List of ecoregions in South Africa

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

Terrestrial ecoregions

by major habitat type

Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests

* Knysna-Amatole montane forests
* KwaZulu-Cape coastal forest mosaic
* Maputaland coastal forest mosaic
* Southern Zanzibar-Inhambane coastal forest mosaic

Tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands

* Kalahari Acacia-Baikiaea woodlands
* Southern Africa bushveld
* Zambezian and Mopane woodlands

Flooded grasslands and savannas

* Zambezian coastal flooded savanna
* Zambezian flooded grasslands

Montane grasslands and shrublands

* Drakensberg alti-montane grasslands and woodlands
* Drakensberg montane grasslands, woodlands and forests
* Highveld grasslands
* Maputaland-Pondoland bushland and thickets

Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and shrub

* Albany thickets
* Lowland fynbos and renosterveld
* Montane fynbos and renosterveld

Deserts and xeric shrublands

* Kalahari xeric savanna
* Nama Karoo
* Succulent Karoo

Tundra

* Southern Indian Ocean Islands tundra

Mangroves

* Southern Africa mangroves

Freshwater ecoregions

by bioregion

Zambezi

* Kalahari
* Zambezian Lowveld

outhern Temperate

* Amatole-Winterberg Highlands
* Cape Fold
* Drakensberg-Maloti Highlands
* Karoo
* Southern Kalahari
* Southern Temperate Highveld
* Western Orange

Marine ecoregions

* Namaqua
* Agulhas Bank
* Natal
* Prince Edward Islands

References

* Burgess, Neil, Jennifer D’Amico Hales, Emma Underwood (2004). "Terrestrial Ecoregions of Africa and Madagascar: A Conservation Assessment". Island Press, Washington DC.
* 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.
* Thieme, Michelle L. (2005). "Freshwater Ecoregions of Africa and Madagascar: A Conservation Assessment". Island Press, Washington DC.