List of ecoregions

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This is a list of ecoregions as compiled by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). The WWF identifies terrestrial, freshwater, and marine ecoregions.

The terrestrial scheme divides the Earth's land surface into 8 terrestrial ecozones, containing 867 smaller ecoregions. Each ecoregion is classified into one of 14 major habitat types, or biomes.

Freshwater ecoregions and marine ecoregions are also classified by geographic region and by habitat type.

The WWF/Nature Conservancy scheme for marine ecoregions groups the individual ecoregions into 12 marine realms, which represent the broad latitudinal divisions of polar, temperate, and tropical seas, with subdivisions based on ocean basins. The marine realms are subdivided into 62 marine provinces, which include one or more of the 232 marine ecoregions. The WWF/Nature Conservancy scheme currently encompasses only coastal and continental shelf areas; ecoregions of the deep oceans have not yet been delineated.

Many consider this classification to be quite decisive, and some propose these as stable borders for bioregional democracy initiatives.

The WWF has also designated the Global 200, a list of priority ecoregions for conservation. Many of the Global 200's terrestrial, freshwater and marine ecoregions are composites of two or more individual ecoregions. For the list of Global 200 ecoregions, see Global 200.

Contents

[edit] Terrestrial

[edit] Afrotropic

[edit] Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests

[edit] Tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests

[edit] Tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands

[edit] Temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands

[edit] Flooded grasslands and savannas

[edit] Montane grasslands and shrublands

[edit] Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and shrub

[edit] Deserts and xeric shrublands

[edit] Mangrove

[edit] Antarctica

[edit] Tundra

[edit] Australasia

[edit] Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests

[edit] Tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests

[edit] Temperate broadleaf and mixed forests

[edit] Tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands

[edit] Temperate grasslands, savannas and shrublands

  • Canterbury-Otago tussock grasslands (New Zealand)
  • Eastern Australia mulga shrublands (Australia)
  • Southeast Australia temperate savanna (Australia)

[edit] Montane grasslands and shrublands

[edit] Tundra

[edit] Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and shrub

[edit] Deserts and xeric shrublands

[edit] Mangrove

[edit] Indomalaya

[edit] Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests

[edit] Tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests

[edit] Tropical and subtropical coniferous forests

[edit] Temperate broadleaf and mixed forests

[edit] Temperate coniferous forests

[edit] Tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands

[edit] Flooded grasslands and savannas

[edit] Montane grasslands and shrublands

  • Kinabalu montane alpine meadows (Indonesia)

[edit] Deserts and xeric shrublands

[edit] Mangrove

[edit] Nearctic

[edit] Tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests

  • Sonoran-Sinaloan transition subtropical dry forest (Mexico)

[edit] Tropical and subtropical coniferous forests

[edit] Temperate broadleaf and mixed forests

[edit] Temperate coniferous forests

[edit] Boreal forests/taiga

[edit] Tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands

[edit] Temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands

[edit] Tundra

[edit] Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and shrub

[edit] Deserts and xeric shrublands

[edit] Neotropic

[edit] Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests

[edit] Tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests

[edit] Tropical and subtropical coniferous forests

[edit] Temperate broadleaf and mixed forests

[edit] Tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands

[edit] Temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands

[edit] Flooded grasslands and savannas

[edit] Montane grasslands and shrublands

[edit] Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and shrub

[edit] Deserts and xeric shrublands

[edit] Mangrove

[edit] Oceania

[edit] Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests

[edit] Tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests

[edit] Tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands

  • Hawaii tropical high shrublands (Hawaii)
  • Hawaii tropical low shrublands (Hawaii)
  • Northwestern Hawaii scrub (Hawaii)

[edit] Palearctic

[edit] Tropical and subtropical coniferous forests

  • Guizhou Plateau broadleaf and mixed forests (China)
  • Yunnan Plateau subtropical evergreen forests (China)

[edit] Temperate broadleaf and mixed forests

[edit] Temperate coniferous forests

[edit] Boreal forests/taiga

[edit] Temperate grasslands, savannas and shrublands

[edit] Flooded grasslands and savannas

[edit] Montane grasslands and shrublands

[edit] Tundra

[edit] Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and shrub

[edit] Deserts and xeric shrublands

[edit] Freshwater

[edit] Afrotropic

[edit] North African

[edit] Nilo-Sudan

[edit] Upper Guinea

[edit] West Coast Equatorial

[edit] Congo

[edit] Great Lakes

[edit] Eastern and Coastal

  • Southern Eastern Rift (Kenya, Tanzania)
  • Kenyan Coastal Rivers (Kenya)
  • Pangani (Kenya, Tanzania)
  • Malagarasi-Moyowosi (Tanzania)
  • Eastern Coastal Basins (Mozambique, Tanzania)
  • Lakes Chilwa and Chiuta (Malawi, Mozambique)

[edit] Cuanza

[edit] Zambezi

[edit] Madagascar and the Indian Ocean Islands

[edit] Southern Temperate

  • Amatole-Winterberg Highlands (South Africa)
  • Cape Fold (South Africa)
  • Drakensberg-Maloti Highlands (Lesotho, South Africa)
  • Karoo (South Africa)
  • Southern Kalahari (South Africa)
  • Southern Temperate Highveld (South Africa, Swaziland)
  • Western Orange (Botswana, South Africa

[edit] Australasia and Pacific

[edit] Montane freshwaters

[edit] Temperate coastal rivers

  • Bass Strait drainages (Australia)
  • New Zealand (Australia)
  • Southern Tasmania (Australia)
  • Southwestern Australia (Australia)

[edit] Temperate floodplain rivers and wetlands

[edit] Tropical and subtropical coastal rivers

  • Arafura-Carpentaria (Australia)
  • Bismarck Archipelago (Papua New Guinea)
  • Eastern Coastal Australia (Australia)
  • Kimberley Rivers and Streams (Australia)
  • Lesser Sunda Islands (Indonesia)
  • Malukku (Indonesia)
  • New Caledonia (New Caledonia)
  • New Guinea North Coast (Indonesia, Papua New Guinea)
  • Papuan Peninsula (Papua New Guinea)
  • Solomon Islands (Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands)
  • Southwest New Guinea – Trans-Fly Lowland (Indonesia, Papua New Guinea)
  • Sulawesi (Indonesia)
  • Vogelkop-Bomberai (Indonesia)

[edit] Xeric freshwaters and endorheic basins

[edit] Oceanic Islands

[edit] Indomalaya

[edit] Tropical and subtropical floodplain rivers and wetland complexes

  • Chao Phraya (Thailand)
  • Ganges Delta and Plain (Bangladesh, India)
  • Kratie-Stung Treng – Middle Mekong and tributaries (Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam)
  • Lower and Middle Indus (India, Pakistan)
  • Lower and Middle Salween (Burma, Thailand)
  • Lower Lan Cang - Upper Mekong and tributaries (China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam)
  • Mae Khlong (Thailand)
  • Narmada-Tapi (India)
  • Northern Deccan Plateau (India)
  • Sitang-Irawaddy (Myanmar)
  • Song Hong (China, Laos, Vietnam)
  • Southern Deccan Plateau (India)
  • Xi Yang (China, Vietnam)

[edit] Montane freshwaters

  • Borneo Highlands (Indonesia, Malaysia)
  • Ganges Himalayan Foothills (India, Nepal)
  • Inle Lake (Myanmar)
  • Lake Lanao (Philippines)

[edit] Tropical and subtropical upland rivers

[edit] Tropical and subtropical coastal rivers

  • Aceh (Indonesia)
  • Central & Eastern Java (Indonesia)
  • Coastal Fujian-Zheijang (China)
  • Eastern Borneo (Indonesia)
  • Eastern Gulf of Thailand drainages (Thailand)
  • Eastern Taiwan (Taiwan)
  • Hainan (China)
  • Indian Ocean Slope of Sumatra & Java (Indonesia)
  • Kapuas (Indonesia, Malaysia)
  • Lower Brahmaputra-Arakan Coast (Bangladesh, India)
  • Malay Peninsula Eastern Slope (Malaysia, Thailand)
  • Mindanao (Philippines)
  • Northeastern Borneo (Indonesia, Malaysia)
  • Northern Annam (Vietnam)
  • Northern Central Sumatra-Western Malaysia (Indonesia, Malaysia)
  • Northern Philippine Islands (Philippines)
  • Northwestern Borneo (Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia)
  • Palawan-Busuanga-Mindoro
  • Southeastern Borneo (Indonesia)
  • Southeastern Ghats (India)
  • Southern Annam (Vietnam)
  • Southern Central Sumatra (Indonesia)
  • Southern Sumatra-Western Java (Indonesia)
  • Sri Lanka Dry Zone (Sri Lanka)
  • Sri Lanka Wet Zone (Sri Lanka)
  • Western Ghats (India)
  • Western Taiwan (Taiwan)

[edit] Large river deltas

[edit] Oceanic Islands

[edit] Nearctic

[edit] Pacific bioregion

[edit] Coastal Complex
  • North Pacific Coastal (Canada, United States)
  • Columbia Glaciated (Canada, United States)
  • Columbia Unglaciated (United States)
  • Upper Snake (United States)
  • Pacific Mid-Coastal (United States)
  • Pacfic Central Valley (United States)
  • South Pacific Coastal (United States)

[edit] Great Basin Complex
  • Bonneville (United States)
  • Lahontan (United States)
  • Oregon Lakes (United States)
  • Death Valley (United States)

[edit] Colorado Complex

[edit] Arctic-Atlantic Bioregion

[edit] Rio Grande Complex

[edit] Mississippi Complex

[edit] Atlantic Complex
  • Florida
  • South Atlantic
  • Chesapeake Bay
  • North Atlantic

[edit] St. Lawrence Complex
  • Superior
  • Michigan-Huron
  • Erie
  • Ontario
  • Lower St. Lawrence
  • North Atlantic-Ungava

[edit] Hudson Bay Complex
  • Canadian Rockies
  • Upper Saskatchewan
  • Lower Saskatchewan
  • English-Winnipeg Lakes
  • South Hudson
  • East Hudson

[edit] Arctic Complex
  • Yukon
  • Lower Mackenzie
  • Upper Mackenzie
  • North Arctic
  • East Arctic
  • Arctic Islands

[edit] Neotropic

[edit] Sinaloan Coastal Complex

[edit] Lerma/Santiago Complex
  • Santiago (Mexico)
  • Chapala (Mexico)
  • Lerma (Mexico)
  • Rio Verde Headwaters (Mexico)
  • Manantlan/Ameca (Mexico)

[edit] Rio Panuco Complex

[edit] Balsas Complex

[edit] Pacific Central Complex

[edit] Atlantic Central Complex
  • Southern Veracruz (Mexico)
  • Belizean Lowlands (Belize, Guatemala, Mexico)
  • Central American Caribbean Lowlands (Honduras, Nicaragua)
  • Talamancan Highlands (Costa Rica, Panama)
  • Catemaco (Mexico)
  • Coatzacoalcos (Mexico)
  • Grijalva-Usumacinta (Guatemala, Mexico)
  • Yucatan (Mexico)
  • Guatemalan Highlands (Guatemala)
  • Central American Karst Highlands (Belize, Guatemala)
  • Honduran/Nicaraguan Highlands (Honduras, Nicaragua)
  • Lake Nicaragua (Costa Rica, Nicaragua)

[edit] Isthmus Atlantic Complex
  • Isthmus Atlantic (Panama)

[edit] Isthmus Pacific Complex
  • Isthmus Pacific (Costa Rica, Panama)

[edit] Bahama Archipelago Complex

[edit] Western Insular Caribbean Complex

[edit] Eastern Insular Caribbean Complex

[edit] Choco Complex

[edit] South American Caribbean Complex
  • Magdalena (Colombia)
  • Momposina Depression-Rio Cesar (Colombia)
  • Cienega Grande de Santa Marta (Colombia)
  • Guajira Desert (Colombia, Venezuela)
  • Maracaibo Basin (Venezuela)

[edit] High Andean Complex
  • Paramos (Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela)
  • Peru High Andean Complex (Bolivia, Peru)
  • Bolivian High Andean Complex (Argentina, Bolivia, Chile)
  • Arid Puna (Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Peru)
  • Subandean Pampas (Argentina, Bolivia)
  • South Andean Yungas (Argentina, Bolivia)

[edit] Inter-Andean Dry Valleys Complex

[edit] North Andean Montane Complex
  • North Andean Montane
  • Humid Andean Yungas
  • Chuquisaca and Tarija Yungas
  • Salta and Tucuman Yungas
  • Sierra de Cordoba

[edit] Puyango-Tumbes Complex
  • Puyango-Tumbes (Ecuador, Peru)

[edit] Atacama/Sechura Complex
  • Atacama/Sechura Deserts (Chile, Peru)

[edit] Pacific Coastal Desert Complex
  • Pacific Coastal Deserts (Peru, Chile)

[edit] Lake Titicaca/Poopo Complex

[edit] Galapagos Complex

[edit] Mediterranean Chile Complex
  • North Mediterranean Chile (Chile)
  • South Mediterranean Chile (Chile)

[edit] Juan Fernandez Islands Complex

[edit] Southern Chile Complex

[edit] Subantarctic Complex

[edit] Venezuelan Coast/Trinidad Complex

[edit] Llanos Complex
  • Llanos (Colombia, Venezuela)

[edit] Guiana/Orinoco Complex

[edit] Amazon Complex
  • Amazon Delta (Brazil)
  • Amazon Main Channel (Brazil, Peru)
  • Northern Amazon Shield Tributaries (Brazil)
  • Rio Negro (Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela)
  • Upper Amazon Piedmont (Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru)
  • Western Amazon Lowlands (Bolivia, Brazil, Peru)
  • Central Brazilian Shield Tributaries (Bolivia, Brazil)
  • Tocantins-Araguaia (Brazil)

[edit] Northeast Atlantic Complex

[edit] Mata-Atlantica Complex
  • Northeast Mata-Atlantica (Brazil)
  • East Mata-Atlantica (Brazil)
  • Southeast Mata-Atlantica (Brazil)

[edit] São Francisco Complex

[edit] Upper Parana Complex
  • Upper Parana (Brazil)

[edit] Beni Complex

[edit] Paraguay-Parana Complex

[edit] Southern Atlantic Complex
  • Jacui Highlands (Brazil, Uruguay)
  • Lagoa dos Patos Coastal Plain (Brazil, Uruguay)

[edit] Chaco Complex
  • Chaco (Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay)

[edit] Pampas Complex
  • Parana-Platense Basin (Argentina)
  • Rio Salado and Arroyo Vallimanca Basin (Argentina)
  • Northwest Pampas Basins (Argentina)
  • Pampas Coastal Plains (Argentina)
  • Southwest Pampas Basins (Argentina)

[edit] Patagonia Complex
  • Rio Colorado (Argentina)
  • Rio Limay-Neuquen-Rio Negro (Argentina)
  • Meseta Somuncura (Argentina)
  • Rio Chubut-Rio Chico (Argentina)
  • Rio Deseado (Argentina)
  • Rio Santa Cruz-Rio Chico (Argentina)
  • Rio Coyle (Argentina)
  • Rio Gallegos (Argentina)
  • Tierra del Fuego-Rio Grande (Argentina, Chile)

[edit] Palearctic

[edit] large lakes

[edit] large river deltas

[edit] montane freshwaters

  • Chuya
  • Er Hai
  • Indus Himalayan Foothills
  • Upper Huang He
  • Upper Huang He Corridor
  • Upper Indus
  • Yaghistan
  • Yunnan Lakes

[edit] polar freshwaters

[edit] temperate coastal rivers

  • Aegean Drainages
  • Atlantic Northwest Africa
  • Cantabric Coast - Languedoc
  • Coastal Amur
  • Crimea Peninsula
  • Dalmatia
  • Eastern Yellow Sea Drainages
  • Gulf of Venice Drainages
  • Hamgyong - Sanmaek
  • Honshu - Shikoku - Kyushu
  • Ionian Drainages
  • Italian Peninsula & Islands
  • Kamchatka & Northern Kurils
  • Koryakia
  • Kuban
  • Mediterranean Northwest Africa
  • Northern Anatolia
  • Northern British Isles
  • Northern Hormuz Drainages
  • Okhotsk Coast
  • Orontes
  • Sakhalin, Hokkaido, & Sikhote - Alin Coast
  • Southeast Adriatic Drainages
  • Southeastern Korean Peninsula
  • Southern Anatolia
  • Southern Baltic Lowlands
  • Thrace
  • Vardar
  • Western Anatolia
  • Western Iberia
  • Western Transcaucasia

[edit] temperate floodplain rivers and wetlands

  • Central & Western Europe
  • Dnieper - South Bug
  • Dniester - Lower Danube
  • Don
  • Eastern Iberia
  • Huang He Great Bend
  • Kura - South Caspian Drainages
  • Liao He
  • Lower Amur
  • Lower Huang He
  • Lower Tigris & Euphrates
  • Lower Yangtze
  • Songhua Jiang
  • Southern Iberia
  • Upper Tigris & Euphrates
  • Volga - Ural

[edit] temperate upland rivers

  • Argun
  • Lower & Middle Syr Darya
  • Middle Amu Darya
  • Middle Amur
  • Middle Yangtze
  • Northern Central Asian Highlands
  • Qaidan
  • Shilka (Amur)
  • Upper Danube
  • Upper Irtysh
  • Upper Yangtze

[edit] tropical and subtropical upland rivers

  • Upper Brahmaputra
  • Upper Lancang (Mekong)
  • Upper Salween

[edit] xeric freshwaters and endorheic (closed) basins

[edit] Marine

(by realm and province)

[edit] Arctic realm

(no provinces identified)

[edit] Temperate Northern Atlantic

[edit] Northern European Seas

[edit] Lusitanian

  • South European Atlantic Shelf
  • Saharan Upwelling
  • Azores Canaries Madeira

[edit] Mediterranean Sea

[edit] Cold Temperate Northwest Atlantic

  • Gulf or St. Lawrence-Eastern Scotian Shelf
  • Southern Grand Banks-South Newfoundland
  • Scotian Shelf
  • Gulf of Maine-Bay of Fundy
  • Virginian

[edit] Warm Temperate Northwest Atlantic

  • Carolinian
  • Northern Gulf of Mexico

[edit] Black Sea

[edit] Temperate Northern Pacific

[edit] Cold Temperate Northwest Pacific

[edit] Warm Temperate Northwest Pacific

[edit] Cold Temperate Northeast Pacific

  • Aleutian Islands
  • Gulf of Alaska
  • North American Pacific Fjordland
  • Puget Trough/Georgia Basin
  • Oregon, Washington, Vancouver Coast and Shelf
  • Northern California

[edit] Warm Temperate Northeast Pacific

[edit] Tropical Atlantic

[edit] Tropical Northwestern Atlantic

[edit] North Brazil Shelf

  • Guianian
  • Amazonia

[edit] Tropical Southwestern Atlantic

[edit] St. Helena and Ascension Islands

  • St. Helena and Ascension Islands

[edit] West African Transition

[edit] Gulf of Guinea

  • Gulf of Guinea West
  • Gulf of Guinea Upwelling
  • Gulf of Guinea Central
  • Gulf of Guinea Islands
  • Gulf of Guinea South
  • Angolan

[edit] Western Indo-Pacific

[edit] Red Sea and Gulf of Aden

[edit] Somali/Arabian

[edit] Western Indian Ocean

  • Northern Monsoon Current Coast
  • East African Coral Coast
  • Seychelles
  • Cargados Carajos/Tromelin Island
  • Mascarene Islands
  • Southeast Madagascar
  • Western and Northern Madagascar
  • Bight of Sofala/Swamp Coast
  • Delagoa

[edit] West and South Indian Shelf

  • Western India
  • South India and Sri Lanka

[edit] Central Indian Ocean Islands

[edit] Bay of Bengal

  • Eastern India
  • Northern Bay of Bengal

[edit] Andaman

[edit] Central Indo-Pacific

[edit] South China Sea

[edit] Sunda Shelf

[edit] Java Transitional

  • Southern Java
  • Cocos-Keeling/Christmas Island

[edit] South Kuroshio

  • South Kuroshio

[edit] Tropical Northwestern Pacific

[edit] Western Coral Triangle

  • Palawan/North Borneo
  • Eastern Philippines
  • Sulawesi Sea/Makassar Strait
  • Halmahera
  • Papua
  • Banda Sea
  • Lesser Sunda
  • Northeast Sulawesi

[edit] Eastern Coral Triangle

[edit] Sahul Shelf

[edit] Northeast Australian Shelf

  • Torres Strait and Northern Great Barrier Reef
  • Central and Southern Great Barrier Reef

[edit] Northwest Australian Shelf

[edit] Tropical Southwestern Pacific

[edit] Lord Howe and Norfolk Islands

  • Lord Howe and Norfolk Islands

[edit] Eastern Indo-Pacific

[edit] Hawaii

[edit] Marshall, Gilbert, and Ellice Islands

[edit] Central Polynesia

[edit] Southeast Polynesia

[edit] Marquesas

[edit] Easter Island

[edit] Tropical Eastern Pacific

[edit] Tropical East Pacific

[edit] Galapagos

  • Northern Galapagos Islands
  • Eastern Galapagos Islands
  • Western Galapagos Islands

[edit] Temperate South America

[edit] Warm Temperate Southeastern Pacific

  • Central Peru
  • Humboldtian
  • Central Chile
  • Araucanian

[edit] Juan Fernandez and Desventuradas

  • Juan Fernandez and Desventuradas

[edit] Warm Temperate Southwestern Atlantic

[edit] Magellanic

  • North Patagonian Gulfs
  • Patagonian Shelf
  • Malvinas/Falklands
  • Channels and Fjords of Southern Chile
  • Chiloense

[edit] Tristan Gough

  • Tristan Gough

[edit] Temperate Southern Africa

[edit] Benguela

  • Namib
  • Namaqua

[edit] Agulhas

[edit] Amsterdam-St Paul

  • Amsterdam-St Paul

[edit] Temperate Australasia

[edit] Northern New Zealand

[edit] Southern New Zealand

[edit] East Central Australian Shelf

  • Tweed-Moreton
  • Manning-Hawkesbury

[edit] Southeast Australian Shelf

  • Cape Howe
  • Bassian
  • Western Bassian

[edit] Western Central Australian Shelf

  • Shark Bay
  • Houtman

[edit] Southern Ocean

[edit] Subantarctic Islands

[edit] Scotia Sea

[edit] Continental High Antarctic

[edit] Subantarctic New Zealand

[edit] See also

Biome

[edit] External links

[edit] References

  • Olson, D., Dinerstein, E., Canevari, P., Davidson, I., Castro, G., Morisset, V., Abell, R., and Toledo, E.; eds. (1998). Freshwater Biodiversity of Latin America and the Caribbean: A Conservation Assessment. Biodiversity Support Program, Washington DC.
  • Ricketts, Taylor H., Eric Dinerstein, David M. Olson, Colby J. Loucks, et al. (1999). Terrestrial Ecoregions of North America: a Conservation Assessment. Island Press, Washington DC.
  • Spalding, Mark D., Helen E. Fox, Gerald R. Allen, Nick Davidson et al. "Marine Ecoregions of the World: A Bioregionalization of Coastal and Shelf Areas". Bioscience Vol. 57 No. 7, July/August 2007, pp. 573-583.
  • Thieme, Michelle L. (2005). Freshwater Ecoregions of Africa and Madagascar: A Conservation Assessment. Island Press, Washington DC.
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