List of ecoregions in Slovenia

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

Terrestrial

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

Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub

• Illyrian deciduous forests

Temperate broadleaf and mixed forests

• Dinaric Mountains mixed forests
• Pannonian mixed forests

Temperate coniferous forests

• Alps conifer and mixed forests

Freshwater

• Dalmatia
• Dniester - Lower Danube
• Gulf of Venice drainages
• Upper Danube

Marine

Slovenia'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.