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

Terrestrial ecoregions

Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests

Borneo lowland rain forests The Borneo lowland rain forests is an ecoregion, within the tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests biome, of the large island of Borneo in Southeast Asia. It supports approximately 15,000 plant species, 380 bird species and several m ...

* Borneo montane rain forests *

Borneo peat swamp forests The Borneo peat swamp forests ecoregion, within the tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests biome, are on the island of Borneo, which is divided between Brunei, Indonesia and Malaysia. Location and description Peat swamp forests occur ...

* Peninsular Malaysian montane rain forests *

Peninsular Malaysian peat swamp forests The Peninsular Malaysian peat swamp forests is an ecoregion on Malay Peninsula, which includes portions of Malaysia. It is in the tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests biome. Setting The ecoregion covers an area of on both the eastern ...

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

Montane grasslands and shrublands

* Kinabalu montane alpine meadows

Mangroves

Indochina mangroves The Indochina mangroves are a large mangrove ecoregion on the coasts of Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam and Malaysia in Southeast Asia. Location and description Mangrove forests occur on coasts that are regularly washed with saltwater by tidal moveme ...

Myanmar coast mangroves The Burmese or Myanmar Coast mangroves are an ecoregion in Burma, Malaysia, Thailand and Bangladesh where there were once thick forests of mangroves but today most has been cleared, resulting in loss of habitat for wildlife. Location and descript ...

* Sunda Shelf mangroves

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 and

Western Indo-Pacific The Western Indo-Pacific is a biogeographic region of the Earth's seas, comprising the tropical waters of the eastern and central Indian Ocean. It is part of the larger Indo-Pacific, which includes the tropical Indian Ocean, the western and centra ...

marine realms.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 *

Malacca Strait The Strait of Malacca is a narrow stretch of water, 500 mi (800 km) long and from 40 to 155 mi (65–250 km) wide, between the Malay Peninsula (Peninsular Malaysia) to the northeast and the Indonesian island of Sumatra to the southwest, connec ...

* Palawan/North Borneo * Sunda Shelf/Java Sea

Western Indo-Pacific

* Andaman Sea Coral Coast

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