List of ecoregions in India
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 ecoregions[edit]
Freshwater ecoregions[edit]
- 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 ecoregions[edit]
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 India[edit]
Terrestrial[edit]
- 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 also[edit]
External links[edit]
References[edit]
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