Tropical and subtropical dry forests Forests of Mexico

dry pine-oak forest during dry season

paralleling pacific coast in southwestern mexico series of diverse tropical dry forests, adapted absence of rainfall months of year. many trees here drop leaves during dry season warm temperatures nurture plant life, in turns supports large amount of animal species.

this global ecoregion made of 8 terrestrial ecoregions: jalisco dry forests; balsas dry forests; bajío dry forests; chiapas depression dry forests; sonoran-sinaloan transition subtropical dry forest; southern pacific dry forests; sinaloan dry forests; , sierra de la laguna dry forests.

the jalisco dry forests region of large diversity in mexico. characteristic features of forest trees lose leaves long period of time during dry season , forest unusual in burns. chiapas depression dry forest valley in southern mexico , western guatemala. variations in altitude here have created amazingly diverse habitats 1,000 different dry adapted plant species.