List of ecoregions in Papua New Guinea

The following is a list of ecoregions in Papua New Guinea, as identified by the Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF).

Terrestrial ecoregions[]

Papua New Guinea is in the Australasian realm. Ecoregions are listed by biome.

Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests[]

• Admiralty Islands lowland rain forests
• Central Range montane rain forests
• Huon Peninsula montane rain forests
• Louisiade Archipelago rain forests
• New Britain-New Ireland lowland rain forests
• New Britain-New Ireland montane rain forests
• Northern New Guinea lowland rain and freshwater swamp forests
• Northern New Guinea montane rain forests
• Solomon Islands rain forests
• Southeastern Papuan rain forests
• Southern New Guinea freshwater swamp forests
• Southern New Guinea lowland rain forests
• Trobriand Islands rain forests

Tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands[]

• Trans-Fly savanna and grasslands

Montane grasslands and shrublands[]

• Central Range sub-alpine grasslands

Mangrove ecoregions[]

• New Guinea mangroves

Freshwater ecoregions[]

• Bismark Archipelago
• New Guinea Central Mountains
• New Guinea North Coast
• Papuan Peninsula
• Solomon Islands
• Southwest New Guinea – Trans-Fly Lowland

Marine ecoregions[]

Eastern Coral Triangle[]

• Bismarck Sea
• Solomon Archipelago
• Solomon Sea
• Southeast Papua New Guinea

Sahul shelf[]

• Gulf of Papua
• Arafura Sea

References[]

• Wikramanayake, Eric; Eric Dinerstein; Colby J. Loucks; et al. (2002). Terrestrial Ecoregions of the Indo-Pacific: a Conservation Assessment. Island Press; Washington, DC.
• Freshwater Ecoregions of the World: A global biogeographical regionalization of the Earth's freshwater biodiversity. Accessed 30 March 2020. https://www.feow.org
• 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.