Ecoregions of Florida

Maps of ecoregions have been produced to provide resource managers with a logical regional strategy for locating representative reference sites, designing sampling schemes, analyzing and evaluating data, and assessing regional patterns of attainable terrestrial and aquatic ecosystem quality. This ecoregions and subregions map is designed to serve as a spatial framework for environmental resource management. The most immediate uses by the State of Florida are for developing regional biological criteria and water quality standards, and for setting management goals for nonpoint-source pollution. This Florida ecoregion map depicts revisions of ecoregions, compiled originally at a relatively small scale (US EPA 1995, Omernik 1987), as well as subregions of those ecoregions. Compilation of this map, performed at the larger 1:250,000 scale, was part of a collaborative project between the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory (NHEERL) - Corvallis, OR., and the Florida Department of Environmental Protection.