Content

• General description
• Classification
• Geology
• Climate
• Vegetation: Two regions (temperate and alpine steppes)
• Fauna
• Ecosystem service, threat and conservation
• Research

Authors

Dr. Yun Jäschke

Doctor of Science in biology, post doc researcher at Botany Department, Senckenberg Museum of Natural History Görlitz, working in BMBF project “Mongolei-MoreStep” (Mobility at risk: Sustaining the Mongolian Steppe Ecosystem). Doctor research was focusing on combined effects of livestock-grazing and environment based on a multi-site, interdisciplinary approach.

ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8238-5367

Prof. Dr. Frank Yonghong Li

Dean of the School of Ecology and Environment, Inner Mongolia University, Professor at Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Ecology and Resources Use on the Mongolia Plateau & Inner Mongolia Key Laboratory of Grassland Ecology. Leading author of Encyclopedia of the World’s Biomes-China

ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5137-8017

Prof. Dr. Karsten Wesche

Head of Botany department, Phanerogamen I, Senckenberg Museum of Natural History Görlitz, Professor at Internationales Hochschulinstitut Zittau, Technical University of Dresden. A member of the of IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management (CEM), Member of the IUCN/CEM Specialist Group „Holarctic Steppes“.