Malaysia is a megadiverse country, with huge variety of biota.

Terrestrial ecoregions

Malaysia is in the

Indomalayan realm The Indomalayan realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms. It extends across most of South and Southeast Asia and into the southern parts of East Asia. Also called the Oriental realm by biogeographers, Indomalaya spreads all over the Indi ...

Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests

* Borneo lowland rain forests *

Borneo montane rain forests The Borneo montane rain forests are an ecoregion, of cloud forest, within the tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests biome, of the island of Borneo in Southeast Asia. Location and description This ecoregion consists of tropical moun ...

* Borneo peat swamp forests *

Peninsular Malaysian montane rain forests The Peninsular Malaysian montane rain forests is an ecoregion on Malay Peninsula. It occupies the mountainous spine of the peninsula in Malaysia and southernmost Thailand. It is in the tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests biome. G ...

* Peninsular Malaysian peat swamp forests * Peninsular Malaysian rain forests * Tenasserim-South Thailand semi-evergreen rain forests

Montane grasslands and shrublands

Kinabalu montane alpine meadows Mount Kinabalu ( ms, Gunung Kinabalu, Dusun: ''Gayo Ngaran or Nulu Nabalu'') is the highest mountain in Borneo and Malaysia. With an elevation of , it is third-highest peak of an island on Earth, and 20th most prominent mountain in the worl ...

Mangroves

* Indochina mangroves * Myanmar coast mangroves *

Sunda Shelf mangroves The Sunda Shelf mangroves ecoregion, in the mangrove biome, are on the coasts of the islands of Borneo and eastern Sumatra in Malaysia and Indonesia. They are home to the proboscis monkey. As well as being an important habitat for terrestrial ...

Freshwater ecoregions

* Borneo Highlands * Malay Peninsula Eastern Slope * Northern Central Sumatra - Western Malaysia * Northeastern Borneo * Northwestern Borneo

Marine ecoregions

Malaysia spans the transition between the

Central Indo-Pacific The Central Indo-Pacific is a biogeographic region of Earth's seas, comprising the tropical waters of the western Pacific Ocean, the eastern Indian Ocean, and the connecting seas. The Central Indo-Pacific is a part of the larger Indo-Pacific, w ...

and Western Indo-Pacific

marine realm A marine ecoregion is an ecoregion, or ecological region, of the oceans and seas identified and defined based on biogeographic characteristics. Introduction A more complete definition describes them as “Areas of relatively homogeneous species c ...

s.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

Central Indo-Pacific

Gulf of Thailand The Gulf of Thailand, also known as the Gulf of Siam, is a shallow inlet in the southwestern South China Sea, bounded between the southwestern shores of the Indochinese Peninsula and the northern half of the Malay Peninsula. It is around in l ...

* Malacca Strait * Palawan/North Borneo * Sunda Shelf/Java Sea

Western Indo-Pacific

* Andaman Sea Coral Coast

References

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