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Tropical & Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
PA0101 PA0102	Gizhou Plateau broadleaf and mixed forests Yunnan Plateau subtropical evergreen forests
Temperate Broadleaf & Mixed Forests
PA0401 PA0402 PA0403 PA0404 PA0405 PA0406 PA0407 PA0408 PA0409 PA0410 PA0411 PA0412 PA0413 PA0414 PA0415 PA0416 PA0417 PA0418 PA0419 PA0420 PA0421 PA0422 PA0423 PA0424 PA0425 PA0426 PA0427 PA0428 PA0429 PA0430 PA0431 PA0432 PA0433 PA0434 PA0435 PA0436 PA0437 PA0438 PA0439 PA0440 PA0441 PA0442 PA0443 PA0444 PA0445 PA0446	Appenine deciduous montane forests Atlantic mixed forests Azores temperate mixed forests Balkan mixed forests Baltic mixed forests Cantabrian mixed forests Caspian Hyrcanian mixed forests Caucasus mixed forests Celtic broadleaf forests Central Anatolian deciduous forests Central China loess plateau mixed forests Central European mixed forests Central Korean deciduous forests Changbai Mountains mixed forests Changjiang Plain evergreen forests Crimean Submediterranean forest complex Daba Mountains evergreen forests Dinaric Mountains mixed forests East European forest steppe Eastern Anatolian deciduous forests English Lowlands beech forests Euxine-Colchic deciduous forests Hokkaido deciduous forests Huang He Plain mixed forests Madeira evergreen forests Manchurian mixed forests Nihonkai evergreen forests Nihonkai montane deciduous forests North Atlantic moist mixed forests Northeast China Plain deciduous forests Pannonian mixed forests Po Basin mixed forests Pyrenees conifer and mixed forests Qin Ling Mountains deciduous forests Rodope montane mixed forests Sarmatic mixed forests Sichuan Basin evergreen broadleaf forests South Sakhalin-Kurile mixed forests Southern Korea evergreen forests Taiheiyo evergreen forests Taiheiyo montane deciduous forests Tarim Basin deciduous forests and steppe Ussuri broadleaf and mixed forests West Siberian broadleaf and mixed forests Western European broadleaf forests Zagros Mountains forest steppe
Temperate Coniferous Forests
PA0501 PA0502 PA0503 PA0504 PA0505 PA0506 PA0507 PA0508 PA0509 PA0510 PA0511 PA0512 PA0513 PA0514 PA0515 PA0516 PA0517 PA0518 PA0519 PA0520 PA0521	Alps conifer and mixed forests Altai montane forest and forest steppe Caledon conifer forests Carpathian montane conifer forests Da Hinggan-Dzhagdy Mountains conifer forests East Afghan montane conifer forests Elburz Range forest steppe Helanshan montane conifer forests Hengduan Mountains subalpine conifer forests Hokkaido montane conifer forests Honshu alpine conifer forests Khangai Mountains conifer forests Mediterranean conifer and mixed forests Northeastern Himalayan subalpine conifer forests Northern Anatolian conifer and deciduous forests Nujiang Langcang Gorge alpine conifer and mixed forests Qilian Mountains conifer forests Qionglai-Minshan conifer forests Sayan montane conifer forests Scandinavian coastal conifer forests Tian Shan montane conifer forests
Boreal Forests/Taiga
PA0601 PA0602 PA0603 PA0604 PA0605 PA0606 PA0607 PA0608 PA0609 PA0610 PA0611	East Siberian taiga Iceland boreal birch forests and alpine tundra Kamchatka-Kurile meadows and sparse forests Kamchatka-Kurile taiga Northeast Siberian taiga Okhotsk-Manchurian taiga Sakhalin Island taiga Scandinavian and Russian taiga Trans-Baikal conifer forests Urals montane tundra and taiga West Siberian taiga
Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, & Shrublands
PA0801 PA0802 PA0803 PA0804 PA0805 PA0806 PA0807 PA0808 PA0809 PA0810 PA0811 PA0812 PA0813 PA0814 PA0815 PA0816 PA0817 PA0818	Alai-Western Tian Shan steppe Altai steppe and semi-desert Central Anatolian steppe Daurian forest steppe Eastern Anatolian montane steppe Emin Valley steppe Faroe Islands boreal grasslands Gissaro-Alai open woodlands Kazakh forest steppe Kazakh steppe Kazakh upland Middle East steppe Mongolian-Manchurian grassland Pontic steppe Sayan Intermontane steppe Selenge-Orkhon forest steppe South Siberian forest steppe Tian Shan foothill arid steppe
Flooded Grasslands and Savannas
PA0901 PA0902 PA0903 PA0904 PA0905 PA0906 PA0907 PA0908	Amur meadow steppe Bohai Sea saline meadow Nenjiang River grassland Nile Delta flooded savanna Saharan halophytics Tigris-Euphrates alluvial salt marsh Ussuri-Wusuli meadow and forest meadow Yellow Sea saline meadow
Montane Grasslands and Shrublands
PA1001 PA1002 PA1003 PA1004 PA1005 PA1006 PA1007 PA1008 PA1009 PA1010 PA1011 PA1012 PA1013 PA1014 PA1015 PA1016 PA1017 PA1018 PA1019 PA1020 PA1021 PA1022	Altai alpine meadow and tundra Central Tibetan Plateau alpine steppe Eastern Himalayan alpine shrub and meadows Ghorat-Hazarajat alpine meadow Hindu Kush alpine meadow Karakoram-West Tibetan Plateau alpine steppe Khangai Mountains alpine meadow Kopet Dag woodlands and forest steppe Kuhrud-Kohbanan Mountains forest steppe Mediterranean High Atlas juniper steppe North Tibetan Plateau-Kunlun Mountains alpine desert Northwestern Himalayan alpine shrub and meadows Ordos Plateau steppe Pamir alpine desert and tundra Qilian Mountains subalpine meadows Sayan Alpine meadows and tundra Southeast Tibet shrub and meadows Sulaiman Range alpine meadows Tian Shan montane steppe and meadows Tibetan Plateau alpine shrub and meadows Western Himalayan alpine shrub and meadows Yarlung Zambo arid steppe
Tundra
PA1101 PA1102 PA1103 PA1104 PA1105 PA1106 PA1107 PA1108 PA1109 PA1110 PA1111 PA1112 PA1113 PA1114	Arctic desert Bering tundra Cherskii-Kolyma mountain tundra Chukchi Peninsula tundra Kamchatka Mountain tundra and forest tundra Kola Peninsula tundra Northeast Siberian coastal tundra Northwest Russian-Novaya Zemlya tundra Novosibirsk Islands arctic desert Scandinavian Montane Birch forest and grasslands Taimyr-Central Siberian tundra Trans-Baikal Bald Mountain tundra Wrangel Island arctic desert Yamalagydanskaja tundra
Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands, & Shrub
PA1201 PA1202 PA1203 PA1204 PA1205 PA1206 PA1207 PA1208 PA1209 PA1210 PA1211 PA1212 PA1213 PA1214 PA1215 PA1216 PA1217 PA1218 PA1219 PA1220 PA1221 PA1222	Aegean and Western Turkey sclerophyllous and mixed forests Anatolian conifer and deciduous mixed forests Canary Islands dry woodlands and forests Corsican montane broadleaf and mixed forests Crete Mediterranean forests Cyprus Mediterranean forests Eastern Mediterranean conifer-sclerophyllous-broadleaf forests Iberian conifer forests Iberian sclerophyllous and semi-deciduous forests Illyrian deciduous forests Italian sclerophyllous and semi-deciduous forests Mediterranean acacia-argania dry woodlands and succulent thickets Mediterranean dry woodlands and steppe Mediterranean woodlands and forests Northeastern Spain and Southern France Mediterranean forests Northwest Iberian montane forests Pindus Mountains mixed forests South Appenine mixed montane forests Southeastern Iberian shrubs and woodlands Southern Anatolian montane conifer and deciduous forests Southwest Iberian Mediterranean sclerophyllous and mixed forests Tyrrhenian-Adriatic sclerophyllous and mixed forests
Deserts & Xeric Shrublands
PA1301 PA1302 PA1303 PA1304 PA1305 PA1306 PA1307 PA1308 PA1309 PA1310 PA1311 PA1312 PA1313 PA1314 PA1315 PA1316 PA1317 PA1318 PA1319 PA1320 PA1321 PA1322 PA1323 PA1324 PA1325 PA1326 PA1327 PA1328 PA1329 PA1330 PA1331 PA1332	Afghan Mountains semi-desert Alashan Plateau semi-desert Arabian Desert and East Sahero-Arabian xeric shrublands Atlantic coastal desert Azerbaijan shrub desert and steppe Badkhiz-Karabil semi-desert Baluchistan xeric woodlands Caspian lowland desert Central Afghan Mountains xeric woodlands Central Asian northern desert Central Asian riparian woodlands Central Asian southern desert Central Persian desert basins Eastern Gobi desert steppe Gobi Lakes Valley desert steppe Great Lakes Basin desert steppe Junggar Basin semi-desert Kazakh semi-desert Kopet Dag semi-desert Mesopotamian shrub desert North Saharan steppe and woodlands Paropamisus xeric woodlands Persian Gulf desert and semi-desert Qaidam Basin semi-desert Red Sea Nubo-Sindian tropical desert and semi-desert Rigestan-North Pakistan sandy desert Sahara desert South Iran Nubo-Sindian desert and semi-desert South Saharan steppe and woodlands Taklimakan desert Tibesti-Jebel Uweinat montane xeric woodlands West Saharan montane xeric woodlands

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