The complex landforms of the low hills along the northern Eastern Ghats mountains and the central Indian Satpura Range that fall within this ecoregion rise above 1,300 m to demarcate the northern boundary of the Indian Peninsula, and provide some relief to the...

This ecoregion represents the alpine scrub and meadows of the high Himalayas, from east of the Kali Gandaki River in central Nepal, across Bhutan and Arunachal Pradesh, to northern Myanmar. The ecoregion is narrow and long, nestled between the treeline at 4,000 m...

An ecoregion of outstanding diversity with Gondwanan relicts and elements of the Indo-Malayan, Indo-Chinese, Sino-Himalayan, and East Asiatic regions. It extends as a narrow band of temperate broadleaf forest, between 2,000 and 3,000 m in the eastern Himalaya, from...

This ecoregion represents the belt of conifer forest between 3,000 and 4,000 m, from the Kali Gandaki River in central Nepal through Bhutan and into the Arunachal Pradesh in India. It forms a transition zone between the forested Himalayan ecoregions and the...

This ecoregion forms intertidal coastal ecosystems along much of the eastern coast of the Indian Peninsula. These form larger mangrove forest tracts around the deltas of the major east-flowing river systems with mangrove belts along mudflats and coasts. They form...

The ecoregion extends from Bhutan to Nepal, traversing the Siwalik Hills, the southernmost Himalayan range. The southwest monsoon brings rainfall up to 2,000 mm per year, being wetter in the east. These broadleaf forests, lying between 500 and 1,000 m along the...

Dominated by Chir pine Pinus roxburghii, this subtropical pine forest ecosystem stretches for over 3,000 km along the lower elevations of the Himalayan mountain range, from Pakistan to Bhutan. The region receives most rain from the southwest monsoon. The dominant...

This ecoregion is in several disjunct patches that line the shorelines of the Indus River Delta and the Gulfs of Kutch and Khambhat. Characterised by climatic extremes, from near-freezing temperatures in the winter to a sweltering 50°C during the summer. The July...

This ecoregion spans Ladakh within the upper Indus catchment, in the rain shadow of the Karakoram and the northwestern Himalayan ranges. The northern part exhibits tremendous topographic relief: river channels lower than 2,000 m elevation are separated by mountain...

The only ecoregion in Asia to support Asiatic lions. It has dry deciduous forests surrounded by extensive thorn scrub forests. The hot, arid climate, receives 550 to 700 mm of rain annually. Temperatures regularly soar to over 45°C and drop to near freezing on cold...