List of ecoregions in Brazil

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

Terrestrial ecoregions

Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests

Tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests

Tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands

Flooded grasslands and savannas

Deserts and xeric shrublands

Mangrove

Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests
Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests
Tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests
Tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands
Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests
Tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests
Flooded grasslands and savannas
Tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands
Deserts and xeric shrublands
Tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands

Mangroves

by mangrove complex

Amazon-Orinoco-Maranhao complex
Northeast Brazil complex
Southeast Brazil complex

Freshwater ecoregions

Guiana/Orinoco Complex

Amazon Complex

  • Amazon Delta (Brazil)
  • Amazon Main Channel (Brazil, Peru)
  • Northern Amazon Shield Tributaries (Brazil)
  • Rio Negro (Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela)
  • Upper Amazon Piedmont (Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru)
  • Western Amazon Lowlands (Bolivia, Brazil, Peru)
  • Central Brazilian Shield Tributaries (Bolivia, Brazil)
  • Tocantins-Araguaia (Brazil)

Northeast Atlantic Complex

Mata-Atlantica Complex

  • Northeast Mata-Atlantica (Brazil)
  • East Mata-Atlantica (Brazil)
  • Southeast Mata-Atlantica (Brazil)

São Francisco Complex

Upper Parana Complex

Beni Savanna (Llanos de Moxos) Complex

Paraguay-Parana Complex

Southern Atlantic Complex

  • Jacui Highlands (Brazil, Uruguay)
  • Lagoa dos Patos Coastal Plain (Brazil, Uruguay)

Marine ecoregions

by marine realm and marine province

North Brazil Shelf

Tropical Southwestern Atlantic

Warm Temperate Southwestern Atlantic

See also

References

  • Dinerstein, Eric; David Olson; Douglas J. Graham; et al. (1995). A Conservation Assessment of the Terrestrial Ecoregions of Latin America and the Caribbean. World Bank, Washington DC, .
  • Olson, D., Dinerstein, E., Canevari, P., Davidson, I., Castro, G., Morisset, V., Abell, R., and Toledo, E.; eds. (1998). Freshwater Biodiversity of Latin America and the Caribbean: A Conservation Assessment. Biodiversity Support Program, 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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