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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.
Terrestrial Ecoregions of the World (Olson et al. 2001, BioScience) WWF terrestrial ecoregions of the world One way of mapping the world into 18 terrestrial vegetation biomes, each containing one or more ecoregions EPA level III ecoregions in the contiguous United States. Alaska ecoregions (102-120) not shown.
The Coast Range ecoregion is a Level III ecoregion designated by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in the U.S. states of Washington, Oregon, and California.It stretches along the Pacific Coast from the tip of the Olympic Peninsula in the north to the San Francisco Bay in the south, including Grays Harbor, Willapa Bay, and the Long Beach Peninsula in Washington, the entire length of the ...
List of ecoregions in Samoa; List of ecoregions in São Tomé and Principe; List of ecoregions in Saudi Arabia; List of ecoregions in Senegal; List of ecoregions in Serbia; List of ecoregions in Seychelles; List of ecoregions in Sierra Leone; List of ecoregions in Slovakia; List of ecoregions in Slovenia; List of ecoregions in the Solomon Islands
In 2017, an updated terrestrial ecoregions dataset was released in the paper "An Ecoregion-Based Approach to Protecting Half the Terrestrial Realm" led by E. Dinerstein with 48 co-authors. [12] Using recent advances in satellite imagery the ecoregion perimeters were refined and the total number reduced to 846 (and later 844), which can be ...
List of ecoregions in the United States (EPA), United States Environmental Protection Agency system List of ecoregions in the United States (WWF) , World Wildlife Fund system This article includes an environment-related list of lists .
S. Sagebrush steppe; Sierra Madre Occidental pine–oak forests; Sierra Madre Oriental pine–oak forests; Snake River Plain (ecoregion) Snake–Columbia shrub steppe
Coast Range (EPA ecoregion), an ecoregion comprising portions of the California Coast Ranges, Oregon Coast Range and the Olympic Mountains in Washington;