List of ecoregions in India

Updated on Oct 02, 2024

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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.

Terrestrial

Chhota-Nagpur dry forests (India)

Eastern Deccan Plateau moist forests (India)

Eastern Himalayan alpine meadows (Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal)

Eastern Himalayan broadleaf and conifer forests (Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal)

Himalayan subtropical pine forests (Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan)

Naga-Manupuri-Chin hills moist forests (India)

Northeast India-Myanmar pine forests (India, Myanmar)

Rann of Kutch Flooded Grasslands (India, Pakistan)

Southwestern Ghats moist forests (India)

Sundarbans mangroves (Bangladesh, India)

Terai-Duar savannas and grasslands (Bhutan, India, Nepal)

Tibetan Plateau steppe (Afghanistan, China, India, Pakistan, Tajikistan)

Western Himalayan temperate forests (Afghanistan, India, Nepal, Pakistan)

References

List of ecoregions in India Wikipedia

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