List of marine ecoregions

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The following is a list of marine ecoregions, as defined by the WWF and The Nature Conservancy

The WWF/Nature Conservancy scheme groups the individual ecoregions into 12 marine realms, which represent the broad latitudinal divisions of polar, temperate, and tropical seas, with subdivisions based on ocean basins. The marine realms are subdivided into 62 marine provinces, which include one or more of the 232 marine ecoregions.

The WWF/Nature Conservancy scheme currently encompasses only coastal and continental shelf areas.[a][b]

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Northern European Seas

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Lusitanian

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Black Sea

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Cold Temperate Northwest Atlantic

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St. Helena and Ascension Islands

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Java Transitional

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  • Southern Java
  • Cocos-Keeling/Christmas Island

South Kuroshio

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  • South Kuroshio

Tropical Northwestern Pacific

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Northeast Australian Shelf

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Northwest Australian Shelf

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Tropical Southwestern Pacific

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Lord Howe and Norfolk Islands

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  • Lord Howe and Norfolk Islands

Hawaii

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Marquesas

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Easter Island

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Juan Fernandez and Desventuradas

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Magellanic

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Tristan-Gough

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Benguela

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  • Namib
  • Namaqua

Agulhas

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Amsterdam-St Paul

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Northern New Zealand

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Southern New Zealand

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See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ One classification of the deep oceans is PPOW:
    Spalding, Mark D.; Agostini, Vera N.; Rice, Jake; Grant, Susie M. (2012). "Pelagic provinces of the world: A biogeographic classification of the world's surface pelagic waters". Ocean & Coastal Management. 60: 19–30. Bibcode:2012OCM....60...19S. doi:10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2011.12.016.  
  2. ^ Ocean-floor environments are examined in Watling, et al. 2013:
    Watling, Les; Guinotte, John; Clark, Malcolm R.; Smith, Craig R. (April 2013). "A proposed biogeography of the deep ocean floor" (PDF). Progress in Oceanography. 111: 91–112. Bibcode:2013PrOce.111...91W. doi:10.1016/j.pocean.2012.11.003.

References

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  • 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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