World Vegetation

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
  • Shallow lacustrine and upland meadow habitats
  • Freshwater marsh and herbaceous swamp
  • Vernal pool ephemeral
  • Sphagnum bog and related mire communities
  • Forested wetlands
  • Desert spring and desert oasis