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The Chihuahuan desert and Central Mexican matorral are the richest deserts in the Neotropics. [9] The Carnarvon xeric shrublands of Australia are a regional center for endemism. [1] The Sonoran and Baja deserts of Mexico are unusual desert communities dominated by giant columnar cacti. [1] Madagascar spiny forests; Atacama Desert
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 ...
The following is a list of ecoregions in Mexico as identified by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). A different system of ecoregional analysis is used by the Commission for Environmental Cooperation , a trilateral body linking Mexican, Canadian and United States environmental regime.
The Valley of Mexico is an endorheic basin, which drains into central lakes. The ecoregion is home to Mexico City , the largest metropolis in North America. Other cities in the ecoregion include Toluca , San Luis Potosí , Aguascalientes , Zacatecas , San Miguel de Allende , Dolores Hidalgo , San Juan del Rio , Pachuca , and Actopan .
The Tamaulipan mezquital (Spanish: Mezquital Tamaulipeco), also known as the Brush Country, is a deserts and xeric shrublands ecoregion in the Southern United States and northeastern Mexico. It covers an area of 141,500 km 2 (54,600 sq mi), [ 2 ] encompassing a portion of the Gulf Coastal Plain in southern Texas , northern Tamaulipas ...
The Chihuahuan Desert (Spanish: Desierto de Chihuahua, Desierto Chihuahuense) is a desert ecoregion designation covering parts of northern Mexico and the southwestern United States. It occupies much of far West Texas , the middle to lower Rio Grande Valley and the lower Pecos Valley in New Mexico , and a portion of southeastern Arizona , as ...
The Tehuacán Valley matorral is a xeric shrubland ecoregion, of the deserts and xeric shrublands biome, located in eastern Central Mexico. Matorral is a Spanish word, along with tomillares, for shrubland, thicket or bushes. [2] The term is used alone for a Mediterranean climate ecosystem in Southern Europe.
The Baja California desert (Spanish: desierto de Baja California) is a desert ecoregion of Mexico's Baja California peninsula. [2] This ecoregion occupies the western portion of the Baja California peninsula, and occupies most of the Mexican states of Baja California Sur and Baja California. It covers 77,700 square kilometers (30,000 square miles).