Ecoregions

179 WWF terrestrial ecoregions

Biodiversity Heatmap

Species count by biogeographic realm and taxonomic class

Realm	Acidimicrobiia	Acidobacteriae	Aconoidasida	Actinomycetia	Actinopterygii	Aenigmatarchaeia	Agaricomycetes	Alphaproteobacteria
Afrotropic	—	—	1	—	—	—	1	—
Australasia	—	—	—	—	1	—	—	—
Indomalaya	—	—	—	—	1	—	1	—
Nearctic	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Neotropic	—	—	—	—	—	—	1	—
Oceania	—	—	—	—	1	—	—	—
Palearctic	—	—	—	—	1	—	1	—
Antarctic	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—

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Deserts & Xeric Shrublands (14)

Araya and Paria xeric scrub

Neotropic 5260 km²

Atacama desert

Neotropic 104904 km²

Cuban cactus scrub

Neotropic 3256 km²

Galápagos Islands xeric scrub

Neotropic 7978 km²

Guajira-Barranquilla xeric scrub

Neotropic 31477 km²

La Costa xeric shrublands

Neotropic 68181 km²

Malpelo Island xeric scrub

Neotropic 8 km²

Motagua Valley thornscrub

Neotropic 2328 km²

San Lucan xeric scrub

Neotropic 3867 km²

Sechura desert

Neotropic 184213 km²

Tehuacán Valley matorral

Neotropic 9862 km²

St. Peter and St. Paul Rocks

Neotropic 6 km²

Caribbean shrublands

Neotropic 3118 km²

Paraguaná xeric scrub

Neotropic 15909 km²

Flooded Grasslands & Savannas (8)

Cuban wetlands

Neotropic 5647 km²

Enriquillo wetlands

Neotropic 628 km²

Guayaquil flooded grasslands

Neotropic 2924 km²

Orinoco wetlands

Neotropic 5988 km²

Pantanal

Neotropic 170501 km²

Paraná flooded savanna

Neotropic 37097 km²

Southern Cone Mesopotamian savanna

Neotropic 26866 km²

Everglades flooded grasslands

Neotropic 19808 km²

Mangroves (7)

Amazon-Orinoco-Southern Caribbean mangroves

Neotropic 40894 km²

Bahamian-Antillean mangroves

Neotropic 21907 km²

Mesoamerican Gulf-Caribbean mangroves

Neotropic 26658 km²

Northern Mesoamerican Pacific mangroves

Neotropic 8174 km²

South American Pacific mangroves

Neotropic 13461 km²

Southern Atlantic Brazilian mangroves

Neotropic 10025 km²

Southern Mesoamerican Pacific mangroves

Neotropic 7827 km²

Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands & Scrub (1)

Chilean Matorral

Neotropic 148381 km²

Montane Grasslands & Shrublands (9)

Central Andean dry puna

Neotropic 254930 km²

Central Andean puna

Neotropic 211478 km²

Central Andean wet puna

Neotropic 116874 km²

Cordillera Central páramo

Neotropic 12120 km²

Cordillera de Merida páramo

Neotropic 2798 km²

Northern Andean páramo

Neotropic 29810 km²

Santa Marta páramo

Neotropic 1239 km²

Southern Andean steppe

Neotropic 124779 km²

High Monte

Neotropic 116569 km²

Temperate Broadleaf & Mixed Forests (4)

Juan Fernández Islands temperate forests

Neotropic 146 km²

Magellanic subpolar forests

Neotropic 164642 km²

San Félix-San Ambrosio Islands temperate forests

Neotropic 6 km²

Valdivian temperate forests

Neotropic 248398 km²

Temperate Grasslands, Savannas & Shrublands (4)

Humid Pampas

Neotropic 398559 km²

Patagonian steppe

Neotropic 576598 km²

Espinal

Neotropic 298733 km²

Low Monte

Neotropic 353637 km²

Tropical & Subtropical Coniferous Forests (8)

Central American pine-oak forests

Neotropic 110942 km²

Cuban pine forests

Neotropic 6405 km²

Hispaniolan pine forests

Neotropic 11560 km²

Sierra de la Laguna pine-oak forests

Neotropic 1061 km²

Sierra Madre de Oaxaca pine-oak forests

Neotropic 14298 km²

Sierra Madre del Sur pine-oak forests

Neotropic 60973 km²

Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt pine-oak forests

Neotropic 92026 km²

Bahamian pineyards

Neotropic 6870 km²

Tropical & Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests (32)

Maranhão Babaçu forests

Neotropic 141635 km²

Apure-Villavicencio dry forests

Neotropic 68245 km²

Bajío dry forests

Neotropic 37384 km²

Balsas dry forests

Neotropic 62247 km²

Bolivian montane dry forests

Neotropic 72780 km²

Cauca Valley dry forests

Neotropic 7313 km²

Central American dry forests

Neotropic 67773 km²

Chiapas Depression dry forests

Neotropic 13974 km²

Chiquitano dry forests

Neotropic 229767 km²

Cuban dry forests

Neotropic 65745 km²

Ecuadorian dry forests

Neotropic 21187 km²

Hispaniolan dry forests

Neotropic 15446 km²

Islas Revillagigedo dry forests

Neotropic 213 km²

Jalisco dry forests

Neotropic 26050 km²

Jamaican dry forests

Neotropic 2310 km²

Lara-Falcón dry forests

Neotropic 16870 km²

Magdalena Valley dry forests

Neotropic 19549 km²

Maracaibo dry forests

Neotropic 30085 km²

Panamanian dry forests

Neotropic 5087 km²

Patía valley dry forests

Neotropic 2261 km²

Puerto Rican dry forests

Neotropic 1271 km²

Sierra de la Laguna dry forests

Neotropic 3975 km²

Sinaloan dry forests

Neotropic 77362 km²

Sinú Valley dry forests

Neotropic 24879 km²

Southern Pacific dry forests

Neotropic 42282 km²

Tumbes-Piura dry forests

Neotropic 41100 km²

Veracruz dry forests

Neotropic 6616 km²

Yucatán dry forests

Neotropic 49623 km²

Brazilian Atlantic dry forests

Neotropic 114660 km²

Lesser Antillean dry forests

Neotropic 637 km²

Trinidad and Tobago dry forest

Neotropic 270 km²

Caatinga

Neotropic 731320 km²

Tropical & Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas & Shrublands (11)

Miskito pine forests

Neotropic 18854 km²

Beni savanna

Neotropic 125589 km²

Campos Rupestres montane savanna

Neotropic 26313 km²

Cerrado

Neotropic 1910038 km²

Clipperton Island shrub and grasslands

Neotropic 29 km²

Humid Chaco

Neotropic 291592 km²

Llanos

Neotropic 375787 km²

Uruguayan savanna

Neotropic 352496 km²

Belizian pine savannas

Neotropic 2822 km²

Dry Chaco

Neotropic 786789 km²

Guianan savanna

Neotropic 104496 km²

Tropical & Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests (81)

Araucaria moist forests

Neotropic 215673 km²

Atlantic Coast restingas

Neotropic 7850 km²

Bahia coastal forests

Neotropic 109305 km²

Bahia interior forests

Neotropic 229241 km²

Bolivian Yungas

Neotropic 90229 km²

Caatinga Enclaves moist forests

Neotropic 4776 km²

Caqueta moist forests

Neotropic 183358 km²

Catatumbo moist forests

Neotropic 22753 km²

Cauca Valley montane forests

Neotropic 31915 km²

Cayos Miskitos-San Andrés and Providencia moist forests

Neotropic 95 km²

Central American Atlantic moist forests

Neotropic 89450 km²

Central American montane forests

Neotropic 13251 km²

Chiapas montane forests

Neotropic 5759 km²

Chimalapas montane forests

Neotropic 2077 km²

Chocó-Darién moist forests

Neotropic 73305 km²

Cocos Island moist forests

Neotropic 25 km²

Cordillera La Costa montane forests

Neotropic 14282 km²

Cordillera Oriental montane forests

Neotropic 67577 km²

Costa Rican seasonal moist forests

Neotropic 10653 km²

Cuban moist forests

Neotropic 21339 km²

Eastern Cordillera Real montane forests

Neotropic 102062 km²

Eastern Panamanian montane forests

Neotropic 3031 km²

Fernando de Noronha-Atol das Rocas moist forests

Neotropic 19 km²

Hispaniolan moist forests

Neotropic 45814 km²

Isthmian-Atlantic moist forests

Neotropic 58359 km²

Isthmian-Pacific moist forests

Neotropic 29176 km²

Jamaican moist forests

Neotropic 8270 km²

Juruá-Purus moist forests

Neotropic 241493 km²

Leeward Islands moist forests

Neotropic 986 km²

Madeira-Tapajós moist forests

Neotropic 716682 km²

Magdalena Valley montane forests

Neotropic 104598 km²

Magdalena-Urabá moist forests

Neotropic 76440 km²

Mato Grosso tropical dry forests

Neotropic 412314 km²

Napo moist forests

Neotropic 250591 km²

Negro-Branco moist forests

Neotropic 200932 km²

Alto Paraná Atlantic forests

Neotropic 482879 km²

Oaxacan montane forests

Neotropic 7577 km²

Guianan freshwater swamp forests

Neotropic 7690 km²

Guianan Highlands moist forests

Neotropic 145961 km²

Guianan lowland moist forests

Neotropic 476153 km²

Guianan piedmont moist forests

Neotropic 229836 km²

Gurupa várzea

Neotropic 9881 km²

Iquitos várzea

Neotropic 114506 km²

Orinoco Delta swamp forests

Neotropic 28028 km²

Japurá-Solimões-Negro moist forests

Neotropic 268444 km²

Pantanos de Centla

Neotropic 17153 km²

Marajó várzea

Neotropic 88305 km²

Monte Alegre várzea

Neotropic 66506 km²

Northeast Brazil restingas

Neotropic 10011 km²

Northwest Andean montane forests

Neotropic 80806 km²

Pantepui forests & shrublands

Neotropic 50675 km²

Purus várzea

Neotropic 176760 km²

Sierra Madre de Chiapas moist forests

Neotropic 11218 km²

Solimões-Japurá moist forests

Neotropic 166931 km²

Trindade-Martin Vaz Islands tropical forests

Neotropic 9 km²

Pernambuco coastal forests

Neotropic 17502 km²

Trinidad and Tobago moist forest

Neotropic 4722 km²

Uatumã-Trombetas moist forests

Neotropic 470048 km²

Pernambuco interior forests

Neotropic 22597 km²

Peruvian Yungas

Neotropic 185962 km²

Petén-Veracruz moist forests

Neotropic 148595 km²

Puerto Rican moist forests

Neotropic 7504 km²

Purus-Madeira moist forests

Neotropic 173261 km²

Rio Negro campinarana

Neotropic 95986 km²

Santa Marta montane forests

Neotropic 4766 km²

Serra do Mar coastal forests

Neotropic 104610 km²

Sierra de los Tuxtlas

Neotropic 3890 km²

Southern Andean Yungas

Neotropic 75152 km²

Southwest Amazon moist forests

Neotropic 746653 km²

Talamancan montane forests

Neotropic 16274 km²

Tapajós-Xingu moist forests

Neotropic 335099 km²

Tocantins/Pindare moist forests

Neotropic 192766 km²

Ucayali moist forests

Neotropic 114443 km²

Venezuelan Andes montane forests

Neotropic 29269 km²

Veracruz moist forests

Neotropic 68946 km²

Veracruz montane forests

Neotropic 4942 km²

Western Ecuador moist forests

Neotropic 33954 km²

Windward Islands moist forests

Neotropic 2014 km²

Xingu-Tocantins-Araguaia moist forests

Neotropic 265072 km²

Yucatán moist forests

Neotropic 69482 km²

Marañón dry forests

Neotropic 11322 km²