List of ecoregions in Bangladesh explained

This is a list of ecoregions in Bangladesh.

Terrestrial

Bangladesh is in the Indomalayan realm. Ecoregions are listed by biome.^[1]

Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests

• Brahmaputra Valley semi-evergreen forests
• Lower Gangetic Plains moist deciduous forests
• Meghalaya subtropical forests
• Mizoram–Manipur–Kachin rain forests
• Sundarbans freshwater swamp forests

Tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas and shrublands

• Terai-Duar savanna and grasslands

Mangroves

• Myanmar Coast mangroves
• Sundarbans mangroves

Freshwater

• Ganges Delta & Plain
• Chin Hills - Arakan Coast

Marine

Bangladesh's coastal waters are in the Western Indo-Pacific marine realm.^[2]

• Northern Bay of Bengal

Notes and References

1. Wikramanayake, Eric; Eric Dinerstein; Colby J. Loucks; et al. (2002). Terrestrial Ecoregions of the Indo-Pacific: a Conservation Assessment. Washington, DC: Island Press
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