Southwest Arabian Escarpment shrublands and woodlands
The Southwestern Arabian Escarpment shrublands and woodlands, also known as the Southwestern Arabian foothills savanna is a desert and xeric shrubland ecoregion of the southern Arabian Peninsula, covering portions of Saudi Arabia and Yemen. The ecoregion occupies moderate elevations in the peninsula's mountainous southwest, including the Hijaz Mountains and Asir Mountains of Saudi Arabia, and the Sarawat Mountains of Yemen.
| Southwestern Arabian Escarpment shrublands and woodlands | |
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 Map of the Southwestern Arabian foothills savanna | |
| Ecology | |
| Realm | Afrotropic |
| Biome | Deserts and xeric shrublands |
| Geography | |
| Area | 274,800 km2 (106,100 sq mi) |
| Countries | Saudi Arabia and Yemen |
| Conservation | |
| Conservation status | critical/endangered |
The Escarpment woodlands and shrublands are bounded on the southeast by the Southwest Arabian coastal xeric shrublands, which extend along the coastal strip between the mountains and the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden. At higher elevations, the foothills savanna transitions to the Southwestern Arabian montane woodlands. The drier Red Sea-Arabian Desert shrublands lie to the northwest along the Red Sea coast, and wrap around the north and east between the Escarpment shrublands and woodlands and the hyper-arid deserts of Central Arabia.[1]