List of ecoregions in China
The following is a list of terrestrial ecoregions of the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China, according to the World Wide Fund for Nature.
The transition between two of the planet's eight ecozones – the Palearctic, which includes temperate and boreal Eurasia, and Indomalaya, which includes tropical South and Southeast Asia – extends through southern China.
Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests
- Guizhou Plateau broadleaf and mixed forests
- Hainan Island monsoon rain forests
- South China Sea Islands
- South China-Vietnam subtropical evergreen forests
- South Taiwan monsoon rain forests (Taiwan)
- Taiwan subtropical evergreen forests (Taiwan)
- Yunnan Plateau subtropical evergreen forests
Temperate broadleaf and mixed forests
- Central China loess plateau mixed forests
- Changbai Mountains mixed forests
- Changjiang Plain evergreen forests
- Daba Mountains evergreen forests
- Huang He Plain mixed forests
- Manchurian mixed forests
- Northeast China Plain deciduous forests
- Qin Ling Mountains deciduous forests
- Sichuan Basin evergreen broadleaf forests
- Tarim Basin deciduous forests and steppe
Temperate coniferous forests
- Altai montane forest and forest steppe
- Da Hinggan-Dzhagdy Mountains conifer forests
- Helanshan montane conifer forests
- Hengduan Mountains subalpine conifer forests
- Northeastern Himalayan subalpine conifer forests
- Nujiang Langcang Gorge alpine conifer and mixed forests
- Qilian Mountains conifer forests
- Qionglai-Minshan conifer forests
- Tian Shan montane conifer forests
Temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands
- Daurian forest steppe
- Emin Valley steppe
- Mongolian-Manchurian grassland
- Tian Shan foothill arid steppe
Flooded grasslands and savannas
- Amur meadow steppe
- Bohai Sea saline meadow
- Nenjiang River grassland
- Ussuri-Wusuli meadow and forest meadow
- Yellow Sea saline meadow
Montane grasslands and shrublands
- Altai alpine meadow and tundra
- Central Tibetan Plateau alpine steppe
- Eastern Himalayan alpine shrub and meadows
- Karakoram-West Tibetan Plateau alpine steppe
- North Tibetan Plateau-Kunlun Mountains alpine desert
- Northwestern Himalayan alpine shrub and meadows
- Ordos Plateau steppe
- Pamir alpine desert and tundra
- Qilian Mountains subalpine meadows
- Southeast Tibet shrub and meadows
- Tian Shan montane steppe and meadows
- Tibetan Plateau alpine shrub and meadows
- Yarlung Zambo arid steppe
Deserts and xeric shrublands
- Alashan Plateau semi-desert
- Eastern Gobi desert steppe
- Junggar Basin semi-desert
- Qaidam Basin semi-desert
- Taklimakan desert
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