Mexican dry forests
Mexican dry forest describes a number of ecoregions of Mexico within the dry broadleaf forest Biome. Together they constitute a World Wildlife Fund Global 200 priority ecoregions area for conservation.
Ecoregions[]
The area includes the dry forest ecoregions of Mexico's Pacific Ocean Coast from Sinaloa and the southern Baja California peninsula south to Guatemala.
North to south, they include:
- Jalisco dry forests
- Balsas dry forests
- Bajío dry forests
- Chiapas Depression dry forests
- Sonoran-Sinaloan transition subtropical dry forest,
- Southern Pacific dry forests
- Sinaloan dry forests
- Sierra de la Laguna dry forests.
See also[]
- Ecoregions of Mexico
References and external links[]
- Mexican dry forests (National Geographic)
- World Wildlife Fund & C.Michael Hogan. 2011. Jalisco dry forests. Encyclopedia of Earth, National Council for Science and the Environment, Washington DC. eds M.McGinley and C.J.cleveland
Categories:
- Ecoregions of Mexico
- Forests of Mexico
- Neotropical ecoregions
- Tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests