List of ecoregions in Ireland explained

The following is a list of ecoregions in Ireland as identified by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF).

Terrestrial ecoregions

listed by realm, then by biome:

Palearctic realm

Temperate broadleaf and mixed forests

• Celtic broadleaf forests
• North Atlantic moist mixed forests

Freshwater ecoregions

• Northern British Isles

Marine ecoregions

listed by marine realm, then marine province:

Temperate Northern Atlantic realm

Northern European Seas province

• Celtic Seas

References

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• 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.