Major Types of World Vegetation
- Tropical and subtropical forests
- Lowland evergreen rain forest and semi-evergreen rain forest
- Tropical montane forest
- Tropical cloud forest
- Monsoon forest and tradewind forest
- Tropical and subtropical deciduous forest, thorn forest, and thorn scrub
- Tropical hammock and subtropical hammock
- Savanna (tropical grasslands)
- Savanna grassland
- Savanna woodland and parkland
- Temperate grasslands
- Prairie
- Desert grassland
- Steppe
- Heathland
- Mediterranean-type scrub
- Sclerophyll woodland
- Open- and closed-scrub heathland
- Cold and high elevation heathland
- Wet and dry sclerophyll forest
- Desert and desert-like scrub
- Shrub steppe
- Warm desert scrub
- Fog desert scrub
- Cool desert scrub
- Salt desert and inland alkali-sink scrub
- Temperate forest
- Temperate summergreen deciduous and mixed evergreen-deciduous forest
- Temperate rain forest
- Temperate and montane coniferous forest
- Cool temperate rain forest
- Taiga
- Arctic and temperate alpine tundra
- Tropical alpine
- Strand
- Marine and estuarine wetlands
- Mangal (mangrove)
- Coastal salt marsh
- Marine meadow and surfweed
- Freshwater wetlands