List of ecoregions in Spain
The following is a list of ecoregions in Spain, including the Canary Islands, Ceuta, Melilla, and the Plazas de soberanía, according to the Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF).
Terrestrial ecoregions
- Canary Islands dry woodlands and forests (Canary Islands)
- Iberian conifer forests
- Iberian sclerophyllous and semi-deciduous forests
- Mediterranean acacia-argania dry woodlands and succulent thickets (Canary Islands)
- Mediterranean woodlands and forests (Ceuta, Melilla, and Plazas de soberanía)
- Northeastern Spain and Southern France Mediterranean forests
- Northwest Iberian montane forests
- Southeastern Iberian shrubs and woodlands
- Southwest Iberian Mediterranean sclerophyllous and mixed forests
- Cantabrian mixed forests
- Pyrenees conifer and mixed forests
Freshwater ecoregions
- Atlantic Northwest Africa (Ceuta, Melilla, and Plazas de soberanía)
- Cantabric Coast - Languedoc
- Eastern Iberia
- Southern Iberia
- Western Iberia
Marine ecoregions
- Alboran Sea
- Azores Canaries Madeira
- South European Atlantic
- Western Mediterranean
References
- 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.
- Thieme, Michelle L. (2005). Freshwater Ecoregions of Africa and Madagascar: A Conservation Assessment. Island Press, Washington DC.
