Mexican dry forests
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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[edit]
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[edit]
References and external links[edit]
- 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