Mexican dry forests explained

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