Earth's Ecoregions
Explore the Earth through ecological regions
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A closer view across connected forests, grasslands, deserts, mountains, islands and wetlands, reflecting the diversity and continuity of Earth’s terrestrial ecoregions.
Political borders tell us where countries, states and territories begin and end. Nature does not follow those same lines.
An ecoregion is a geographically distinct area where characteristic combinations of natural communities, species and environmental conditions occur. Ecoregions provide a finer ecological view than broader bioregions, helping show how landscapes and living systems vary within larger regions.
The Earth's Resource Map uses ecoregions as one part of its geographic framework. They help organise information about where resources occur, the ecosystems they depend on and the local ecological context needed to understand them safely and responsibly.
Use this index to choose a terrestrial ecoregion and explore the records currently connected to it.
What This Index Covers
This index provides a finer-grained way to explore the Earth's terrestrial environments.
Terrestrial Ecoregions
The terrestrial section uses the ecoregion names and identifying codes recorded in the Earth's Resource Map ecoregion register. The current register contains 868 rows classified as Eco Region, arranged across eight broad biogeographic realms and 14 terrestrial biome categories.
Freshwater and marine region records contained in the source register are not included in this index.
Each terrestrial ecoregion has a short identifying code, such as AA0101 — Admiralty Islands lowland rain forests. The code provides a stable reference while the name gives a plain-language description of the ecological region.
Ecoregions are smaller and more ecologically detailed than bioregions. A single bioregion can contain several ecoregions, each reflecting different combinations of vegetation, climate, landform, species and ecological history.
Ecoregion boundaries can also overlap ecological, cultural and political boundaries. Always use the individual resource record and its local information when making practical decisions.
Browse Resources
Browse the ecoregions currently indexed below. Links will be added as reviewed resource records become available.
An ecoregion appearing in this index means that the geographic unit is known to the Earth's Resource Map. It does not mean that every species, resource, ecosystem, use or local condition within that ecoregion has already been documented.
Browse Terrestrial Ecoregions
These ecoregions are grouped by broad biogeographic realm for navigation. The names and codes below follow the current Earth's Resource Map ecoregion register.
Antarctica
Tundra
AN1101 — Marielandia Antarctic tundra
AN1102 — Maudlandia Antarctic desert
AN1103 — Scotia Sea Islands tundra
AN1104 — Southern Indian Ocean Islands tundra
Afrotropical
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
AT0101 — Albertine Rift montane forests
AT0102 — Atlantic Equatorial coastal forests
AT0103 — Cameroonian Highlands forests
AT0104 — Central Congolian lowland forests
AT0105 — Comoros forests
AT0106 — Cross-Niger transition forests
AT0107 — Cross-Sanaga-Bioko coastal forests
AT0108 — East African montane forests
AT0109 — Eastern Arc forests
AT0110 — Eastern Congolian swamp forests
AT0111 — Eastern Guinean forests
AT0112 — Ethiopian montane forests
AT0113 — Granitic Seychelles forests
AT0114 — Guinean montane forests
AT0115 — Knysna-Amatole montane forests
AT0116 — KwaZulu-Cape coastal forest mosaic
AT0117 — Madagascar lowland forests
AT0118 — Madagascar subhumid forests
AT0119 — Maputaland coastal forest mosaic
AT0120 — Mascarene forests
AT0121 — Mount Cameroon and Bioko montane forests
AT0122 — Niger Delta swamp forests
AT0123 — Nigerian lowland forests
AT0124 — Northeastern Congolian lowland forests
AT0125 — Northern Zanzibar-Inhambane coastal forest mosaic
AT0126 — Northwestern Congolian lowland forests
AT0127 — Sao Tome and Principe moist lowland forests
AT0128 — Southern Zanzibar-Inhambane coastal forest mosaic
AT0129 — Western Congolian swamp forests
AT0130 — Western Guinean lowland forests
Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
AT0201 — Cape Verde Islands dry forests
AT0202 — Madagascar dry deciduous forests
AT0203 — Zambezian Cryptosepalum dry forests
Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas and Shrublands
AT0701 — Angolan Miombo woodlands
AT0702 — Angolan Mopane woodlands
AT0703 — Ascension scrub and grasslands
AT0704 — Central Zambezian Miombo woodlands
AT0705 — East Sudanian savanna
AT0706 — Eastern Miombo woodlands
AT0707 — Guinean forest-savanna mosaic
AT0708 — Itigi-Sumbu thicket
AT0709 — Kalahari Acacia-Baikiaea woodlands
AT0710 — Mandara Plateau mosaic
AT0711 — Northern Acacia-Commiphora bushlands and thickets
AT0712 — Northern Congolian forest-savanna mosaic
AT0713 — Sahelian Acacia savanna
AT0714 — Serengeti volcanic grasslands
AT0715 — Somali Acacia-Commiphora bushlands and thickets
AT0716 — Southern Acacia-Commiphora bushlands and thickets
AT0717 — Southern Africa bushveld
AT0718 — Southern Congolian forest-savanna mosaic
AT0719 — Southern Miombo woodlands
AT0720 — St. Helena scrub and woodlands
AT0721 — Victoria Basin forest-savanna mosaic
AT0722 — West Sudanian savanna
AT0723 — Western Congolian forest-savanna mosaic
AT0724 — Western Zambezian grasslands
AT0725 — Zambezian and Mopane woodlands
AT0726 — Zambezian Baikiaea woodlands
Temperate Grasslands, Savannas and Shrublands
AT0801 — Al Hajar Al Gharbi montane woodlands
AT0802 — Amsterdam and Saint-Paul Islands temperate grasslands
AT0803 — Tristan Da Cunha-Gough Islands shrub and grasslands
Flooded Grasslands and Savannas
AT0901 — East African halophytics
AT0902 — Etosha Pan halophytics
AT0903 — Inner Niger Delta flooded savanna
AT0904 — Lake Chad flooded savanna
AT0905 — Saharan flooded grasslands
AT0906 — Zambezian coastal flooded savanna
AT0907 — Zambezian flooded grasslands
AT0908 — Zambezian halophytics
Montane Grasslands and Shrublands
AT1001 — Angolan montane forest-grassland mosaic
AT1002 — Angolan scarp savanna and woodlands
AT1003 — Drakensberg alti-montane grasslands and woodlands
AT1004 — Drakensberg montane grasslands, woodlands, and forests
AT1005 — East African montane moorlands
AT1006 — Eastern Zimbabwe montane forest-grassland mosaic
AT1007 — Ethiopian montane grasslands and woodlands
AT1008 — Ethiopian montane moorlands
AT1009 — Highveld grasslands
AT1010 — Jos Plateau forest-grassland mosaic
AT1011 — Madagascar ericoid thickets
AT1012 — Maputaland-Pondoland bushland and thickets
AT1013 — Ruwenzori-Virunga montane moorlands
AT1014 — South Malawi montane forest-grassland mosaic
AT1015 — Southern Rift montane forest-grassland mosaic
Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands and Scrub
AT1201 — Albany thickets
AT1202 — Lowland fynbos and renosterveld
AT1203 — Montane fynbos and renosterveld
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
AT1301 — Aldabra Island xeric scrub
AT1302 — Arabian Peninsula coastal fog desert
AT1303 — East Saharan montane xeric woodlands
AT1304 — Eritrean coastal desert
AT1305 — Ethiopian xeric grasslands and shrublands
AT1306 — Gulf of Oman desert and semi-desert
AT1307 — Hobyo grasslands and shrublands
AT1308 — Ile Europa and Bassas da India xeric scrub
AT1309 — Kalahari xeric savanna
AT1310 — Kaokoveld desert
AT1311 — Madagascar spiny thickets
AT1312 — Madagascar succulent woodlands
AT1313 — Masai xeric grasslands and shrublands
AT1314 — Nama Karoo
AT1315 — Namib desert
AT1316 — Namibian savanna woodlands
AT1317 — Red Sea coastal desert
AT1318 — Socotra Island xeric shrublands
AT1319 — Somali montane xeric woodlands
AT1320 — Southwestern Arabian foothills savanna
AT1321 — Southwestern Arabian montane woodlands
AT1322 — Succulent Karoo
Mangroves
AT1401 — Central African mangroves
AT1402 — East African mangroves
AT1403 — Guinean mangroves
AT1404 — Madagascar mangroves
AT1405 — Southern Africa mangroves
Australasian
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
AA0101 — Admiralty Islands lowland rain forests
AA0102 — Banda Sea Islands moist deciduous forests
AA0103 — Biak-Numfoor rain forests
AA0104 — Buru rain forests
AA0105 — Central Range montane rain forests
AA0106 — Halmahera rain forests
AA0107 — Huon Peninsula montane rain forests
AA0108 — Japen rain forests
AA0109 — Lord Howe Island subtropical forests
AA0110 — Louisiade Archipelago rain forests
AA0111 — New Britain-New Ireland lowland rain forests
AA0112 — New Britain-New Ireland montane rain forests
AA0113 — New Caledonia rain forests
AA0114 — Norfolk Island subtropical forests
AA0115 — Northern New Guinea lowland rain and freshwater swamp forests
AA0116 — Northern New Guinea montane rain forests
AA0117 — Queensland tropical rain forests
AA0118 — Seram rain forests
AA0119 — Solomon Islands rain forests
AA0120 — Southeastern Papuan rain forests
AA0121 — Southern New Guinea freshwater swamp forests
AA0122 — Southern New Guinea lowland rain forests
AA0123 — Sulawesi lowland rain forests
AA0124 — Sulawesi montane rain forests
AA0125 — Trobriand Islands rain forests
AA0126 — Vanuatu rain forests
AA0127 — Vogelkop montane rain forests
AA0128 — Vogelkop-Aru lowland rain forests
Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
AA0201 — Lesser Sundas deciduous forests
AA0202 — New Caledonia dry forests
AA0203 — Sumba deciduous forests
AA0204 — Timor and Wetar deciduous forests
Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests
AA0401 — Chatham Island temperate forests
AA0402 — Eastern Australian temperate forests
AA0403 — Fiordland temperate forests
AA0404 — Nelson Coast temperate forests
AA0405 — North Island temperate forests
AA0406 — Northland temperate kauri forests
AA0407 — Rakiura Island temperate forests
AA0408 — Richmond temperate forests
AA0409 — Southeast Australia temperate forests
AA0410 — Southland temperate forests
AA0411 — Tasmanian Central Highland forests
AA0412 — Tasmanian temperate forests
AA0413 — Tasmanian temperate rain forests
AA0414 — Westland temperate forests
Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas and Shrublands
AA0701 — Arnhem Land tropical savanna
AA0702 — Brigalow tropical savanna
AA0703 — Cape York Peninsula tropical savanna
AA0704 — Carpentaria tropical savanna
AA0705 — Einasleigh upland savanna
AA0706 — Kimberly tropical savanna
AA0707 — Mitchell grass downs
AA0708 — Trans Fly savanna and grasslands
AA0709 — Victoria Plains tropical savanna
Temperate Grasslands, Savannas and Shrublands
AA0801 — Cantebury-Otago tussock grasslands
AA0802 — Eastern Australia mulga shrublands
AA0803 — Southeast Australia temperate savanna
Montane Grasslands and Shrublands
AA1001 — Australian Alps montane grasslands
AA1002 — Central Range sub-alpine grasslands
AA1003 — South Island montane grasslands
Tundra
AA1101 — Antipodes Subantarctic Islands tundra
Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands and Scrub
AA1201 — Coolgardie woodlands
AA1202 — Esperance mallee
AA1203 — Eyre and York mallee
AA1204 — Jarrah-Karri forest and shrublands
AA1205 — Kwongan heathlands
AA1206 — Mount Lofty woodlands
AA1207 — Murray-Darling woodlands and mallee
AA1208 — Naracoorte woodlands
AA1209 — Southwest Australia savanna
AA1210 — Southwest Australia woodlands
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
AA1301 — Carnarvon xeric shrublands
AA1302 — Central Ranges xeric scrub
AA1303 — Gibson desert
AA1304 — Great Sandy-Tanami desert
AA1305 — Great Victoria desert
AA1306 — Nullarbor Plains xeric shrublands
AA1307 — Pilbara shrublands
AA1308 — Simpson desert
AA1309 — Tirari-Stuart stony desert
AA1310 — Western Australian Mulga shrublands
Mangroves
AA1401 — New Guinea mangroves
Indomalayan
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
IM0101 — Andaman Islands rain forests
IM0102 — Borneo lowland rain forests
IM0103 — Borneo montane rain forests
IM0104 — Borneo peat swamp forests
IM0105 — Brahmaputra Valley semi-evergreen forests
IM0106 — Cardamom Mountains rain forests
IM0107 — Chao Phraya freshwater swamp forests
IM0108 — Chao Phraya lowland moist deciduous forests
IM0109 — Chin Hills-Arakan Yoma montane forests
IM0110 — Christmas and Cocos Islands tropical forests
IM0111 — Eastern highlands moist deciduous forests
IM0112 — Eastern Java-Bali montane rain forests
IM0113 — Eastern Java-Bali rain forests
IM0114 — Greater Negros-Panay rain forests
IM0115 — Himalayan subtropical broadleaf forests
IM0116 — Irrawaddy freshwater swamp forests
IM0117 — Irrawaddy moist deciduous forests
IM0118 — Jian Nan subtropical evergreen forests
IM0119 — Kayah-Karen montane rain forests
IM0120 — Lower Gangetic Plains moist deciduous forests
IM0121 — Luang Prabang montane rain forests
IM0122 — Luzon montane rain forests
IM0123 — Luzon rain forests
IM0124 — Malabar Coast moist forests
IM0125 — Maldives-Lakshadweep-Chagos Archipelago tropical moist forests
IM0126 — Meghalaya subtropical forests
IM0127 — Mentawai Islands rain forests
IM0128 — Mindanao montane rain forests
IM0129 — Mindanao-Eastern Visayas rain forests
IM0130 — Mindoro rain forests
IM0131 — Mizoram-Manipur-Kachin rain forests
IM0132 — Myanmar coastal rain forests
IM0133 — Nicobar Islands rain forests
IM0134 — North Western Ghats moist deciduous forests
IM0135 — North Western Ghats montane rain forests
IM0136 — Northern Annamites rain forests
IM0137 — Northern Indochina subtropical forests
IM0138 — Northern Khorat Plateau moist deciduous forests
IM0139 — Northern Thailand-Laos moist deciduous forests
IM0140 — Northern Triangle subtropical forests
IM0141 — Northern Vietnam lowland rain forests
IM0142 — Orissa semi-evergreen forests
IM0143 — Palawan rain forests
IM0144 — Peninsular Malaysian montane rain forests
IM0145 — Peninsular Malaysian peat swamp forests
IM0146 — Peninsular Malaysian rain forests
IM0147 — Red River freshwater swamp forests
IM0148 — South China Sea Islands
IM0149 — South China-Vietnam subtropical evergreen forests
IM0150 — South Western Ghats moist deciduous forests
IM0151 — South Western Ghats montane rain forests
IM0152 — Southern Annamites montane rain forests
IM0153 — Southwest Borneo freshwater swamp forests
IM0154 — Sri Lanka lowland rain forests
IM0155 — Sri Lanka montane rain forests
IM0156 — Sulu Archipelago rain forests
IM0157 — Sumatran freshwater swamp forests
IM0158 — Sumatran lowland rain forests
IM0159 — Sumatran montane rain forests
IM0160 — Sumatran peat swamp forests
IM0161 — Sundaland heath forests
IM0162 — Sundarbans freshwater swamp forests
IM0163 — Tenasserim-South Thailand semi-evergreen rain forests
IM0164 — Tonle Sap freshwater swamp forests
IM0165 — Tonle Sap-Mekong peat swamp forests
IM0166 — Upper Gangetic Plains moist deciduous forests
IM0167 — Western Java montane rain forests
IM0168 — Western Java rain forests
IM0169 — Hainan Island monsoon rain forests
IM0170 — Nansei Islands subtropical evergreen forests
IM0171 — South Taiwan monsoon rain forests
IM0172 — Taiwan subtropical evergreen forests
Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
IM0201 — Central Deccan Plateau dry deciduous forests
IM0202 — Central Indochina dry forests
IM0203 — Chhota-Nagpur dry deciduous forests
IM0204 — East Deccan dry-evergreen forests
IM0205 — Irrawaddy dry forests
IM0206 — Khathiar-Gir dry deciduous forests
IM0207 — Narmada Valley dry deciduous forests
IM0208 — Northern dry deciduous forests
IM0209 — South Deccan Plateau dry deciduous forests
IM0210 — Southeastern Indochina dry evergreen forests
IM0211 — Southern Vietnam lowland dry forests
IM0212 — Sri Lanka dry-zone dry evergreen forests
Tropical and Subtropical Coniferous Forests
IM0301 — Himalayan subtropical pine forests
IM0302 — Luzon tropical pine forests
IM0303 — Northeast India-Myanmar pine forests
IM0304 — Sumatran tropical pine forests
Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests
IM0401 — Eastern Himalayan broadleaf forests
IM0402 — Northern Triangle temperate forests
IM0403 — Western Himalayan broadleaf forests
Temperate Conifer Forests
IM0501 — Eastern Himalayan subalpine conifer forests
IM0502 — Western Himalayan subalpine conifer forests
Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas and Shrublands
IM0701 — Terai-Duar savanna and grasslands
Flooded Grasslands and Savannas
IM0901 — Rann of Kutch seasonal salt marsh
Montane Grasslands and Shrublands
IM1001 — Kinabalu montane alpine meadows
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
IM1301 — Deccan thorn scrub forests
IM1302 — Indus Valley desert
IM1303 — Northwestern thorn scrub forests
IM1304 — Thar desert
Mangroves
IM1401 — Godavari-Krishna mangroves
IM1402 — Indochina mangroves
IM1403 — Indus River Delta-Arabian Sea mangroves
IM1404 — Myanmar Coast mangroves
IM1405 — Sunda Shelf mangroves
IM1406 — Sundarbans mangroves
Nearctic
Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
NA0201 — Sonoran-Sinaloan transition subtropical dry forest
Tropical and Subtropical Coniferous Forests
NA0301 — Bermuda subtropical conifer forests
NA0302 — Sierra Madre Occidental pine-oak forests
NA0303 — Sierra Madre Oriental pine-oak forests
Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests
NA0401 — Allegheny Highlands forests
NA0402 — Appalachian mixed mesophytic forests
NA0403 — Appalachian-Blue Ridge forests
NA0404 — Central U.S. hardwood forests
NA0405 — East Central Texas forests
NA0406 — Eastern forest-boreal transition
NA0407 — Eastern Great Lakes lowland forests
NA0408 — Gulf of St. Lawrence lowland forests
NA0409 — Mississippi lowland forests
NA0410 — New England-Acadian forests
NA0411 — Northeastern coastal forests
NA0412 — Ozark Mountain forests
NA0413 — Southeastern mixed forests
NA0414 — Southern Great Lakes forests
NA0415 — Upper Midwest forest-savanna transition
NA0416 — Western Great Lakes forests
NA0417 — Willamette Valley forests
Temperate Conifer Forests
NA0501 — Alberta Mountain forests
NA0502 — Alberta-British Columbia foothills forests
NA0503 — Arizona Mountains forests
NA0504 — Atlantic coastal pine barrens
NA0505 — Blue Mountains forests
NA0506 — British Columbia mainland coastal forests
NA0507 — Cascade Mountains leeward forests
NA0508 — Central and Southern Cascades forests
NA0509 — Central British Columbia Mountain forests
NA0510 — Central Pacific coastal forests
NA0511 — Colorado Rockies forests
NA0512 — Eastern Cascades forests
NA0513 — Florida sand pine scrub
NA0514 — Fraser Plateau and Basin complex
NA0515 — Great Basin montane forests
NA0516 — Klamath-Siskiyou forests
NA0517 — Middle Atlantic coastal forests
NA0518 — North Central Rockies forests
NA0519 — Northern California coastal forests
NA0520 — Northern Pacific coastal forests
NA0521 — Northern transitional alpine forests
NA0522 — Okanogan dry forests
NA0523 — Piney Woods forests
NA0524 — Puget lowland forests
NA0525 — Queen Charlotte Islands
NA0526 — Sierra Juarez and San Pedro Martir pine-oak forests
NA0527 — Sierra Nevada forests
NA0528 — South Central Rockies forests
NA0529 — Southeastern conifer forests
NA0530 — Wasatch and Uinta montane forests
Boreal Forests/Taiga
NA0601 — Alaska Peninsula montane taiga
NA0602 — Central Canadian Shield forests
NA0603 — Cook Inlet taiga
NA0604 — Copper Plateau taiga
NA0605 — Eastern Canadian forests
NA0606 — Eastern Canadian Shield taiga
NA0607 — Interior Alaska-Yukon lowland taiga
NA0608 — Mid-Continental Canadian forests
NA0609 — Midwestern Canadian Shield forests
NA0610 — Muskwa-Slave Lake forests
NA0611 — Newfoundland Highland forests
NA0612 — Northern Canadian Shield taiga
NA0613 — Northern Cordillera forests
NA0614 — Northwest Territories taiga
NA0615 — South Avalon-Burin oceanic barrens
NA0616 — Southern Hudson Bay taiga
NA0617 — Yukon Interior dry forests
Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas and Shrublands
NA0701 — Western Gulf coastal grasslands
Temperate Grasslands, Savannas and Shrublands
NA0801 — California Central Valley grasslands
NA0802 — Canadian Aspen forests and parklands
NA0803 — Central and Southern mixed grasslands
NA0804 — Central forest-grasslands transition
NA0805 — Central tall grasslands
NA0806 — Edwards Plateau savanna
NA0807 — Flint Hills tall grasslands
NA0808 — Montana Valley and Foothill grasslands
NA0809 — Nebraska Sand Hills mixed grasslands
NA0810 — Northern mixed grasslands
NA0811 — Northern short grasslands
NA0812 — Northern tall grasslands
NA0813 — Palouse grasslands
NA0814 — Texas blackland prairies
NA0815 — Western short grasslands
Tundra
NA1101 — Alaska-St. Elias Range tundra
NA1102 — Aleutian Islands tundra
NA1103 — Arctic coastal tundra
NA1104 — Arctic foothills tundra
NA1105 — Baffin coastal tundra
NA1106 — Beringia lowland tundra
NA1107 — Beringia upland tundra
NA1108 — Brooks-British Range tundra
NA1109 — Davis Highlands tundra
NA1110 — High Arctic tundra
NA1111 — Interior Yukon-Alaska alpine tundra
NA1112 — Kalaallit Nunaat high arctic tundra
NA1113 — Kalaallit Nunaat low arctic tundra
NA1114 — Low Arctic tundra
NA1115 — Middle Arctic tundra
NA1116 — Ogilvie-MacKenzie alpine tundra
NA1117 — Pacific Coastal Mountain icefields and tundra
NA1118 — Torngat Mountain tundra
Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands and Scrub
NA1201 — California coastal sage and chaparral
NA1202 — California interior chaparral and woodlands
NA1203 — California montane chaparral and woodlands
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
NA1301 — Baja California desert
NA1302 — Central Mexican matorral
NA1303 — Chihuahuan desert
NA1304 — Colorado Plateau shrublands
NA1305 — Great Basin shrub steppe
NA1306 — Gulf of California xeric scrub
NA1307 — Meseta Central matorral
NA1308 — Mojave desert
NA1309 — Snake-Columbia shrub steppe
NA1310 — Sonoran desert
NA1311 — Tamaulipan matorral
NA1312 — Tamaulipan mezquital
NA1313 — Wyoming Basin shrub steppe
Mangroves
NA1401 — Northwest Mexican Coast mangroves
Neotropical
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
NT0101 — Araucaria moist forests
NT0102 — Atlantic Coast restingas
NT0103 — Bahia coastal forests
NT0104 — Bahia interior forests
NT0105 — Bolivian Yungas
NT0106 — Caatinga Enclaves moist forests
NT0107 — Caqueta moist forests
NT0108 — Catatumbo moist forests
NT0109 — Cauca Valley montane forests
NT0110 — Cayos Miskitos-San Andrés and Providencia moist forests
NT0111 — Central American Atlantic moist forests
NT0112 — Central American montane forests
NT0113 — Chiapas montane forests
NT0114 — Chimalapas montane forests
NT0115 — Chocó-Darién moist forests
NT0116 — Cocos Island moist forests
NT0117 — Cordillera La Costa montane forests
NT0118 — Cordillera Oriental montane forests
NT0119 — Costa Rican seasonal moist forests
NT0120 — Cuban moist forests
NT0121 — Eastern Cordillera real montane forests
NT0122 — Eastern Panamanian montane forests
NT0123 — Fernando de Noronha-Atol das Rocas moist forests
NT0124 — Guayanan Highlands moist forests
NT0125 — Guianan moist forests
NT0126 — Gurupa varzea
NT0127 — Hispaniolan moist forests
NT0128 — Iquitos varzea
NT0129 — Isthmian-Atlantic moist forests
NT0130 — Isthmian-Pacific moist forests
NT0131 — Jamaican moist forests
NT0132 — Japurá-Solimoes-Negro moist forests
NT0133 — Juruá-Purus moist forests
NT0134 — Leeward Islands moist forests
NT0135 — Madeira-Tapajós moist forests
NT0136 — Magdalena Valley montane forests
NT0137 — Magdalena-Urabá moist forests
NT0138 — Marajó varzea
NT0139 — Maranhão Babaçu forests
NT0140 — Mato Grosso tropical dry forests
NT0141 — Monte Alegre varzea
NT0142 — Napo moist forests
NT0143 — Negro-Branco moist forests
NT0144 — Northeastern Brazil restingas
NT0145 — Northwestern Andean montane forests
NT0146 — Oaxacan montane forests
NT0147 — Orinoco Delta swamp forests
NT0148 — Pantanos de Centla
NT0149 — Paramaribo swamp forests
NT0150 — Alta Paraná Atlantic forests
NT0151 — Pernambuco coastal forests
NT0152 — Pernambuco interior forests
NT0153 — Peruvian Yungas
NT0154 — Petén-Veracruz moist forests
NT0155 — Puerto Rican moist forests
NT0156 — Purus varzea
NT0157 — Purus-Madeira moist forests
NT0158 — Rio Negro campinarana
NT0159 — Santa Marta montane forests
NT0160 — Serra do Mar coastal forests
NT0161 — Sierra de los Tuxtlas
NT0162 — Sierra Madre de Chiapas moist forest
NT0163 — Solimões-Japurá moist forest
NT0164 — South Florida rocklands
NT0165 — Southern Andean Yungas
NT0166 — Southwest Amazon moist forests
NT0167 — Talamancan montane forests
NT0168 — Tapajós-Xingu moist forests
NT0169 — Tepuis
NT0170 — Tocantins/Pindare moist forests
NT0171 — Trinidad and Tobago moist forests
NT0172 — Trinidade-Martin Vaz Islands tropical forests
NT0173 — Uatuma-Trombetas moist forests
NT0174 — Ucayali moist forests
NT0175 — Venezuelan Andes montane forests
NT0176 — Veracruz moist forests
NT0177 — Veracruz montane forests
NT0178 — Western Ecuador moist forests
NT0179 — Windward Islands moist forests
NT0180 — Xingu-Tocantins-Araguaia moist forests
NT0181 — Yucatán moist forests
Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
NT0201 — Apure-Villavicencio dry forests
NT0202 — Atlantic dry forests
NT0203 — Bahamian dry forests
NT0204 — Bajío dry forests
NT0205 — Balsas dry forests
NT0206 — Bolivian montane dry forests
NT0207 — Cauca Valley dry forests
NT0208 — Cayman Islands dry forests
NT0209 — Central American dry forests
NT0210 — Chaco
NT0211 — Chiapas Depression dry forests
NT0212 — Chiquitano dry forests
NT0213 — Cuban dry forests
NT0214 — Ecuadorian dry forests
NT0215 — Hispaniolan dry forests
NT0216 — Islas Revillagigedo dry forests
NT0217 — Jalisco dry forests
NT0218 — Jamaican dry forests
NT0219 — Lara-Falcón dry forests
NT0220 — Leeward Islands dry forests
NT0221 — Magdalena Valley dry forests
NT0222 — Maracaibo dry forests
NT0223 — Marañón dry forests
NT0224 — Panamanian dry forests
NT0225 — Patía Valley dry forests
NT0226 — Puerto Rican dry forests
NT0227 — Sierra de la Laguna dry forests
NT0228 — Sinaloan dry forests
NT0229 — Sinú Valley dry forests
NT0230 — Southern Pacific dry forests
NT0231 — Trinidad and Tobago dry forests
NT0232 — Tumbes-Piura dry forests
NT0233 — Veracruz dry forests
NT0234 — Windward Islands dry forests
NT0235 — Yucatán dry forests
Tropical and Subtropical Coniferous Forests
NT0301 — Bahamian pine mosaic
NT0302 — Belizian pine forests
NT0303 — Central American pine-oak forests
NT0304 — Cuban pine forests
NT0305 — Hispaniolan pine forests
NT0306 — Miskito pine forests
NT0307 — Sierra de la Laguna pine-oak forests
NT0308 — Sierra Madre de Oaxaca pine-oak forests
NT0309 — Sierra Madre del Sur pine-oak forests
NT0310 — Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt pine-oak forests
Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests
NT0401 — Juan Fernández Islands temperate forests
NT0402 — Magellanic subpolar forests
NT0403 — San Félix-San Ambrosio Islands temperate forests
NT0404 — Valdivian temperate forests
Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas and Shrublands
NT0701 — Arid Chaco
NT0702 — Beni savanna
NT0703 — Campos Rupestres montane savanna
NT0704 — Cerrado
NT0705 — Clipperton Island shrub and grasslands
NT0706 — Córdoba montane savanna
NT0707 — Guyanan savanna
NT0708 — Humid Chaco
NT0709 — Llanos
NT0710 — Uruguayan savanna
Temperate Grasslands, Savannas and Shrublands
NT0801 — Argentine Espinal
NT0802 — Argentine Monte
NT0803 — Humid Pampas
NT0804 — Patagonian grasslands
NT0805 — Patagonian steppe
NT0806 — Semi-arid Pampas
Flooded Grasslands and Savannas
NT0901 — Central Mexican wetlands
NT0902 — Cuban wetlands
NT0903 — Enriquillo wetlands
NT0904 — Everglades
NT0905 — Guayaquil flooded grasslands
NT0906 — Orinoco wetlands
NT0907 — Pantanal
NT0908 — Paraná flooded savanna
NT0909 — Southern Cone Mesopotamian savanna
Montane Grasslands and Shrublands
NT1001 — Central Andean dry puna
NT1002 — Central Andean puna
NT1003 — Central Andean wet puna
NT1004 — Cordillera Central páramo
NT1005 — Cordillera de Merida páramo
NT1006 — Northern Andean páramo
NT1007 — Santa Marta páramo
NT1008 — Southern Andean steppe
NT1009 — Zacatonal
NT1010 — High Monte
Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands and Scrub
NT1201 — Chilean matorral
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
NT1301 — Araya and Paria xeric scrub
NT1302 — Aruba-Curaçao-Bonaire cactus scrub
NT1303 — Atacama desert
NT1304 — Caatinga
NT1305 — Cayman Islands xeric scrub
NT1306 — Cuban cactus scrub
NT1307 — Galápagos Islands xeric scrub
NT1308 — Guajira-Barranquilla xeric scrub
NT1309 — La Costa xeric shrublands
NT1310 — Leeward Islands xeric scrub
NT1311 — Malpelo Island xeric scrub
NT1312 — Motagua Valley thornscrub
NT1313 — Paraguana xeric scrub
NT1314 — San Lucan xeric scrub
NT1315 — Sechura desert
NT1316 — Tehuacán Valley matorral
NT1317 — Windward Islands xeric scrub
NT1318 — St. Peter and St. Paul rocks
Mangroves
NT1401 — Alvarado mangroves
NT1402 — Amapa mangroves
NT1403 — Bahamian mangroves
NT1404 — Bahia mangroves
NT1405 — Belizean Coast mangroves
NT1406 — Belizean Reef mangroves
NT1407 — Bocas del Toro-San Bastimentos Island-San Blas mangroves
NT1408 — Coastal Venezuelan mangroves
NT1409 — Esmeraldes-Pacific Colombia mangroves
NT1410 — Greater Antilles mangroves
NT1411 — Guianan mangroves
NT1412 — Gulf of Fonseca mangroves
NT1413 — Gulf of Guayaquil-Tumbes mangroves
NT1414 — Gulf of Panama mangroves
NT1415 — Ilha Grande mangroves
NT1416 — Lesser Antilles mangroves
NT1417 — Magdalena-Santa Marta mangroves
NT1418 — Manabí mangroves
NT1419 — Maranhao mangroves
NT1420 — Marismas Nacionales-San Blas mangroves
NT1421 — Mayan Corridor mangroves
NT1422 — Mexican South Pacific Coast mangroves
NT1423 — Moist Pacific Coast mangroves
NT1424 — Mosquitia-Nicaraguan Caribbean Coast mangroves
NT1425 — Northern Dry Pacific Coast mangroves
NT1426 — Northern Honduras mangroves
NT1427 — Pará mangroves
NT1428 — Petenes mangroves
NT1429 — Piura mangroves
NT1430 — Ría Lagartos mangroves
NT1431 — Rio Negro-Rio San Sun mangroves
NT1432 — Rio Piranhas mangroves
NT1433 — Rio São Francisco mangroves
NT1434 — Southern Dry Pacific Coast mangroves
NT1435 — Tehuantepec-El Manchon mangroves
NT1436 — Trinidad mangroves
NT1437 — Usumacinta mangroves
Oceania
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
OC0101 — Carolines tropical moist forests
OC0102 — Central Polynesian tropical moist forests
OC0103 — Cook Islands tropical moist forests
OC0104 — Eastern Micronesia tropical moist forests
OC0105 — Fiji tropical moist forests
OC0106 — Hawaii tropical moist forests
OC0107 — Kermadec Islands subtropical moist forests
OC0108 — Marquesas tropical moist forests
OC0109 — Ogasawara subtropical moist forests
OC0110 — Palau tropical moist forests
OC0111 — Rapa Nui and Sala-y-Gomez subtropical broadleaf forests
OC0112 — Samoan tropical moist forests
OC0113 — Society Islands tropical moist forests
OC0114 — Tongan tropical moist forests
OC0115 — Tuamotu tropical moist forests
OC0116 — Tubuai tropical moist forests
OC0117 — Western Polynesian tropical moist forests
Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
OC0201 — Fiji tropical dry forests
OC0202 — Hawaii tropical dry forests
OC0203 — Marianas tropical dry forests
OC0204 — Yap tropical dry forests
Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas and Shrublands
OC0701 — Hawaii tropical high shrublands
OC0702 — Hawaii tropical low shrublands
OC0703 — Northwestern Hawaii scrub
Palearctic
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
PA0101 — Guizhou Plateau broadleaf and mixed forests
PA0102 — Yunnan Plateau subtropical evergreen forests
Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests
PA0401 — Apennine deciduous montane forests
PA0402 — Atlantic mixed forests
PA0403 — Azores temperate mixed forests
PA0404 — Balkan mixed forests
PA0405 — Baltic mixed forests
PA0406 — Cantabrian mixed forests
PA0407 — Caspian Hyrcanian mixed forests
PA0408 — Caucasus mixed forests
PA0409 — Celtic broadleaf forests
PA0410 — Central Anatolian deciduous forests
PA0411 — Central China loess plateau mixed forests
PA0412 — Central European mixed forests
PA0413 — Central Korean deciduous forests
PA0414 — Changbai Mountains mixed forests
PA0415 — Changjiang Plain evergreen forests
PA0416 — Crimean Submediterranean forest complex
PA0417 — Daba Mountains evergreen forests
PA0418 — Dinaric Mountains mixed forests
PA0419 — East European forest steppe
PA0420 — Eastern Anatolian deciduous forests
PA0421 — English Lowlands beech forests
PA0422 — Euxine-Colchic deciduous forests
PA0423 — Hokkaido deciduous forests
PA0424 — Huang He Plain mixed forests
PA0425 — Madeira evergreen forests
PA0426 — Manchurian mixed forests
PA0427 — Nihonkai evergreen forests
PA0428 — Nihonkai montane deciduous forests
PA0429 — North Atlantic moist mixed forests
PA0430 — Northeast China Plain deciduous forests
PA0431 — Pannonian mixed forests
PA0432 — Po Basin mixed forests
PA0433 — Pyrenees conifer and mixed forests
PA0434 — Qin Ling Mountains deciduous forests
PA0435 — Rodope montane mixed forests
PA0436 — Sarmatic mixed forests
PA0437 — Sichuan Basin evergreen broadleaf forests
PA0438 — South Sakhalin-Kurile mixed forests
PA0439 — Southern Korea evergreen forests
PA0440 — Taiheiyo evergreen forests
PA0441 — Taiheiyo montane deciduous forests
PA0442 — Tarim Basin deciduous forests and steppe
PA0443 — Ussuri broadleaf and mixed forests
PA0444 — West Siberian broadleaf and mixed forests
PA0445 — Western European broadleaf forests
PA0446 — Zagros Mountains forest steppe
Temperate Conifer Forests
PA0501 — Alps conifer and mixed forests
PA0502 — Altai montane forest and forest steppe
PA0503 — Caledon conifer forests
PA0504 — Carpathian montane forests
PA0505 — Da Hinggan-Dzhagdy Mountains conifer forests
PA0506 — East Afghan montane conifer forests
PA0507 — Elburz Range forest steppe
PA0508 — Helanshan montane conifer forests
PA0509 — Hengduan Mountains subalpine conifer forests
PA0510 — Hokkaido montane conifer forests
PA0511 — Honshu alpine conifer forests
PA0512 — Khangai Mountains conifer forests
PA0513 — Mediterranean conifer and mixed forests
PA0514 — Northeastern Himalayan subalpine conifer forests
PA0515 — Northern Anatolian conifer and deciduous forests
PA0516 — Nujiang Langcang Gorge alpine conifer and mixed forests
PA0517 — Qilian Mountains conifer forests
PA0518 — Qionglai-Minshan conifer forests
PA0519 — Sayan montane conifer forests
PA0520 — Scandinavian coastal conifer forests
PA0521 — Tian Shan montane conifer forests
Boreal Forests/Taiga
PA0601 — East Siberian taiga
PA0602 — Iceland boreal birch forests and alpine tundra
PA0603 — Kamchatka-Kurile meadows and sparse forests
PA0604 — Kamchatka-Kurile taiga
PA0605 — Northeast Siberian taiga
PA0606 — Okhotsk-Manchurian taiga
PA0607 — Sakhalin Island taiga
PA0608 — Scandinavian and Russian taiga
PA0609 — Trans-Baikal conifer forests
PA0610 — Urals montane tundra and taiga
PA0611 — West Siberian taiga
Temperate Grasslands, Savannas and Shrublands
PA0801 — Alai-Western Tian Shan steppe
PA0802 — Altai steppe and semi-desert
PA0803 — Central Anatolian steppe
PA0804 — Daurian forest steppe
PA0805 — Eastern Anatolian montane steppe
PA0806 — Emin Valley steppe
PA0807 — Faroe Islands boreal grasslands
PA0808 — Gissaro-Alai open woodlands
PA0809 — Kazakh forest steppe
PA0810 — Kazakh steppe
PA0811 — Kazakh upland
PA0812 — Middle East steppe
PA0813 — Mongolian-Manchurian grassland
PA0814 — Pontic steppe
PA0815 — Sayan Intermontane steppe
PA0816 — Selenge-Orkhon forest steppe
PA0817 — South Siberian forest steppe
PA0818 — Tian Shan foothill arid steppe
Flooded Grasslands and Savannas
PA0901 — Amur meadow steppe
PA0902 — Bohai Sea saline meadow
PA0903 — Nenjiang River grassland
PA0904 — Nile Delta flooded savanna
PA0905 — Saharan halophytics
PA0906 — Tigris-Euphrates alluvial salt marsh
PA0907 — Suiphun-Khanka meadows and forest meadows
PA0908 — Yellow Sea saline meadow
Montane Grasslands and Shrublands
PA1001 — Altai alpine meadow and tundra
PA1002 — Central Tibetan Plateau alpine steppe
PA1003 — Eastern Himalayan alpine shrub and meadows
PA1004 — Ghorat-Hazarajat alpine meadow
PA1005 — Hindu Kush alpine meadow
PA1006 — Karakoram-West Tibetan Plateau alpine steppe
PA1007 — Khangai Mountains alpine meadow
PA1008 — Kopet Dag woodlands and forest steppe
PA1009 — Kuh Rud and Eastern Iran montane woodlands
PA1010 — Mediterranean High Atlas juniper steppe
PA1011 — North Tibetan Plateau-Kunlun Mountains alpine desert
PA1012 — Northwestern Himalayan alpine shrub and meadows
PA1013 — Ordos Plateau steppe
PA1014 — Pamir alpine desert and tundra
PA1015 — Qilian Mountains subalpine meadows
PA1016 — Sayan alpine meadows and tundra
PA1017 — Southeast Tibet shrub and meadows
PA1018 — Sulaiman Range alpine meadows
PA1019 — Tian Shan montane steppe and meadows
PA1020 — Tibetan Plateau alpine shrub and meadows
PA1021 — Western Himalayan alpine shrub and meadows
PA1022 — Yarlung Zambo arid steppe
Tundra
PA1101 — Arctic desert
PA1102 — Bering tundra
PA1103 — Cherskii-Kolyma mountain tundra
PA1104 — Chukchi Peninsula tundra
PA1105 — Kamchatka Mountain tundra and forest tundra
PA1106 — Kola Peninsula tundra
PA1107 — Northeast Siberian coastal tundra
PA1108 — Northwest Russian-Novaya Zemlya tundra
PA1109 — Novosibirsk Islands arctic desert
PA1110 — Scandinavian montane Birch forest and grasslands
PA1111 — Taimyr-Central Siberian tundra
PA1112 — Trans-Baikal Bald Mountain tundra
PA1113 — Wrangel Island arctic desert
PA1114 — Yamal-Gydan tundra
Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands and Scrub
PA1201 — Aegean and Western Turkey sclerophyllous and mixed forests
PA1202 — Anatolian conifer and deciduous mixed forests
PA1203 — Canary Islands dry woodlands and forests
PA1204 — Corsican montane broadleaf and mixed forests
PA1205 — Crete Mediterranean forests
PA1206 — Cyprus Mediterranean forests
PA1207 — Eastern Mediterranean conifer-sclerophyllous-broadleaf forests
PA1208 — Iberian conifer forests
PA1209 — Iberian sclerophyllous and semi-deciduous forests
PA1210 — Illyrian deciduous forests
PA1211 — Italian sclerophyllous and semi-deciduous forests
PA1212 — Mediterranean acacia-argania dry woodlands and succulent thickets
PA1213 — Mediterranean dry woodlands and steppe
PA1214 — Mediterranean woodlands and forests
PA1215 — Northeastern Spain and Southern France Mediterranean forests
PA1216 — Northwest Iberian montane forests
PA1217 — Pindus Mountains mixed forests
PA1218 — South Apennine mixed montane forests
PA1219 — Southeastern Iberian shrubs and woodlands
PA1220 — Southern Anatolian montane conifer and deciduous forests
PA1221 — Southwest Iberian Mediterranean sclerophyllous and mixed forests
PA1222 — Tyrrhenian-Adriatic sclerophyllous and mixed forests
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
PA1301 — Afghan Mountains semi-desert
PA1302 — Alashan Plateau semi-desert
PA1303 — Arabian Desert and East Sahero-Arabian xeric shrublands
PA1304 — Atlantic coastal desert
PA1305 — Azerbaijan shrub desert and steppe
PA1306 — Badghyz and Karabil semi-desert
PA1307 — Baluchistan xeric woodlands
PA1308 — Caspian lowland desert
PA1309 — Central Afghan Mountains xeric woodlands
PA1310 — Central Asian northern desert
PA1311 — Central Asian riparian woodlands
PA1312 — Central Asian southern desert
PA1313 — Central Persian desert basins
PA1314 — Eastern Gobi desert steppe
PA1315 — Gobi Lakes Valley desert steppe
PA1316 — Great Lakes Basin desert steppe
PA1317 — Junggar Basin semi-desert
PA1318 — Kazakh semi-desert
PA1319 — Kopet Dag semi-desert
PA1320 — Mesopotamian shrub desert
PA1321 — North Saharan steppe and woodlands
PA1322 — Paropamisus xeric woodlands
PA1323 — Persian Gulf desert and semi-desert
PA1324 — Qaidam Basin semi-desert
PA1325 — Red Sea Nubo-Sindian tropical desert and semi-desert
PA1326 — Registan-North Pakistan sandy desert
PA1327 — Sahara desert
PA1328 — South Iran Nubo-Sindian desert and semi-desert
PA1329 — South Saharan steppe and woodlands
PA1330 — Taklimakan desert
PA1331 — Tibesti-Jebel Uweinat montane xeric woodlands
PA1332 — West Saharan montane xeric woodlands
Browse Fresh Water Ecoregions
These ecoregions are grouped by broad biogeographic realm for navigation. The names and codes below follow the current Earth's Resource Map ecoregion register.
Afrotropic
Large lakes
FEOW 521 — Lake Victoria Basin
FEOW 530 — Lake Turkana
FEOW 542 — Lake Tanganyika
FEOW 559 — Lake Malawi
FEOW 565 — Lake Rukwa
large river deltas
FEOW 506 — Niger Delta
Montane freshwaters
FEOW 510 — Fouta - Djalon
FEOW 513 — Mount Nimba
FEOW 519 — Western Equatorial Crater Lakes
FEOW 525 — Ethiopian Highlands
FEOW 526 — Lake Tana
FEOW 541 — Albertine Highlands
FEOW 562 — Mulanje
FEOW 563 — Eastern Zimbabwe Highlands
FEOW 574 — Drakensberg - Maloti Highlands
FEOW 577 — Amatolo - Winterberg Highlands
FEOW 581 — Madagascar Eastern Highlands
Oceanic Islands
FEOW 584 — Comoros - Mayotte
FEOW 585 — Seychelles
FEOW 586 — Mascarenes
Temperate coastal rivers
FEOW 578 — Cape Fold
Temperate upland rivers
FEOW 575 — Southern Temperate Highveld
Tropical and subtropical coastal rivers
FEOW 511 — Northern Upper Guinea
FEOW 512 — Southern Upper Guinea
FEOW 514 — Eburneo
FEOW 515 — Ashanti
FEOW 517 — Bight Drainages
FEOW 518 — Northern Gulf of Guinea Drainages - Bioko
FEOW 532 — Ogooue - Nyanga - Kouilou - Niari
FEOW 533 — Southern Gulf of Guinea Drainages
FEOW 551 — Cuanza
FEOW 564 — Coastal East Africa
FEOW 567 — Tana, Athi & Coastal Drainages
FEOW 568 — Pangani
FEOW 576 — Zambezian Lowveld
FEOW 583 — Madagascar Eastern Lowlands
FEOW 587 — S. Tome & Principe - Annobon
Tropical and subtropical floodplain rivers and wetland complexes
FEOW 505 — Lower Niger - Benue
FEOW 508 — Inner Niger Delta
FEOW 509 — Senegal - Gambia
FEOW 516 — Volta
FEOW 522 — Upper Nile
FEOW 534 — Sangha
FEOW 535 — Sudanic Congo - Oubangi
FEOW 537 — Cuvette Centrale
FEOW 538 — Tumba
FEOW 539 — Upper Congo Rapids
FEOW 543 — Malagarasi - Moyowosi
FEOW 544 — Bangweulu - Mweru
FEOW 545 — Upper Lualaba
FEOW 546 — Kasai
FEOW 547 — Mai Ndombe
FEOW 548 — Malebo Pool
FEOW 549 — Lower Congo Rapids
FEOW 550 — Lower Congo
FEOW 556 — Upper Zambezi Floodplains
FEOW 557 — Kafue
FEOW 558 — Middle Zambezi - Luangwa
FEOW 561 — Lower Zambezi
FEOW 569 — Okavango
FEOW 580 — Northwestern Madagascar
Tropical and subtropical upland rivers
FEOW 507 — Upper Niger
FEOW 536 — Uele
FEOW 540 — Upper Congo
FEOW 555 — Zambezian Headwaters
FEOW 560 — Zambezian Highveld
Xeric freshwaters and endorheic (closed) basins
FEOW 439 — Southwestern Arabian Coast
FEOW 443 — Oman Mountains
FEOW 520 — Lake Chad
FEOW 528 — Northern Eastern Rift
FEOW 529 — Horn of Africa
FEOW 531 — Shebelle - Juba
FEOW 552 — Namib
FEOW 553 — Etosha
FEOW 554 — Karstveld Sink Holes
FEOW 566 — Southern Eastern Rift
FEOW 570 — Kalahari
FEOW 571 — Southern Kalahari
FEOW 572 — Western Orange
FEOW 573 — Karoo
FEOW 579 — Western Madagascar
FEOW 582 — Southern Madagascar
Australasia
Montane freshwaters
FEOW 750 — Malili Lakes
FEOW 751 — Lake Poso
FEOW 813 — New Guinea North Coast
FEOW 814 — New Guinea Central Mountains
Temperate coastal rivers
FEOW 801 — Southwestern Australia
FEOW 807 — Eastern Coastal Australia
FEOW 809 — Bass Strait Drainages
FEOW 810 — Southern Tasmania
FEOW 811 — New Zealand
Temperate floodplain rivers and wetlands
FEOW 808 — Murray - Darling
Tropical and subtropical coastal rivers
FEOW 747 — Malukku
FEOW 748 — Lesser Sunda Islands
FEOW 749 — Sulawesi
FEOW 803 — Kimberley
FEOW 805 — Arafura - Carpentaria
FEOW 812 — Vogelkop - Bomberai
FEOW 815 — Southwest New Guinea - Trans-Fly Lowland
FEOW 816 — Papuan Peninsula
FEOW 817 — Bismarck Archipelago
FEOW 818 — Solomon Islands
FEOW 820 — New Caledonia
Xeric freshwaters and endorheic (closed) basins
FEOW 802 — Pilbara
FEOW 804 — Paleo
FEOW 806 — Lake Eyre Basin
Indo-Malay
large river deltas
FEOW 729 — Mekong Delta
Montane freshwaters
FEOW 710 — Ganges Himalayan Foothills
FEOW 723 — Inle Lake
FEOW 743 — Borneo Highlands
FEOW 753 — Lake Lanao
Oceanic Islands
FEOW 768 — Andaman Islands
FEOW 769 — Nicobar Islands
Tropical and subtropical coastal rivers
FEOW 715 — Western Ghats
FEOW 716 — Southeastern Ghats
FEOW 717 — Sri Lanka Dry Zone
FEOW 718 — Sri Lanka Wet Zone
FEOW 719 — Chin Hills - Arakan Coast
FEOW 730 — Southern Annam
FEOW 731 — Eastern Gulf of Thailand Drainages
FEOW 734 — Malay Peninsula Eastern Slope
FEOW 735 — Northern Central Sumatra - Western Malaysia
FEOW 736 — Aceh
FEOW 737 — Indian Ocean Slope of Sumatra & Java
FEOW 738 — Southern Central Sumatra
FEOW 739 — Southern Sumatra - Western Java
FEOW 740 — Central & Eastern Java
FEOW 741 — Kapuas
FEOW 742 — Northwestern Borneo
FEOW 744 — Northeastern Borneo
FEOW 745 — Eastern Borneo
FEOW 746 — Southeastern Borneo
FEOW 752 — Mindanao
FEOW 755 — Northern Philippine Islands
FEOW 756 — Palawan - Busuanga - Mindoro
FEOW 757 — Western Taiwan
FEOW 758 — Eastern Taiwan
FEOW 759 — Hainan
FEOW 760 — Northern Annam
FEOW 767 — Coastal Fujian - Zeijang
Tropical and subtropical floodplain rivers and wetland complexes
FEOW 703 — Lower & Middle Indus
FEOW 708 — Narmada-Tapti
FEOW 709 — Ganges Delta & Plain
FEOW 713 — Northern Deccan Plateau
FEOW 714 — Southern Deccan Plateau
FEOW 720 — Sitang - Irawaddy
FEOW 722 — Lower & Middle Salween
FEOW 726 — Lower Lancang (Mekong)
FEOW 728 — Kratie - Stung Treng (Mekong)
FEOW 732 — Chao Phraya
FEOW 733 — Mae Khlong
FEOW 761 — Song Hong
FEOW 763 — Xi Yiang
Tropical and subtropical upland rivers
FEOW 712 — Middle Brahmaputra
FEOW 727 — Khorat Plateau (Mekong)
Nearctic
Large lakes
FEOW 109 — English - Winnipeg Lakes
FEOW 116 — Laurentian Great Lakes
Oceanic Islands
FEOW 176 — Bermuda
Polar freshwaters
FEOW 101 — Alaskan Coastal
FEOW 102 — Upper Yukon
FEOW 105 — Lower Mackenzie
FEOW 106 — Central Arctic Coastal
FEOW 111 — Western Hudson Bay
FEOW 112 — Canadian Arctic Archipelago
Temperate coastal rivers
FEOW 103 — Alaska & Canada Pacific Coastal
FEOW 110 — Southern Hudson Bay
FEOW 113 — Eastern Hudson Bay - Ungava
FEOW 114 — Gulf of St.Lawrence Coastal Drainages
FEOW 115 — Canadian Atlantic Islands
FEOW 117 — St.Lawrence
FEOW 118 — Northeast US & Southeast Canada Atlantic Drainages
FEOW 119 — Scotia - Fundy
FEOW 123 — Oregon & Northern California Coastal
FEOW 125 — Sacramento - San Joaquin
FEOW 140 — East Texas Gulf
FEOW 141 — Sabine - Galveston
FEOW 154 — West Florida Gulf
FEOW 157 — Appalachian Piedmont
FEOW 158 — Chesapeake Bay
Temperate floodplain rivers and wetlands
FEOW 104 — Upper Mackenzie
FEOW 121 — Columbia Unglaciated
FEOW 135 — Lower Rio Grande - Bravo
FEOW 143 — Middle Missouri
FEOW 148 — Upper Mississippi
FEOW 149 — Lower Mississippi
FEOW 153 — Mobile Bay
FEOW 155 — Apalachicola
Temperate upland rivers
FEOW 107 — Upper Saskatchewan
FEOW 108 — Middle Saskatchewan
FEOW 120 — Columbia Glaciated
FEOW 122 — Upper Snake
FEOW 132 — Upper Rio Grande - Bravo
FEOW 142 — Upper Missouri
FEOW 144 — US Southern Plains
FEOW 145 — Ouachita Highlands
FEOW 146 — Central Prairie
FEOW 147 — Ozark Highlands
FEOW 150 — Teays - Old Ohio
FEOW 151 — Cumberland
FEOW 152 — Tennessee
Tropical and subtropical coastal rivers
FEOW 139 — West Texas Gulf
FEOW 156 — Florida Peninsula
FEOW 162 — Sinaloa
Xeric freshwaters and endorheic (closed) basins
FEOW 124 — Oregon Lakes
FEOW 126 — Lahontan
FEOW 127 — Bonneville
FEOW 128 — Death Valley
FEOW 129 — Vegas - Virgin
FEOW 130 — Colorado
FEOW 131 — Gila
FEOW 133 — Pecos
FEOW 134 — Rio Conchos
FEOW 136 — Cuatro Cienegas
FEOW 137 — Rio Salado
FEOW 138 — Rio San Juan (Mexico)
FEOW 159 — Southern California Coastal - Baja California
FEOW 160 — Sonora
FEOW 161 — Guzman - Samalayuca
FEOW 163 — Mayran - Viesca
FEOW 165 — Lerma - Chapala
FEOW 166 — Llanos El Salado
Neotropic
Large lakes
FEOW 303 — Maracaibo
large river deltas
FEOW 309 — Orinoco Delta & Coastal Drainages
FEOW 323 — Amazonas Estuary & Coastal Drainages
Montane freshwaters
FEOW 305 — Orinoco High Andes
FEOW 306 — Orinoco Piedmont
FEOW 312 — Amazonas High Andes
FEOW 313 — Western Amazon Piedmont
FEOW 317 — Ucayali - Urubamba Piedmont
FEOW 340 — Cuyan - Desaguadero
Oceanic Islands
FEOW 350 — Galapagos Islands
FEOW 351 — Juan Fernandez Island
Temperate coastal rivers
FEOW 334 — Laguna dos Patos
FEOW 341 — South Andean Pacific Slopes
FEOW 347 — Bonaerensean Drainages
FEOW 348 — Patagonia
FEOW 349 — Valdivian Lakes
Temperate floodplain rivers and wetlands
FEOW 345 — Lower Parana
Tropical and subtropical coastal rivers
FEOW 164 — Rio Santiago
FEOW 167 — Panuco
FEOW 168 — Ameca - Manantlan
FEOW 169 — Rio Balsas
FEOW 170 — Sierra Madre del Sur
FEOW 171 — Papaloapan
FEOW 172 — Coatzacoalcos
FEOW 173 — Grijalva - Usumacinta
FEOW 175 — Yucatan
FEOW 201 — Chiapas - Fonseca
FEOW 202 — Quintana Roo - Motagua
FEOW 203 — Mosquitia
FEOW 204 — Estero Real - Tempisque
FEOW 205 — San Juan (Nicaragua/Costa Rica)
FEOW 206 — Chiriqui
FEOW 207 — Isthmus Caribbean
FEOW 208 — Santa Maria
FEOW 209 — Chagres
FEOW 210 — Rio Tuira
FEOW 211 — Cuba - Cayman Islands
FEOW 212 — Bahama Archipelago
FEOW 213 — Jamaica
FEOW 214 — Hispaniola
FEOW 215 — Puerto Rico - Virgin Islands
FEOW 216 — Windward & Leeward Islands
FEOW 301 — North Andean Pacific Slopes - Rio Atrato
FEOW 304 — South America Caribbean Drainages - Trinidad
FEOW 326 — Northeastern Caatinga & Coastal Drainages
FEOW 328 — Northeastern Mata Atlantica
FEOW 329 — Paraiba do Sul
FEOW 330 — Ribeira de Iguape
FEOW 331 — Southeastern Mata Atlantica
FEOW 335 — Tramandai - Mampituba
FEOW 352 — Fluminense
Tropical and subtropical floodplain rivers and wetland complexes
FEOW 307 — Orinoco Llanos
FEOW 314 — Rio Negro
FEOW 316 — Amazonas Lowlands
FEOW 342 — Chaco
FEOW 343 — Paraguay
Tropical and subtropical upland rivers
FEOW 174 — Upper Usumacinta
FEOW 302 — Magdalena - Sinu
FEOW 308 — Orinoco Guiana Shield
FEOW 310 — Essequibo
FEOW 311 — Guianas
FEOW 315 — Amazonas Guiana Shield
FEOW 318 — Mamore - Madre de Dios Piedmont
FEOW 319 — Guapore - Itenez
FEOW 320 — Tapajos - Juruena
FEOW 321 — Madeira Brazilian Shield
FEOW 322 — Xingu
FEOW 324 — Tocantins - Araguaia
FEOW 325 — Parnaiba
FEOW 327 — S. Francisco
FEOW 332 — Lower Uruguay
FEOW 333 — Upper Uruguay
FEOW 344 — Upper Parana
FEOW 346 — Iguassu
Xeric freshwaters and endorheic (closed) basins
FEOW 336 — Central Andean Pacific Slopes
FEOW 337 — Titicaca
FEOW 338 — Atacama
FEOW 339 — Mar Chiquita - Salinas Grandes
Oceania
Oceanic Islands
FEOW 217 — Cocos Island (Costa Rica)
FEOW 819 — Vanuatu
FEOW 821 — Fiji
FEOW 822 — Wallis - Futuna
FEOW 823 — Samoas
FEOW 824 — Society Islands
FEOW 825 — Tubuai Islands
FEOW 826 — Marquesas Islands
FEOW 827 — Rapa
FEOW 828 — Hawaiian Islands
FEOW 829 — East Caroline Islands
FEOW 830 — West Caroline Islands
Palearctic
Large lakes
FEOW 409 — Lake Onega - Lake Ladoga
FEOW 452 — Caspian Marine
FEOW 453 — Volga Delta - Northern Caspian Drainages
FEOW 606 — Lake Baikal
FEOW 627 — Lake Issyk Kul - Upper Chu
FEOW 629 — Aral Sea Drainages
FEOW 643 — Biwa Ko
large river deltas
FEOW 524 — Nile Delta
Montane freshwaters
FEOW 604 — Chuya
FEOW 633 — Upper Huang He
FEOW 634 — Upper Huang He Corridor
FEOW 704 — Yaghistan
FEOW 705 — Indus Himalayan Foothills
FEOW 706 — Upper Indus
FEOW 725 — Er Hai
FEOW 762 — Yunnan Lakes
Polar freshwaters
FEOW 401 — Iceland - Jan Mayen
FEOW 405 — Norwegian Sea Drainages
FEOW 406 — Northern Baltic Drainages
FEOW 407 — Barents Sea Drainages
FEOW 602 — Ob
FEOW 605 — Yenisei
FEOW 607 — Taimyr
FEOW 608 — Lena
FEOW 609 — Kolyma
FEOW 610 — Anadyr
FEOW 611 — East Chukotka
Temperate coastal rivers
FEOW 402 — Northern British Isles
FEOW 403 — Cantabric Coast - Languedoc
FEOW 408 — Southern Baltic Lowlands
FEOW 412 — Western Iberia
FEOW 415 — Gulf of Venice Drainages
FEOW 416 — Italian Peninsula & Islands
FEOW 419 — Dalmatia
FEOW 420 — Southeast Adriatic Drainages
FEOW 421 — Ionian Drainages
FEOW 422 — Vardar
FEOW 423 — Thrace
FEOW 424 — Aegean Drainages
FEOW 426 — Crimea Peninsula
FEOW 428 — Kuban
FEOW 429 — Western Anatolia
FEOW 430 — Northern Anatolia
FEOW 432 — Southern Anatolia
FEOW 433 — Western Transcaucasia
FEOW 437 — Orontes
FEOW 451 — Northern Hormuz Drainages
FEOW 501 — Atlantic Northwest Africa
FEOW 502 — Mediterranean Northwest Africa
FEOW 612 — Koryakia
FEOW 613 — Kamchatka & Northern Kurils
FEOW 614 — Okhotsk Coast
FEOW 615 — Coastal Amur
FEOW 638 — Eastern Yellow Sea Drainages
FEOW 639 — Southeastern Korean Peninsula
FEOW 640 — Hamgyong - Sanmaek
FEOW 641 — Sakhalin, Hokkaido, & Sikhote - Alin Coast
FEOW 642 — Honshu - Shikoku - Kyushu
Temperate floodplain rivers and wetlands
FEOW 404 — Central & Western Europe
FEOW 410 — Volga - Ural
FEOW 413 — Southern Iberia
FEOW 414 — Eastern Iberia
FEOW 418 — Dniester - Lower Danube
FEOW 425 — Dnieper - South Bug
FEOW 427 — Don
FEOW 434 — Kura - South Caspian Drainages
FEOW 441 — Lower Tigris & Euphrates
FEOW 442 — Upper Tigris & Euphrates
FEOW 616 — Lower Amur
FEOW 620 — Songhua Jiang
FEOW 635 — Huang He Great Bend
FEOW 636 — Lower Huang He
FEOW 637 — Liao He
FEOW 766 — Lower Yangtze
Temperate upland rivers
FEOW 417 — Upper Danube
FEOW 603 — Upper Irtysh
FEOW 617 — Middle Amur
FEOW 618 — Argun
FEOW 619 — Shilka (Amur)
FEOW 626 — Lower & Middle Syr Darya
FEOW 628 — Northern Central Asian Highlands
FEOW 630 — Middle Amu Darya
FEOW 632 — Qaidan
FEOW 764 — Upper Yangtze
FEOW 765 — Middle Yangtze
Tropical and subtropical upland rivers
FEOW 711 — Upper Brahmaputra
FEOW 721 — Upper Salween
FEOW 724 — Upper Lancang (Mekong)
Xeric freshwaters and endorheic (closed) basins
FEOW 411 — Western Caspian Drainages
FEOW 431 — Central Anatolia
FEOW 435 — Sinai
FEOW 436 — Coastal Levant
FEOW 438 — Jordan River
FEOW 440 — Arabian Interior
FEOW 444 — Lake Van
FEOW 445 — Orumiyeh
FEOW 446 — Caspian Highlands
FEOW 447 — Namak
FEOW 448 — Kavir & Lut Deserts
FEOW 449 — Esfahan
FEOW 450 — Turan Plain
FEOW 503 — Sahara
FEOW 504 — Dry Sahel
FEOW 523 — Lower Nile
FEOW 527 — Western Red Sea Drainages
FEOW 601 — Irgyz -Turgai
FEOW 621 — Inner Mongolia Endorheic Basins
FEOW 622 — Western Mongolia
FEOW 623 — Dzungaria
FEOW 624 — Balkash - Alakul
FEOW 625 — Tarim
FEOW 631 — Upper Amu Darya
FEOW 701 — Baluchistan
FEOW 702 — Helmand - Sistan
FEOW 707 — Tibetan Plateau Endorheic Drainages
Browse Marine Ecoregions
These ecoregions are grouped by broad biogeographic realm for navigation. The names and codes below follow the current Earth's Resource Map ecoregion register.
Arctic
Arctic
MEOW 1 — North Greenland
MEOW 2 — North and East Iceland
MEOW 3 — East Greenland Shelf
MEOW 4 — West Greenland Shelf
MEOW 5 — Northern Grand Banks - Southern Labrador
MEOW 6 — Northern Labrador
MEOW 7 — Baffin Bay - Davis Strait
MEOW 8 — Hudson Complex
MEOW 9 — Lancaster Sound
MEOW 10 — High Arctic Archipelago
MEOW 11 — Beaufort-Amundsen-Viscount Melville-Queen Maud
MEOW 12 — Beaufort Sea - continental coast and shelf
MEOW 13 — Chukchi Sea
MEOW 14 — Eastern Bering Sea
MEOW 15 — East Siberian Sea
MEOW 16 — Laptev Sea
MEOW 17 — Kara Sea
MEOW 18 — North and East Barents Sea
MEOW 19 — White Sea
Temperate Northern Atlantic
Northern European Seas
MEOW 20 — South and West Iceland
MEOW 21 — Faroe Plateau
MEOW 22 — Southern Norway
MEOW 23 — Northern Norway and Finnmark
MEOW 24 — Baltic Sea
MEOW 25 — North Sea
MEOW 26 — Celtic Seas
Lusitanian
MEOW 27 — South European Atlantic Shelf
MEOW 28 — Saharan Upwelling
MEOW 29 — Azores Canaries Madeira
Mediterranean Sea
MEOW 30 — Adriatic Sea
MEOW 31 — Aegean Sea
MEOW 32 — Levantine Sea
MEOW 33 — Tunisian Plateau/Gulf of Sidra
MEOW 34 — Ionian Sea
MEOW 35 — Western Mediterranean
MEOW 36 — Alboran Sea
Cold Temperate Northwest Atlantic
MEOW 37 — Gulf of St. Lawrence - Eastern Scotian Shelf
MEOW 38 — Southern Grand Banks - South Newfoundland
MEOW 39 — Scotian Shelf
MEOW 40 — Gulf of Maine/Bay of Fundy
MEOW 41 — Virginian
Warm Temperate Northwest Atlantic
MEOW 42 — Carolinian
MEOW 43 — Northern Gulf of Mexico
Black Sea
MEOW 44 — Black Sea
Temperate Northern Pacific
Cold Temperate Northwest Pacific
MEOW 45 — Sea of Okhotsk
MEOW 46 — Kamchatka Shelf and Coast
MEOW 47 — Oyashio Current
MEOW 48 — Northeastern Honshu
MEOW 49 — Sea of Japan/East Sea
MEOW 50 — Yellow Sea
Warm Temperate Northwest Pacific
MEOW 51 — Central Kuroshio Current
MEOW 52 — East China Sea
Cold Temperate Northeast Pacific
MEOW 53 — Aleutian Islands
MEOW 54 — Gulf of Alaska
MEOW 55 — North American Pacific Fijordland
MEOW 56 — Puget Trough/Georgia Basin
MEOW 57 — Oregon, Washington, Vancouver Coast and Shelf
MEOW 58 — Northern California
Warm Temperate Northeast Pacific
MEOW 59 — Southern California Bight
MEOW 60 — Cortezian
MEOW 61 — Magdalena Transition
Tropical Atlantic
Tropical Northwestern Atlantic
MEOW 62 — Bermuda
MEOW 63 — Bahamian
MEOW 64 — Eastern Caribbean
MEOW 65 — Greater Antilles
MEOW 66 — Southern Caribbean
MEOW 67 — Southwestern Caribbean
MEOW 68 — Western Caribbean
MEOW 69 — Southern Gulf of Mexico
MEOW 70 — Floridian
North Brazil Shelf
MEOW 71 — Guianan
MEOW 72 — Amazonia
Tropical Southwestern Atlantic
MEOW 73 — Sao Pedro and Sao Paulo Islands
MEOW 74 — Fernando de Naronha and Atoll das Rocas
MEOW 75 — Northeastern Brazil
MEOW 76 — Eastern Brazil
MEOW 77 — Trindade and Martin Vaz Islands
St. Helena and Ascension Islands
MEOW 78 — St. Helena and Ascension Islands
West African Transition
MEOW 79 — Cape Verde
MEOW 80 — Sahelian Upwelling
Gulf of Guinea
MEOW 81 — Gulf of Guinea West
MEOW 82 — Gulf of Guinea Upwelling
MEOW 83 — Gulf of Guinea Central
MEOW 84 — Gulf of Guinea Islands
MEOW 85 — Gulf of Guinea South
MEOW 86 — Angolan
Western Indo-Pacific
Red Sea and Gulf of Aden
MEOW 87 — Northern and Central Red Sea
MEOW 88 — Southern Red Sea
MEOW 89 — Gulf of Aden
Somali/Arabian
MEOW 90 — Arabian (Persian) Gulf
MEOW 91 — Gulf of Oman
MEOW 92 — Western Arabian Sea
MEOW 93 — Central Somali Coast
Western Indian Ocean
MEOW 94 — Northern Monsoon Current Coast
MEOW 95 — East African Coral Coast
MEOW 96 — Seychelles
MEOW 97 — Cargados Carajos/Tromelin Island
MEOW 98 — Mascarene Islands
MEOW 99 — Southeast Madagascar
MEOW 100 — Western and Northern Madagascar
MEOW 101 — Bight of Sofala/Swamp Coast
MEOW 102 — Delagoa
West and South Indian Shelf
MEOW 103 — Western India
MEOW 104 — South India and Sri Lanka
Central Indian Ocean Islands
MEOW 105 — Maldives
MEOW 106 — Chagos
Bay of Bengal
MEOW 107 — Eastern India
MEOW 108 — Northern Bay of Bengal
Andaman
MEOW 109 — Andaman and Nicobar Islands
MEOW 110 — Andaman Sea Coral Coast
MEOW 111 — Western Sumatra
Central Indo-Pacific
South China Sea
MEOW 112 — Gulf of Tonkin
MEOW 113 — Southern China
MEOW 114 — South China Sea Oceanic Islands
Sunda Shelf
MEOW 115 — Gulf of Thailand
MEOW 116 — Southern Vietnam
MEOW 117 — Sunda Shelf/Java Sea
MEOW 118 — Malacca Strait
Java Transitional
MEOW 119 — Southern Java
MEOW 120 — Cocos-Keeling/Christmas Island
South Kuroshio
MEOW 121 — South Kuroshio
Tropical Northwestern Pacific
MEOW 122 — Ogasawara Islands
MEOW 123 — Mariana Islands
MEOW 124 — East Caroline Islands
MEOW 125 — West Caroline Islands
Western Coral Triangle
MEOW 126 — Palawan/North Borneo
MEOW 127 — Eastern Philippines
MEOW 128 — Sulawesi Sea/Makassar Strait
MEOW 129 — Halmahera
MEOW 130 — Papua
MEOW 131 — Banda Sea
MEOW 132 — Lesser Sunda
MEOW 133 — Northeast Sulawesi
Eastern Coral Triangle
MEOW 134 — Bismarck Sea
MEOW 135 — Solomon Archipelago
MEOW 136 — Solomon Sea
MEOW 137 — Southeast Papua New Guinea
Sahul Shelf
MEOW 138 — Gulf of Papua
MEOW 139 — Arafura Sea
MEOW 140 — Arnhem Coast to Gulf of Carpenteria
MEOW 141 — Bonaparte Coast
Northeast Australian Shelf
MEOW 142 — Torres Strait Northern Great Barrier Reef
MEOW 143 — Central and Southern Great Barrier Reef
MEOW 144 — Exmouth to Broome
MEOW 145 — Ningaloo
Tropical Southwestern Pacific
MEOW 146 — Tonga Islands
MEOW 147 — Fiji Islands
MEOW 148 — Vanuatu
MEOW 149 — New Caledonia
MEOW 150 — Coral Sea
Lord Howe and Norfolk Islands
MEOW 151 — Lord Howe and Norfolk Islands
Eastern Indo-Pacific
Hawaii
MEOW 152 — Hawaii
Marshall, Gilbert and Ellis Islands
MEOW 153 — Marshall Islands
MEOW 154 — Gilbert/Ellis Islands
Central Polynesia
MEOW 155 — Line Islands
MEOW 156 — Phoenix/Tokelau/Northern Cook Islands
MEOW 157 — Samoa Islands
Southeast Polynesia
MEOW 158 — Tuamotus
MEOW 159 — Rapa-Pitcairn
MEOW 160 — Southern Cook/Austral Islands
MEOW 161 — Society Islands
Marquesas
MEOW 162 — Marquesas
Easter Island
MEOW 163 — Easter Island
Tropical Eastern Pacific
Tropical East Pacific
MEOW 164 — Revillagigedos
MEOW 165 — Clipperton
MEOW 166 — Mexican Tropical Pacific
MEOW 167 — Chiapas-Nicaragua
MEOW 168 — Nicoya
MEOW 169 — Cocos Islands
MEOW 170 — Panama Bight
MEOW 171 — Guayaquil
Galapagos
MEOW 172 — Northern Galapagos Islands
MEOW 173 — Eastern Galapagos Islands
MEOW 174 — Western Galapagos Islands
Temperate South America
Warm Temperate Southeastern Pacific
MEOW 175 — Central Peru
MEOW 176 — Humboldtian
MEOW 177 — Central Chile
MEOW 178 — Araucanian
Juan Fernandez and Desventuradas
MEOW 179 — Juan Fernandez and Desventuradas
Warm Temperate Southwestern Atlantic
MEOW 180 — Southeastern Brazil
MEOW 181 — Rio Grande
MEOW 182 — Rio de la Plata
MEOW 183 — Uruguay-Buenos Aires Shelf
Magellanic
MEOW 184 — North Patagonian Gulfs
MEOW 185 — Patagonian Shelf
MEOW 186 — Malvinas/Falklands
MEOW 187 — Channels and Fjords of Southern Chile
MEOW 188 — Chiloense
Tristan Gough
MEOW 189 — Tristan Gough
Temperate Southern Africa
Benguela
MEOW 190 — Namib
MEOW 191 — Namaqua
Agulhas
MEOW 192 — Agulhas Bank
MEOW 193 — Natal
Amsterdam-St Paul
MEOW 194 — Amsterdam-St Paul
Temperate Australasia
Northern New Zealand
MEOW 195 — Kermadec Island
MEOW 196 — Northeastern New Zealand
MEOW 197 — Three Kings-North Cape
Southern New Zealand
MEOW 198 — Chatham Island
MEOW 199 — Central New Zealand
MEOW 200 — South New Zealand
MEOW 201 — Snares Island
East Central Australian Shelf
MEOW 202 — Tweed-Moreton
MEOW 203 — Manning-Hawkesbury
Southeast Australian Shelf
MEOW 204 — Cape Howe
MEOW 205 — Bassian
MEOW 206 — Western Bassian
Southwest Australian Shelf
MEOW 207 — South Australian Gulfs
MEOW 208 — Great Australian Bight
MEOW 209 — Leeuwin
West Central Australian Shelf
MEOW 210 — Shark Bay
MEOW 211 — Houtman
Southern Ocean
Subantarctic Islands
MEOW 212 — Macquarie Island
MEOW 213 — Heard and Macdonald Islands
MEOW 214 — Kerguelen Islands
MEOW 215 — Crozet Islands
MEOW 216 — Prince Edward Islands
MEOW 217 — Bouvet Island
MEOW 218 — Peter the First Island
Scotia Sea
MEOW 219 — South Sandwich Islands
MEOW 220 — South Georgia
MEOW 221 — South Orkney Islands
MEOW 222 — South Shetland Islands
MEOW 223 — Antarctic Peninsula
Continental High Antarctic
MEOW 224 — East Antarctic Wilkes Land
MEOW 225 — East Antarctic Enderby Land
MEOW 226 — East Antarctic Dronning Maud Land
MEOW 227 — Weddell Sea
MEOW 228 — Amundsen/Bellingshausen Sea
MEOW 229 — Ross Sea
MEOW 230 — Bounty and Antipodes Islands
MEOW 231 — Campbell Island
MEOW 232 — Auckland Island
Read First
Before using ecoregion records for identification, harvesting, cultivation, conservation or other practical decisions, read: Supporting Read First guides will be linked here as they are published. Until then, use the coverage, evidence and safety guidance below.
Coverage and Evidence
The Earth's Resource Map is being built progressively.
An ecoregion appearing in this index means that the geographic region is indexed. It does not mean that all knowledge about that region is complete, verified or suitable for practical use.
Coverage is shown openly using four levels:
Indexed — The region or resource is known to the system and can be connected to its identity, source and broad context. Details may still be incomplete.
Referenced — Traceable sources support some information, such as occurrence, description, ecology or possible uses. Practical guidance may still be incomplete.
Verified — Important stated claims have passed the required evidence, safety and conservation review for the context shown.
Localised and actionable — Verified information also includes the local context needed for practical guidance, such as occurrence, season, law, preparation or harvesting requirements, lookalikes, sustainability and regional review.
Evidence is assessed claim by claim. A reliable source supporting one fact does not automatically verify every statement about a species, resource or region.
Geographic boundaries are also tools for organising ecological information rather than hard barriers in nature. Species distributions, water systems, climate, migration and ecological relationships can cross mapped boundaries.
Never assume that advice verified in one ecoregion automatically applies in another. Local laws, conservation status, culturally governed knowledge, environmental conditions, common names, lookalikes and safe practices can differ between places.
For identification, consumption, harvesting, handling or other higher-risk decisions, use the complete resource record, its evidence and safety information, and appropriate local or professional guidance. Never act solely from a visual match or an incomplete database record.
Where information is missing or uncertain, the Earth's Resource Map will show that gap rather than presenting incomplete knowledge as complete.
Last Reviewed
18 August 2026
This date records the review of this index page and its geographic framework. Individual ecoregion and resource records may have different evidence, publication and review dates.
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References
Olson, D. M., Dinerstein, E., Wikramanayake, E. D., Burgess, N. D., Powell, G. V. N., Underwood, E. C., D'Amico, J. A., Itoua, I., Strand, H. E., Morrison, J. C., Loucks, C. J., Allnutt, T. F., Ricketts, T. H., Kura, Y., Lamoreux, J. F., Wettengel, W. W., Hedao, P., & Kassem, K. R. (2001). Terrestrial ecoregions of the world: A new map of life on Earth. BioScience, 51(11), 933–938. doi:10.1641/0006-3568(2001)051[0933]2.0.CO;2
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