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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.
For the western-most 50 km, the ecoregion immediately inland is the Southern Pacific dry forests. Further east and south the interior ecoregion is the Central American dry forests ecoregion. The Tehuantepec–El Manchón mangroves are the northernmost subregion of the Southern Mesoamerican Pacific mangroves ecoregion. [5]
A 2014 book proposed a distinction between the Chocoan and Equatorial-Pacific mangrove forests. [13] Endemic species such as Avicennia tonduzi and Avicennia bicolor are found in the Pacific mangroves. [12] More than 70% of Colombia's mangroves grow on the Pacific coast. They form tall, well-structured forests with trees up to 30 metres (98 ft ...
The terrestrial ecoregions of Mexico span two biogeographic realms - the Nearctic and Neotropic - which together constitute the entire biogeography of the Americas.. Veracruz is the most biodiverse state with 10 ecoregions across 5 biomes and 2 realms.
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 ...
Madagascar mangroves; Magdalena–Santa Marta mangroves; Manabí mangroves; Maranhão mangroves; Marismas Nacionales–San Blas mangroves; Mayan Corridor mangroves; Mesoamerican Gulf–Caribbean mangroves; Mexican South Pacific Coast mangroves; Moist Pacific Coast mangroves; Mosquitia–Nicaraguan Caribbean Coast mangroves; Myanmar Coast mangroves
Marismas Nacionales–San Blas mangroves; Mayan Corridor mangroves; Mediterranean California; Meseta Central matorral; Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System; Mesoamerican Gulf–Caribbean mangroves; Mesoamerican pine–oak forests; Mexican South Pacific Coast mangroves
Northern Mesoamerican Pacific Coast Mangroves; R. Ría Celestun Biosphere Reserve; Ría Lagartos Biosphere Reserve