Mexican dry forests

Mexican dry forest describes a number of ecoregions of Mexico within the dry broadleaf forest Biome. Together they constitute a World Wildlife Fund Global 200 priority ecoregions area for conservation.

## Ecoregions[edit]

The area includes the dry forest ecoregions of Mexico's Pacific Ocean Coast from Sinaloa and the southern Baja California peninsula south to Guatemala.

North to south, they include:

* Jalisco dry forests
* Balsas dry forests
* Bajío dry forests
* Chiapas Depression dry forests
* Sonoran-Sinaloan transition subtropical dry forest,
* Southern Pacific dry forests
* Sinaloan dry forests
* Sierra de la Laguna dry forests.

## See also[edit]

* Ecoregions of Mexico

## References and external links[edit]

* Mexican dry forests (National Geographic)
* World Wildlife Fund & C.Michael Hogan. 2011. Jalisco dry forests. Encyclopedia of Earth, National Council for Science and the Environment, Washington DC. eds M.McGinley and C.J.cleveland