List of biogeographic provinces


Biogeographic Province is a biotic subdivision of realms.
The following list of biogeographic provinces was developed by Miklos Udvardy in 1975, later modified by other authors.

[Afrotropical Realm]

The hierarchy of the scheme is :
So, for example, the Australian Central Desert province is in the Australasian realm, is the 9th biogeographic province in that realm, and its biome falls within "warm deserts and semideserts", so it is coded 6.9.7.
The realms and provinces of the scheme are hence coded as follows: