Ecoregions in India

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Because of its size and range of latitude, topography, and climate, India is home to a great diversity of ecoregions, ranging from permanent ice and snow to tropical rainforests.

The Himalaya, which runs across India's northern tier, is the boundary between two of the earth's great ecozones — the Palearctic, which covers most of temperate-to-arctic Eurasia, and Indomalaya, which covers most of the Indian subcontinent and extends into Indochina, Sundaland (Malaysia and western Indonesia) and the Philippines.

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[edit] List of ecoregions in India

Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests

Tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests

Tropical and subtropical coniferous forests

Temperate broadleaf and mixed forests

Temperate coniferous forests

Tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands

Montane grasslands and shrublands

Flooded grasslands and savannas

Deserts and xeric shrublands

Mangrove

[edit] Global 200 ecoregions in India

Main article: Global 200

[edit] Terrestrial

[edit] Marine

[edit] External links