Ecozones

What is an ecozone?

Ecozones are a method of dividing up the Earth's surface. Each ecozone is a large area that contains a number of habitats, which are linked by the evolutionary history of the animals and plants within them. For instance one ecozone is Australasia, because its marsupials evolved in isolation to mammals in the rest of the world.

Map showing the location of the ecozones Oceania Nearctic Neotropical Antarctica Australasia Afrotropics Indo-Malay Palaearctic

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