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The Northern Mesoamerican Pacific Mangroves are composed of two main mangrove areas located on the Pacific Coast and the Gulf of California Coast. Magdalena Bay is the largest area on the Pacific coast, along with San Ignacio Lagoon and Ojo de Liebre Lagoon, and on Cedros Island and Guadalupe Island off the coast.
This is a list of mangrove ecoregions ordered according to whether they lie in the Afrotropical, Australasian, Indomalayan, or Neotropical realms of the world. Mangrove estuaries such as those found in the Sundarbans of southwestern Bangladesh are rich productive ecosystems which serve as spawning grounds and nurseries for shrimp, crabs, and many fish species, a richness which is lost if the ...
BCNPMR's marine habitats include extensive tracts of mangrove and sea grass beds, patch and barrier reef, and the largest lagoon on the island of Ambergris caye, Laguna de Cantena. The reef lies within the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System, the world's second longest barrier reef after the Great Barrier Reef in Australia.
Northern Mesoamerican Pacific Coast Mangroves: Baja California Sur, Sinaloa, Sonora: Nearctic: Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub: California coastal sage and chaparral: Baja California: Nearctic: Temperate coniferous forests: Sierra Juárez and San Pedro Mártir pine–oak forests: Baja California: Nearctic: Temperate broadleaf and ...
The Mesoamerican Gulf-Caribbean mangroves ecoregion (WWF ID: NT1403) covers the series of disconnected mangrove habitats along the eastern coast of Central America.These salt-water wetlands are found in river deltas, lagoons, and low-lying areas facing the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea, from Tampico, Mexico to central Panama.
The Marismas Nacionales–San Blas mangroves occupy an area of 2,000 square kilometers (770 sq mi) in coastal Nayarit and Sinaloa states.. The Marismas Nacionales is an interconnected complex of lagoons and wetlands on the alluvial plain formed by the Acaponeta, San Pedro Mezquital, and Grande de Santiago rivers.
Pages in category "Mangrove ecoregions" ... Mesoamerican Gulf–Caribbean mangroves; ... Northern Dry Pacific Coast mangroves;
The latter locality is the highest latitude (38° 45'S) at which mangroves occur naturally. The mangroves in New Zealand, which extend as far south as 37°, are of the same type; they start as low forest in the northern part of the North Island but become low scrub toward their southern limit.