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The Arabian Desert ecoregion has little biodiversity, although a few endemic plants grow here. Many species, such as the striped hyena , jackal and honey badger , have died out as a result of hunting , habitat destruction , overgrazing by livestock, off-road driving , and human encroachment on their habitat.
Arabian Peninsula coastal fog desert: Oman, Saudi Arabia, Yemen: Aldabra Island xeric scrub: Seychelles: East Saharan montane xeric woodlands: Chad, Sudan: Eritrean coastal desert ...
The ecoregion occupies moderate elevations in the peninsula's mountainous southwest, which include regions such as the Hejaz. The foothills savanna is bounded on the west and south by the Arabian Peninsula coastal fog desert, which extend along the coastal strip between the foothills and the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden.
Eric Dinerstein, David Olson, et al. (2017). An Ecoregion-Based Approach to Protecting Half the Terrestrial Realm, BioScience, Volume 67, Issue 6, June 2017, Pages 534–545 . Spalding, Mark D., Helen E. Fox, Gerald R. Allen, Nick Davidson et al. "Marine Ecoregions of the World: A Bioregionalization of Coastal and Shelf Areas".
The terrestrial scheme divides the Earth's land surface into 8 biogeographic realms, containing 867 smaller ecoregions. Each ecoregion is classified into one of 14 major habitat types , or biomes . In 2017 the WWF team revised ecosystem names and boundaries in the Arabian Peninsula, drier African regions, and Southeastern United States.
The Arabian-Persian Gulf Coastal Plain Desert ecoregion (WWF ID: PA1323) covers the desert coastal plain of the northwest Persian Gulf, that is, on the northeast Arabian Peninsula, from Kuwait in the north to a small coastal sector in the United Arab Emirates to the southeast.
The ecoregion is bounded inland by the Southwestern Arabian foothills savanna ecoregion, which includes the drier foothill and mountain forests of southwest Arabia. The ecoregion is bounded on the ocean side by the Arabian Peninsula coastal fog desert, which occupies the coastal strip along the Arabian Sea. [3]
Ecoregions are listed by biome. [1] ... Arabian Desert; Mesopotamian shrub desert; Persian Gulf desert and semi-desert;