List of desert and xeric shrubland ecoregions
The World Wide Fund for Nature defines a number of ecoregions that belong the Deserts and xeric shrublands biome:[1]
List of ecoregions
Carnarvon xeric shrublands | Australia |
Central Ranges xeric scrub | Australia |
Gibson Desert | Australia |
Great Sandy-Tanami desert | Australia |
Great Victoria Desert | Australia |
Nullarbor Plain xeric shrublands | Australia |
Pilbara shrublands | Australia |
Simpson Desert | Australia |
Tirari–Sturt stony desert | Australia |
Western Australian mulga shrublands | Australia |
Deccan thorn scrub forests | India, Sri Lanka |
Indus Valley desert | India, Pakistan |
Northwestern thorn scrub forests | India, Pakistan |
Thar desert | India, Pakistan |
Baja California desert | Mexico |
Central Mexican matorral | Mexico |
Chihuahuan desert | Mexico, United States |
Colorado Plateau shrublands | United States |
Great Basin shrub steppe | United States |
Gulf of California xeric scrub | Mexico |
Meseta Central matorral | Mexico |
Mojave desert | United States |
Okanagan (South) shrub steppe | Canada |
Snake–Columbia shrub steppe | United States |
Sonoran desert | Mexico, United States |
Tamaulipan matorral | Mexico, |
Tamaulipan mezquital | Mexico, United States |
Wyoming Basin shrub steppe | United States |
Araya and Paria xeric scrub | Venezuela |
Aruba-Curaçao-Bonaire cactus scrub | Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao |
Atacama desert | Chile, Peru |
Caatinga | Brazil |
Cayman Islands xeric scrub | Cayman Islands |
Cuban cactus scrub | Cuba |
Galápagos Islands xeric scrub | Ecuador |
Guajira-Barranquilla xeric scrub | Colombia, Venezuela |
La Costa xeric shrublands | Venezuela |
Leeward Islands xeric scrub | Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, British Virgin Islands, Guadeloupe, Saint Martin, Saint Barthélemy, Saba, US Virgin Islands |
Malpelo Island xeric scrub | Colombia |
Motagua Valley thornscrub | Guatemala |
Paraguana xeric scrub | Venezuela |
San Lucan xeric scrub | Mexico |
Sechura desert | Peru |
Tehuacán Valley matorral | Mexico |
Windward Islands xeric scrub | Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Martinique, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines |
Saint Peter and Saint Paul Archipelago | Brazil |
References
- "Deserts and xeric shrublands". WWF. Retrieved 2018-12-19.
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