The following is a list of ecoregions in France as identified by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF).
Metropolitan France
editThe ecoregions of Metropolitan France are as follows:
Terrestrial ecoregions
editTerrestrial ecoregions of Metropolitan France are listed by biome. All them are in the Palearctic realm.
- Atlantic mixed forests
- Cantabrian mixed forests
- Pyrenees conifer and mixed forests
- Western European broadleaf forests
- Corsican montane broadleaf and mixed forests (Corsica)
- Northeastern Spain and Southern France Mediterranean forests
- Italian sclerophyllous and semi-deciduous forests
- Tyrrhenian-Adriatic sclerophyllous and mixed forests (Corsica)
Freshwater ecoregions
editMarine ecoregions
editMarine ecoregions of France are listed by marine province. All of them are in the Temperate Northern Atlantic realm.
Northern European Seas province
editLusitanian province
editMediterranean Sea province
editOverseas France
editThis is a list of all terrestrial ecoregions of France's overseas departments and territories.
- Leeward Islands xeric scrub (Guadeloupe, Saint Martin, Saint Barthelemy)
- Windward Islands xeric scrub (Martinique)
Mangroves
edit- Guianan moist forests (French Guiana)
- Leeward Islands moist forests (Guadeloupe)
- Windward Islands moist forests (Martinique)
Deserts and xeric shrublands
editTemperate grasslands and shrublands
editTropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests
editTropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests
editTropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests
editTropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests
editReferences
edit- Abell, R., M. Thieme, C. Revenga, M. Bryer, M. Kottelat, N. Bogutskaya, B. Coad, N. Mandrak, S. Contreras-Balderas, W. Bussing, M. L. J. Stiassny, P. Skelton, G. R. Allen, P. Unmack, A. Naseka, R. Ng, N. Sindorf, J. Robertson, E. Armijo, J. Higgins, T. J. Heibel, E. Wikramanayake, D. Olson, H. L. Lopez, R. E. d. Reis, J. G. Lundberg, M. H. Sabaj Perez, and P. Petry. (2008). Freshwater ecoregions of the world: A new map of biogeographic units for freshwater biodiversity conservation. BioScience 58:403-414, [1].
- 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.