Ecoregions of New Guinea

New Guinea, lying within the tropics and with extensive mountain areas, comprises a wide range of ecoregions. These include rainforests, grasslands and mangrove.

Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests

• Biak-Numfoor rain forests
• Central Range montane rain forests
• Huon Peninsula montane rain forests
• Northern New Guinea lowland rain and freshwater swamp forests
• Northern New Guinea montane rain forests
• Southeastern Papuan rain forests
• Southern New Guinea freshwater swamp forests
• Southern New Guinea lowland rain forests
• Vogelkop montane rain forests
• Vogelkop-Aru lowland rain forests
• Yapen rain forests

Tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands

• Trans Fly savanna and grasslands

Montane grasslands and shrublands

• Central Range sub-alpine grasslands

Mangrove

• New Guinea mangroves

References

• Wikramanayake, Eric; Eric Dinerstein; Colby J. Loucks; et al. (2002). Terrestrial Ecoregions of the Indo-Pacific: a Conservation Assessment. Island Press; Washington, DC.