- Source: List of ecoregions in Mexico
The following is a list of ecoregions in Mexico as identified by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). A different system of ecoregional analysis is used by the Commission for Environmental Cooperation, a trilateral body linking Mexican, Canadian and United States environmental regime.
Terrestrial ecoregions
The terrestrial ecoregions of Mexico span two biogeographic realms - the Nearctic and Neotropic - which together constitute the entire biogeography of the Americas.
Veracruz is the most biodiverse state with 10 ecoregions across 5 biomes and 2 realms. Chiapas comes in a close second with 10 ecoregions across 4 biomes in the same realm. By contrast, Morelos is the least biodiverse state with just 2 ecoregions.
Freshwater ecoregions
= Baja California Complex
=Baja California
= Colorado River Complex
=Colorado Delta
Sonoran
= Sinaloan Coastal Complex
=Sinaloan Coastal
= 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
=Santiago
Chapala
Lerma
Rio Verde Headwaters
Manantlan/Ameca
= Rio Panuco Complex
=Rio Panuco
= Balsas Complex
=Balsas
= Pacific Central Complex
=Tehuantepec
= Atlantic Central Complex
=Southern Veracruz
Belizean Lowlands
Catemaco
Coatzacoalcos
Grijalva-Usumacinta
Yucatán
Marine ecoregions
= Warm Temperate Northeast Pacific
=Southern California Bight
Cortezian
Magdalena Transition
= Tropical East Pacific
=Revillagigedos
Mexican Tropical Pacific
[Clipperton] (an overseas possession of France, disputed by Mexico)
Chiapas-Nicaragua
= Warm Temperate Northwest Atlantic
=Northern Gulf of Mexico
= Tropical Northwestern Atlantic
=Southern Gulf of Mexico
Western Caribbean
See also
List of ecoregions in the United States (WWF)
List of ecoregions in Guatemala
List of ecoregions in Belize
References
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.
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- List of ecoregions in Mexico
- List of ecoregions in the United States (WWF)
- Lists of ecoregions
- List of ecoregions in the United States (EPA)
- List of regions of Latin America
- Lists of ecoregions by country
- Nearctic realm
- List of ecoregions in Belize
- List of North American deserts
- Arizona/New Mexico Mountains ecoregion
