Large marine ecosystems (collection)

Ecoregions (main)

Published: November 17, 2008, 8:18 pm

Updated: July 26, 2012, 11:13 am

Source: NOAA

Topics:

Ecoregions (main) Marine Ecology (main) Biogeography (main) Oceans and seas (main) Geography (main)

This is a collection of Large Marine Ecosystems (LMEs) as classified by the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. For more information on this subject, see the article: Large marine ecosystems.

Large Marine Ecosystems of the World. (Source: University of Rhode Island Environmental Data Center)

Eastern Atlantic Ocean Baltic Sea (LME) Benguela Current (LME) Black Sea (LME) Canary Current (LME) Celtic-Biscay Shelf (LME) Faroe Plateau (LME) Guinea Current (LME) Iberian Coastal (LME) Mediterranean Sea (LME) North Sea (LME) Western Atlantic Ocean Caribbean Sea (LME) East Brazil Shelf (LME) Gulf of Mexico (LME) Newfoundland-Labrador Shelf (LME) North Brazil Shelf (LME) Northeast U.S. Continental Shelf (LME) Patagonian Shelf (LME) Scotian Shelf (LME) South Brazil Shelf (LME) Southeast U.S. Continental Shelf (LME) Indian Ocean Agulhas Current (LME) Arabian Sea (LME) Bay of Bengal (LME) Northwest Australian Shelf (LME) Red Sea (LME) Somali Coastal Current (LME) Southwest Australian Shelf (LME) West-Central Australian Shelf (LME) Eastern Pacific Ocean California Current (LME) East Bering Sea (LME) Gulf of Alaska (LME) Gulf of California (LME) Humboldt Current (LME) Insular Pacific-Hawaiian (LME) Pacific Central-American Coastal (LME)

Western Pacific Ocean East-Central Australian Shelf (LME) East China Sea (LME) Gulf of Thailand (LME) Indonesian Sea (LME) Kuroshio Current (LME) New Zealand Shelf (LME) North Australian Shelf (LME) Northeast Australian Shelf/Great Barrier Reef (LME) Oyashio Current (LME) Sea of Japan (LME) Sea of Okhotsk (LME) South China Sea (LME) Southeast Australian Shelf (LME) Sulu-Celebes Sea (LME) West Bering Sea (LME) Yellow Sea (LME) Polar Oceans Antarctica (LME) Arctic Archipelago* Arctic Ocean* Baffin Bay/Davis Strait* Barents Sea (LME) Beaufort Sea (LME) Chukchi Sea (LME) East Greenland Shelf (LME) East Siberian Sea (LME) Hudson Bay (LME) Iceland Shelf (LME) Kara Sea (LME) Laptev Sea (LME) Norwegian Shelf (LME) West Greenland Shelf (LME)

• Profiles for these Large Marine Ecosystems are not available from NOAA at this time.

See Also

• Seas of the world on Encyclopedia of Earth (LME) A description of a particular sea, and not merely its ecosystem

Citation

(2012). Large marine ecosystems (collection). Retrieved from http://editors.eol.org/eoearth/wiki/Large_marine_ecosystems_(collection)