An interesting paper<\/a> provides a\u00a0map of the marine coastal shelf ecoregions of the world which are\u00a0at a geographic scale similar to their terrestrial ecoregions and potentially would seem to be similarly useful for ecoregion birders. The 2007 paper is “Marine ecoregions of the World: a bioregionalization of coastal and shelf areas” by Mark D. Spalding, et al. (+14 other\u00a0authors), BioScience, Vol. 57 (7): 573-583. This effort was led by WWF and TNC scientists. The map below is scanned from that publication and shows the ecoregions of North America:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The North American ecoregions are the following (realms are in bold face, provinces in italics):<\/p>\n Arctic<\/strong><\/p>\n Arctic<\/em> (no provinces identified)<\/p>\n 5. Northern Grand Banks\u2013Southern\u00a0Labrador<\/p>\n 6.\u00a0Northern Labrador<\/p>\n 7.\u00a0Baffin Bay\u2013Davis Strait<\/p>\n 8.\u00a0Hudson Complex<\/p>\n 9.\u00a0Lancaster Sound<\/p>\n 10.\u00a0High Arctic Archipelago<\/p>\n 11.\u00a0Beaufort\u2013Amundsen\u2013Viscount\u00a0Melville\u2013Queen Maud<\/p>\n 12.\u00a0Beaufort Sea\u2014continental coast\u00a0and shelf<\/p>\n 13.\u00a0Chukchi Sea<\/p>\n 14.\u00a0Eastern Bering Sea<\/p>\n Temperate North Atlantic<\/strong><\/p>\n Cold Temperate Northwest Atlantic<\/em><\/p>\n Warm Temperate Northwest Atlantic<\/em><\/p>\n Temperate Northern Pacific<\/strong><\/p>\n Cold Temperate Northeast Pacific<\/em><\/p>\n 53. Aleutian Islands\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n 54. Gulf of Alaska<\/span><\/p>\n 55. North American Pacific Fijordland <\/span><\/p>\n 56. Puget Trough\/Georgia Basin<\/span><\/p>\n 57. Oregon, Washington, Vancouver\u00a0<\/span>Coast and Shelf<\/p>\n 58. Northern California<\/p>\n Warm Temperate Northeast Pacific <\/span><\/p>\n 59. Southern California Bight <\/span><\/p>\n 60. Cortezian<\/span><\/p>\n 61. Magdalena Transition\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Tropical Atlantic <\/span><\/p>\n Tropical Northwestern Atlantic <\/span><\/p>\n 62. Bermuda<\/span><\/p>\n 63. Bahamian 70. Floridian<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Blogs posted for marine\u00a0ecoregions: An ancient mariner on South Africa’s Agulhas Bank\u00a0(April 2016) An interesting paper provides a\u00a0map of the marine coastal shelf ecoregions of the world which are\u00a0at a geographic scale similar to their terrestrial ecoregions and potentially would seem to be similarly useful for ecoregion birders. The 2007 paper is “Marine ecoregions of… Continue reading Marine<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":8000,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/full-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/039adfd.netsolhost.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/91"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/039adfd.netsolhost.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/039adfd.netsolhost.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/039adfd.netsolhost.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/039adfd.netsolhost.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/039adfd.netsolhost.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/91\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1509,"href":"http:\/\/039adfd.netsolhost.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/91\/revisions\/1509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/039adfd.netsolhost.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Marine](\"http:\/\/039adfd.netsolhost.com\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Marine-NorthAmerica-1024x678.jpg\")
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\n<\/span>38. Southern Grand Banks\u2013South Newfoundland<\/div>\n\n
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