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There are 1,200 vascular plant species in Ramit Reserve (Tajikistan) and 1,500 in Gissar Reserve (Uzbekistan), with a high number of endemics often localized to specific mountain ranges.
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Grass meadows are widespread at higher elevations of the Turkestan, Zaravshan, and Gissar ranges; fescue (Festuca alaica) is a dominant bunchgrass species here.
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Maximal humidity (annual precipitation up to 2,000 millimeters (mm)) is in the glacial zone of the Gissar range; further east the amount of precipitation drops to 1,000-1,200 m in the Turkestan range, and to only 500-600 mm in the east portion of the Alai range.
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Common leopard is extinct from the region, but snow leopard still lives in Gissar mountain range.
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The Siberian ibex (Capra sibirica) occurs in Gissar range.
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The wild sheep, or Bukhara urial (Ovis vignei bocharensis) and markhor goat (Capra falconeri) occur in the southern spurs of the Gissar range (Kugitang, Baisuntau, and Babatag mountains).
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Currently, there are several specially protected areas (nature reserves) in this ecoregion: Kugitang in Turkmenistan; Zaamin and Gissar in Uzbekistan; and Ramit in Tajikistan.
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It is composed of the Gissar, Zeravshan, Turkestan, and Alai mountain ranges, and stretches latitudinally for 900 kilometers (km).
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Mavdjigul Mirzoeva has operated a clothing sales business in the market of "Muboriz" in Gissar for 2 years.
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Shamsuddin Nuriddinov lives in the Gissar district.
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