List of ecoregions in Turkey
The following is a list of ecoregions in Turkey, according to the Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF):
Terrestrial
Palearctic
Temperate broadleaf and mixed forests
- Balkan mixed forests (Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Turkey)
- Caucasus mixed forests (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Russia, Turkey)
- Central Anatolian deciduous forests (Turkey)
- Eastern Anatolian deciduous forests (Turkey)
- Euxine-Colchic deciduous forests (Georgia, Turkey)
- Zagros Mountains forest steppe (Iran, Iraq, Turkey)
Temperate coniferous forests
Temperate grasslands, savannas and shrublands
Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub
- Aegean and Western Turkey sclerophyllous and mixed forests (Greece, Macedonia, Turkey)
- Anatolian conifer and deciduous mixed forests (Turkey)
- Eastern Mediterranean conifer-sclerophyllous-broadleaf forests (Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey)
- Southern Anatolian montane conifer and deciduous forests (Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey)
References
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- Ricketts, Taylor H., Eric Dinerstein, David M. Olson, Colby J. Loucks, et al. (1999). Terrestrial Ecoregions of North America: a Conservation Assessment. Island Press, Washington DC.
- 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.
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