The continent of

Europe Europe is a large peninsula conventionally considered a continent in its own right because of its great physical size and the weight of its history and traditions. Europe is also considered a subcontinent of Eurasia and it is located entirel ...

comprise a large part of the Palearctic ecozone, with many unique

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s and

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Biogeographically Biogeography is the study of the species distribution, distribution of species and ecosystems in geography, geographic space and through evolutionary history of life, geological time. Organisms and biological community (ecology), communities of ...

, Europe is tied closely to

Siberia Siberia ( ; rus, Сибирь, r=Sibir', p=sʲɪˈbʲirʲ, a=Ru-Сибирь.ogg) is an extensive region, geographical region, constituting all of North Asia, from the Ural Mountains in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east. It has been a ...

, commonly known as the Euro-Siberian region. The

European Environmental Agency The European Environment Agency (EEA) is the agency of the European Union (EU) which provides independent information on the environment. Definition The European Environment Agency (EEA) is the agency of the European Union (EU) which provides i ...

(EEA) divides Europe into a total of eleven terrestrial biogeographical regions and seven regional seas. The agency has issued the Digital Map of European Ecological Regions (DMEER), and operates with a total of 70 ecoregions, of which 58 are within the

European continent Continental Europe or mainland Europe is the contiguous continent of Europe, excluding its surrounding islands. It can also be referred to ambiguously as the European continent, – which can conversely mean the whole of Europe – and, by ...

. Some of these ecoregions are congruent with the

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's (WWF) ecoregions, and some are not.

List of ecoregions in Europe

Below is an exhaustive list of the

s of Europe as defined by the WWF.

Global 200 ecoregions in Europe

Terrestrial

Terrestrial Global 200 ecoregions in Europe comprise three regions of Scandia alpine tundra and taiga, which is present in Finland, Norway, Russia and Sweden: * PA0608

Scandinavian and Russian taiga The Scandinavian and Russian taiga is an ecoregion within the taiga and boreal forests biome as defined by the WWF classification (ecoregion PA0608). It is situated in Northern Europe between tundra in the north and temperate mixed forests in ...

* PA1106 Kola Peninsula tundra * PA1110 Scandinavian montane birch forest and grasslands Other Global 200 ecoregions: * PA1214 Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub

Freshwater

Global 200 Large river delta ecoregions in Europe: * Volga River Delta (Kazakhstan, Russia) * Danube delta (Bulgaria, Moldova, Romania, Ukraine, Yugoslavia) Small river ecoregions: * Balkan rivers and streams (Albania, Bosnia and Herzogovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Macedonia, Turkey, Yugoslavia)

Marine

There are no marine Global 200 ecoregions in Europe.

Sources

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References

External links

*{{cite web, url=https://databasin.org/datasets/68635d7c77f1475f9b6c1d1dbe0a4c4c, title=Terrestrial Ecoregions of the World, website=Data Basin, publisher= Conservation Biology Institute, date=, accessdate=5 August 2019
Maps and basic data. * Environment of Europe Ecoregions Ecoregions of Europe Lists of ecoregions Natural history of Europe Palearctic ecoregions