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Dauria lies in the northern part of Central Asia and is ecologically strongly dependent on climate changes. Most of the Daurian steppe area is situated in Northeast China and East Mongolia; the Russian part is confined to Zabaikalsky Province and Buryat Republic. The area possesses a very high level of biodiversity for a steppe zone and is included in the Global 200 Ecoregions of the World as Dauria Steppe, which according to WWF covers the Nenjiang River grassland, the Daurian forest steppe, the Mongolian-Manchurian steppe, and the Selenge-Orkhon forest steppe ecoregions. These grassland areas are united by geographic location, annual and multiyear rhythms in ecological factors, and structure and composition of communities. In terms of freshwater ecosystems, Dauria is divided into three principal freshwater ecoregions, Shilka River, Argun River, and Endorheic basins of which the Torey Lakes/Uldz River basin is the most prominent.
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Simonov, E., Goroshko, O., Tatiana, T. (2017). Daurian Steppe Wetlands of the Amur-Heilong River Basin (Russia, China, and Mongolia). In: Finlayson, C., Milton, G., Prentice, R., Davidson, N. (eds) The Wetland Book. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6173-5_170-4
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