The southwestern tablelands comprise an ecoregion running from east-central to south-east Colorado, east-central and a small portion of eastern New Mexico, some eastern portions of the Oklahoma Panhandle, far south-central Kansas, and portions of northwest Texas. This ecoregion has a "cold semiarid" climate (Köppen BSk). Some years, a National Weather Service dust storm warning is issued in parts of Texas due to a dust storm originating from the lower part of the Southwestern Tablelands ecological region or from the southern end of the Western High Plains ecological region.[2]

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Southwestern Tablelands
Central Great Plains (area 26 on the map)
Ecology
Realm	Nearctic
Borders	List Western High Plains to the north and south of the Southwestern Tablelands corridor Central Great Plains to the east Southern Rockies to the northwest Arizona/New Mexico Plateau a very small portion to the central west Arizona/New Mexico Mountains and Chihuahuan Desert to the south-southwest Edwards Plateau to the southeast Central Great Plains to the east
Bird species	[1]
Mammal species	[1]
Geography
Country	United States
State	Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas
Climate type	Cold semi-arid

Included cities

Environment

Flora

In the northwestern region, the prevalent vegetation consists of grasses of the shortgrass prairie ecosystem and sagebrush.

Fauna

See also

• List of ecoregions in the United States (EPA)
• List of ecoregions in the United States (WWF)

References

External links

• Native Prairies Association of Texas (NPAT)
• NPAT protected prairies
• The Nature Conservancy (TNC)
• Connemara Conservancy
• Soil Physics at Oklahoma State
• Weeds of the Blackland Prairie
• Texas counties map showing the ecoregion