List of ecoregions in Russia
The following is a list of ecoregions in Russia, according to the Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF):
Russia's 49 outlined terrestrial ecoregions, each of a colored biome, stretch across the Palearctic realm of Eurasia. Russia contains 8 of 14 terrestrial biomes, or major habitat types, as defined by Olson & Dinerstein, et al. (2001).[1]
Terrestrial
- Caucasus mixed forests (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Russia, Turkey)
- Central European mixed forests (Austria, Belarus, Czech Republic, Germany, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Ukraine)
- Crimean Submediterranean forest complex (Russia, Ukraine)
- East European forest steppe (Bulgaria, Moldova, Romania, Russia, Ukraine)
- Manchurian mixed forests (China, Russia, North Korea, South Korea)
- Sarmatic mixed forests (Belarus, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Russia, Sweden)
- South Sakhalin-Kurile mixed forests (Russia)
- Ussuri broadleaf and mixed forests (Russia)
- West Siberian broadleaf and mixed forests (Russia)
- Altai montane forest and forest steppe (China, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Russia)
- Da Hinggan-Dzhagdy Mountains conifer forests (China, Russia)
- Sayan montane conifer forests (Mongolia, Russia)
- East Siberian taiga (Russia)
- Kamchatka-Kurile meadows and sparse forests (Russia)
- Kamchatka-Kurile taiga (Russia)
- Northeast Siberian taiga (Russia)
- Okhotsk-Manchurian taiga (Russia)
- Sakhalin Island taiga (Russia)
- Scandinavian and Russian taiga (Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden)
- Trans-Baikal conifer forests (Mongolia, Russia)
- Urals montane tundra and taiga (Russia)
- West Siberian taiga (Russia)
- Daurian forest steppe (China, Mongolia, Russia)
- Kazakh forest steppe (Kazakhstan, Russia)
- Kazakh steppe (Kazakhstan, Russia)
- Mongolian-Manchurian grassland (China, Mongolia, Russia)
- Pontic steppe (Moldova, Romania, Russia, Ukraine)
- Sayan Intermontane steppe (Russia)
- Selenge-Orkhon forest steppe (Mongolia, Russia)
- South Siberian forest steppe (Russia)
- Altai alpine meadow and tundra (China, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Russia)
- Sayan alpine meadows and tundra (Mongolia, Russia)
- Arctic desert (Russia, Norway)
- Bering tundra (Russia)
- Cherskii-Kolyma mountain tundra (Russia)
- Chukchi Peninsula tundra (Russia)
- Kamchatka Mountain tundra and forest tundra (Russia)
- Kola Peninsula tundra (Norway, Russia)
- Northeast Siberian coastal tundra (Russia)
- Northwest Russian-Novaya Zemlya tundra (Russia)
- Novosibirsk Islands arctic desert (Russia)
- Taimyr-Central Siberian tundra (Russia)
- Trans-Baikal Bald Mountain tundra (Russia)
- Wrangel Island arctic desert (Russia)
- Yamalagydanskaja tundra (Russia)
- Caspian lowland desert (Iran, Kazakhstan, Russia, Turkmenistan)
- Great Lakes Basin desert steppe (Mongolia, Russia)
Freshwater
Marine
(no provinces identified)
- Beaufort Sea-continental coast and shelf
- Chukchi Sea
- Eastern Bering Sea
- East Siberian Sea
- Laptev Sea
- Kara Sea
- North and East Barents Sea
- White Sea
Temperate Northern Atlantic
Northern European Seas
- Northern Norway and Finnmark
- Baltic Sea
Cold Temperate Northwest Pacific
- Sea of Okhotsk
- Kamchatka Shelf and Coast
- Northern Honshu
- Sea of Japan
Cold Temperate Northeast Pacific
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, [1] Archived 2012-09-17 at the Wayback Machine.