Temperate Northern Atlantic
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The Temperate Northern Atlantic is a
North Atlantic Ocean and connecting seas, including the Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea, and northern Gulf of Mexico
.
The Temperate Northern Atlantic is a
marine realm
, one of the great biogeographic divisions of the world's ocean basins.
The tropical waters of the Atlantic Ocean, Gulf of Mexico, and Caribbean Sea are part of the
Arctic realm.[1]
Subdivisions
The Temperate Northern Atlantic realm is divided into six marine provinces. Five of the provinces are further divided into marine ecoregions. The Black Sea is both a province and an ecoregion.[2]
Northern European Seas
- South and West Iceland
- Faroe Plateau
- Southern Norway
- Northern Norway and Finnmark
- Baltic Sea
- North Sea
- Celtic Seas
Lusitanian
Mediterranean Sea
- Adriatic Sea
- Aegean Sea
- Levantine Sea
- Tunisian Plateau-Gulf of Sidra
- Ionian Sea
- Western Mediterranean
- Alboran Sea
Black Sea
Cold Temperate Northwest Atlantic
- Gulf of Saint Lawrence-Eastern Scotian Shelf
- Southern Grand Banks-South Newfoundland
- Scotian Shelf
- Gulf of Maine-Bay of Fundy
- Virginian
Warm Temperate Northwest Atlantic
- Carolinian
- Northern Gulf of Mexico
References
- ^ Spalding, Mark D., Helen E. Fox, Gerald R. Allen, Nick Davidson et al (2007). "Marine Ecoregions of the World: A Bioregionalization of Coastal and Shelf Areas". Bioscience Vol. 57 No. 7, July/August 2007, pp. 573โ583.[1]
- ^ Spalding, Mark D., Helen E. Fox, Gerald R. Allen, Nick Davidson et al. (2007). "Marine Ecoregions of the World: A Bioregionalization of Coastal and Shelf Areas". Bioscience Vol. 57 No. 7, July/August 2007, pp. 573โ583.[2]