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Biogeographic realms are characterized by the evolutionary history of the organisms they contain. They are distinct from biomes , also known as major habitat types, which are divisions of the Earth's surface based on life form , or the adaptation of animals, fungi, micro-organisms and plants to climatic, soil , and other conditions.
The terrestrial scheme divides the Earth's land surface into 8 biogeographic realms, containing 867 smaller ecoregions. Each ecoregion is classified into one of 14 major habitat types , or biomes . In 2017 the WWF team revised ecosystem names and boundaries in the Arabian Peninsula, drier African regions, and Southeastern United States.
This page features a list of biogeographic provinces that were developed by Miklos Udvardy in 1975, [1] [2] later modified by other authors. [according to whom?] Biogeographic Province is a biotic subdivision of biogeographic realms subdivided into ecoregions, which are classified based on their biomes or habitat types and, on this page, correspond to the floristic kingdoms of botany.
Biogeographic realm or Ecozone is a classification system of the world first proposed by Miklos Udvardy for conservation purposes. Subcategories. This category has ...
Biogeographic realm – Broadest biogeographic division of Earth's land surface. The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) developed a system of eight biogeographic realms (ecozones): Nearctic – Biogeographic realm encompassing temperate North America Pages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets 22.9 mil. km 2 (including most of North America )
The Oceanian realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms and is unique in not including any continental land mass. It has the smallest land area of any of the WWF realms . This realm includes the islands of the Pacific Ocean in Micronesia , the Fijian Islands , the Hawaiian Islands , and Polynesia (with the exception of New Zealand). [ 1 ]
Biogeographic realms (13 C, 14 P) T. Terrestrial biomes (17 C, 22 P) W. World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (1 C, 2 P) Pages in category ...
The original drawing of the line in Wallace's paper. One of the earliest descriptions of the biodiversity in the Indo-Australian Archipelago dates back to 1521 when Venetian explorer Pigafetta recorded the biological contrasts between the Philippines and the Maluku Islands (Spice Islands) (on opposite sides of the Wallace's Line) during the continuation of the voyage of Ferdinand Magellan ...