The following is a list of ecoregions in Sri Lanka. Due to High rainfall and even sunlight throughout the year,

Sri Lanka Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්‍රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...

exhibits a great variety in ecoregions in all living habitats. Together with Western Ghats,

forms Western Ghats and Sri Lanka

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. It is considered one of the eight super-hotspots. Some of the ecoregions also included in Global 200 list too.

Terrestrial ecoregions

Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests

* Sri Lanka lowland rain forests *

Sri Lanka montane rain forests The Sri Lanka montane rain forests is an ecoregion found above 1,000 m in the central highlands of Sri Lanka. Owing to their rich biodiversity, this region is considered to be a Biodiversity hotspot, super-hotspot within endemic hotspots of globa ...

Tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests

Sri Lanka dry-zone dry evergreen forests The Sri Lanka dry-zone dry evergreen forests are a tropical dry broadleaf forest ecoregion of the island of Sri Lanka. Geography The ecoregion covers an area of , about 75%, of the island of Sri Lanka, with the exception of the islands' south ...

Deserts and xeric shrublands

* Deccan thorn scrub forests

Freshwater ecoregions

Sri Lanka Dry Zone Shri (; , ) is a Sanskrit term denoting resplendence, wealth and prosperity, primarily used as an honorific. The word is widely used in South and Southeast Asian languages such as Marathi, Malay (including Indonesian and Malaysian), Javanese, ...

Sri Lanka Wet Zone Southwestern Sri Lanka rivers and streams is a freshwater ecoregion in Sri Lanka. The ecoregion is listed in Global 200, a list of ecoregions compiled by the World Wide Fund for Nature for conservation priorities. The extensive network of rivers a ...

Marine ecoregions

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West and South Indian Shelf West or Occident is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from east and is the direction in which the Sun sets on the Earth. Etymology The word "west" is a Germanic word passed into some R ...

South India and Sri Lanka South is one of the cardinal directions or compass points. The direction is the opposite of north and is perpendicular to both east and west. Etymology The word ''south'' comes from Old English ''sūþ'', from earlier Proto-Germanic ''*sunþaz' ...

Global 200

Terrestrial

* Sri Lanka lowland rain forests *

Freshwater

Southwestern Sri Lanka rivers and streams Southwestern Sri Lanka rivers and streams is a freshwater ecoregion in Sri Lanka. The ecoregion is listed in Global 200, a list of ecoregions compiled by the World Wide Fund for Nature for conservation priorities. The extensive network of rivers a ...

References

{{Geography of Sri Lanka

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 ...