List of ecoregions in India
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The Himalaya, which runs across India's northern tier, is the boundary between two of the Earth's great biogeographic realms — the Palearctic, which covers most of temperate-to-arctic Eurasia, and Indomalaya, which covers most of the Indian subcontinent and extends into Indochina, Sundaland (Malaysia and western Indonesia) and the Philippines.
Terrestrial ecoregionsEdit
Freshwater ecoregionsEdit
- Upper Indus
- Indus Himalayan Foothills
- Lower & Middle Indus
- Ganges Himalayan Foothills
- Middle Brahmaputra
- Chin Hills - Arakan Coast
- Ganges Delta & Plain
- Narmada - Tapti
- Northern Deccan Plateau
- Southern Deccan Plateau
- Southeastern Ghats
- Western Ghats
Marine ecoregionsEdit
India's seas are in the Western Indo-Pacific marine realm
- West and South Indian Shelf province
- Western India
- South India and Sri Lanka
- Central Indian Ocean Islands province
- Maldives
- Bay of Bengal province
- Eastern India
- Northern Bay of Bengal
- Andaman province
- Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Global 200 ecoregions in IndiaEdit
TerrestrialEdit
- Chota Nagpur dry deciduous forests (India)
- Eastern Deccan Plateau moist forests (India)
- Eastern Himalayan alpine meadows (Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal)
- Eastern Himalayan broadleaf forests (Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal)
- Himalayan subtropical pine forests (Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan)
- Naga-Manipuri-Chin hills moist forests (India)
- Northeast India-Myanmar pine forests (India, Myanmar)
- Rann of Kutch seasonal salt marsh (India, Pakistan)
- South Western Ghats moist deciduous forests (India)
- Sundarbans mangroves (Bangladesh, India)
- Terai-Duar savannas and grasslands (Bhutan, India, Nepal)
- Tibetan Plateau alpine shrublands and meadows (Afghanistan, China, India, Pakistan, Tajikistan)
- Western Himalayan broadleaf forests (Afghanistan, India, Nepal, Pakistan)
See alsoEdit
External linksEdit
ReferencesEdit
- 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].