{{Short description, none The following is a list of ecoregions in Turkey as identified by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF).

Terrestrial

Turkey is in the Palearctic realm. Ecoregions are sorted by biome.

Temperate broadleaf and mixed forests

Balkan mixed forests The Balkan mixed forests are a terrestrial ecoregion of southeastern Europe according to both the WWF and Digital Map of European Ecological Regions by the European Environment Agency. It belongs in the temperate broadleaf and mixed forests bio ...

( Bulgaria, Greece, North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Turkey) * Caucasus mixed forests ( Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Russia, Turkey) * Central Anatolian deciduous forests ( Turkey) * Eastern Anatolian deciduous forests ( Turkey) * Euxine-Colchic deciduous forests ( Georgia, Turkey, Bulgaria) * Zagros Mountains forest steppe ( Iran, Iraq, Turkey)

Temperate coniferous forests

* Northern Anatolian conifer and deciduous forests ( Turkey)

Temperate grasslands, savannas and shrublands

* Central Anatolian steppe ( Turkey) *

Eastern Anatolian montane steppe The Eastern Anatolian montane steppe is a temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands ecoregion. It is located in the Armenian Highlands, covering parts of eastern Turkey, Armenia, Azerbaijan, southern Georgia, and northwestern Iran. Geograp ...

( Armenia, Iran, Turkey)

Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub is a biome defined by the World Wide Fund for Nature. The biome is generally characterized by dry summers and rainy winters, although in some areas rainfall may be uniform. Summers are typically hot in ...

* Aegean and Western Turkey sclerophyllous and mixed forests ( Greece, North Macedonia, Turkey) * Anatolian conifer and deciduous mixed forests ( Turkey) * Eastern Mediterranean conifer-sclerophyllous-broadleaf forests ( Israel, Jordan, Lebanon,

Palestine __NOTOC__ Palestine may refer to: * State of Palestine, a state in Western Asia * Palestine (region), a geographic region in Western Asia * Palestinian territories, territories occupied by Israel since 1967, namely the West Bank (including East ...

Syria Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...

, Turkey) * Southern Anatolian montane conifer and deciduous forests ( Israel, Jordan, Lebanon,

, Turkey)

Freshwater

* Central Anatolia * Kura-South Caspian drainages *

Lake Van Lake Van ( tr, Van Gölü; hy, Վանա լիճ, translit=Vana lič̣; ku, Gola Wanê) is the largest lake in Turkey. It lies in the far east of Turkey, in the provinces of Van and Bitlis in the Armenian highlands. It is a saline soda lake ...

Northern Anatolia The Black Sea Region ( tr, Karadeniz Bölgesi) is a geographical region of Turkey. The largest city in the region is Samsun. Other big cities are Trabzon, Ordu, Tokat, Giresun, Rize, Amasya and Sinop. It is bordered by the Marmara Region to the w ...

* Orontes * Southern Anatolia *

Thrace (freshwater) Thrace (, ; bg, Тракия, Trakiya; el, Θράκη, Thráki; tr, Trakya) is a geographical and historical region in Southeast Europe. Bounded by the Balkan Mountains to the north, the Aegean Sea to the south, and the Black Sea to the ...

Upper Tigris and Euphrates Upper may refer to: * Shoe upper or ''vamp'', the part of a shoe on the top of the foot * Stimulant, drugs which induce temporary improvements in either mental or physical function or both * ''Upper'', the original film title for the 2013 found fo ...

* Western Anatolia *

Western Transcaucasia Western may refer to: Places *Western, Nebraska, a village in the US *Western, New York, a town in the US *Western Creek, Tasmania, a locality in Australia *Western Junction, Tasmania, a locality in Australia *Western world, countries that id ...

Marine

* Aegean Sea * Black Sea * Levantine Sea

References

* 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. * Ricketts, Taylor H., Eric Dinerstein, David M. Olson, Colby J. Loucks, et al. (1999). ''Terrestrial Ecoregions of North America: a Conservation Assessment''. Island Press, 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. * Thieme, Michelle L. (2005). ''Freshwater Ecoregions of Africa and Madagascar: A Conservation Assessment''. Island Press, Washington DC. Turkey

Ecoregions An ecoregion (ecological region) or ecozone (ecological zone) is an ecologically and geographically defined area that is smaller than a bioregion, which in turn is smaller than a biogeographic realm. Ecoregions cover relatively large areas of l ...