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The following is a list of marine ecoregions, as defined by the WWF and The Nature Conservancy. The WWF/Nature Conservancy scheme 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 World Wildlife Fund (WWF) identifies terrestrial, marine, freshwater, and ecoregions: . Global 200; List of terrestrial ecoregions (WWF) 867 terrestrial ecoregions. List of marine ecoregions (WWF), 232 marine ecoregions of the coastal and continental shelf areas.
Ecoregions of North America, featuring the 50 United States, the District of Columbia and the five inhabited territories. The following is a list of ecoregions in the United States as identified by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). The United States is a megadiverse country with a high level of endemism across a wide variety of ecosystems.
The global classification system Marine Ecoregions of the World—MEOW was devised by an international team, including major conservation organizations, academic institutions and intergovernmental organizations. [1] The system covers coastal and continental shelf waters of the world, and does
In the United States, the EPA and the United States Geological Survey (USGS) are the principal federal agencies working with the CEC to define and map ecoregions. Ecoregions may be identified by similarities in geology, physiography, vegetation, climate, soils, land use, wildlife distributions, and hydrology.
List of marine ecoregions (WWF), 232 marine ecoregions of the coastal and continental shelf areas. List of freshwater ecoregions (WWF), 426 freshwater ecoregions. Lists of ecoregions by country; Lists of ecoregions by continent. List of ecoregions in Africa; List of ecoregions in Antarctica; List of ecoregions in Australia; List of ecoregions ...
This is a list of terrestrial 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 biogeographic realms , containing 867 smaller ecoregions.