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Caucasus historically
have been called to the area between Caspian Sea and
Black Sea, which was a reach natural place, and
different races and ethnics used to live in this
area, the area has always been contemporary changing
as a part of Persia, or Russia, depends on the
winner of the wars on this tense region. As
Biodiversity aspect, Caucasus called to a certain
area, that gets Caspian Sea, and Black Sea Humidity,
so the climate has made a type of unique vegetation,
and very specific animal diversity, which Caucasus
ecoregion is now, one of the hotspots for
conservation of the world biodiversity. There are
certain plants and animal species that are unique to
this area, and the borders of area, is as far as
these species occurrence. Because of that as a
biodiversity oriented classification, South west
Russia, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Nakhjivan,
Northeast of Turkey and North west and Southern
Caspian planes of Iran, known as Caucasus ecoregion |
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Iran’s Caucasus
ecoregion is a vast area, from Aras river basin and
Turkey border, all along the Caspian coast up to
Kopet dagh and Turkmenistan. All the species say so,
but WWF Caucasus and other sponsors of the hotspots
conservation project, shortened the range of Iran’s
Caucasus ecoregion up to Central Alborz western
valleys to Chalus city, and they are officially
considering the rest of the ecoregion as Caucasus
ecoregion’s tail.
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