Country

Vietnam: 14 ecoregions. Each with its climate now and toward 2050, and its conservation tier.

Vietnam is almost entirely a country of Indomalayan tropical forest, fourteen ecoregions in three flavors. Moist broadleaf forests dominate: the Northern Indochina subtropical forests and South China-Vietnam subtropical evergreen forests in the north, the Northern Annamites rain forests and Southern Annamites montane rain forests along the mountain spine, and the imperiled Red River freshwater swamp forests and Tonle Sap-Mekong peat swamp forests on the deltas. The south and interior carry a drier trio - Central Indochina dry forests, Southeast Indochina dry evergreen forests, and Southern Vietnam lowland dry forests - and Indochina mangroves line the coast. The gradient runs from a subtropical north with a genuinely cool season to a monsoonal, seasonally dry south, so heat-loving broadleaf evergreens thrive throughout while the north can also carry plants needing winter chill the delta never gets.