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- ↑ "Peninsular Malaysian montane rain forests". Terrestrial Ecoregions. World Wildlife Fund. Retrieved 2010-11-06.
- ↑ "Peninsular Malaysian peat swamp forests". Terrestrial Ecoregions. World Wildlife Fund. Retrieved 2010-11-06.
- ↑ World Wildlife Fund, ed. (2001). "Peninsular Malaysian rain forests". WildWorld Ecoregion Profile. National Geographic Society. Archived from the original on 2010-03-08. Retrieved 2010-11-06.
- ↑ "Peninsular Malaysian rain forests". Terrestrial Ecoregions. World Wildlife Fund. Retrieved 2010-11-06.
- ↑ "WWF - List of Ecoregions". Wwf.panda.org. Retrieved 2010-11-06.
- ↑ 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