Alashan Plateau semi-desert
Alashan Plateau semi-desert
The Alashan Plateau semi-desert straddles the China–Mongolia border, sitting between the Tibetan Plateau to the south and the more arid regions of the Gobi Desert to the north and east, of which it intercepts a large portion. Its basin-and-range landscape carries sparse, drought-adapted vegetation, where salt-tolerant halophytes and xerophytes such as saxaul (Haloxylon ammodendron) and Reaumuria soongorica stabilize the soil, alongside wormwoods (Artemisia) and bean caper (Zygophyllum), with desert poplar (Populus euphratica) and Tamarix along watercourses like the Yellow River. The climate is cold and very arid, with frost and snow on the dunes and very low annual precipitation (around 95 mm/year). The region shelters notable wildlife including the wild Bactrian camel, snow leopard, and Saker falcon, and the black stork serves as its flagship species, though protection remains limited amid threats from illegal mining and overgrazing. For gardeners in cold dry climates, its hardy native genera such as saxaul, Reaumuria, and Artemisia point to plants tolerant of harsh, low-water conditions.
RESOLVE 808
Palearctic
260,084 sq mi
Deserts & Xeric Shrublands
Tipo de paisaje
Deserts & Xeric Shrublands
Región vegetal
Palearctic
Huella de la región
260,084 sq mi
Presión sobre el hábitat
Nature Could Reach Half Protected (Dinerstein NNH 2)
Origen y cuidado
Patrocinado
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Usa esto como el patrón general de plantación para la región: Arid and semi-arid lands where low, erratic rainfall and high evaporation limit vegetation to drought-adapted shrubs, succulents, and sparse grasses. Day-to-night temperature swings are large, and life is finely tuned to water scarcity. Para las decisiones de jardín, combina ese contexto con la lista de plantas de abajo y luego acota según las restricciones de luz, agua, suelo y tamaño maduro de tu sitio.
Range & origins
Marcador situado dentro del polígono RESOLVE 2017 en 41.5°N, 101.6°E.
La región a través del tiempo
Huella moderna
RESOLVE 2017 mapea 260,084 sq mi
Este límite es una huella ecológica moderna para Alashan Plateau semi-desert, no una línea permanente en el planeta. Resulta útil para el contexto actual de plantas y fauna porque sigue patrones recurrentes de vegetación, clima, relieve y perturbaciones.
Por qué aquí
Condiciones de deserts & xeric shrublands
La región se ubica en el reino Palearctic y se clasifica como deserts & xeric shrublands. La altitud, la humedad, el fuego, los suelos, las costas y el uso humano del suelo pueden hacer que el paisaje real sea más variado de lo que sugiere un único color en el mapa.
Presión de cambio
Nature Could Reach Half Protected
Plotwright muestra esto como la huella actual de RESOLVE. A lo largo de décadas o siglos, el calentamiento, las perturbaciones, las especies invasoras, el uso del suelo y la restauración pueden desplazar el borde vivo de una región aunque el mapa de referencia permanezca fijo.
Colecciones de plantación
Recetas de plantación terminadas donde cada miembro puede con el rango climático de esta región. La insignia de ajuste usa la planta más sensible de la colección, así que una colección resistente es un punto de partida más seguro que cualquier ejemplar destacado por sí solo.
Resistente al clima · 2 plantas
Bright shade foundation
A part-shade planting with shrub structure and low foliage contrast.
Resistente al clima · 8 plantas
Climate-resilient natives for warming zones (eastern NA)
A pollinator-supporting palette of eastern North American natives with broad hardiness ranges and wide native distributions. Built for gardeners who want a planting that can handle warming zones without giving up wildlife value.
Resistente al clima · 6 plantas
Mediterranean drought-tolerant edible
A low-water edible palette of culinary herbs + a hardy grape for hot dry sunny sites. Mediterranean-origin plants thrive on neglect; their primary failure mode is overwatering, not underwatering.
Resistente al clima · 9 plantas
Native pollinator border (eastern US)
A continuous-bloom native pollinator strip for eastern North America. Covers spring through frost with host + nectar plants spanning monarchs, native bees, hummingbirds, and specialist Lepidoptera. Little bluestem provides the matrix grass + Hesperiidae host.
Resistente al clima · 4 plantas
Sunny pollinator border
A durable sunny border with summer bloom, seedheads, and upright winter texture.
Regiones de plantación similares
Explora otras regiones con un ritmo similar de veranos calurosos y secos. Sus listas de plantas pueden sugerir especies y combinaciones que vale la pena comparar.
RESOLVE 807 - Palearctic
Afghan Mountains semi-desert
The Afghan Mountains semi-desert covers three disconnected interior valleys on the northern slope of Afghanistan's central mountains, the Koh-i-Baba range and the wider Hindu Kush, reaching from the Hari River valley near Chaghcharan through the Bamyan Valley to Badakhshan Province in the east. These high, dry valleys carry an open cover of thorny shrubs and small trees generally under 1.5 metres tall, with wild almond and pistachio among the characteristic woody plants. The climate is arid and strongly continental, with large seasonal temperature swings and warm summers, and the ground is roughly two-thirds herbaceous cover and one-third bare. Several threatened animals persist here, including the endangered Kashmir musk deer, which serves as the region's flagship species, and the Persian leopard, though overgrazing by livestock presses on the vegetation and the wildlife that depends on it. The ecoregion overlaps Band-e Amir National Park, Afghanistan's first national park and an IUCN-recognized protected area. For gardeners in dry continental climates, the region's native wild almond (Prunus) and pistachio (Pistacia) are familiar drought-adapted genera.
Deserts & Xeric Shrublands
Zonas 6a-10b
+5.9°F para 2070
5,282 sq mi
Nivel NNH 4
RESOLVE 809 - Palearctic
Arabian desert
The Arabian Desert is a vast, disjointed Palearctic ecoregion that occupies most of the Arabian Peninsula and reaches across Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, the United Arab Emirates, Yemen, southwestern Iran, Egypt's Sinai, and Israel's Negev. Sandy and gravel plains, elevated plateaus, and seasonal valleys called wadis dominate the terrain, supporting sparse, drought-adapted vegetation in which Acacia trees, Tamarix shrubs, and saltbushes such as Cornulaca and Salsola are characteristic, with Calligonum on dune slopes and Prosopis cineraria along desert margins. The climate is hot and arid, with very low and variable rainfall and extreme summer heat. Despite limited overall biodiversity, the region shelters specially adapted wildlife including the Arabian oryx, sand gazelles, and the Asian houbara bustard, its flagship species, but it remains poorly protected and is degraded by overgrazing, poaching, and off-road vehicle damage. For gardeners, the hardy native Acacia and Prosopis trees illustrate the drought-tolerant genera suited to hot, dry conditions.
Deserts & Xeric Shrublands
Zonas 9a-13b
+4.4°F para 2070
316,178 sq mi
Nivel NNH 2
RESOLVE 810 - Palearctic
Arabian sand desert
The Arabian Sand Desert spans the great sand seas of the Arabian Peninsula, lying predominantly in Saudi Arabia and crossing into the United Arab Emirates, Yemen, and Oman; it takes in the Rub' al-Khali, or Empty Quarter, the world's largest sand desert, along with the an-Nafud, ad-Dahna, and al-Jafurah dune fields of linear and crescent dunes interspersed with gravel and gypsum plains. Vegetation is sparse and highly drought-adapted, with Calligonum shrubs colonizing dune slopes alongside chenopod genera such as Cornulaca and Haloxylon, while scattered trees including Acacia ehrenbergiana and the ghaf (Prosopis cineraria) persist mainly along the desert margins. The climate is hyper-arid and intensely hot, with summer temperatures that can exceed 50 degrees Celsius and scant, seasonal rainfall that falls off from north to south. Despite its name, the Empty Quarter is far from lifeless: it is the stronghold for the reintroduced Arabian oryx, the ecoregion's flagship species, which was restored after near-extinction from overhunting in the mid-twentieth century. Gardeners drawn to xeric planting will recognize ghaf (Prosopis cineraria) and Acacia among the heat- and drought-hardy genera native here.
Deserts & Xeric Shrublands
Zonas 10b-13b
+4.5°F para 2070
276,595 sq mi
Nivel NNH 2
RESOLVE 811 - Palearctic
Arabian-Persian Gulf coastal plain desert
The Arabian-Persian Gulf Coastal Plain Desert traces the eastern seaboard of the Arabian Peninsula along the Arabian-Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman, taking in coastal stretches of Kuwait, eastern Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Oman while encompassing the entire land area of Qatar and Bahrain. It is a mosaic of low coastal habitats: rocky shores, intertidal mudflats, salt marshes known as sabkha, gravel hammada, sand dunes, and pockets of Avicennia mangrove, where vegetation is dominated by salt-tolerant halophytes and sparse desert shrubs and grasses such as Haloxylon salicornicum, Rhanterium, and the sedge Cyperus conglomeratus. The climate is hot and intensely arid, with annual rainfall below roughly 100 millimeters across most of the region. These shores form a haven for wildlife, hosting the world's largest breeding population of the Socotra cormorant alongside sand gazelle, wintering shorebirds, and sandy beaches that serve as nesting sites for several threatened sea turtle species. Only about four percent of the ecoregion is protected, and coastal development, overgrazing, and overfishing remain the principal threats.
Deserts & Xeric Shrublands
Zonas 10b-13b
+4.4°F para 2070
47,024 sq mi
Nivel NNH 2
RESOLVE 812 - Palearctic
Azerbaijan shrub desert and steppe
The Azerbaijan shrub desert and steppe is a Deserts and Xeric Shrublands ecoregion occupying the Kura-Aras lowlands west of the Caspian Sea, with about seventy percent in Azerbaijan and the rest reaching into southeastern Georgia and northwestern Iran. It is the driest part of the Caucasus, a mosaic of wormwood (Artemisia) and saltwort (Salsola) semi-desert, feather-grass (Stipa) and yellow-bluestem steppe, and open pistachio-juniper woodlands, with riparian forests and wetlands along river floodplains. The climate is semi-arid to arid, temperate and continental, with long hot summers, short mild winters, and average annual precipitation of roughly 300 to 400 millimeters. Despite high endemism and a role as home to the world's largest population of goitered gazelle, only about six percent of the ecoregion lies within protected areas such as Shirvan and Aghgol national parks. For gardeners in dry, continental climates, the region's native flora includes drought-adapted ornamentals like feather grasses (Stipa) and endemic irises.
Deserts & Xeric Shrublands
Zonas 8a-11b
+4.9°F para 2070
24,714 sq mi
Nivel NNH 4
RESOLVE 813 - Palearctic
Badghyz and Karabil semi-desert
The Badghyz and Karabil semi-desert is a Palearctic desert-and-xeric-shrubland ecoregion spread across a hilly plateau north of the Paropamiz Mountains, the northernmost range of the Hindu Kush, taking in parts of Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Iran. Its signature landscape is a savanna-like open woodland of wild pistachio (Pistacia vera) rising above a ground layer of drought-tolerant desert sedges (Carex), with Artemisia shrubs and saltwort on drier and saline ground. The climate is cold semi-arid, with hot dry summers and milder, wetter winters. The region is botanically rich, holding more than 1,100 vascular plant species along with local endemics, and its flagship animal is the Asian wild ass, or Turkmenian kulan, which alongside goitered gazelle and urial is protected in reserves such as the Badhyz State Reserve. For gardeners, the area is also the native home of showy wild bulbs, including the red-flowered Tulipa kuschkensis.
Deserts & Xeric Shrublands
Zonas 6b-10b
+5.1°F para 2070
51,580 sq mi
Nivel NNH 4
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RESOLVE 2017 Terrestrial Ecoregions (Dinerstein et al.)
Marco principal de ecorregiones
Respalda 4 campos
ID de RESOLVE
Bioma + reino
Área
Nivel NNH
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