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List of palearctic ecoregions

Table of contents
1 Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
2 Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests
3 Temperate Coniferous Forests
4 Boreal Forests/Taiga
5 Temperate Grasslands, Savannas and Shrublands
6 Flooded Grasslands and Savannas
7 Montane Grasslands and Shrublands
8 Tundra
9 Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands, and Shrub
10 Deserts and Xeric Shrublands

Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests

PA0101 : Gizhou Plateau broadleaf and mixed forests
PA0102 : Yunnan Plateau subtropical evergreen forests

Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests

PA0401 : Appenine deciduous montane forests
PA0402 : Atlantic mixed forests
PA0403 : Azores temperate mixed forests
PA0404 : Balkan mixed forests
PA0405 : Baltic mixed forests
PA0406 : Cantabrian mixed forests
PA0407 : Caspian Hyrcanian mixed forests
PA0408 : Caucasus mixed forests
PA0409 : Celtic broadleaf forests
PA0410 : Central Anatolian deciduous forests
PA0411 : Central China loess plateau mixed forests
PA0412 : Central European mixed forests
PA0413 : Central Korean deciduous forests
PA0414 : Changbai Mountains mixed forests
PA0415 : Changjiang Plain evergreen forests
PA0416 : Crimean Submediterranean forest complex
PA0417 : Daba Mountains evergreen forests
PA0418 : Dinaric Mountains mixed forests
PA0419 : East European forest steppe
PA0420 : Eastern Anatolian deciduous forests
PA0421 : English Lowlands beech forests
PA0422 : Euxine-Colchic deciduous forests
PA0423 : Hokkaido deciduous forests
PA0424 : Huang He Plain mixed forests
PA0425 : Madeira evergreen forests
PA0426 : Manchurian mixed forests
PA0427 : Nihonkai evergreen forests
PA0428 : Nihonkai montane deciduous forests
PA0429 : North Atlantic moist mixed forests
PA0430 : Northeast China Plain deciduous forests
PA0431 : Pannonian mixed forests
PA0432 : Po Basin mixed forests
PA0433 : Pyrenees conifer and mixed forests
PA0434 : Qin Ling Mountains deciduous forests
PA0435 : Rodope montane mixed forests
PA0436 : Sarmatic mixed forests
PA0437 : Sichuan Basin evergreen broadleaf forests
PA0438 : South Sakhalin-Kurile mixed forests
PA0439 : Southern Korea evergreen forests
PA0440 : Taiheiyo evergreen forests
PA0441 : Taiheiyo montane deciduous forests
PA0442 : Tarim Basin deciduous forests and steppe
PA0443 : Ussuri broadleaf and mixed forests
PA0444 : West Siberian broadleaf and mixed forests
PA0445 : Western European broadleaf forests
PA0446 : Zagros Mountains forest steppe

Temperate Coniferous Forests

PA0501 : Alps conifer and mixed forests
PA0502 : Altai montane forest and forest steppe
PA0503 : Caledon conifer forests
PA0504 : Carpathian montane conifer forests
PA0505 : Da Hinggan-Dzhagdy Mountains conifer forests
PA0506 : East Afghan montane conifer forests
PA0507 : Elburz Range forest steppe
PA0508 : Helanshan montane conifer forests
PA0509 : Hengduan Mountains subalpine conifer forests
PA0510 : Hokkaido montane conifer forests
PA0511 : Honshu alpine conifer forests
PA0512 : Khangai Mountains conifer forests
PA0513 : Mediterranean conifer and mixed forests
PA0514 : Northeastern Himalayan subalpine conifer forests
PA0515 : Northern Anatolian conifer and deciduous forests
PA0516 : Nujiang Langcang Gorge alpine conifer and mixed forests
PA0517 : Qilian Mountains conifer forests
PA0518 : Qionglai-Minshan conifer forests
PA0519 : Sayan montane conifer forests
PA0520 : Scandinavian coastal conifer forests
PA0521 : Tian Shan montane conifer forests

Boreal Forests/Taiga

PA0601 : East Siberian taiga
PA0602 : Iceland boreal birch forests and alpine tundra
PA0603 : Kamchatka-Kurile meadows and sparse forests
PA0604 : Kamchatka-Kurile taiga
PA0605 : Northeast Siberian taiga
PA0606 : Okhotsk-Manchurian taiga
PA0607 : Sakhalin Island taiga
PA0608 : Scandinavian and Russian taiga
PA0609 : Trans-Baikal conifer forests
PA0610 : Urals montane tundra and taiga
PA0611 : West Siberian taiga

Temperate Grasslands, Savannas and Shrublands

PA0801 : Alai-Western Tian Shan steppe
PA0802 : Altai steppe and semi-desert
PA0803 : Central Anatolian steppe
PA0804 : Daurian forest steppe
PA0805 : Eastern Anatolian montane steppe
PA0806 : Emin Valley steppe
PA0807 : Faroe Islands boreal grasslands
PA0808 : Gissaro-Alai open woodlands
PA0809 : Kazakh forest steppe
PA0810 : Kazakh steppe
PA0811 : Kazakh upland
PA0812 : Middle East steppe
PA0813 : Mongolian-Manchurian grassland
PA0814 : Pontic steppe
PA0815 : Sayan Intermontane steppe
PA0816 : Selenge-Orkhon forest steppe
PA0817 : South Siberian forest steppe
PA0818 : Tian Shan foothill arid steppe

Flooded Grasslands and Savannas

PA0901 : Amur meadow steppe
PA0902 : Bohai Sea saline meadow
PA0903 : Nenjiang River grassland
PA0904 : Nile Delta flooded savanna
PA0905 : Saharan halophytics
PA0906 :
Tigris-Euphrates alluvial salt marsh
PA0907 : Ussuri-Wusuli meadow and forest meadow
PA0908 : Yellow Sea saline meadow

Montane Grasslands and Shrublands

PA1001 : Altai alpine meadow and tundra
PA1002 : Central Tibetan Plateau alpine steppe
PA1003 : Eastern Himalayan alpine shrub and meadows
PA1004 : Ghorat-Hazarajat alpine meadow
PA1005 : Hindu Kush alpine meadow
PA1006 : Karakoram-West Tibetan Plateau alpine steppe
PA1007 : Khangai Mountains alpine meadow
PA1008 : Kopet Dag woodlands and forest steppe
PA1009 : Kuhrud-Kohbanan Mountains forest steppe
PA1010 : Mediterranean High Atlas juniper steppe
PA1011 : North Tibetan Plateau-Kunlun Mountains alpine desert
PA1012 : Northwestern Himalayan alpine shrub and meadows
PA1013 : Ordos Plateau steppe
PA1014 : Pamir alpine desert and tundra
PA1015 : Qilian Mountains subalpine meadows
PA1016 : Sayan Alpine meadows and tundra
PA1017 : Southeast Tibet shrub and meadows
PA1018 : Sulaiman Range alpine meadows
PA1019 : Tian Shan montane steppe and meadows
PA1020 : Tibetan Plateau alpine shrub and meadows
PA1021 : Western Himalayan alpine shrub and meadows
PA1022 : Yarlung Zambo arid steppe

Tundra

PA1101 : Arctic desert
PA1102 : Bering tundra
PA1103 : Cherskii-Kolyma mountain tundra
PA1104 : Chukchi Peninsula tundra
PA1105 : Kamchatka Mountain tundra and forest tundra
PA1106 : Kola Peninsula tundra
PA1107 : Northeast Siberian coastal tundra
PA1108 : Northwest Russian-Novaya Zemlya tundra
PA1109 : Novosibirsk Islands arctic desert
PA1110 : Scandinavian Montane Birch forest and grasslands
PA1111 : Taimyr-Central Siberian tundra
PA1112 : Trans-Baikal Bald Mountain tundra
PA1113 : Wrangel Island arctic desert
PA1114 : Yamalagydanskaja tundra

Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands, and Shrub

PA1201 : Aegean and Western Turkey sclerophyllous and mixed forests
PA1202 : Anatolian conifer and deciduous mixed forests
PA1203 : Canary Islands dry woodlands and forests
PA1204 : Corsican montane broadleaf and mixed forests
PA1205 : Crete Mediterranean forests
PA1206 : Cyprus Mediterranean forests
PA1207 : Eastern Mediterranean conifer-sclerophyllous-broadleaf forests
PA1208 : Iberian conifer forests
PA1209 : Iberian sclerophyllous and semi-deciduous forests
PA1210 : Illyrian deciduous forests
PA1211 : Italian sclerophyllous and semi-deciduous forests
PA1212 : Mediterranean acacia-argania dry woodlands and succulent thickets
PA1213 : Mediterranean dry woodlands and steppe
PA1214 : Mediterranean woodlands and forests
PA1215 : Northeastern Spain and Southern France Mediterranean forests
PA1216 : Northwest Iberian montane forests
PA1217 : Pindus Mountains mixed forests
PA1218 : South Appenine mixed montane forests
PA1219 : Southeastern Iberian shrubs and woodlands
PA1220 : Southern Anatolian montane conifer and deciduous forests
PA1221 : Southwest Iberian Mediterranean sclerophyllous and mixed forests
PA1222 : Tyrrhenian-Adriatic sclerophyllous and mixed forests

Deserts and Xeric Shrublands

PA1301 : Afghan Mountains semi-desert
PA1302 : Alashan Plateau semi-desert
PA1303 :
Arabian Desert and East Sahero-Arabian xeric shrublands
PA1304 : Atlantic coastal desert
PA1305 : Azerbaijan shrub desert and steppe
PA1306 : Badkhiz-Karabil semi-desert
PA1307 : Baluchistan xeric woodlands
PA1308 : Caspian lowland desert
PA1309 : Central Afghan Mountains xeric woodlands
PA1310 : Central Asian northern desert
PA1311 : Central Asian riparian woodlands
PA1312 : Central Asian southern desert
PA1313 : Central Persian desert basins
PA1314 : Eastern Gobi desert steppe
PA1315 : Gobi Lakes Valley desert steppe
PA1316 : Great Lakes Basin desert steppe
PA1317 : Junggar Basin semi-desert
PA1318 : Kazakh semi-desert
PA1319 : Kopet Dag semi-desert
PA1320 : Mesopotamian shrub desert
PA1321 : North Saharan steppe and woodlands
PA1322 : Paropamisus xeric woodlands
PA1323 : Persian Gulf desert and semi-desert
PA1324 : Qaidam Basin semi-desert
PA1325 : Red Sea Nubo-Sindian tropical desert and semi-desert
PA1326 : Rigestan-North Pakistan sandy desert
PA1327 : Sahara Desert
PA1328 : South Iran Nubo-Sindian desert and semi-desert
PA1329 : South Saharan steppe and woodlands
PA1330 : Taklimakan desert
PA1331 : Tibesti-Jebel Uweinat montane xeric woodlands
PA1332 : West Saharan montane xeric woodlands

See also : Palearctic