List of marine ecoregions

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The following is a list of marine ecoregions, as defined by the WWF and The Nature Conservancy

The WWF/Nature Conservancy scheme 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.[a][b]

Arctic realm edit

(no provinces identified)

Temperate Northern Atlantic edit

Northern European Seas edit

Lusitanian edit

Mediterranean Sea edit

Black Sea edit

Cold Temperate Northwest Atlantic edit

Warm Temperate Northwest Atlantic edit

Temperate Northern Pacific edit

Cold Temperate Northwest Pacific edit

Warm Temperate Northwest Pacific edit

Cold Temperate Northeast Pacific edit

Warm Temperate Northeast Pacific edit

Tropical Atlantic edit

Tropical Northwestern Atlantic edit

North Brazil Shelf edit

Tropical Southwestern Atlantic edit

St. Helena and Ascension Islands edit

West African Transition edit

Gulf of Guinea edit

Western Indo-Pacific edit

Red Sea and Gulf of Aden edit

Somali/Arabian edit

Western Indian Ocean edit

West and South Indian Shelf edit

Central Indian Ocean Islands edit

Bay of Bengal edit

Andaman Sea edit

Central Indo-Pacific edit

South China Sea edit

Sunda Shelf edit

Java Transitional edit

  • Southern Java
  • Cocos-Keeling/Christmas Island

South Kuroshio edit

  • South Kuroshio

Tropical Northwestern Pacific edit

Western Coral Triangle edit

Eastern Coral Triangle edit

Sahul Shelf edit

Northeast Australian Shelf edit

Northwest Australian Shelf edit

Tropical Southwestern Pacific edit

Lord Howe and Norfolk Islands edit

  • Lord Howe and Norfolk Islands

Eastern Indo-Pacific edit

Hawaii edit

Marshall, Gilbert, and Ellice Islands edit

Central Polynesia edit

Southeast Polynesia edit

Marquesas edit

Easter Island edit

Tropical Eastern Pacific edit

Tropical East Pacific edit

Galapagos edit

Temperate South America edit

Warm Temperate Southeastern Pacific edit

Juan Fernandez and Desventuradas edit

Warm Temperate Southwestern Atlantic edit

Magellanic edit

Tristan-Gough edit

Temperate Southern Africa edit

Benguela edit

  • Namib
  • Namaqua

Agulhas edit

Amsterdam-St Paul edit

Temperate Australasia edit

Northern New Zealand edit

Southern New Zealand edit

East Central Australian Shelf edit

Southeast Australian Shelf edit

Southwest Australian Shelf edit

Western Central Australian Shelf edit

Southern Ocean edit

Subantarctic Islands edit

Scotia Sea edit

Continental High Antarctic edit

Subantarctic New Zealand edit

See also edit

Notes edit

  1. ^ One classification of the deep oceans is PPOW:
    Spalding, Mark D.; Agostini, Vera N.; Rice, Jake; Grant, Susie M. (2012). "Pelagic provinces of the world: A biogeographic classification of the world's surface pelagic waters". Ocean & Coastal Management. 60: 19–30. Bibcode:2012OCM....60...19S. doi:10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2011.12.016.  
  2. ^ Ocean-floor environments are examined in Watling, et al. 2013:
    Watling, Les; Guinotte, John; Clark, Malcolm R.; Smith, Craig R. (April 2013). "A proposed biogeography of the deep ocean floor" (PDF). Progress in Oceanography. 111: 91–112. Bibcode:2013PrOce.111...91W. doi:10.1016/j.pocean.2012.11.003.

References edit

  • 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.

External links edit