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List of ecoregions in South Africa

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The following is a list of ecoregions in South Africa, as identified by the Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF).

Contents

Terrestrial ecoregions

by major habitat type

Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests

  • Knysna-Amatole montane forests
  • KwaZulu-Cape coastal forest mosaic
  • Maputaland coastal forest mosaic
  • Southern Zanzibar-Inhambane coastal forest mosaic

    • Tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands

  • Kalahari Acacia-Baikiaea woodlands
  • Southern Africa bushveld
  • Zambezian and Mopane woodlands

    • Montane grasslands and shrublands

  • Drakensberg alti-montane grasslands and woodlands
  • Drakensberg montane grasslands, woodlands and forests
  • Highveld grasslands
  • Maputaland-Pondoland bushland and thickets

    • Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub

  • Albany thickets
  • Lowland fynbos and renosterveld
  • Montane fynbos and renosterveld

    • Deserts and xeric shrublands

  • Kalahari xeric savanna
  • Nama Karoo
  • Succulent Karoo

    • Tundra

  • Southern Indian Ocean Islands tundra

    • Mangroves

  • Southern Africa mangroves

    • Freshwater ecoregions

    by bioregion

    Zambezi

  • Kalahari
  • Zambezian Lowveld

    • Southern Temperate

  • Amatole-Winterberg Highlands
  • Cape Fold
  • Drakensberg-Maloti Highlands
  • Karoo
  • Southern Kalahari
  • Southern Temperate Highveld
  • Western Orange

    • Marine ecoregions

  • Namaqua
  • Agulhas Bank
  • Natal
  • Prince Edward Islands

    • References

    List of ecoregions in South Africa Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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