Fig. 7. Ecoregions of the United States after Bailey (1976) with the addition of 10 Marine and Estuarine Provinces proposed in our classification. |
aDomains, Divisions, Provinces, and Sections used on Bailey's (1976) map and described in detail in Bailey (1978). Highland ecoregions are designated M mountain, P plateau, and A altiplano.
1000 Polar 1200 Tundra 1210 Arctic Tundra 1220 Bering Tundra M1210 Brooks Range 1300 Subarctic 1310 Yukon Parkland 1320 Yukon Forest M1310 Alaska Range 2000 Humid Temperate 2100 Warm Continental 2110 Laurentian Mixed Forest 2111 Spruce-Fir Forest 2112 Northern Hardwoods-Fir Forest 2113 Northern Hardwoods Forest 2114 Northern Hardwoods-Spruce Forest M2110 Columbia Forest M2111 Douglas-fir Forest M2112 Cedar-Hemlock-Douglas-fir Forest 2200 Hot Continental 2210 Eastern Deciduous Forest 2211 Mixed Mesophytic Forest 2212 Beech-Maple Forest 2213 Maple-Basswood Forest + Oak Savanna 2214 Appalachian Oak Forest 2215 Oak-Hickory Forest 2300 Subtropical 2310 Outer Coastal Plain Forest 2311 Beech-Sweetgum-Magnolia-Pine-Oak 2312 Southern Floodplain Forest 2320 Southeastern Mixed Forest 2400 Marine 2410 Willamette-Puget Forest M2410 Pacific Forest (in conterminous U.S.) M2411 Sitka Spruce-Cedar-Hemlock Forest M2412 Redwood Forest M2413 Cedar-Hemlock-Douglas-fir Forest M2414 California Mixed Evergreen Forest M2415 Silver fir-Douglas-fir Forest M2410 Pacific Forest (in Alaska) 2500 Prairie 2510 Prairie Parkland 2511 Oak-Hickory-Bluestem Parkland 2512 Oak + Bluestem Parkland 2520 Prairie Brushland 2521 Mesquite-Buffalo Grass 2522 Juniper-Oak-Mesquite 2523 Mesquite-Acacia 2530 Tall-Grass Prairie 2531 Bluestem Prairie 2532 Whestgrass-Bluestem-Needlegrass 2533 Bluestem-Gamma Prairie 2600 Mediterranean (Dry-summer Subtropical) 2610 California Grassland M2610 Sierran Forest M2620 California Chaparral 3000 Dry 3100 Steppe 3110 Great Plains-Shortgrass Prairie 3111 Gramma-Needlegrass-Wheatgrass 3112 Wheatgrass-Needlegrass 3113 Grama-Buffalo Grass M3110 Rocky Mountain Forest M3111 Grand-fir-Douglas-fir Forest M3112 Douglas-fir Forest M3113 Ponderosa Pine-Douglas-fir Forest 3120 Palouse Grassland M3120 Upper Gila Mountains Forest 3130 Intermountain Sagebrush 3131 Sagebrush-Wheatgrass 3132 Lahontan Saltbush-Greasewood 3133 Great Basin Sagebrush 3134 Bonneville Saltbush-Greasewood 3135 Ponderosa Shrub Forest P3130 Colorado Plateau P3131 Juniper-Pinyon Woodland + Sagebrush Saltbush Mosaic P3132 Grama-Galleta Steppe + Juniper-Pinyon Woodland Mosaic 3140 Mexican Highland Shrub Steppe A3140 Wyoming Basin A3141 Wheatgrass-Needlegrass-Sagebrush A3142 Sagebrush-Wheatgrass 3200 Desert 3210 Chihuahuan Desert 3211 Grama-Tobosa 3212 Tarbush-Creosote Bush 3220 American Desert 3221 Creosote Bush 3222 Creosote Bush-Bur Sage 4000 Humid Tropical 4100 Savanna 4110 Everglades 4200 Rainforest M4210 Hawaiian Islands