List of ecoregions in Montenegro explained

This is a list of ecoregions in Montenegro.

Terrestrial

Montenegro is in the Palearctic realm. Ecoregions are listed by biome.

Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub

• Illyrian deciduous forests

Temperate broadleaf and mixed forests

• Balkan mixed forests
• Dinaric Mountains mixed forests

Freshwater

• Dalmatia
• Dniester - Lower Danube
• Southeast Adriatic drainages

Marine

Montenegro's coastline is in the Temperate Northern Atlantic marine realm, and the Mediterranean Sea marine province.

• Adriatic Sea

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.