Steppe

Apis cerana encompass a wide range of climatic zones including moist tropical rainforests, wet-dry tropical savannas, mid-latitude steppes, dry mid-latitude grasslands, moist continental deciduous forests, and taigas.

lived in the steppe regions of northern Eurasia and Siberia during the Pleistocene

It mainly inhabits dry, steppe-like environments with sparse bush cover along the edges of the Sahara desert and on its mountains, avoiding the most arid regions in its center.

The South American gray fox occurs in a variety of habitats, from the warm, arid scrublands of the Argentine uplands and the cold, arid Patagonian steppe to the forests of southernmost Chile.

It is listed as Least Concern in the IUCN Red List, on account of its widespread range in the Tibetan Plateau's steppes and semi-deserts.

The oldest scientific description of a marbled polecat was published in 1770, when Baltic German naturalist Johann Anton Güldenstädt reported the species living in the steppes of the lower Don River area in what is now Rostov Oblast, Russia.

It prefers open deciduous woodland and adjacent pastureland, but also inhabits coniferous and mixed woodlands, shrubland and steppe.

These foxes inhabit open grassy steppes and semideserts, and avoid dense vegetation and mountainous regions.

it prefers sandy or rocky deserts, but lives also in semiarid steppes and sparse scrub

Historical habitats of the black-footed ferret included shortgrass prairie, mixed-grass prairie, desert grassland, shrub steppe, sagebrush steppe, mountain grassland, and semi-arid grassland.

is found in a range of habitats including farmland, woodland fringes, steppes and semi-deserts

This species breeds across middle latitudes of central Asia on dry steppes and similar habitats.

Habitas include mainly dry and warm regions, heath, steppes, semi-dry or dry grassland, stone quarries and forest edges.

Its habitat was the mammoth steppe, which stretched across northern Eurasia and North America.

Heuglin's gazelles inhabit open areas such as steppes, dry grasslands and thorn bushlands up to an elevation of 1,400 m (4,600 ft).

Mongolian gerbils inhabit grassland, shrubland and desert, including semidesert and steppes in China, Mongolia, and Russia

It is mainly resident in the Sahel zone, a narrow cross-Africa band south of the Sahara, where it prefers arid grasslands, wooded savannas and shrubby steppes.

It is confined to the Horn of Africa, where it inhabits stony brush, grass steppes, and semi deserts.

They inhabit open steppes with brush and acacia, as well as steppes with few trees.

Alpine meadow and high elevation steppe are the primary habitats of the goa.

The Mongolian gazelle (Procapra gutturosa), or dzeren (Russian: дзерен), is a medium-sized antelope native to the semiarid Central Asian steppes of Mongolia, southern Siberia and northern China.

Their habitat consists of a mixture of high altitude steppe, alpine meadows, and regions of semidesert.

Their typical habitat is gently rolling hills in the steppe-forest ecotone.

Endemic to the Tibetan Plateau, the Tibetan antelope inhabits open alpine and cold steppe environments between 3,250 and 5,500 m (10,660 and 18,040 ft) elevation.

It has two subspecies: the common beisa oryx (Oryx beisa beisa) found in steppe and semidesert throughout the Horn of Africa Somalia and north of the Tana River, and the fringe-eared oryx (Oryx beisa callotis) south of the Tana River in southern Kenya Somalia and parts of Tanzania.

The habitat of scimitar oryxes in the wild is steppe and desert, where they eat foliage, grass, herbs, shrubs, succulent plants, legumes, juicy roots, buds, and fruit.

Preferred habitats are cool, temperate grasslands, steppes, and savannahs, but they also occupy semi-deserts, swamps, marshes, and woodlands.

It primarily grazes and rests on highland or lowland desert, semidesert or steppe.

They prefer dry open areas including desert, semidesert, or steppe.

The evidence shows that the European ass favoured semi-arid, steppic conditions

occupy the steppe-like grasslands of Eastern Beringia

Equus lenensis lived in cold steppe-tundra environments in Siberia.

The habitat of the species was primarily steppe

Wild horses show considerable environmental tolerances, having historically inhabited environments ranging from temperate forest to steppe (including the prehistoric mammoth steppe biome) and tundra

They live in forest and steppe habitats

It occurs in savannah, grassland and steppe, as well as desert and semi-arid conditions where some scrubby vegetation is present to provide cover.

It inhabits grassland, scrub areas of desert and semi-desert, and steppe habitats.

It inhabits semi-desert, steppes, rocky habitats, grasslands, and river valleys.

The Lesser Short-tailed Gerbil lives in rich steppic environments

El Kowm was a dry-steppe

Tarabul's gerbil occurs in sandy desert and semi-desert areas, as well as coastal steppe

It lives in semi-deserts and steppes

This species is found in grassland, steppe, cultivated land, orchards, clearings and woodland borders.

It is a social animal and inhabits steppe grassland, including cultivated field borders.

During their short active season, they are most commonly found in short-grass steppe environments.

Tarbagan marmots require habitats with ample vegetation for grazing, such as grasslands, shrublands, mountain steppes, alpine meadows, open steppes, forest steppes, mountain slopes, semi-deserts, river basins, and valleys.

They inhabit steppe country and alpine meadows, between 800 and 2,900 metres (2,600 and 9,500 ft) elevation.

Gray marmots live in mountain meadows and steppes

It inhabits meadows and steppe at altitudes of 2,000-3,600 m (6,600-11,800 ft) in the western Tien Shan Mountains of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and far northern Tajikistan.

It lives on the steppe and in foothills and alpine meadows.

The Himalayan marmot lives in short grass steppes or alpine habitats, typically above the tree line but below the permanent snow limit.

including alpine meadows, foothill to highland steppes, semi-deserts, scrublands and open woodland

It lives in wooded forest steppe

This species is found in submontane steppes up to 3,100 metres

The little ground squirrel inhabits steppes and semi-deserts in Eastern Europe and Central Asia

is endemic to the south-central steppes of the American state of Utah

This species is found in dry steppes and semi-desert brushlands.

It inhabits steppes, forest-steppes, deserts and semi-deserts, favouring pastures, fallow lands, road sides and uncultivated land.

It inhabits sandy steppes with Artemisia, glasswort and tamarisk.

found in deserts, steppes, cultivated areas, and forests

The russet ground squirrel is found on steppe between the Volga and Irtysh rivers in Russia and North Kazakhstan

It grows in dry semideserts or mountain steppes on stony or clayey ground, partly on salty soils, up to 2000 m above sea-level.

It is a bovid, and the smallest member of the genus Oryx, native to desert and steppe areas of the Arabian Peninsula.

Artemisia herba-alba, the white wormwood, is a perennial shrub in the genus Artemisia that grows commonly on the dry steppes of the Mediterranean regions in Northern Africa (Saharan Maghreb), Western Asia (Arabian Peninsula) and Southwestern Europe.

These requirements can be provided in a wide range of ecosystems, and as a consequence the hoopoe inhabits a wide range of habitats such as heathland, wooded steppes, savannas and grasslands, as well as forest glades.

The dholes also once inhabited the alpine steppes extending into Kashmir to the Ladakh area, though they disappeared from 60% of their historic range in India during the past century.

Nephrotoma and Tipula larvae are found in dry soils of pasturelands, lawns, and steppe.

It grows in tundra, coniferous forest, grassland, sagebrush steppe, and other habitat types.

Marsh frogs inhabit water bodies in many types types of habitat up to an altitude of 2,500 m (8,200 ft), including forests, grasslands, steppes and even deserts, colonising dry areas via river channels and valleys.

It also utilizes heaths, dunes, moors, and can be found in the steppe.

Hemiechinus auritus has a range that extends from the eastern Mediterranean region, through the arid and steppe areas of Asia to western Pakistan in the south; and from eastern Ukraine through Mongolia (Gobi desert), to China (Xinjiang).

In its native steppe habitat, European hare populations are spread apart; they average roughly 2 individuals per 100 hectares.

During winter, shrub-steppe habitats seem to encourage a strong dependence on rabbit prey.

Breeding habitat used in Russia are similar, though they can be found nesting in less likely habitat such as steppe and even semi-desert, so long as water is near.

It is a rather small shank, and breeds in open grassy steppe and taiga wetlands from easternmost Europe to the Russian Far East.

The greater blind mole-rat is known from the steppes of Ukraine and from southern Russia between the Dnieper and the Volga rivers.

Pseudotsuga menziesii var. glauca exhibits even greater plasticity, occurring in stands of interior temperate rainforest in British Columbia, as well as at the edge of semi-arid sagebrush steppe throughout much of its range, where it generates even deeper taproots still.

Typical habitats include savannah, forest steppe, open steppe, semidesert, maquis shrubland, and related shrubland types such as fynbos and chaparral.

Sandy or loamy arable soils in Britain ... Also found on saline steppes in Europe

Barren steppes, tundra and alpine plains, usually in limestone and clay soils, 3800 - 4800 metres

Mountain woodlands ... Exposed slopes and hills ... Scrub, grassy slopes, steppes, sunny and sandy hillsides from near sea level to 1500 metres

on the steppes