A list of tundra ecoregions from the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) includes:

Antarctic realm[1]
Adelie Land tundra Adélie Land
Central South Antarctic Peninsula tundra Antarctic Peninsula
Dronning Maud Land tundra Queen Maud Land
East Antarctic tundra Eastern Antarctica
Ellsworth Land tundra Ellsworth Land
Ellsworth Mountains tundra Ellsworth Mountains
Enderby Land tundra Enderby Land
Marie Byrd Land tundra Marie Byrd Land
North Victoria Land tundra Victoria Land
Northeast Antarctic Peninsula tundra Antarctic Peninsula
Northwest Antarctic Peninsula tundra Antarctic Peninsula
Prince Charles Mountains tundra Prince Charles Mountains
Scotia Sea Islands tundra South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, South Shetland Islands, Bouvet Island
South Antarctic Peninsula tundra Antarctic Peninsula
South Orkney Islands tundra South Orkney Islands
South Victoria Land tundra Victoria Land
Southern Indian Ocean Islands tundra Crozet Islands, Prince Edward Islands, Heard Island, Kerguelen Islands, McDonald Islands
Transantarctic Mountains tundra Transantarctic Mountains
Australasian realm
Antipodes Subantarctic Islands tundra Australia, New Zealand
Nearctic realm
Alaska–St. Elias Range tundra Canada, United States
Aleutian Islands tundra United States
Arctic coastal tundra Canada, United States
Arctic foothills tundra Canada, United States
Baffin coastal tundra Canada
Beringia lowland tundra United States
Beringia upland tundra United States
Brooks–British Range tundra Canada, United States
Davis Highlands tundra Canada
High Arctic tundra Canada
Interior Yukon–Alaska alpine tundra Canada, United States
Kalaallit Nunaat high arctic tundra Greenland
Kalaallit Nunaat low arctic tundra Greenland
Low Arctic tundra Canada
Middle Arctic tundra Canada
Ogilvie–MacKenzie alpine tundra Canada, United States
Pacific Coastal Mountain icefields and tundra Canada
United States
Torngat Mountain tundra Canada
Palearctic realm
Arctic desert Russia
Bering tundra Russia
Cherskii–Kolyma mountain tundra Russia
Chukchi Peninsula tundra Russia
Kamchatka Mountain tundra and forest tundra Russia
Kola Peninsula tundra Norway
Russia
Northeast Siberian coastal tundra Russia
Northwest Russian–Novaya Zemlya tundra Russia
Novosibirsk Islands arctic desert Russia
Scandinavian montane birch forest and grasslands Finland, Norway, Sweden, Russia
Taimyr–Central Siberian tundra Russia
Trans-Baikal Bald Mountain tundra Russia
Wrangel Island Arctic desert Russia
Yamalagydanskaja tundra Russia

See also

References

  1. ↑ Eric Dinerstein, David Olson, et al. (2017). An Ecoregion-Based Approach to Protecting Half the Terrestrial Realm, BioScience, Volume 67, Issue 6, June 2017, Pages 534–545, https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/bix014
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