List of ecoregions in Slovenia

The following is a list of ecoregions in Slovenia as identified by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF).

Terrestrial edit

Slovenia is in the Palearctic realm. Ecoregions are listed by biome.

Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub edit

Temperate broadleaf and mixed forests edit

Temperate coniferous forests edit

Freshwater edit

  • Dalmatia
  • Dniester - Lower Danube
  • Gulf of Venice drainages
  • Upper Danube

Marine edit

Slovenia's coastline is in the Temperate Northern Atlantic marine realm, and the Mediterranean Sea marine province.

References 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.