List of ecoregions in Malaysia explained

Malaysia is a megadiverse country, with huge variety of biota.

Terrestrial ecoregions

Malaysia is in the Indomalayan realm.

Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests

• Borneo lowland rain forests
• Borneo montane rain forests
• Borneo peat swamp forests
• Peninsular Malaysian montane rain forests
• Peninsular Malaysian peat swamp forests
• Peninsular Malaysian rain forests
• Southwest Borneo freshwater swamp forests
• Tenasserim-South Thailand semi-evergreen rain forests^[1]

Montane grasslands and shrublands

• Kinabalu montane alpine meadows

Mangroves

• Indochina mangroves
  • Myanmar coast mangroves Sunda Shelf mangroves

Freshwater ecoregions

• Borneo Highlands
• Malay Peninsula Eastern Slope
• Northern Central Sumatra - Western Malaysia
• Northeastern Borneo
• Northwestern Borneo

Marine ecoregions

Malaysia spans the transition between the Central Indo-Pacific and Western Indo-Pacific marine realms.^[2]

Central Indo-Pacific

• Gulf of Thailand
• Malacca Strait
• Palawan/North Borneo
• Sunda Shelf/Java Sea

Western Indo-Pacific

• Andaman Sea Coral Coast

Notes and References

1. Web site: WWF - List of Ecoregions . Wwf.panda.org . 2010-11-06.
2. 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