Biogeographic Settings

• Arctic
  • Arctic
    • Beaufort Sea Continental Coast and Shelf
    • Chukchi Sea
    • Eastern Bering Sea
• Temperate Northern Atlantic
  • Cold Temperate Northwest Atlantic
    • Scotian Shelf
    • Gulf of Maine/Bay of Fundy
    • Virginian
  • Warm Temperate Northwest Atlantic
    • Carolinian
    • Northern Gulf of Mexico
• Temperate Northern Pacific
  • Cold Temperate Northeast Pacific
    • Aleutian Islands
    • Gulf of Alaska
    • North American Pacific Fijordland
    • Puget Trough/Georgia Basin
    • Oregon, Washington, Vancouver Coast and Shelf
    • Northern California
    • Southern California Bight
• Tropical Atlantic
  • Tropical Northwestern Atlantic
    • Eastern Caribbean
    • Greater Antilles
    • Southwestern Caribbean
    • Floridian
• Central Indo-Pacific
  • Tropical Northwestern Pacific
    • Mariana Islands
• Eastern Indo-Pacific
  • Hawaii
    • Hawaii
  • Marshall, Gilbert and Ellis Islands
    • Marshall Islands
  • Central Polynesia
    • Line Islands
    • Phoenix/Tokelau/Northern Cook Islands
    • Samoa Islands

Biogeographic Settings are based on the Marine Ecoregions of the World, developed by The Nature Conservancy and World Wildlife Fund with broad input from other NGO, academic and intergovernmental conservation partners.

Definitions, maps and shapefiles are available at http://www.worldwildlife.org/science/ecoregions/marine/item1266.html.