List of ecoregions in the United Kingdom explained

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

Terrestrial

Temperate broadleaf and mixed forests

• Celtic broadleaf forests
• Celtic rainforest
• English Lowlands beech forests
• North Atlantic moist mixed forests

Temperate coniferous forests

• Caledonian conifer forests

Freshwater

• Central & Western Europe
• Northern British Isles

Marine

• Celtic Seas
• North Sea

References

• Abell, R., M. Thieme, C. Revenga, M. Bryer, M. Kottelat, N. Bogutskaya, B. Coad, N. Mandrak, S. Contreras-Balderas, W. Bussing, M. L. J. Stiassny, P. Skelton, G. R. Allen, P. Unmack, A. Naseka, R. Ng, N. Sindorf, J. Robertson, E. Armijo, J. Higgins, T. J. Heibel, E. Wikramanayake, D. Olson, H. L. Lopez, R. E. d. Reis, J. G. Lundberg, M. H. Sabaj Perez, and P. Petry. (2008). Freshwater ecoregions of the world: A new map of biogeographic units for freshwater biodiversity conservation. BioScience 58:403-414, http://www.feow.org/downloads/Abell_et_al_08_BioScience.pdf.
• 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.