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Vegetation & Ecosystem Data

WWF Terrestrial Ecoregions

WWF Terrestrial Ecoregions provides 867 biogeographic units covering the world's land, grouped into 14 biomes for conservation planning.

Format Shapefile / GeoJSON
Coverage Global (land)
Resolution Ecoregion-level polygons
License Free for non-commercial use
Update Versioned releases (2001, 2017)
Download source Open official source

Format

Shapefile / GeoJSON

Geometry

Polygon (ecoregion boundaries)

Coverage

Global (land)

Resolution

Ecoregion-level polygons

About this dataset

WWF global terrestrial ecoregion boundaries classifying the world's land into 867 distinct biogeographic units.

WWF Terrestrial Ecoregions (2017 update) divides the world's land into 867 ecoregions, grouped into 14 biomes and 8 biogeographic realms. Ecoregions are defined as relatively large units of land containing distinct natural communities that share species, dynamics, and environmental conditions. This is the standard framework for global biodiversity conservation planning.

Conservation planning Biodiversity analysis Biogeographic research Ecosystem mapping

How to download

  1. 1 Open the Data Basin WWF Ecoregion page.
  2. 2 Download the global shapefile.
  3. 3 Open in GIS and symbolize by biome or realm.
  4. 4 Combine with species data for conservation gap analysis.

Data Basin download

Download ecoregion shapefiles

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WWF Ecoregion page

Biome and ecoregion descriptions

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FAQ

What is an ecoregion?

An ecoregion is defined as a relatively large unit of land containing a distinct assemblage of natural communities sharing species, dynamics, and environmental conditions, with boundaries mapped by WWF scientists.

How many biomes are in the classification?

The 867 ecoregions are grouped into 14 biomes (e.g., tropical moist forests, temperate grasslands, tundra) and 8 biogeographic realms (e.g., Nearctic, Palearctic, Neotropical).