The following is a list of ecoregions in Russia, according to the Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF):
Russia's 49 outlined terrestrial ecoregions, each of a colored biome, stretch across the Palearctic realm of Eurasia. Russia contains 8 of 14 terrestrial biomes, or major habitat types, as defined by Olson & Dinerstein, et al. (2001).[1]
Rock and Ice, or Abiotic Land Zones
Terrestrial
Temperate broadleaf and mixed forests
- Caucasus mixed forests (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Russia, Turkey)
- Central European mixed forests (Austria, Belarus, Czech Republic, Germany, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Ukraine)
- Crimean Submediterranean forest complex (Russia, Ukraine)
- East European forest steppe (Bulgaria, Moldova, Romania, Russia, Ukraine)
- Manchurian mixed forests (China, Russia, North Korea, South Korea)
- Sarmatic mixed forests (Belarus, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Russia, Sweden)
- South Sakhalin-Kurile mixed forests (Russia)
- Ussuri broadleaf and mixed forests (Russia)
- West Siberian broadleaf and mixed forests (Russia)
Temperate coniferous forests
Boreal forests/taiga
- East Siberian taiga (Russia)
- Kamchatka-Kurile meadows and sparse forests (Russia)
- Kamchatka-Kurile taiga (Russia)
- Northeast Siberian taiga (Russia)
- Okhotsk-Manchurian taiga (Russia)
- Sakhalin Island taiga (Russia)
- Scandinavian and Russian taiga (Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden)
- Trans-Baikal conifer forests (Mongolia, Russia)
- Urals montane tundra and taiga (Russia)
- West Siberian taiga (Russia)
Temperate grasslands, savannas and shrublands
- Daurian forest steppe (China, Mongolia, Russia)
- Kazakh forest steppe (Kazakhstan, Russia)
- Kazakh steppe (Kazakhstan, Russia)
- Mongolian-Manchurian grassland (China, Mongolia, Russia)
- Pontic steppe (Moldova, Romania, Russia, Ukraine)
- Sayan Intermontane steppe (Russia)
- Selenge-Orkhon forest steppe (Mongolia, Russia)
- South Siberian forest steppe (Russia)
Flooded grasslands and savannas
Montane grasslands and shrublands
Tundra
- Arctic desert (Russia, Norway)
- Bering tundra (Russia)
- Cherskii-Kolyma mountain tundra (Russia)
- Chukchi Peninsula tundra (Russia)
- Kamchatka mountain tundra and forest tundra (Russia)
- Kola Peninsula tundra (Norway, Russia)
- Northeast Siberian coastal tundra (Russia)
- Northwest Russian-Novaya Zemlya tundra (Russia)
- Novosibirsk Islands arctic desert (Russia)
- Taimyr-Central Siberian tundra (Russia)
- Trans-Baikal Bald Mountain tundra (Russia)
- Wrangel Island arctic desert (Russia)
- Yamalagydanskaja tundra (Russia)
Deserts and xeric shrublands
Freshwater
Marine
Arctic realm
(no provinces identified)
Temperate Northern Atlantic
Northern European Seas
Temperate Northern Pacific
Cold Temperate Northwest Pacific
Cold Temperate Northeast Pacific
References
- Olson, D. M., Dinerstein, E., Wikramanayake, E. D., Burgess, N. D., Powell, G. V. N., Underwood, E. C., D'Amico, J. A., Itoua, I., Strand, H. E., Morrison, J. C., Loucks, C. J., Allnutt, T. F., Ricketts, T. H., Kura, Y., Lamoreux, J. F., Wettengel, W. W., Hedao, P., Kassem, K. R. (2001). Terrestrial ecoregions of the world: a new map of life on Earth. Bioscience 51(11):933–938, Archived 2012-09-17 at the Wayback Machine.