The following is a list of ecoregions in France as identified by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF).

Metropolitan France

The ecoregions of Metropolitan France are as follows:

Terrestrial ecoregions

Terrestrial ecoregions of Metropolitan France are listed by biome. All them are in the Palearctic realm.

Freshwater ecoregions

Marine ecoregions

Marine ecoregions of France are listed by marine province. All of them are in the Temperate Northern Atlantic realm.

Northern European Seas province

Lusitanian province

Overseas France

This is a list of all terrestrial ecoregions of France's overseas departments and territories.

Mangroves

Deserts and xeric shrublands

Temperate grasslands and shrublands

Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests

Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests

Tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests

Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests

References

  • Abell, R., M. Thieme, C. Revenga, M. Bryer, M. Kottelat, N. Bogutskaya, B. Coad, N. Mandrak, S. Contreras-Balderas, W. Bussing, M. L. J. Stiassny, P. Skelton, G. R. Allen, P. Unmack, A. Naseka, R. Ng, N. Sindorf, J. Robertson, E. Armijo, J. Higgins, T. J. Heibel, E. Wikramanayake, D. Olson, H. L. Lopez, R. E. d. Reis, J. G. Lundberg, M. H. Sabaj Perez, and P. Petry. (2008). Freshwater ecoregions of the world: A new map of biogeographic units for freshwater biodiversity conservation. BioScience 58:403-414, [1].
  • 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.
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