Mexican dry forests

The Mexican dry forests' describes a number of dry broadleaf forest ecoregions of Mexico that together constitute on of the World Wildlife Fund's Global 200 priority areas for conservation.

The area includes the dry forest ecoregions of Mexico's Pacific Ocean Coast from Sinaloa and southern Baja California down to Guatemala as follows: the 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, and Sierra de la Laguna dry forests.

References and external links

• 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