List of ecoregions in Russia

The following is a list of ecoregions in Russia, according to the Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF):

Russia's 49 outlined terrestrial ecoregions, each of a colored biome, stretch across the Palearctic realm of Eurasia. Russia contains 8 of 14 terrestrial biomes, or major habitat types, as defined by Olson & Dinerstein, et al. (2001).

  01. Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests

  02. Tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests

  03. Tropical and subtropical coniferous forests

  04. Temperate broadleaf and mixed forests

  05. Temperate coniferous forests

  06. Taiga and Boreal forest

  07. Tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands

  08. Temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands

  09. Flooded grasslands and savannas

  10. Montane grasslands and shrublands

  11. Tundra

  12. Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub

  13. Deserts and xeric shrublands

  14. Mangroves

  Rock and Ice, or Abiotic Land Zones

• Caucasus mixed forests (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Russia, Turkey)
• Central European mixed forests (Austria, Belarus, Czech Republic, Germany, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Ukraine)
• Crimean Submediterranean forest complex (Russia, Ukraine)
• East European forest steppe (Bulgaria, Moldova, Romania, Russia, Ukraine)
• Manchurian mixed forests (China, Russia, North Korea, South Korea)
• Sarmatic mixed forests (Belarus, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Russia, Sweden)
• South Sakhalin-Kurile mixed forests (Russia)
• Ussuri broadleaf and mixed forests (Russia)
• West Siberian broadleaf and mixed forests (Russia)

• Altai montane forest and forest steppe (China, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Russia)
• Da Hinggan-Dzhagdy Mountains conifer forests (China, Russia)
• Sayan montane conifer forests (Mongolia, Russia)

• East Siberian taiga (Russia)
• Kamchatka-Kurile meadows and sparse forests (Russia)
• Kamchatka-Kurile taiga (Russia)
• Northeast Siberian taiga (Russia)
• Okhotsk-Manchurian taiga (Russia)
• Sakhalin Island taiga (Russia)
• Scandinavian and Russian taiga (Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden)
• Trans-Baikal conifer forests (Mongolia, Russia)
• Urals montane tundra and taiga (Russia)
• West Siberian taiga (Russia)

• Daurian forest steppe (China, Mongolia, Russia)
• Kazakh forest steppe (Kazakhstan, Russia)
• Kazakh steppe (Kazakhstan, Russia)
• Mongolian-Manchurian grassland (China, Mongolia, Russia)
• Pontic steppe (Moldova, Romania, Russia, Ukraine)
• Sayan Intermontane steppe (Russia)
• Selenge-Orkhon forest steppe (Mongolia, Russia)
• South Siberian forest steppe (Russia)

• Amur meadow steppe (China, Russia)
• Suiphun-Khanka meadows and forest meadows (Russia, China)

• Altai alpine meadow and tundra (China, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Russia)
• Sayan alpine meadows and tundra (Mongolia, Russia)

• Arctic desert (Russia, Norway)
• Bering tundra (Russia)
• Cherskii-Kolyma mountain tundra (Russia)
• Chukchi Peninsula tundra (Russia)
• Kamchatka Mountain tundra and forest tundra (Russia)
• Kola Peninsula tundra (Norway, Russia)
• Northeast Siberian coastal tundra (Russia)
• Northwest Russian-Novaya Zemlya tundra (Russia)
• Novosibirsk Islands arctic desert (Russia)
• Taimyr-Central Siberian tundra (Russia)
• Trans-Baikal Bald Mountain tundra (Russia)
• Wrangel Island arctic desert (Russia)
• Yamalagydanskaja tundra (Russia)

• Caspian lowland desert (Iran, Kazakhstan, Russia, Turkmenistan)
• Great Lakes Basin desert steppe (Mongolia, Russia)

(by realm and province)

(no provinces identified)

• Beaufort Sea-continental coast and shelf
• Chukchi Sea
• Eastern Bering Sea
• East Siberian Sea
• Laptev Sea
• Kara Sea
• North and East Barents Sea
• White Sea

• Northern Norway and Finnmark
• Baltic Sea

• Sea of Okhotsk
• Kamchatka Shelf and Coast
• Northern Honshu
• Sea of Japan

• Aleutian Islands