Ecoregions Ecoregions The Admiralty Islands are a group of 18 islands in the Bismarck Archipelago. These are also sometimes called the Manus Islands, named after the largest island. The islands form part of Manus Province of Papua New Guinea. The total area is 2100 km². ...more on Wikipedia about "Admiralty Islands"
Alpe-Adria is a bioregion in Central Europe, embracing all of Slovenia, the Austrian states of Carinthia and Styria, and the Italian provinces of Venezia-Giulia and Veneto. As of 2004, it is the subject of a proposal to create the world's first organic bioregion. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alpe-Adria"
(Arabian Desert and East Sahero-Arabian xeric shrublands) The template of this page is being worked at Wikipedia:WikiProject Ecoregions/Template. ...more on Wikipedia about "Arabian Desert and East Sahero-Arabian xeric shrublands"
The Atacama desert of Chile and Peru is a virtually rainless plateau made up of salt basins (salares), sand, and lava flows, extending from the Andes mountains to the Pacific Ocean. ...more on Wikipedia about "Atacama"
The Atlantic coastal pine barrens is a temperate coniferous forests ecoregion of the northeastern United States. The ecoregion covers a disjunct area of 8,975 km² including the New Jersey Pine Barrens, and smaller areas of southern Long Island in New York State, and on Cape Cod in Massachusetts. ...more on Wikipedia about "Atlantic coastal pine barrens"
Auyantepui is one of the largest (but not the highest) tepui of the Guiana highlands. The famous Angel Falls drops from its cliffs, which are nearly 1000m high. ...more on Wikipedia about "Auyantepui"
Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge in southeastern Virginia is located in the independent city of Virginia Beach. Established in 1938 in an isolated portion of Princess Anne County, it is managed by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. ...more on Wikipedia about "Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge"
A biodiversity hotspot is a biogeographic region that is both a significant reservoir of biodiversity and is threatened with destruction. The biodiversity hotspots were originally identified by Dr. Norman Myers in two articles in The Environmentalist (1998 & 1990) and revised in an article in the journal Nature (2000). The term biodiversity hotspot specifically refers to 25 biologically rich areas around the world that have lost at least 70% of their original habitat. The remaining natural habitat in these biodiversity hotspots amounts to just 1.4 percent of the land surface of the planet, yet supports nearly 60 percent of the world's plant, bird, mammal, reptile, and amphibian species. In a recent press release, Conservation Internaional updated the list with 9 new hotspots, although there has been no peer review of this revision and these new hotspots are still questioned by some. The list of authors for this new scientific assessment noticeably lacked the original author of the hotspot idea. ...more on Wikipedia about "Biodiversity hotspot"
The Bismarck Archipelago is a group of islands off the coast of New Guinea in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, named in honour of the German chancellor Otto von Bismarck and belonging to Papua New Guinea. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bismarck Archipelago"
The Boreal Kingdom is a Floristic kingdom identified by botanist Ronald Good, which includes the temperate-to-arctic portions of North America and Eurasia. Good noted that the plant species of temperate North America and Eurasia were very closely related, despite their separation by the Atlantic Ocean and the Bering Strait. ...more on Wikipedia about "Boreal Kingdom"
Buru is an island in the Maluku province of Indonesia. It is located west of Ambon and Seram. The chief port and town is Namlea on the northeastern coast. ...more on Wikipedia about "Buru"
Caatinga is a type of vegetation and an ecosystem having this vegetation mainly in the northeastern part of Brazil. The name "Caatinga" is a Tupi word meaning "white forest" or "white vegetation" (kaa = forest, vegetation, tínga = white). It covers between 700,000 km2 and 1,000,000 km2 (depending on the source), over 10% of the national territory. ...more on Wikipedia about "Caatinga"
Cascadia is the geological, ecological and climatic region of North America bounded by the Cascade Range and the Pacific Ocean. Its ecoregions are distinct from those of the more arid lands to the east and south, and so its agriculture and forestry also vary. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cascadia"
The archipelago of the Chatham Islands, Rekohu in the Moriori language, consists of about 10 islands within a 40- kilometre radius. ...more on Wikipedia about "Chatham Islands"
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The Chihuahuan Desert is a desert that straddles the U.S.-Mexico border. On the U.S. side it occupies the valleys and basins of central and southern New Mexico and Texas west of the Pecos River; south of the border, it covers the northern half of the Mexican state of Chihuahua and most of Coahuila. ...more on Wikipedia about "Chihuahuan Desert"
Isla Clarión, formerly called Santa Rosa, is the second largest, westernmost and most remote of the Revillagigedo Islands, 314 km west of Socorro Island, at 18°21'N, 114°44'W. The island is 8.5 km by 3.5 km in size, with an area 27 km². It has three prominent peaks. The westernmost and tallest peak, Monte Gallegos, is 335 m high. The central peak is called Domo de Andesita. The coasts are backed by perpendicular cliffs, 24 to 183 m high, with the exception of the middle part of the southern coast in the vicinity of Bahia Azufre (Sulphur Bay), which is the location of a small military garrison manned by 9 men. ...more on Wikipedia about "Clarion Island"
Clipperton Island ( French: Île de Clipperton and sometimes Île de la Passion) is an uninhabited seven-square-kilometer coral atoll in the North Pacific Ocean, 1,300 km southwest of Mexico, at . ...more on Wikipedia about "Clipperton Island"
The Desventuradas Islands ('Unfortunate Islands') are relatively small oceanic islands, located approximately 850 km off the coast of Chile, part of Valparaíso region. The Desventuradas Islands consist of the two main islands Isla San Félix ( ) and Isla (de) San Ambrosio ( ) and several rocks and stacks: Islote Gonzalez or Isla Gonzales ( ; 173 m high), a small islet that is located southeast of Isla San Félix and Roca Catedral ( ; 53 m high) which is located north of Isla San Félix. Together, the Desventuradas Islands have a surface area of only 10.3 sq.km. The topography is very rugged, with peak elevations of 193 m on Isla San Félix, 479 m on Isla (de) San Ambrosio, 173 m on Islote/Isla Gonzalez and 53 m on Roca Catedral. ...more on Wikipedia about "Desventuradas Islands"
The Eastern Guinean forests are lowland forests in West Africa, from the Atlantic coast to a few hundred kilometers inland. Areas in this ecoregion include parts of Benin, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Côte d'Ivoire, Togo, Liberia, Nigeria, and Cameroon. ...more on Wikipedia about "Eastern Guinean forests"
An ecoregion is "a relatively large area of land or water that contains a geographically distinct assemblage of natural communities." ...more on Wikipedia about "Ecoregion"
(Ecoregions of Japan) Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests ...more on Wikipedia about "Ecoregions of Japan"
(Ecoregions of the Philippines) * Greater Luzon included Luzon, Catanduanes, Marinduque, Polillo, and several small islands. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ecoregions of the Philippines"
The Florida Everglades is a subtropical marshland located in the southern portion of the U.S. state of Florida, specifically in parts of Monroe, Collier, Palm Beach, Miami-Dade, and Broward counties. Although much modified by agricultural development in central and southern Florida, the Everglades is the southern half of a large watershed arising in the vicinity of Orlando known as the Kissimmee River system. The Kissimmee flows from Taylor Creek, Nubbin Slough, and Fisheating Creek, and discharges into Lake Okeechobee, a very large (730 mi² or 1,890 km²), shallow (10 ft or 3 m) fresh water lake. Water leaving Lake Okeechobee in the wet season forms the Everglades, an annual shallow, slow-moving flood at one time 40 miles wide and over 100 miles long moving southward across a nearly flat, limestone shelf to Florida Bay at the southern end of the state. ...more on Wikipedia about "Everglades"
False Cape State Park is a state park in the independent city of Virginia Beach, Virginia. It is a mile-wide barrier spit between Back Bay and the Atlantic Ocean. The park adjoins the state border with North Carolina. At the south end of the park is a monument with "Va." on one side and "N Ca" on the other. Although it says " A.D. 1728" on top, it was probably put up in 1887 when the boundary was surveyed. ...more on Wikipedia about "False Cape State Park"
A floristic province is a geographic area with a relatively uniform composition of plant species. Adjacent floristic provinces do not usually have a sharp boundary, but rather a soft one, a transitional area in which many species from both regions overlap. The region of overlap is called a vegetation tension zone. ...more on Wikipedia about "Floristic province"
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