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The Nama Karoo of Namibia has the world's richest desert fauna. [8] 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 ...
Aldabra Island xeric scrub: Seychelles: East Saharan montane xeric woodlands: Chad, Sudan: Eritrean coastal desert: Djibouti, Eritrea: Ethiopian xeric grasslands and shrublands: Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan: Gulf of Oman desert and semi-desert: Oman, United Arab Emirates: Hobyo grasslands and shrublands: Somalia: Ile Europa and ...
Creosote bush scrub is a North American desert vegetation type (or biome) of sparsely but evenly spaced desert plants dominated by creosote bush (Larrea tridentata) and its associates. Its visual characterization is of widely spaced shrubs that are somewhat evenly distributed over flat or relatively flat desert areas that receive between 2 and ...
Extent of Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub. Mediterranean forests, woodlands and scrub is a biome defined by the World Wide Fund for Nature. [1] The biome is generally characterized by dry summers and rainy winters, although in some areas rainfall may be uniform.
Low shrubland in Hawaii Scrub vegetation with cactus in Webb County in south Texas Mediterranean shrubland in Sardinia, Italy. Shrubland, scrubland, scrub, brush, or bush is a plant community characterized by vegetation dominated by shrubs, often also including grasses, herbs, and geophytes. Shrubland may either occur naturally or be the result ...
Sahara desert (ecoregion) Saint Peter and Saint Paul Archipelago; San Lucan xeric scrub; Sechura Desert; Snake–Columbia shrub steppe; Socotra Island xeric shrublands; Somali montane xeric woodlands; Sonoran Desert; South Iran Nubo–Sindian desert and semi-desert; South Saharan steppe and woodlands; Southwestern Arabian foothills savanna
The North Saharan steppe and woodlands is a desert ecoregion, in the deserts and xeric shrublands biome, that forms the northern edge of the Sahara.It extends east and west across Northern Africa, south of the Mediterranean dry woodlands and steppe ecoregion of the Maghreb and Cyrenaica, which is part of the Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub biome.
Coastal semi-desert scrub, also known as lomas, forms a narrow belt along the Pacific coast from 32 to 24º S, from sea level up to approximately 1,200 m elevation on the Chilean Coast Range. Fog and low clouds from the sea provide more moisture, reduce evapotranspiration and keep summer temperatures cooler, in contrast to the semi-desert scrub ...