List of marine ecoregions (WWF)
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This is a list of marine ecoregions as compiled by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). The WWF identifies terrestrial, freshwater, and marine ecoregions.
The WWF/Nature Conservancy scheme for marine ecoregions groups the individual ecoregions into 12 marine realms, which represent the broad latitudinal divisions of polar, temperate, and tropical seas, with subdivisions based on ocean basins. The marine realms are subdivided into 62 marine provinces, which include one or more of the 232 marine ecoregions. The WWF/Nature Conservancy scheme currently encompasses only coastal and continental shelf areas; ecoregions of the deep oceans have not yet been delineated.
Contents
- 1 Arctic realm
- 2 Temperate Northern Atlantic
- 3 Temperate Northern Pacific
- 4 Tropical Atlantic
- 5 Western Indo-Pacific
- 6 Central Indo-Pacific
- 6.1 South China Sea
- 6.2 Sunda Shelf
- 6.3 Java Transitional
- 6.4 South Kuroshio
- 6.5 Tropical Northwestern Pacific
- 6.6 Western Coral Triangle
- 6.7 Eastern Coral Triangle
- 6.8 Sahul Shelf
- 6.9 Northeast Australian Shelf
- 6.10 Northwest Australian Shelf
- 6.11 Tropical Southwestern Pacific
- 6.12 Lord Howe and Norfolk Islands
- 7 Eastern Indo-Pacific
- 8 Tropical Eastern Pacific
- 9 Temperate South America
- 10 Temperate Southern Africa
- 11 Temperate Australasia
- 12 Southern Ocean
- 13 See also
- 14 References
Arctic realm
(no provinces identified)
- North Greenland
- North and East Iceland
- East Greenland Shelf
- West Greenland Shelf
- Northern Grand Banks-Southern Labrador
- Northern Labrador
- Baffin Bay-Davis Strait
- Hudson Complex
- Lancaster Sound
- High Arctic Archipelago
- Beaufort-Admunsen-Viscount Melville-Queen Maud
- 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
- South and West Iceland
- Faroe Plateau
- Southern Norway
- Northern Norway and Finnmark
- Baltic Sea
- North Sea
- Celtic Seas
Lusitanian
Mediterranean Sea
- Adriatic Sea
- Aegean Sea
- Levantine Sea
- Tunisian Plateau/Gulf of Sidra
- Ionian Sea
- Western Mediterranean
- Alboran Sea
Cold Temperate Northwest Atlantic
- Gulf of St. Lawrence-Eastern Scotian Shelf
- Southern Grand Banks-South Newfoundland
- Scotian Shelf
- Gulf of Maine-Bay of Fundy
- Virginian
Warm Temperate Northwest Atlantic
- Carolinian
- Northern Gulf of Mexico
Black Sea
Temperate Northern Pacific
Cold Temperate Northwest Pacific
Warm Temperate Northwest Pacific
Cold Temperate Northeast Pacific
- Aleutian Islands
- Gulf of Alaska
- North American Pacific Fjordland
- Puget Trough/Georgia Basin
- Oregon, Washington, Vancouver Coast and Shelf
- Northern California
Warm Temperate Northeast Pacific
Tropical Atlantic
Tropical Northwestern Atlantic
- Bermuda
- Bahamian
- Eastern Caribbean
- Greater Antilles
- Southern Caribbean
- Southwestern Caribbean
- Western Caribbean
- Southern Gulf of Mexico
- Floridian
North Brazil Shelf
- Guianian
- Amazonia
Tropical Southwestern Atlantic
- Sao Pedro and Sao Paulo Islands
- Fernando de Noronha and Atol das Rocas
- Northeastern Brazil
- Eastern Brazil
- Trindade and Martin Vaz Islands
St. Helena and Ascension Islands
West African Transition
Gulf of Guinea
- Gulf of Guinea West
- Gulf of Guinea Upwelling
- Gulf of Guinea Central
- Gulf of Guinea Islands
- Gulf of Guinea South
- Angolan
Western Indo-Pacific
Red Sea and Gulf of Aden
Somali/Arabian
Western Indian Ocean
- Northern Monsoon Current Coast
- East African Coral Coast
- Seychelles
- Cargados Carajos/Tromelin Island
- Mascarene Islands
- Southeast Madagascar
- Western and Northern Madagascar
- Bight of Sofala/Swamp Coast
- Delagoa
West and South Indian Shelf
- Western India
- South India and Sri Lanka
Central Indian Ocean Islands
Bay of Bengal
- Eastern India
- Northern Bay of Bengal
Andaman
- Andaman and Nicobar Islands
- Andaman Sea Coral Coast
- Western Sumatra
Central Indo-Pacific
South China Sea
- Gulf of Tonkin
- Southern China
- South China Sea Oceanic Islands
Sunda Shelf
- Gulf of Thailand
- Southern Vietnam
- Sunda Shelf/Java Sea
- Malacca Strait
Java Transitional
- Southern Java
- Cocos-Keeling/Christmas Island
South Kuroshio
- South Kuroshio
Tropical Northwestern Pacific
- Ogasawara Islands
- Mariana Islands
- East Caroline Islands
- West Caroline Islands
Western Coral Triangle
- Palawan/North Borneo
- Eastern Philippines
- Sulawesi Sea/Makassar Strait
- Halmahera
- Papua
- Banda Sea
- Lesser Sunda
- Northeast Sulawesi
Eastern Coral Triangle
- Bismarck Sea
- Solomon Archipelago
- Solomon Sea
- Southeast Papua New Guinea
Sahul Shelf
- Gulf of Papua
- Arafura Sea
- Arnhem Coast to Gulf of Carpentaria
- Bonaparte Coast
Northeast Australian Shelf
- Torres Strait and Northern Great Barrier Reef
- Central and Southern Great Barrier Reef
Northwest Australian Shelf
- Exmouth to Broome
- Ningaloo
Tropical Southwestern Pacific
Lord Howe and Norfolk Islands
- Lord Howe and Norfolk Islands
Eastern Indo-Pacific
Hawaii
Marshall, Gilbert, and Ellice Islands
Central Polynesia
Southeast Polynesia
Marquesas
Easter Island
Tropical Eastern Pacific
Tropical East Pacific
- Revillagigedos
- Clipperton
- Mexican Tropical Pacific
- Chiapas-Nicaragua
- Nicoya
- Cocos Islands
- Panama Bight
- Guayaquil
Galapagos
Temperate South America
Warm Temperate Southeastern Pacific
- Central Peru
- Humboldtian
- Central Chile
- Araucanian
Juan Fernandez and Desventuradas
Warm Temperate Southwestern Atlantic
- Southeastern Brazil
- Rio Grande
- Río de la Plata
- Uruguay-Buenos Aires Shelf
Magellanic
- North Patagonian Gulfs
- Patagonian Shelf
- Malvinas/Falklands
- Channels and Fjords of Southern Chile
- Chiloense
Tristan Gough
Temperate Southern Africa
Benguela
- Namib
- Namaqua
Agulhas
- Agulhas Bank
- Natal
Amsterdam-St Paul
Temperate Australasia
Northern New Zealand
Southern New Zealand
- Chatham Island
- Central New Zealand
- South New Zealand
- Snares Island
East Central Australian Shelf
Southeast Australian Shelf
- Cape Howe
- Bassian
- Western Bassian
Western Central Australian Shelf
- Shark Bay
- Houtman
Southern Ocean
Subantarctic Islands
- Bouvet Island
- Campbell Island
- Crozet Islands
- Diego Ramírez Islands
- Heard Island and McDonald Islands
- Kerguelen Islands
- Macquarie Island
- Peter the First Island
- Prince Edward Islands
Scotia Sea
- South Sandwich Islands
- South Georgia
- South Orkney Islands
- South Shetland Islands
- Antarctic Peninsula
Continental High Antarctic
- East Antarctic Wilkes Land
- East Antarctic Enderby Land
- East Antarctic Dronning Maud Land
- Weddell Sea
- Admunsen/Bellingshausen Sea
- Ross Sea
Subantarctic New Zealand
See also
References
- 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.
