List of ecoregions in Saudi Arabia

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

Terrestrial ecoregions[]

Yemen lies on the boundary between two of the world's biogeographic realms. The Afrotropical realm covers the southeastern portion of the Arabian Peninsula, as well as Sub-Saharan Africa and Madagascar. The Palearctic realm covers the rest of the Arabian Peninsula as well as temperate Eurasia and Northern Africa.

Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub[]

• Eastern Mediterranean conifer-broadleaf forests

Deserts and xeric shrublands[]

• Arabian desert (Palearctic)
• Persian Gulf desert and semi-desert (Palearctic)
• Red Sea Nubo-Sindian tropical desert and semi-desert (Palearctic)
• Southwestern Arabian montane woodlands (Afrotropical)
• Southwestern Arabian foothills savanna (Afrotropical)
• Arabian Peninsula coastal fog desert (Afrotropical)

Freshwater ecoregions[]

• Arabian Interior
• Southwestern Arabian Coast

Marine ecoregions[]

Saudi Arabia's seas are divided into three marine ecoregions, all part of the Western Indo-Pacific marine realm.

• Persian Gulf
• Southern Red Sea

References[]

• Eric Dinerstein, David Olson, et al. (2017). An Ecoregion-Based Approach to Protecting Half the Terrestrial Realm, BioScience, Volume 67, Issue 6, June 2017, Pages 534–545 [1].
• 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.