List of ecoregions in Japan
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Ecoregions in Japan
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Hokkaidō
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Ecoregions overview
Ogasawara Islands to the southeast, are home to subtropical moist broadleaf forest ecoregions; the Nansei Islands subtropical evergreen forests ecoregion is part of the Indomalayan realm, while the Ogasawara subtropical moist forests of the Ogasawaras is part of the Oceanian realm
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Terrestrial ecoregions
Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests
Temperate broadleaf and mixed forests
- Hokkaidō deciduous forests
- Nihonkai evergreen forests
- Nihonkai montane deciduous forests
- Taiheiyo evergreen forests
- Taiheiyo montane deciduous forests
Temperate coniferous forests
Freshwater ecoregions
- Sakhalin, Hokkaido, & Sikhote-Alin Coast
- Lake Biwa
- Honshu-Shikoku-Kyushu
- Ogasarawa Islands - Kazan Archipelago
Marine ecoregions
- Not a complete list
- Sea of Japan
- Sea of Okhotsk
- East China Sea
- Kuroshio Current
- Oyashio Current
- Ryukyu reefs
- Ogasawarareefs
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].