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WWF bioregions
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A bioregion is an ecologically and geographically defined area that is smaller than an ecozone, but larger than an ecoregion or an ecosystem, in the World Wildlife Fund classification scheme. There is also an attempt to use the term in a rank-less generalist sense, similar to the terms "biogeographic area" or "biogeographic unit".^[1]

It may be conceptually similar to an ecoprovince.^[2]

It is also differently used in the environmentalist context, being coined by Berg and Dasmann (1977).^[3]^[4]

WWF bioregions

The WWF scheme further subdivides the ecozones into bioregions, defined as "geographic clusters of ecoregions that may span several habitat types, but have strong biogeographic affinities, particularly at taxonomic levels higher than the species level (genus, family)." The WWF bioregions are as follows:{{citation needed|date=June 2013}}

Afrotropic ecozone
Antarctic ecozone
Australasia ecozone{{citation needed|date=September 2016}}
- Australia
- New Caledonia
- New Guinea and East Melanesian Islands
- New Zealand
- Wallacea
Indomalaya ecozone{{citation needed|date=September 2016}}
- Indian subcontinent
- Indochina
- Sunda Shelf and Philippine Archipelago
Nearctic ecozone{{citation needed|date=September 2016}}
- Canadian Shield
- Eastern North America
- Northern Mexico and Southwestern North America
- Western North America
Neotropical ecozone^[5]
- Amazonia
- Caribbean
- Central America
- Central Andes
- Eastern South America
- Everglades
- Northern Andes
- Orinoco
- Southern South America
Oceania ecozone{{citation needed|date=September 2016}}
- Micronesia
- Polynesia
Palearctic ecozone{{citation needed|date=September 2016}}
- Asia
- East Asia north of the Himalayan system's foothills to the arctic
- Himalayan
- Tibetan Plateau steppe
- Yunnan–Guizhou Plateau
- Northeast Asia
- Russian Far East
- Central Asia - Iranian Plateau and north to the arctic.
- Temperate Asia biocountry
- Mongolian Plateau
- Eurasian Steppe
- Asian Russia (central)
- Asian-Siberian region
- Western Asia
- Arabian desert
- Mediterranean Near East (Roughly corresponds to the Levant)
- Anatolian Plateau
- Transcaucasia
- Northern Africa
- Atlantic coastal desert
- Sahara desert
- Mediterranean Maghreb
- Atlas montane
- Europe (Northern, Middle, Eastern, Southwestern, and Southeastern Europe biocountries) - Mediterranean to the arctic.
- European Mediterranean Basin
- Iberian Peninsula
- Balkan Peninsula
- North Caucasus
- Alps montane
- Carpathians
- Scandinavia
- European Russia
- Euro-Siberian region
- Macaronesia

References

1. ^Vilhena, D., Antonelli, A. (2015). A network approach for identifying and delimiting biogeographical regions. Nature Communications 6, 6848, .
2. ^http://www.ecozones.ca/english/levels.html
3. ^Berg, P. and Dasmann, R. (1977). Reinhabiting California. The Ecologist 7 (10): 399-401.
4. ^Miller, K. 1999. What is bioregional planning?. In: R. Crofts, E. Maltby, R. Smith and L. Maclean (eds). Integrated Planning: International Perspectives. Battleby, Scotland 7–9 April 1999: IUCN & Scottish Natural Heritage.
5. ^Dinerstein, E., Olson, D. Graham, D.J. et al. (1995). A Conservation Assessment of the Terrestrial Ecoregions of Latin America and the Caribbean. World Bank, Washington DC., .

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WWF bioregions

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