San Lucan xeric scrub

San Lucan xeric scrub

The San Lucan xeric scrub is a xeric shrubland ecoregion of Mexico's Baja California Peninsula.

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The San Lucan xeric scrub covers an area of 3,900 square kilometers (1,500 square miles) at the southern tip of the peninsula. The xeric scrub extends from coast up to 250 meters elevation, where the Sierra de la Laguna dry forests start.

References and external links

* [http://www.worldwildlife.org/wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/nt/nt1314_full.html San Lucan xeric scrub (World Wildlife Fund)]
* [http://www.nationalgeographic.com/wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/nt/nt1314.html San Lucan xeric scrub (National Geographic)]


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