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

Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests

• 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

Tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf 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

Tropical and subtropical coniferous 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

Tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands

• Western Gulf coastal grasslands

Flooded grasslands and savannas

• Central Mexican wetlands

Montane grasslands and shrublands

• Zacatonal

Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub

• California chaparral and woodlands

Deserts and xeric shrublands

• 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

Mangroves

• 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

• 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^[1]
• Cortezian^[1]
• Magdalena Transition^[1]

Tropical East Pacific

• Revillagigedos^[1]
• Mexican Tropical Pacific^[1]
• [Clipperton]^[1] (an overseas possession of France, disputed by Mexico)
• Chiapas-Nicaragua^[1]

Warm Temperate Northwest Atlantic

• Northern Gulf of Mexico^[1]

Tropical Northwestern Atlantic

• Southern Gulf of Mexico^[1]
• Western Caribbean^[1]

References

1. "Marine Ecoregions (Spalding 2007). [Map by] GEOMAR, University of Seville, Department of Human Geography." (jpg). Marine ecoregions. marineplan.es. Retrieved 2013-09-26.

• 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.