Central American pine-oak forests
- Central American pine-oak forests
The Central American pine-oak forests is a tropical coniferous forest ecoregion of Central America and southern Mexico.
etting
The Central American pine-oak forests occupy an area of 111,400 square kilometers (43,000 square miles), extending along the mountainous spine of Central America, extending from the Sierra Madre de Chiapas in Mexico's Chiapas state through the highlands of Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras to central Nicaragua.
The pine-oak forests lie above 600 meters elevation, and are surrounded at lower elevations by tropical moist forests and tropical dry forests.
Flora
The Central American pine-oak forests are composed of many species characteristic of temperate North America, including oaks ("Quercus" spp.), pines ("Pinus" spp.), fir ("Abies" spp.), and cypress ("Cupressus" spp.).
Fauna
References and external links
* [http://www.worldwildlife.org/wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/nt/nt0303_full.html Central American pine-oak forests (WWF)]
* [http://www.nationalgeographic.com/wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/nt/nt0303.html Central American pine-oak forests (National Geographic)]
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