List of ecoregions in Mexico
This is a list of ecoregions of Mexico as defined by the World Wildlife Fund. A different system of ecoregional analysis is used by the Commission for Environmental Cooperation, a trilateral body linking Mexican, Canadian and United States environmental regimes.
Terrestrial ecoregions
- Chiapas moist forests
- Chimalpas montane forests
- Pantanos de Centla
- Petén-Veracruz moist forests
- Sierra Madre de Chiapas moist forests
- Sierra de los Tuxtlas
- Veracruz moist forests
- Veracruz montane forests
- Yucatán moist forests
- Bajío dry forests
- Balsas dry forests
- Central American dry forests
- Chiapas Depression dry forests
- Jalisco dry forests
- Revillagigedo Islands dry forests
- Sierra de la Laguna dry forests
- Sinaloan dry forests
- Sonoran-Sinaloan transition subtropical dry forest
- Southern Pacific dry forests
- Veracruz dry forests
- Central American pine-oak forests
- Sierra Juárez and San Pedro Mártir pine-oak forests
- Sierra de la Laguna pine-oak forests
- Sierra Madre de Oaxaca pine-oak forests
- Sierra Madre Occidental pine-oak forests
- Sierra Madre Oriental pine-oak forests
- Sierra Madre del Sur pine-oak forests
- Trans-Mexican volcanic belt pine-oak forests
- Chihuahuan desert
- San Lucan xeric scrub
- Sonoran desert
- Baja California desert
- Meseta Central matorral
- Central Mexican matorral
- Gulf of California xeric shrub
- Tamaulipan matorral
- Tamaulipan mezquital
- Tehuacan Valley matorral
- Alvarado mangroves
- Marismas Nacionales-San Blas mangroves
- Mayan Corridor mangroves
- Mexican South Pacific Coast mangroves
- Petenes mangroves
- Ría Lagartos mangroves
- Tehuantepec-El Manchon mangroves
- Usumacinta mangroves
Freshwater ecoregions
Baja California Complex
Colorado River Complex
Sinaloan Coastal Complex
Rio Bravo Complex
- Rio Bravo
- Pecos
- Guzman
- Mapimí
- Cuatro Ciénegas
- Llanos El Salado
- Conchos
- Lower Rio Bravo
- Rio San Juan
- Rio Salado
Lerma/Santiago Complex
Rio Panuco Complex
Balsas Complex
Pacific Central Complex
Atlantic Central Complex
- Revillagigedos[1]
- Mexican Tropical Pacific[1]
- [Clipperton][1] (an overseas possession of France, disputed by Mexico)
- Chiapas-Nicaragua[1]
References
!["Marine Ecoregions (Spalding 2007). [Map by] GEOMAR, University of Seville, Department of Human Geography"](http://www.marineplan.es/ES/fichas_kml/mapasfichas/ecoregions.jpg){kind=link}
- Olson, D., Dinerstein, E., Canevari, P., Davidson, I., Castro, G., Morisset, V., Abell, R., and Toledo, E.; eds. (1998). Freshwater biodiversity of Latin America and the Caribbean: A conservation assessment. Biodiversity Support Program, Washington DC.
- Ricketts, Taylor H; Eric Dinerstein; David M. Olson; Colby J. Loucks; et al. (1999). Terrestrial Ecoregions of North America: a Conservation Assessment. Island Press; Washington, DC.