ecoregion boundaries are used in analysis of Land Use Land Cover (LULC) trends
Source: US Geological Survey, Land Cover Trends Project
As defined by the Commission for Environmental Cooperation, Virginia is part of the Eastern Temperate Forest. Unless the land is disturbed, the climate and soils allow a dense forest to form with 100' tall broadleaf deciduous trees and needle-leafed conifers.1
Virginia's ecoregions, as defined in the Commission for Environmental Cooperation's North American Terrestrial Ecoregions (2021)
Source: ESRI, ArcGIS Online
In Bailey's definition of ecoregions, Virginia includes the Outer Coastal Plain Mixed Province, Southern Mixed Forest Province, and the Central Appalachian Broadleaf Forest-Coniferous Forest-Meadow Province.2
Virginia includes three provinces within the ecoregions defined by Robert Bailey in 1995
Source: US Forest Service, Description of the Ecoregions of the United States
Virginia ecoregions, as classified by the Environmental Protection Agency (Omernik)
Source: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), EnviroAtlas