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DescriptionTerrestrial ecoregions USA CAN MEX.svg	English: Ecoregions map of Canada, United-States and Mexico - level III. 1. Central American Montane Forests 2. Chiapas Montane Forests 3. Chimalapas Montane Forests 4. Leeward Islands Moist Forests 5. Oaxacan Montane Forests 6. Pantanos de Centla 7. Petén-Veracruz Moist Forests 8. Puerto Rican Moist Forests 9. Sierra de los Tuxtlas 10. Sierra Madre de Chiapas Moist Forests 11. South Florida Rocklands 12. Veracruz Moist Forests 13. Veracruz Montane Forests 14. Yucatán Moist Forests 15. Hawaiian Moist Forests 16. Samoan Moist Forests 17 Sonoran-Sinaloan Transition Subtropical Dry Forest 18. Bajío Dry Forests 19. Balsas Dry Forests 20. Central American Dry Forests 21. Chiapas Depression Dry Forests 22. Jalisco Dry Forests 23. Puerto Rican Dry Forests 24. Islas Revillagigedo Dry Forests (not shown) 25. Sierra de la Laguna Dry Forests 26. Sinaloan Dry Forests 27. Southern Pacific Dry Forests 28. Veracruz Dry Forests 29. Yucatán Dry Forests 30. Hawaiian Dry Forests 31. Marianas Dry Forests 32. Sierra Madre Occidental Pine–Oak Forests 33. Sierra Madre Oriental Pine–Oak Forests 34. Central American Pine-Oak Forests 35. Sierra de la Laguna Pine–Oak Forests 36. Sierra Madre de Oaxaca Pine–Oak Forests 37. Sierra Madre del Sur Pine–Oak Forests 38. Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt Pine–Oak Forests 39. Allegheny Highlands Forests 40. Appalachian–Blue Ridge forests 41. Appalachian Mixed Mesophytic Forests 42. Central U.S. Hardwood Forests 43. East Central Texas Forests 44. Eastern Forest–Boreal Transition 45. Eastern Great Lakes Lowland Forests 46. Gulf of St. Lawrence Lowland Forests 47. Mississippi Lowland Forests 48. New England/Acadian Forests 49. Northeastern Coastal Forests 50. Ozark Mountain Forests 51. Southeastern Mixed Forests 52. Southern Great Lakes Forests 53. Upper Midwest Forest–Savanna Transition 54. Western Great Lakes Forests 55. Willamette Valley Forests 56. Alberta Mountain Forests 57. Alberta–British Columbia Foothills Forests 58. Arizona Mountains Forests 59. Atlantic Coastal Pine Barrens 60. Blue Mountains Forests 61. British Columbia Mainland Coastal Forests 62. Cascade Mountains Leeward Forests 63. Central and Southern Cascades Forests 64. Central British Columbia Mountain Forests 65. Central Pacific Coastal Forests 66. Colorado Rockies Forests 67. Eastern Cascades Forests 68. Florida Sand Pine Scrub 69. Fraser Plateau and Basin Complex 70. Great Basin Montane Forests 71. Haida Gwaii Forests 72. Klamath-Siskiyou Forests 73. Middle Atlantic Coastal Forests 74. North Central Rockies Forests 75. Northern California Coastal Forests 76. Northern Pacific Coastal Forests 77. Northern Transitional Alpine Forests 78. Okanagan Dry Forests 79. Piney Woods Forests 80. Puget Lowland Forests 81. Sierra Juárez and San Pedro Mártir Pine–Oak Forests 82. Sierra Nevada Forests 83. South Central Rockies Forests 84. Southeastern Conifer Forests 85. Wasatch and Uinta Montane Forests 86. Alaska Peninsula Montane Taiga 87. Central Canadian Shield Forests 88. Cook Inlet Taiga 89. Copper Plateau Taiga 90. Eastern Canadian Forests 91. Eastern Canadian Shield Taiga 92. Interior Alaska–Yukon lowland taiga 93. Mid-Canada Boreal Plains Forests 94. Midwestern Canadian Shield Forests 95. Muskwa–Slave Lake Forests 96. Newfoundland Highland Forests 97. Northern Canadian Shield Taiga 98. Northern Cordillera Forests 99. Northwest Territories Taiga 100. South Avalon–Burin Oceanic Barrens 101. Southern Hudson Bay Taiga 102. Yukon Interior Dry Forests 103. Western Gulf Coastal Grasslands (Tamaulipan Pastizal) 104. Hawaiian High Shrublands 105. Hawaiian Low Shrublands 106. Northwestern Hawaiian Scrub (not shown) 107. California Central Valley Grasslands 108. Canadian Aspen Forest and Parklands 109. Central and Southern Mixed Grasslands 110. Central Forest–Grasslands Transition 111. Central Tall Grasslands 112. Edwards Plateau Savannas 113. Flint Hills Tall Grasslands 114. Montana Valley and Foothill grasslands 115. Nebraska Sand Hills Mixed Grasslands 116. Northern Mixed Grasslands 117. Northern Shortgrass Prairie 118. Northern Tall Grasslands 119. Palouse Grasslands 120. Texas Blackland Prairies 121. Western Short Grasslands 122. Central Mexican Wetlands (not shown, too small) 123. Everglades 124. Zacatonal (not shown, too small) 125. Alaska–St. Elias Range Tundra 126. Aleutian Islands Tundra 127. Arctic Coastal Tundra 128. Arctic Foothills Tundra 129. Baffin Coastal Tundra 130. Beringia Lowland Tundra 131. Beringia Upland Tundra 132. Brooks–British Range Tundra 133. Davis Highlands Tundra 134. High Arctic Tundra 135. Interior Yukon–Alaska Alpine Tundra 136. Low Arctic Tundra 137. Middle Arctic Tundra 138. Ogilvie–MacKenzie Alpine Tundra 139. Pacific Coastal Mountain Icefields and Tundra 140. Torngat Mountain Tundra 141. Permanent Ice 142. California Coastal Sage and Chaparral 143. California Interior Chaparral and Woodlands 144. California Montane Chaparral and Woodlands 145. Baja California Desert 146. Central Mexican Matorral 147. Chihuahuan Desert 148. Colorado Plateau Shrublands 149. Great Basin Shrub Steppe 150. Gulf of California Xeric Scrub 151. Meseta Central Matorral 152. Mojave Desert 153. Snake–Columbia shrub steppe 154. Sonoran Desert 155. Tamaulipan Matorral 156. Tamaulipan Mezquital 157. Wyoming Basin Shrub Steppe 158. Leeward Islands Xeric Scrub 159. San Lucan Xeric Scrub 160. Tehuacán Valley Matorral 161. Mangroves Note: The ecoregions of southern Florida and the southern portion of Mexico belong to the Neotropical realm rather than the Nearctic realm. Español: Mapa de las ecorregiones de Canadá, los Estados Unidos y México - nivel III. Français : Carte des écorégions du Canada, des États-Unis et du Mexique - niveau III.
Date	3 September 2010
Source	North America second level political division 2.svg Terrestrial ecoregions of North America : a conservation assessment. Taylor H Ricketts; et al. Washington, D.C. : Island Press, ©1999. xxiv, 485 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 28 cm. (ISBN 9781559637220) This W3C-unspecified vector image was created with Inkscape .
Author	Cephas
Other versions	Terrestrial ecoregions of Canada Terrestrial ecoregions of Mexico

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current	00:43, 23 May 2024	1,712 × 1,992 (696 KB)	Hike395	minify with svgomg
	22:53, 1 December 2020	1,712 × 1,992 (1.19 MB)	Ponderosapine210	Improved visibility of the sky islands in New Mexico.
	22:50, 1 December 2020	1,712 × 1,992 (1.19 MB)	Ponderosapine210	Further refinement of the Madrean Sky Islands and Sinaloa-Sonora transitional forests.
	22:34, 24 November 2020	1,712 × 1,992 (1.19 MB)	Ponderosapine210	I wasn't fully satisfied with my previous work so I adjusted the ecoregions of Sonora for a final time.
	00:23, 24 November 2020	1,712 × 1,992 (1.19 MB)	Ponderosapine210	Adjusted ecoregions in northern Sonora.
	02:12, 23 November 2020	1,712 × 1,992 (1.19 MB)	Ponderosapine210	Added the prominent islands of Manitoulin (Ontario) and Isle Royale (Michigan) to the Great Lakes. Made minor adjustments to reduce white lines between ecoregions.
	02:35, 22 November 2020	1,712 × 1,992 (1.19 MB)	Ponderosapine210	Correction on no. 142
	00:37, 22 November 2020	1,712 × 1,992 (1.19 MB)	Ponderosapine210	Added the remaining four U.S. territories and added two missing ecoregions on the mainland, per WWF definitions. Renumbered each ecoregion based upon their biogeographic realms (Nearctic first, then Neotropical and Oceanian) and biomes. Changed colours of a couple ecoregions.
	08:38, 20 November 2020	1,712 × 1,992 (1.17 MB)	Ponderosapine210	Minor formatting adjustments.
	01:47, 20 November 2020	1,712 × 1,992 (1.17 MB)	Ponderosapine210	Updated with the redrawn Great Basin montane ecoregion and other minor visual improvements.