List of ecoregions in the United Kingdom

The following is a list of ecoregions in the United Kingdom as identified by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF).

Terrestrial

Temperate broadleaf and mixed forests

• Celtic broadleaf forests
• English Lowlands beech forests
• North Atlantic moist mixed forests

Temperate coniferous forests

• Caledonian conifer forests

Freshwater

• Central & Western Europe
• Northern British Isles

Marine

• Celtic Seas
• North Sea

Overseas Territories

• Tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests (Anguilla)
• Leeward Islands xeric scrub (Anguilla, British Virgin Islands)
• Bermuda subtropical conifer forests (Bermuda)
• Maldives–Lakshadweep–Chagos Archipelago tropical moist forests (British Indian Ocean Territory)
• Leeward Islands moist forests (British Virgin Islands, Montserrat)
• Cayman Islands dry forests (Cayman Islands)
• Cayman Islands xeric scrub (Cayman Islands)
• Patagonian steppe (Falkland Islands)
• Southwest Iberian Mediterranean sclerophyllous and mixed forests (Gibraltar)
• Lesser Antillean dry forests (Montserrat)
• Tuamotu tropical moist forests (Pitcairn Islands)
• Ascension scrub and grasslands (Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha)
• Saint Helena scrub and woodlands (Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha)
• Tristan da Cunha–Gough Islands shrub and grasslands (Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha)
• Scotia Sea Islands tundra (South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, contested part of British Antarctic Territory)
• Bahamian dry forests (Turks and Caicos Islands)
• Bahamian pine mosaic (Turks and Caicos Islands)
• Bahamian mangroves (Turks and Caicos Islands)

References

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• 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.