List of ecoregions in Slovenia
The following is a list of ecoregions in Slovenia as identified by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF).
Terrestrial
[edit]Slovenia is in the Palearctic realm. Ecoregions are listed by biome.
Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub
[edit]Temperate broadleaf and mixed forests
[edit]Temperate coniferous forests
[edit]Freshwater
[edit]- Dalmatia
- Dniester - Lower Danube
- Gulf of Venice drainages
- Upper Danube
Marine
[edit]Slovenia's coastline is in the Temperate Northern Atlantic marine realm, and the Mediterranean Sea marine province.
References
[edit]- Abell, R., M. Thieme, C. Revenga, M. Bryer, M. Kottelat, N. Bogutskaya, B. Coad, N. Mandrak, S. Contreras-Balderas, W. Bussing, M. L. J. Stiassny, P. Skelton, G. R. Allen, P. Unmack, A. Naseka, R. Ng, N. Sindorf, J. Robertson, E. Armijo, J. Higgins, T. J. Heibel, E. Wikramanayake, D. Olson, H. L. Lopez, R. E. d. Reis, J. G. Lundberg, M. H. Sabaj Perez, and P. Petry. (2008). Freshwater ecoregions of the world: A new map of biogeographic units for freshwater biodiversity conservation. BioScience 58:403-414, [1].
- 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.