Central Great Plains (ecoregion)

Central Great Plains
Central Great Plains
	Tornado north of Solomon, Kansas
	Central Great Plains (area 27 on the map)
Ecology
Realm	Nearctic
Biome	Temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands
Borders	List Western High Plains to the northwest; Southwestern Tablelands to the southwest; Southern Rockies to the northwest; Edwards Plateau to the south; Central Oklahoma/Texas Plains to the southeast; Flint Hills to the central-northeast; Western Corn Belt Plains to the northeast; Nebraska Sand Hills to the north;
Bird species	228
Mammal species	88
Geography
Country	United States
State	Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska
Climate type	Humid continental (Dfa) and humid subtropical (Cfa)
Conservation
Habitat loss	50.68%
Protected	0.48%

The Central Great Plains are a semiarid prairie ecoregion of the central United States, part of North American Great Plains. The region runs from west-central Texas through west-central Oklahoma, central Kansas, and south-central Nebraska.

It is designated as the Central and Southern Mixed Grasslands ecoregion by the World Wide Fund for Nature.

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