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Because of its size and range of latitude, topography, and
climate, India is home to a
great diversity of ecoregions, ranging from permanent ice and
snow to tropical rainforests.
The Himalaya, which runs across India's
northern tier, is the boundary between two of the Earth's great ecozones — the Palearctic, which covers most of
temperate-to-arctic Eurasia,
and Indomalaya, which covers most of the Indian
subcontinent and extends into Indochina, Sundaland (Malaysia and western Indonesia) and the Philippines.
List
of ecoregions in India
Tropical
and subtropical moist broadleaf forests
Tropical and
subtropical dry broadleaf forests
Tropical and
subtropical coniferous forests
Temperate broadleaf
and mixed forests
Temperate
coniferous forests
Tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and
shrublands
Montane grasslands and
shrublands
- Eastern
Himalayan alpine shrub and meadows (Bhutan, China, India,
Myanmar,
Nepal)
- Karakoram-West Tibetan Plateau alpine steppe (Afghanistan, China, India, Pakistan)
- Northwestern Himalayan alpine shrub and meadows (China, India, Pakistan)
- Western
Himalayan alpine shrub and meadows (India, Nepal)
Flooded grasslands and
savannas
Deserts and xeric
shrublands
Mangrove
Global 200 ecoregions in
India
Terrestrial
- Southwestern Ghats moist forests (India)
- Eastern Deccan Plateau moist forests
(India)
- Naga-Manipuri-Chin hills moist forests (India)
- Chhota-Nagpur
dry forests (India)
- Himalayan subtropical
pine forests (Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan)
- Northeast
India-Myanmar pine forests (India, Myanmar)
- Eastern Himalayan broadleaf and conifer forests (Bhutan, China,
India, Myanmar, Nepal)
- Western Himalayan temperate forests (Afghanistan, India, Nepal,
Pakistan)
- Terai-Duar savannas and grasslands (Bhutan,
India, Nepal)
- Rann
of Kutch Flooded Grasslands (India, Pakistan)
- Tibetan Plateau steppe (Afghanistan, China, India, Pakistan,
Tajikistan)
- Eastern Himalayan alpine meadows (Bhutan,
China, India, Myanmar, Nepal)
- Sundarbans mangroves (Bangladesh,
India)
Marine
- Indus
River Delta (India, Pakistan)
- Andaman Sea
tropical coral (Andaman and Nicobar Islands
(India), Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand)
- Maldives, Chagos, Lakshadweep Atolls tropical coral (Chagos
Archipelago (United Kingdom), Lakshadweep (India), Maldives, Sri
Lanka)
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