Malaysia is a megadiverse country, with huge variety of biota.

Terrestrial ecoregions

Malaysia is in the Indomalayan realm.

Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests

Montane grasslands and shrublands

Mangroves

Freshwater ecoregions

  • Borneo Highlands
  • Malay Peninsula Eastern Slope
  • Northern Central Sumatra - Western Malaysia
  • Northeastern Borneo
  • Northwestern Borneo

Marine ecoregions

Malaysia spans the transition between the Central Indo-Pacific and Western Indo-Pacific marine realms.[7]

Central Indo-Pacific

Western Indo-Pacific

  • Andaman Sea Coral Coast

References

  1. ↑ World Wildlife Fund, ed. (2001). "Peninsular Malaysian montane rain forests". WildWorld Ecoregion Profile. National Geographic Society. Archived from the original on 2010-03-08. Retrieved 2010-11-06.
  2. ↑ "Peninsular Malaysian montane rain forests". Terrestrial Ecoregions. World Wildlife Fund. Retrieved 2010-11-06.
  3. ↑ "Peninsular Malaysian peat swamp forests". Terrestrial Ecoregions. World Wildlife Fund. Retrieved 2010-11-06.
  4. ↑ World Wildlife Fund, ed. (2001). "Peninsular Malaysian rain forests". WildWorld Ecoregion Profile. National Geographic Society. Archived from the original on 2010-03-08. Retrieved 2010-11-06.
  5. ↑ "Peninsular Malaysian rain forests". Terrestrial Ecoregions. World Wildlife Fund. Retrieved 2010-11-06.
  6. ↑ "WWF - List of Ecoregions". Wwf.panda.org. Retrieved 2010-11-06.
  7. ↑ 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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