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Borneo peat swamp forests
Peat swamp forest in Kalimantan
Ecoregion territory (in purple)
Ecology
RealmIndomalayan
Biometropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests
Borders
  • Borneo lowland rain forests
  • Southwest Borneo freshwater swamp forests
  • Sunda Shelf mangroves,
  • Sundaland heath forests
Geography
Area66,976 km2 (25,860 sq mi)
Countries
  • Brunei
  • Indonesia,
  • Malaysia
Conservation
Conservation statuscritical/endangered
Protected9,144 km² (14%)[1]

The Borneo peat swamp forests ecoregion, within the tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests biome, are on the island of Borneo, which is divided between Brunei, Indonesia and Malaysia.

  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; Supplemental material 2 table S1b. [1]

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