of Elephantidae that ranged over most of northern Eurasia during the late Early and Middle Pleistocene, approximately 1.7 million-200,000 years ago. It evolved in Siberia during the Early Pleistocene from Mammuthus meridionalis. It was the first stage in the evolution of the steppe and tundra elephants and the ancestor of the woolly mammoth and Columbian mammoth of the later Pleistocene. Populations of steppe mammoth may have persisted in northern China and Mongolia as recently as 33,000 years ago.

Efforts that began as early as the end of the 19th century gradually transformed the Mirzacho'l Steppe from a desert into an intensively irrigated agricultural area, today one of the major cotton and grain producing regions of Uzbekistan with around 500,000 hectares of irrigated land under cultivation.Agricultural of Uzbekistan 2006, statistical yearbook, Goskomstat Uzbekistana, Tashkent, 2007. Three main canals constructed in the 1950s and the 1960s bring water to Mirzacho'l Steppe kolkhozes and sovkhozes. These are the north-south Central and Northern Canals and the east-west South Mirzacho'l Steppe Canal.

Fernandes et al. (2019), The Arrival of Steppe and Iranian Related Ancestry in the Islands of the Western Mediterranean, found that a skeleton excavated from the Balearic islands (dating to ∼2400 BCE) had substantial WSH ancestry; however, later Balearic individuals had less Steppe heritage reflecting geographic heterogeneity or immigration from groups with more European first farmer- related ancestry. In Sicily, WSH ancestry arrived by ∼2200 BCE and likely came at least in part from Spain. 4 of the 5 Early Bronze Age Sicilian males had Steppe-associated Y-haplogroup R1b1a1a2a1a2 (R-P312).

The region's climate results in a shrub-steppe ecosystem which has 18 endemic plant species. Just west of Richland, the Fitzner/Eberhardt Arid Lands Ecology Reserve was established to study the unique plants and animals found in the local shrub steppe ecosystem. It is the largest tract of shrub-steppe ecosystem remaining in the U.S. state of Washington. Aurora Borealis as seen approximately 25 miles north of Pasco, WA in May 2013 Limited city lights and an absence of photopollution in the Tri- Cities area allow for naked-eye and telescopic astronomy.

A train crossing the Kazakh steppe In 1847–1864 the Russians crossed the eastern Kazakh steppe and built a line of forts in the irrigated area along the northern Kyrgyz border. In 1864–68 they moved south, conquered Tashkent and Samarkand, confined the Khanate of Kokand to the Ferghana valley and made Bokhara a protectorate. This was the main event of the conquest. Our sources do not say why an eastern approach was chosen, but an obvious guess is that irrigation made it possible to move armies without crossing steppe or desert.

The village is located in steppe, on Transvolga, near the Volgograd Reservoir, 69 km from Staraya Poltavka, 270 km from Volgograd.

The village is located in steppe, 22 km from Uryupinsk and 370 km from Volgograd. Fedotovsky is the nearest rural locality.

The village is located in a steppe of the Transvolga Region, on the bank of the Bolshoy Pond, 5km from Gmelinka.

Various characteristics of the Indo-European languages argue against an Indian origin of these languages, and point to a steppe origin.

The village is located in steppe, on Volga Upland, on the Chertoleyka River, 260 km from Volgograd, 40 km from Kotovo.

The village is located in steppe, in the valley of the Medveditsa River, 290 km from Volgograd, 63 km from Kotovo.

The village is located in steppe, on Volga Upland, on the Tarasovka River, 260 km from Volgograd, 30 km from Kotovo.

The village is located in steppe, on Volga Upland, 240 km from Volgograd, 15 km from Kotovo, 5 km from Lapshinskaya.

The village is located in steppe, on the bank of the Kurtlak River, 210 km from Volgograd, 33 km from Kletskaya.

The village is located in steppe, on the bank of the Tsimlyansk Reservoir, 210 km from Volgograd, 35 km from Kotelnikovo.

The village is located in steppe, on Yergeni, 150 km from Volgograd, 23 km from Oktyabrsky, 9 km from Zhutovo-1.

Geologically, the base resides in the Al-Ḥammād sector of the Syrian Desert, composed mostly of a rock and gravel steppe.

Kabekhabl is in the steppe zone, on the left bank of the Fars River in 5 km from the aul Khakurinokhabl.

According to the Köppen-Geiger climate classification system, the city of Priozersk has a steppe climate/cold semi-arid climate (BSk).

Nearing the close of the Neolithic, around 2500 BCE, large numbers of Eurasian steppe peoples migrated in Central and Eastern Europe.

Mosteiros has a steppe climate (Köppen classification BSh). The wettest months are August and September. Average annual temperature is 23.2 °C.

So technically Zambia is a very arid country with a humid and subtropical year with small patches of semi arid steppe.

In places where evapotranspiration is higher, steppe climates tend to prevail, but still follow the basic pattern of the Mediterranean climate.

Following the Neolithic decline were massive human migrations from the Eurasian Steppe into eastern and central Europe, in approximately 4600 BP.

Przewalski's steppe lemming (Eolagurus przewalskii) is a species of rodents in the family Cricetidae. It is found in China and Mongolia.

It is estimated that as of the 20 years prior to 2015, the population worldwide has declined at minimum by 58.6%.Karyakin, I.V. (2015). The global conservation status of the steppe eagle has been increased. Feathered predators and their protection , (30). As a result, the steppe eagle was uplisted in 2015 to being endangered by the IUCN.

Pande, S. A., Mahabal, A. S., Deshpande, P., & Sharma, R. M. (2013). Distribution of the Steppe Eagle in the Indian Subcontinent: An Overview from 1882 to 2013. Feathered predators and their protection, (27). In Chari-Dhand wetlands, as many as 1000 steppe eagles have been seen to gather, presumably living largely off of vulnerable water birds.

Unusually, a few overwintering steppe eagles have been now recorded in Kazakhstan, apparently near Shymkent, in the Aksu- Zhabagly Nature Reserve, the valley of the Syr Darya, the Chardara Dam and towns of the East Kazakhstan Region.Gennadievich, K. V. (2006). Winter meetings of the Steppe Eagle Aquila nipalensis in southern Kazakhstan. Russian Ornithological Journal, 1208: 3923.

Pakistan's Poonch and Jhelum valleys of Azad Kashmir are known to host a mean of 154 steppe eagles per study area.Bari, F., Rehman, E. U., Kabir, M., & Ahmad, S. (2020). An Extension to the Known Wintering Range of the Steppe Eagle Aquila nipalensis, in the Poonch and Jhelum Valleys, Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan. Ardeola, 67(2), 311–318.

It has become fragmented and degraded by a number of forces. Steppe has been overgrown with introduced species and has changed to an ecosystem resembling pine and juniper woodland. This has changed the fire regime of the landscape, increasing fuel loads and increasing the chance of unnaturally severe wildfires.Sagebrush Steppe: A Story of Encroachment and Invasion.

Black Lake, Kerzhinsky Because the reserve is in a transitional zone on the edges of three regions - taiga, broadleaf forest, and steppe - it has animals that are representative of each. Taiga species include caribou, wolverine and squirrel. Broadleaf forests to the west contribute martens, minks, and wood mice. Steppe species include voles, hedgehogs, and field mice.

Mating Systems in the Steppe Lemming (Lagurus lagurus) and Narrow- Skulled Vole (Microtus gregalis) From the Northern Kulunda Steppe. Russian Journal of Ecology. 43(1): 40-44. In the genus Microtus, monogamy is preferred when resources are spatially homogenous and population densities are low and where the opposite of both conditions are realized polygamous tendencies arise.

China's coastline along the Pacific Ocean is long and is bounded by the Bohai, Yellow, East China and South China seas. China connects through the Kazakh border to the Eurasian Steppe which has been an artery of communication between East and West since the Neolithic through the Steppe route – the ancestor of the terrestrial Silk Road(s).

The park is in the Altai alpine meadow and tundra and Altai steppe and semi-desert ecoregions. These ecoregions are exhibit the complete altitudinal vegetation zones from steppe to alpine tundra. These ecoregions exhibit very high diversity because they are at the biogeographic divide between Siberia to the north and the cold deserts of Central Asia to the south.

The slopes are steep with gentle peaks below the snow line. The ridge has a permafrost zone but does not have glaciation or snowfields. It contains steppe and taiga forests which consist mainly of spruce trees and meadows in high-altitude zones. At the foot of the southern slope of the ridge, steppe bison remains have been found.

At the end of the 19th century, Alfred Nehring (1890) and Jan Czerski (Iwan Dementjewitsch Chersky, 1891) proposed that during the last glacial period a major part of northern Europe had been populated by large herbivores and that a steppe climate had prevailed there. In 1982, the scientist R. Dale Guthrie coined the term "mammoth steppe" for this paleoregion.

To draft Regulation governing the Kazakh steppe the Government of the Russian Empire formed Steppe Commission in 1865. On 21 October 1868, Tsar Alexander II signed a draft Regulation on governing Turgay, Ural, Akmolinsk and Semipalatinsk oblasts. In 1869, Akmolinsk external district and department were cancelled, and Akmolinsk became a center of newly established Akmolinsk Oblast.

The "Bronze Ring of Sary-Arka" bicycle expedition (2008) had its route (about 1000 km) through the most interesting natural and archaeological sights of Central Kazakhstan, including monuments of the Bronze Age Begazy-Dandybai culture. Avalon was a Kazakhstani partner of the "Steppe by Steppe, Side by Side" expedition of Roger Chao and Megan Kerr (Australia).

Between Raqqa and the Syro–Iraqi border the Euphrates flows through a steppe landscape. This steppe is characterised by white wormwood (Artemisia herba-alba) and Chenopodiaceae. Throughout history, this zone has been heavily overgrazed due to the practicing of sheep and goat pastoralism by its inhabitants. Southeast of the border between Syria and Iraq starts true desert.

The climate of Batopilas falls on the boundaries of three climatic types: Aw, tropical savanna; Csa, Mediterranean, sub-tropical with dry summers, and BS. semi-arid steppe. Using the Köppen climate classification system the climate is Csa. However, using the Trewartha climate classification system the climate is BShl: semi-arid steppe with hot summers and mild winters.

The area also features a wetland complex important to rare birds ("Shestakovo Swamp"), two extinct volcanos, and over 50 Paleolithic to Middle Aged archaeological sites. Kiya River near Shestakovo, Chebulinsky District Vegetation in the area is steppe and mountain forest- steppe. The forested areas are scattered. The district is about 100 km long, oriented towards the northeast.

The terrain is a steeply sloping, hilly plain. Vegetation is northern steppe forest, with about 20% of the area steppe. The district is about 100 km north-to-south, and 75 km west-to-east. Kemerovsky is about 200 km east of the city of Novosibirsk, and the M53 ("Novosibirsk - Krasnoyarsk") highway runs through the district.

The limestone rock and soils support specialized types of plant communities known as chalk steppe. Chalk steppe include specific species as Artemisia nutans, Artemisia salsoloides, Artemisia hololeuca, Hyssopus cretaceus, Scrophularia cretacea, Linum usitatissimum, Androsace koso-poljanskii. 30% of the plant species are to endemic to the area. Near the villages of Kolodezne, Kamyanka and Kutkivka live colonies of marmots.

Legend has it that when Otrak heard his voice and smelled steppe grass, he became nostalgic for the steppe life and finally left Georgia. The Polovtsi in История Дона и Северного Кавказа с древнейших времен до 1917 года. Yet a number of the Kipchak mercenaries settled permanently within Georgia, converted to Orthodox Christianity, and integrated with the local population.

The landscape is that of grass-fescue-feather grass northern steppe. The sandy river banks feature willow and poplar, the higher terraces tend towards meadow steppe, and the raised areas support patchworks of oak and mixed deciduous forests. Biodiversity is high; scientists in the reserve have recorded 673 species of vascular plans, and 47 species of mammals.

The park is situated in the valley of the Chuluut River and Suman River in the Tarvagatai Range of the Khangai Mountains. Lake Terkhiin Tsagaain is a freshwater, oligotrophic lake in a volcanically-formed valley. The terrain immediately around the lake is hills with steppe and forest steppe vegetation. The lake is about 15 km long.

It is probable that they were not related to the Huns who appeared on the south Russian steppe about 375 and attacked the Roman Empire. The two terms should be clearly separated. Like 'Scythian', ‘Hun’ in its various forms was used loosely by ancient historians to refer to various steppe tribes of which they knew little.Huns in Encyclopædia Iranica.

Both extant bison species descend from hybrids. American bison ("buffalo") descend from a hybrid of the now extinct steppe bison and the wild yak. European bison (also known as wisents) descend from the so-called "Higgs Bison" (a play on Higgs boson), a hybrid of the steppe bison and the aurochs, which is also now extinct.

The steppe buzzard race shows three main colour morphs, each of which can be predominant in a region of breeding range. It is more distinctly polymorphic rather than just individually very variable like the nominate race. This may be because, unlike the nominate buzzard, the steppe buzzard is highly migratory. Polymorphism has been linked with migratory behaviour.

Oecologia, 181(1), 257–269. Much larger raptors are known to have killed a few buzzards as well, including steppe eagles (Aquila nipalensis) on migrating steppe buzzards in Israel. Further instances of predation on buzzards have involved golden, eastern imperial (Aquila heliaca), Bonelli's (Aquila fasciata) and white-tailed eagles (Haliaeetus albicilla) in Europe.Weiss, N., & Yosef, R. (2010).

Soaring and maneuvering flight of a steppe eagle Aquila nipalensis. Journal of Avian biology, 42(5), 377–386.Gillies, J. A. (2010).

Batken has a cold steppe climate (Köppen climate classification: BSk). The average annual temperature in Batken is . About of precipitation falls annually.

The village is located in steppe, on Transvolga, 13 km from Verkhnyaya Vodyanka, 68 km from Staraya Poltavka, 360 km from Volgograd.

The village is located in steppe, on the Volga Upland, on the Kamyshinka River, 200 km from Volgograd, 9 km from Kamyshin.

The village is located in steppe, on the Volga Upland, on the Kamyshinka River, 190 km from Volgograd, 12 km from Kamyshin.

The village is located in steppe, on Volga Upland, 260 km from Volgograd, 37 km from Kotovo, 11 km from Mokraya Olkhovka.

The village is located in steppe, on Volga Upland, on the Mokraya Olkhovka River, 250 km from Volgograd, 30 km from Kotovo.

The village is located in steppe, on Volga Upland, 270 km from Volgograd, 42 km from Kotovo, 14 km from Mokraya Olkhovka.

The village is located in steppe, on the Volga Upland, on the Vikhlyantseva River, 190 km from Volgograd, 16 km from Kamyshin.

The village is located in steppe, on the right bank of the Don River, 150 km from Volgograd, 41 km from Kletskaya.

The village is located in steppe, on the right bank of the Talovaya River, on the Volga Upland, 28 km from Ilovlya.

The village is located in steppe, on the left bank of the Don, 58 km from Volgograd and 59 km from Gorodishche.

The village is located in steppe, on the Volga Upland, 190 km from Volgograd, 27 km from Olkhovka, 8.7 km from Nezhinsky.

The village is located in steppe, on the left bank of the Shchelkan River, 310 km from Volgograd, 8.8 km from Rudnya.

The village is located in steppe, on the right bank of the Tersa River, 340 km from Volgograd, 31 km from Rudnya.

The village is located in steppe, on the right bank of the Medveditsa River, 270 km from Volgograd, 39 km from Rudnya.

The village is located in steppe, on the Caspian Depression, 20 km from Novostroyka, 18 km from Pallasovka, 300 km from Volgograd.

The village is located in steppe, on the right bank of the Medveditsa River, 290 km from Volgograd, 24 km from Rudnya.

The village is located in steppe, on the right bank of the Ilovlya River, 170 km from Volgograd, 6 km from Olkhovka.

The village is located in steppe, on the east bank of the Tsimlyansk Reservoir, 200 km from Volgograd, 64 km from Oktyabrsky.

The village is located in steppe, on the left bank of the Protok River, 10 km from Serafimovich, 250 km from Volgograd.

Wickenburg has a semi-arid, warm steppe (Köppen BSh) climate decidedly cooler and moister than Phoenix, although extreme summer heat is possible.

Ecological zones range from hemiboreal forest to a forest-steppe ecotone and include a wider variety of plant species than surrounding areas.

On the steppes near Ankara, it grows with Beypazari milkvetch (Astragalus beypazaricus), dark blue bottle (Centaurea depressa), and steppe thyme (Thymus sipyleus).

The untouched natural richness of the northern Moldavian region became known as Bălți steppe only in the beginning of the last century.

Weather Underground. A unique steppe micro-climate with running streams and lush grass can be found in the nearby Yolyn Am valley.

The coat is very dense and thick, and the Balikun is able to live on steppe pasture, even at temperatures under -40F.

Khabary is located north- west from Barnaul and from Kamen-na-Obi in the forest-steppe zone of the West Siberian Plain.

Its primary habitat is the Patagonian steppe, but it is also found in the Low Monte and Valdivian temperate rain forest ecoregions.

The Steppe Front () was a front of the Red Army during the Second World War which existed from July to October 1943.

The khutor is located in the forest steppe on the border of Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya plain and flood plains of the Hopyor River.

The Nguru Mountains lie to the south, across an expanse of hilly country. The Maasai Steppe lies to the north and west.

Later deposits from colder periods include lemming and steppe pika. This provides evidence that humans had occupied the caves during this period.

Mounted Archers Of The Steppe 600 BC-AD 1300 (Elite). Osprey Publishing, 2004, , p. 7.Wilcox, Peter. Rome's Enemies: Parthians and Sassanids.

Piracy against other raptors often resulted in food wastage, since the steppe eagles often forced the other raptors to drop their catch but the steppes were unable to intercept them and the kills were frequently lost into the water. In Bharatpur, the steppe eagles tended to perch relatively low compared to other eagles, at about in the trees, and to perch often for longer periods than other raptors, apparently while watching closely the activity of the other birds of prey. Of a total of 49 observed hours of activity for steppe eagles in Bharatpur, 45% of it was spent foraging, with a maximum foraging time of 69% during January, then reduced in March to only 17%. The daily food intake of individual steppe eagles was extremely low relative to their size, at only .

The village is located in steppe, on the east bank of the Volgograd Reservoir, 56 km from Staraya Poltavka, 250 km from Volgograd.

The village is located in steppe, on the left bank of the Saltynka River, 30 km from Uryupinsk and 360 km from Volgograd.

The village is located in steppe, on the right bank of the Lychak River, 60 km from Frolovo and 200 km from Volgograd.

The village is located in steppe, on the right bank of the Khopyor River, 41 km from Uryupinsk and 370 km from Volgograd.

The village is located in steppe, on the left bank of the Kamenka River, 6 km from Uryupinsk and 340 km from Volgograd.

The village is located in steppe, on the right bank of the Saltynka River, 39 km from Uryupinsk and 360 km from Volgograd.

The district lies between the forest steppe and taiga zones. It stretches for from west to east and for from north to south.

The village is located in steppe, on the left bank of the Yeruslan River, 4.9 km from Staraya Poltavka, 290 km from Volgograd.

The village is located in forest steppe, on Volga Upland, on the Mokraya Olkhovka River, 240 km from Volgograd, 19 km from Kotovo.

The village is located in steppe on the left bank of the Ventsy River, 150 km from Volgograd and 30 km from Kletskaya.

The village is located in steppe on the right bank of the Liska River, 170 km from Volgograd and 41 km from Kletskaya.

The village is located in forest steppe, on the Volga Upland, on the Lipovka River, 210 km from Volgograd, 15 km from Kamyshin.

The village is located in steppe, on Khopyorsko- Buzulukskaya plain, on the south bank of the Kazarina Lake, 5 km NEN from Preobrazhenskaya.

The village is located in forest steppe, on the Volga Upland, on the Ternovka River, 210 km from Volgograd, 18 km from Kamyshin.

The village is located in forest steppe, on the Volga Upland, on the Ilovlya River, 220 km from Volgograd, 30 km from Kamyshin.

The village is located in steppe, on the west bank of the Volgograd Reservoir, 51 km from Dubovka and 100 km from Volgograd.

The village is located in steppe, on the west bank of the Volgograd Reservoir, 28 km from Dubovka and 77 km from Volgograd.

The village is located in steppe, on the west bank of the Volgograd Reservoir, 76 km from Dubovka and 130 km from Volgograd.

The village is located in steppe, on the west bank of the Volgograd Reservoir, 11 km from Dubovka and 60 km from Volgograd.

The village is located in steppe, on the left bank of the Tishanka River, 40 km from Dubovka and 60 km from Volgograd.

The village is located in steppe, on the right bank of the Pogozhaya River, 66 km from Dubovka and 120 km from Volgograd.

The village is located in steppe, on Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, 12 km from Alexandrovka, 6.7 km from Zhirnovsk and 310 km from Volgograd.

The village is located in steppe, on the left bank of the Beryozovka River, 30 km from Danilovka and 230 km from Volgograd.

The village is located in steppe, on the left bank of the Kraishevka River, 51 km from Danilovka and 290 km from Volgograd.

The village is located in steppe, on the left bank of the Chyornaya River, 11 km from Danilovka and 280 km from Volgograd.

The village is located in steppe, on the right bank of the Medveditsa River, 41 km from Danilovka and 270 km from Volgograd.

The village is located in steppe, on the left bank of the Medveditsa River, 21 km from Danilovka and 260 km from Volgograd.

The village is located in steppe, on the right bank of the Beryozovka River, 36 km from Danilovka and 230 km from Volgograd.

The village is located in steppe, on the right bank of the Medveditsa River, 37 km from Danilovka and 260 km from Volgograd.

The village is located in forest steppe of Volga Upland, 340 km from Volgograd, 60 km from Zhirnovsk and 19 km from Alyoshniki.

The village is located in forest steppe of Volga Upland, 320 km from Volgograd, 42 km from Zhirnovsk and 4.5 km from Alyoshniki.

The village is located in forest steppe of Volga Upland, 300 km from Volgograd, 11 km from Borodachi and 67 km from Zhirnovsk.

The village is located in forest steppe of Volga Upland, 290 km from Volgograd, 61 km from Zhirnovsk and 4.8 km from Borodachi.

The village is located in steppe, on the right bank of the Ilovlya River, 86 km from Volgograd and 9 km from Ilovlya.

The village is located in steppe, on the right bank of the Don River, 75 km from Volgograd and 15 km from Ilovlya.

The village is located in steppe, on the Shiryay River, on the Volga Upland, 120 km from Volgograd and 43 km from Ilovlya.

The village is located in steppe, on the right bank of the Ilovlya River, 89 km from Volgograd and 4.3 km from Ilovlya.

The village is located in steppe, on the Shiryay River, on the Volga Upland, 130 km from Volgograd and 50 km from Ilovlya.

The village is located in steppe, on Volga Upland, on the left bank of the Tishanka River, 16 km south-east from Ilovlya.

The village is located in steppe, on the right bank of the Don River, 120 km from Volgograd and 41 km from Ilovlya.

The village is located in steppe, on the left bank of the Ilovlya River, on the Volga Upland, 2 km north from Ilovlya.

The village is located in steppe, on the banks of the Shiryay River, on the Volga Upland, 21 km north-east from Ilovlya.

The village is located in steppe, on the right bank of the Rossoshka River, 34 km from Volgograd and 35 km from Gorodishche.

The village is located in steppe, on the Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, 330 km from Volgograd, 30 km from Rudnya, 5 km from Lemeshkino.

The village is located in steppe, on the Khopyorsko- Buzulukskaya Plain, 310 km from Volgograd, 11 km from Rudnya, 8.5 km from Osichki.

The village is located in forest steppe, on the right bank of the Tersa River, 310 km from Volgograd, 15 km from Rudnya.

The village is located in forest steppe, on the right bank of the Tersa River, 310 km from Volgograd, 13 km from Rudnya.

The Mammals of China disagrees, stating that suitable habitats include montane and sub-alpine terrain, steppe, shrublands, cultivated land, villages and city parks.

The present-day eastern Altai-Sayan region areas of Ukok-Sailiugem could be considered the closest analogy to the ancient mammoth steppe environment.

It rises between the basins of those two rivers so the Kuma is mainly a steppe river. It is much used for irrigation.

Vipera eriwanensis, commonly known as the Alburzi viper or the Armenian steppe viper, is a species of venomous snake of the family Viperidae.

Sainshand (; ) is the capital of Dornogovi Province in Mongolia. It is located in the eastern Gobi desert steppe, on the Trans-Mongolian Railway.

5500 BC. The Nuragic people were strongly differentiated from other Bronze Age peoples of Europe by the near absence of steppe-related ancestry.

Coat of arms of Castellón de la Plana, The Köppen Climate Classification subtype for this climate is "BSk" (Tropical and Subtropical Steppe Climate).

The Central Anatolian steppe is a Palearctic ecoregion in the temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands biome. It covers an area of 24,934 km2.

The Karakoram-West Tibetan Plateau alpine steppe is a montane grasslands and shrublands ecoregion found in parts of Pakistan, China, Afghanistan, and India.

Slavic settlers preferred the river valleys because of better protection, transportation, firewood, game, and soil (steppe grass can be quite difficult to plow).

The park lies within the Karakoram-West Tibetan Plateau alpine steppe ecoregion, and contains pine forests, alpine shrublands and meadows, and alpine tundra.

The village is located in the forest-steppe zone of the West Siberian Plain at the confluence of the Cheremshanka and Medvedka Rivers.

Elaphe dione, commonly known as Dione's ratsnake, the steppe ratsnake, or the steppes ratsnake, is a species of snake in the family Colubridae.

The lakes are frozen for half the year (November to April). The park is situated in the Great Lakes Basin desert steppe ecoregion.

According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Leeds has a semi-arid climate, abbreviated "BSk" (Tropical and Subtropical Steppe Climate) on climate maps.

It is ovoviviparous. Hatchlings emerge from late August to late September. The Armenian steppe viper (Vipera eriwanensis), is endemic to the Armenian Highlands.

Afterwards the Xianbei returned to rule the Steppe north of the Great Wall. The titles of Khangan and Khan come from the Xianbei.

Most of what once was mammoth steppe has been converted to mire, rendering the environment incapable of supporting them, notably the woolly mammoth.

Subadult breeding is generally considered indicative of population stress in raptors. The breeding range of the steppe eagle was already contracted markedly early on in 20th century, especially in the west, largely as result of habitat loss (in particular appropriation of steppes for agriculture) but also persecution and predation, factors that may have drove some pairs to elevated nest sites. Steppe eagles once bred in Romania, Moldova and, more recently, Ukraine. Careless pesticide use in Europe depleted prey populations and collapsed nearly the whole local ecosystem, which alongside habitat conversions and persecution drove the steppe eagle's European breeding population to extinction.

Studies have determined where only larger species of burrowing mammals are predominant (even the larger species of ground squirrel), the steppe eagles appear to attain comparatively sparse nest densities, only occurring in high densities where the smaller burrowers are profuse. Ecological partitioning to limit interspecific competition may be a factor that dictates the steppe eagle's preference for relatively small prey. The breeding steppe eagle mainly hunts in a low soaring or gliding flight, at a maximum of , diving or making short, accelerated stoops onto their prey. Usually, they tend to capture their prey on the ground.

The steppe eagle appears broadly in many nations between their central Eurasian breeding areas and their generally tropical Indo and African wintering grounds. As a matter of fact, the largest concentrations of the species tend to occur at times of passage. The steppe eagle can also vagrate not infrequently far away from traditional migration sites, and has turned up in many areas from western Europe to as far east as Japan. Vagrant steppe eagles have been recorded in at least the following nations or regions: at least 6 nations in west AfricaBorrow, N., & Demey, R. (2001).

Restoration The steppe bison is believed to have evolved from Bison paleosinensis in South Asia, which means the species appeared at roughly the same time and region as the aurochs (Bos primigenius) with which its descendants are sometimes confused. The steppe bison was eventually contemporaneous with the Pleistocene woodland bison (B. schoetensacki) and the European bison (Bison bonasus) in Europe, Leptobison in Japan, and the long- horned bison (Bison latifrons) in North America. The steppe bison became extinct possibly in the middle to the late Holocene, as it was replaced in Europe by the modern European bison (B.

By 2000 BCE the network of Steppe Routes exchanges started to transition to the Silk Road. By the middle of this millennium, the “steppe route” cultures were well established. Slow moving groups following a heavy chariot with four plain wheels led by hunters and fishermen, who practised some form of productive economy, were gradually replaced or enslaved by herdsmen from the steppes and semi-deserts. Nomads rode small horses and knew how to fight from the horseback primarily with a bow which was the distinctive weapon from the steppe and sometimes even with a sword or a saber when he was more affluent.

There is no clear southern boundary, although the southern semi-deserts and deserts impede travel. The principal characteristic of the steppe landscape is its continental climate and the deficiency of moisture, which creates unstable conditions for farming. The steppe is interrupted at three points: the Ural mountains, the Altai mountains which gradually turn into the Sayan mountains in the east, and the Greater Khingan range; these divide the steppe into four segments that can be crossed by horsemen. The altitude of some mountainous barriers, such as the Altai Mountains, with elevations up to , had originally kept some regions self-contained.

Medvedev at the site (2008) Donguz test site (, full name: , formerly known as Научно-испытательный полигон ПВО МО РФ, в/ч 33157,Научно-Испытательный Зенитно-Артиллерийский Полигон — НИЗАП) is a military proving ground in Orenburg Oblast, Russia. Site administration and main living quarters are in the settlement of Pervomaysky. The site occupies about 121,000 hectares of steppe, making it the largest in Orenburg Oblast."Некоторые сведения о степных полигонах в Оренбургской области" (retrieved February 17, 2013) Due to the specific utilization of this steppe area (Donguz Steppe), it is the last in Europe remaining virgin land with representative flora and fauna.

Bălți Steppe (), also Beltsy Steppe () is a hilly area with few trees (apart from those near rivers Dniestr, Răut and numerous lakes and creeks), dominated by agriculturally cultivated land, and occasionally by grasses and shrubs, in the northern part of Moldova. It is characterised by moderate but unstable seasons, generally hot summers and cold winters. The Bălți Steppe has a total surface of 1,920 km, 2.7 per cent (51 km) of it are forests. The region, as the rest of Moldova, is traditionally an agricultural area, favored by several factors, such as the chernozem (black earth).

Eastern imperial eagles may be attracted to carrion quite often especially in winter. Here with another scavenger, the Egyptian vulture, in the background. Of a similar distribution to eastern imperial eagles, both in their mid-Eurasian breeding ground and southerly Indo-African wintering grounds, are the steppe eagle and the greater spotted eagle. There is a fair amount of habitat partitioning between the three species, however, with the steppe eagle preferring flat, often almost treeless steppe while the greater spotted eagle prefers more densely wooded and wetter habitats generally than imperial eagles such as taiga bogs.

Like its close relative, the Asian steppe polecat (with which it was once thought to be conspecific), the black-footed ferret represents a more progressive form than the European polecat in the direction of carnivory. The black-footed ferret's most likely ancestor was Mustela stromeri (from which the European and steppe polecats are also derived), which originated in Europe during the Middle Pleistocene. Molecular evidence indicates that the steppe polecat and black-footed ferret diverged from M. stromeri between 500,000 and 2,000,000 years ago, perhaps in Beringia. The species appeared in the Great Basin and the Rockies by 750,000 years ago.

The forest is divided into two parts: a small section ("Preovsky") located on relatively flat forest-steppe land (the "Minusink basin") 60 km north of the ridge of the West Sayan Mountains, and a much larger "Mountain section" on the north slope of the Western Sayan range. The forest displays the transition between two climatic zones - forest-steppe and taiga, as well as altitude zoning in the types of trees and forest community. The Perovsky (forest-steppe zone, 4,410 ha) and Mountain (Western Sayan, 34,760 ha) combine for a total area of . Area of Sushensky Forest National Park.

Periglacial loess-steppe environments prevailed across the East European Plain, but climates improved slightly during several brief interstadials and began to warm significantly after the beginning of the Late Glacial Maximum. Pollen profiles for this time indicate a pine-birch woodland interspersed with the steppe in the deglaciated northern plain, birch-pine forest with some broadleaf trees in the central region, and steppe in the south. The pattern reflects the reemergence of a marked zonation of biomes with the decline of glacial conditions. Human site occupation density was most prevalent in the Crimea region and increased as early as around 16,000 years ago.

Annual movements of a Steppe Eagle (Aquila nipalensis) summering in Mongolia and wintering in Tibet. JOURNAL-BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, 98(3), 335–340. During return spring migration, the steppe eagles in passage in Nepal will reportedly amass into groups of approximately 5 to 20 eagles at only about above the terrain before rising up to cross between the snow-covered peaks.

Termites are known to emerge more extensively in these conditions and so the steppe eagle, not unlike other long-distance migrant raptors, can become locally rather insectivorous to the exception of virtually any other foods.Jensen, H. H. (1972). The Steppe Eagle Aquila nipalensis and other termite-eating raptors in South West Africa. Madoqua, 1972(Series 1 Issue 5), 73–76.

The flight of the steppe eagle is well-analyzed such as experiments with a captive male and observations of migrants in Israel.Carruthers, A. C., Thomas, A. L., & Taylor, G. K. (2007). Automatic aeroelastic devices in the wings of a steppe eagle Aquila nipalensis. Journal of Experimental Biology, 210(23), 4136–4149.Gillies, J. A., Thomas, A. L., & Taylor, G. K. (2011).

Three steppe eagles seen perched near an Indian carcass dump with another large scavenging bird, the griffon vulture. The steppe eagle shares its distribution with several other birds of prey that can compete for resources. Most similar in feeding niche are largely other eagles, many of which are also similarly migratory. One eagle of similar central distribution is the eastern imperial eagles.

In Armenia, common buzzards and Montagu's harriers were seen to be robbed of catches by steppe eagles. Even the golden eagle has seen to have its prey be stolen by steppe eagles in the Bale Mountains.Clouet, M., Barrau, C., & Goar, J. L. (1999). The golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) in the Balé Mountains, Ethiopia. Journal of Raptor Research, 33(2), 102–109.

Monitoring of the Steppe Eagle Populations in the Trans-Border Zone of Russia and Kazakhstan in 2012. Raptors Conservation, (26). An unexpected source of steppe eagle nestling mortality was found to be from the unusually aggressive pallid harrier (Circus macrourus) which attacked and killed two consecutive young eagles although never fed on them (possibly due to delayed displacement by the parent eagles).

Levels of hemoparasites appear to be low in nestling steppe eagles but the sample sizes of the only study known so far are small.Leppert, L. L., Layman, S., Bragin, E. A., & Katzner, T. (2004). Survey for hemoparasites in imperial eagles (Aquila heliaca), steppe eagles (Aquila nipalensis), and white-tailed sea eagles (Haliaeetus albicilla) from Kazakhstan. Journal of Wildlife Diseases, 40(2), 316–319.

In the Aral and Caspian areas, 39.62% of 58 breeding pairs contained 1 subadult breeding bird of around 3–5 years of age. Similarly, within the Ukok Plateau, only 23.8% of 67 sighted steppe eagle were mature adults, indicating the reduction of mature individuals is similarly severe there. Subadult breeding steppe eagles were also noticed in Mongolia.Ellis, D. H. (2003).

"Pilbara 2 (PIL2 – Fortescue Plains subregion)". in A Biodiversity Audit of Western Australia’s 53 Biogeographical Subregions in 2002, Department of Conservation and Land Management, Western Australia Government, October 2001. The Chichester Plateau is principally scrub steppe, with the shrub Acacia inaequilatera and the bunch grass Triodia wiseana. Scrub steppe also dominates the Roebourne coastal plain, with Acacia translucens and Triodia pungens.

Two forms of burials are found north of the Black Sea in the 6th and 7th centuries. Poorly furnished cremation burials, either inside urns or into shallow pits, are concentrated in the forest-steppe zone; whilst more elaborately equipped inhumations are found in the open steppe. Traditionally, the latter are attributed to "Turkic" nomads whilst the cremation burials were a typically Slavic rite.

Their DNA was a mixture of two-thirds Copper Age ancestry (EEF + WHG; Etruscans ~66–72%, Latins ~62–75%) and one-third Steppe-related ancestry (Etruscans ~27–33%, Latins ~24–37%). The results of this study once again suggested that the Etruscans were indigenous, and that the Etruscans also had Steppe-related ancestry despite continuing to speak a pre-Indo-European language.

The area around the city of Aktobe is mostly flat steppe, with low hills rising to the northeast. Other rivers, such as the Emba and the Ural River, flow through the region. The region is bordered on the south by the Aral Sea. The natural vegetation cover around Aktobe city is steppe, while the southern parts of the region are semi-desert.

Some scholars also argue that another group identified in ancient sources as Huns, the North Caucasian Huns, were genuine Huns. The rulers of various post-Hunnic steppe peoples are known to have claimed descent from Attila in order to legitimize their right to the power, and various steppe peoples were also called "Huns" by Western and Byzantine sources from the fourth century onward.

The plateau is a high-altitude arid steppe interspersed with mountain ranges and large brackish lakes. Annual precipitation ranges from and falls mainly as hail. The southern and eastern edges of the steppe have grasslands that can sustainably support populations of nomadic herdsmen, although frost occurs for six months of the year. Permafrost occurs over extensive parts of the plateau.

Alsace, France, constitutes the western boundary of their territory. Moor frogs were also confirmed to have been present in East Anglia in the UK, after archaeological remains were found. The types of land they can inhabit are greatly varied. They live in tundra, forest tundra, forest, forest steppe, and steppe, forest edges and glades, semideserts, swamps, meadows, fields, bush lands, and gardens.

The difference between steppe, mountain and plain was far more important than difference of language. Only the southern half (and the southernmost part of Dagestan) had organized states, usually Persian or Turkish vassals and few, if any, of these states corresponded well to language groups. Northern Lowlands: The Turkic-speaking Nogai nomads occupied almost all of the steppe north of the Caucasus.

There are two major facts which theorists have not explained. During the last 2,500 years nearly all movements on the steppe have been from east to west. From about 1000 BC all the known peoples of the western and central steppe spoke Iranian languages. From about 500 AD the Turkic languages expanded from Mongolia and replaced most of the Iranian languages.

Artemisia capillaris At an elevation of 4,500–6,000 m, Northern Tibet's area is covered by approximately 94% grasslands, including the alpine-steppe and alpine meadow.{Lu, X., Yan, Y., Fan, J., Cao, Y., & Wang, X. 2011. Dynamics of above- and below-ground biomass and C, N, P accumulation in the alpine steppe of Northern Tibet. Journal of Mountain Science, 8(6), 838–844.

The Steppe (), subtitled The Story of a Journey, is a novella by Russian writer Anton Chekhov. In a narrative that drifts with the thought processes of the characters, Chekhov evokes a chaise journey across the steppe through the eyes of a young boy sent to live away from home, along with several companions, including his parish priest and his uncle, a merchant.

Sketch of the endangered great bustard Conservation of the biodiversity in the steppe ecosystem of the Monegros of the Aragon region envisages habitat improvements for steppe birds and related plant life. Improvements in irrigation are planned. However the setting up of a casino may adversely affect conservation efforts. The Aragon Steppes are cited as the largest habitat for bird communities in Spain.

The mountains contain several ecosystems. Prominent among them are the forest and forest steppe areas with a semi-arid climate. As defined by the World Wildlife Fund and used in their Wildfinder, the particular terrestrial ecoregion of the mid to high mountain area is Zagros Mountains forest steppe (PA0446). The annual precipitation ranges from and falls mostly in winter and spring.

Flora in the region represent a combination of species from four biomes: taiga, сool-temperate forests, tundra and steppe and are more diverse than flora of many of the surrounding areas.Pelánková, Barbora, et al. "The Relationships of Modern Pollen Spectra to Vegetation and Climate Along a steppe—forest—tundra Transition in Southern Siberia, Explored by Decision Trees." Holocene 18.8 (2008): 1259-71.

Large mammals in the park include brown bear, red deer, roe deer, mink, and sable (for which is the area is particularly known). There are 61 recorded mammal species, 183 bird species, and 14 species of fish. Other predatory mammals include wolf, fox, wolverine, weasel, ermine, mink, otter, badger, and lynx. There are relatively few species associated with steppe and forest-steppe landscapes.

When Mehmed died his sons – Saadet, Safa and Murad – fled to the steppe. They were accompanied by some of the Mansur clan who lived in the northwestern, steppe-like part of Crimea. Saadet: Three months later, Saadet and his brothers led 15000 Nogais south, seeking to avenge their father. They took the capital and Saadet declared himself khan as Saadet II Giray.

The area is characterized by meadow steppe, and predominantly pine (Pinus Sylvestris) forests with birch and aspen. Common shrubs are juniper, rose hips, hawthorne, and willow. Much of the steppe area has been affected by past plowing and grazing. Scientists have recorded 597 species of vascular plants, 36 of which are relic boreal species reflecting forest island nature of the area.

Khodarkovsky, Russia's Steppe Frontier p. 9 In 1557 the Nogay Nur-al-Din Qazi Mirza quarreled with Ismael Beg and founded the Lesser Nogai Horde on the steppe of the North Caucasus. The Nogays north of the Caspian were thereafter called the Great Nogay Horde. In the early 17th century, the Horde broke down further under the onslaught of the Kalmyks.

There are two general types of plant communities in Tigireksky: forest-steppe in the north and west on smooth domed mountains, and dark taiga along the Tigirek Ridge. There are small areas at high altitude of sub-alpine meadows. The dark taiga (spruce and fir) is a relic of the pre- glacial period. Siberian rown is common brush in the forest-steppe area.

The Eurasian Steppe extends thousands of miles from near the mouth of the Danube almost to the Pacific Ocean. It is bounded on the north by the forests of European Russia, Siberia and Asian Russia. There is no clear southern boundary although the land becomes increasingly dry as one moves south. The steppe narrows at two points, dividing it into three major parts.

The forests of the reserve vary by elevation and by proximity to the reservoir. The mid-level forests are mostly taiga fir and pine, with some zones of larch forests. The mountain steppe regions grade out to even shrubs-steppe and grassland. Fluctuations in the water level due to operations of the dam can be dramatic (up to 40 meters).

Vegetation is steppe and mountain forest-steppe, with patches of forest scattered around the region. The district is about 100 km west-to-east, and 71 km north-to-south. It is located about 100 km south of the city of Kemerovo, and 100 km north of Novokuznetsk. Subdivisions of the district include 8 rural areas, and 47 rural settlements.

Nomadic pastoralism developed in the Pontic-Caspian steppe beginning in the Chalcolithic. In classical antiquity, the Pontic Steppe was known as Scythia. Beginning in the 8th century BC, Ancient Greek traders brought their civilization to the trade emporiums in Tanais and Phanagoria. Ancient Greek explorers, most notably Pytheas, even went as far as modern day Kaliningrad, on the Baltic Sea.

The Turks began to run low on gunpowder. As autumn approached Bahadir announced that he was going home because the Crimeans could not winter on the steppe. If Crimeans could not endure a steppe winter then neither could janissaries, so Deli Hussein lifted the siege. Gaivoronsky's account differs in detail from other sources, so this may need to be checked.

The Poltavka culture emerged ca. 2700 BC as an eastern successor of the Yamnaya culture. The western successor of the Yamnaya culture was the Catacomb culture. Along with the Sredny Stog culture, the Yamnaya culture and the Catacomb culture, the Poltavka culture is among the cultures of the Pontic steppe sharing characteristics with the Afanasievo culture of the eastern steppe.

The area is notable for preserving some of the last primeval coastal steppes, particularly in the gullies of the Castel sectors, where 50 plant species are found that are not generally found in the greater coastal steppes, and over 400 species of vascular plants have been recorded on site. Overall, the park includes coastal steppe, shrub- steppe, and shrub habitats.

Natural traffic routes—like rivers—were not available in the province of Caesariensis. The border of the steppe was well developed for military reasons.

Breeding ecology of the Steppe Eagle (Aquila nipalensis) in Mongolia. Ornis Mongolica, (1), 13–19.Wan, X., Zhang, X., Wang, G., & Chen, L. (2014).

The village is located in steppe, on Transvolga, on the bank of the Yeruslan River, 24 km from Staraya Poltavka, 310 km from Volgograd.

The village is located in forest steppe, on the right bank of the Olshanka River, 6 km from Uryupinsk and 330 km from Volgograd.

The village is located in steppe, 5 km from the left bank of the Medveditsa River, 35 km from Serafimovich, 220 km from Volgograd.

In the forest-steppe areas woodworking was widespread. Utensils, yurt parts, etc. were made of wood. Iron, gold, and silver were mined and processed.

Reptile species are represented by the steppe tortoise, monitor lizard, boa, agam, etc. The major source of water for irrigation is the Karakum Canal.

The village is located in steppe, on Volga Upland, on the bank of the Olkhovka River, 260 km from Volgograd, 34 km from Kotovo.

The village is located in steppe, on Khopyorsko- Buzulukskaya plain, on the right bank of the Buzuluk River, 4 km north-east from Preobrazhenskaya.

The village is located in steppe, on Khopyorsko- Buzulukskaya plain, on the right bank of the Machekha River, 20 km north-east from Preobrazhenskaya.

The village is located in steppe on the Liska River, 180 km from Volgograd, 11 km from Verkhnyaya Buzinovka and 51 km from Kletskaya.

The village is located in steppe, on Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya plain, on the right bank of the Machekha River, 22 km north-east from Preobrazhenskaya.

The village is located in steppe, on Khopyorsko- Buzulukskaya plain, on the right bank of the Karman River, 8 km south-west from Preobrazhenskaya.

The village is located in steppe, on Khopyorsko- Buzulukskaya plain, on the left bank of the Svinukha River, 29 km north-east from Preobrazhenskaya.

The village is located in steppe, on the Balykleyka River, 20 km from Gorny Balykley, 83 km from Dubovka and 140 km from Volgograd.

The village is located in steppe, on the Pogozhaya River, 5.9 km from Ust-Pogozhye, 71 km from Dubovka and 120 km from Volgograd.

The village is located in forest steppe, on the left bank of the Medveditsa River, 19 km from Danilovka and 220 km from Volgograd.

The village is located in forest steppe, on the left bank of the Medveditsa River, 6 km from Danilovka and 230 km from Volgograd.

The village is located in forest steppe, on the left bank of the Medveditsa River, 10 km from Danilovka and 220 km from Volgograd.

The village is located in forest steppe, on the Lomovka River, 12 km from Ostrovskaya, 30 km from Danilovka and 260 km from Volgograd.

The village is located in steppe, on the north- west bank of the Bobrovoye Lake, 31 km from Danilovka and 260 km from Volgograd.

The village is located in forest steppe, on the right bank of the Medveditsa River, 19 km from Danilovka and 220 km from Volgograd.

The village is located in steppe, on the left bank of the Berdiya River, on the Volga Upland, 25 km north-east from Ilovlya.

The village is located in steppe, on the right bank of the Talovaya River, on the Volga Upland, 26 km south-east from Ilovlya.

The village is located in steppe, on the left bank of the Tishanka River, on the Volga Upland, 13 km south-east from Ilovlya.

The village is located in steppe, on the Tsaritsa River, 15 km from Volgograd, 40 km from Krasny Pakhar and 22 km from Gorodishche.

The village is located in steppe, on the Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, on the left bank of the Kardail River, 21 km east from Novonikolayevsky.

The village is located in steppe, on Yergeni, on the left bank of the Myshkova River, 190 km from Volgograd, 38 km from Oktyabrsky.

The village is located in steppe, on Yergeni, on the right bank of the Aksay River, 180 km from Volgograd, 33 km from Oktyabrsky.

The village is located in steppe, on Yergeni, on the left bank of the Rossosh River, 140 km from Volgograd, 31 km from Oktyabrsky.

The village is located in steppe, on the Volga Upland, 160 km from Volgograd, 24 km from Olkhovka, 10.5 km south-west from Yagodnoye.

The village is located in steppe, on Yergeni, on the right bank of the Aksay River, 140 km from Volgograd, 15 km from Oktyabrsky.

2009 p 64Baumer, Christoph. The History of Central Asia: The Age of the Steppe Warriors Vol. 1 I.B.Tauris, 11 dec. 2012 p 289Kaushik Roy.

Washington, DC: U.S. Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service. sagebrush steppe, and desert grassland.Long, Dustin; Truett, Joe. 2006. Ranching and prairie dogs.

It nests on steep, barren, rocky ground with little vegetation. It winters at lower levels occurring on rocky hills, steppe, scrubland and semi-desert.

The Ordos Plateau contained the best pasture lands on the Asian steppe. Bronze statuette of a man, Ordos, 3-1st century BC. British Museum.

It is in a complex ecosystem with unique biodiversity which is defined as a "transition zone from Siberian permafrost land forms to great steppe".

It is available as a natural complex of rather good safety since the given forest-steppe file has improved more and became arable land.

Reeds and cattails are found extensively in the wetlands. The forest complexes of the ecoregion are often patchy, interspersed with steppe and swamp meadows.

Common steppe birds include the Whinchat, the Eurasian skylark, and the Black kite. Along the rivers in the Verchoya sector are beavers and moose.

The southern birch mouse is pronouncedly a steppe dweller. It makes a burrow in the summer and hibernates. It eats green plants and insects.