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The Chihuahuan Desert: Discovering the Rich Landscape of North America's Largest Desert

3 months ago By The Editor

The Chihuahuan Desert, North America's largest desert ecoregion, is bounded by the Sierra Madre Occidental and the Sierra Madre Oriental; it extends southward into Mexico. Recognized for its biological diversity, the Chihuahuan Desert is a rain shadow desert shaped by the surrounding mountain ranges. Home to unique endemic species, including plants and animals, the region showcases a mosaic of landscapes, from grasslands to shrublands.

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The Sonoran Desert: A Collage of Arid Wonders

3 months ago By The Editor

The Sonoran Desert, or Desierto de Altar, is a vast, arid region recognized as Mexico's hottest desert. Extending across northwestern Mexico, including Sonora, Baja California, and Baja California Sur, and reaching into southwestern Arizona and southeastern California in the United States, the Sonoran Desert captivates with its expansive and diverse landscape.

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Central Andean Wet Puna: Where Mountains and Wetlands Converge

3 months ago By The Editor

The Central Andean wet puna ecoregion, a gem in the southern high Andean Mountains of Peru and eastern Bolivia, reveals itself as a high-elevation, moist, montane grassland. Marked by snow-capped peaks, mountain pastures, high lakes, plateaus, and valleys, this region extends beyond the tree line, forming a distinctive composition of landscapes.

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Chocó-Darién Moist Forests Ecoregion (Colombia, Panama)

5 years ago By The Editor

The Chocó-Darién moist forests ecoregion extends along most of Colombia's Pacific coast, bounded to the east by the Andes, and along the Caribbean coast, north into Panama. The region has exceptionally high rainfall, and the forests hold incredible biodiversity.

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Costa Rican Páramo Ecoregion (Central America)

2 years ago By The Editor

The Costa Rican páramo is a moist montane grassland and shrubland ecoregion found in the higher elevations of Costa Rica and western Panama within the Cordillera de Talamanca. It is one of Central America's most intact habitats, with high biological richness.

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Discovering the Upper Paraná Atlantic Forests: A Treasure of Biodiversity

1 month ago By The Editor

The Upper Paraná Atlantic forests, also known as "Selva Paranaense," represent a verdant expanse of tropical moist forests nestled within the South American Atlantic Forest biome. This ecoregion, characterized by its rich biodiversity and ecological significance, stretches across the southern reaches of the Brazilian Highlands, extending through southern Brazil, eastern Paraguay, and northeastern Argentina.

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Greater Antilles Mangrove Ecoregion (Caribbean)

3 years ago By The Editor

The Greater Antilles mangrove ecoregion comprises various coastal areas in Cuba, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, and Jamaica. These mangroves support relatively high levels of endemic flora and fauna and are often part of complex assemblages of habitats.

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Guajira-Barranquilla Xeric Scrub Ecoregion (South America)

5 years ago By The Editor

The Guajira-Barranquilla xeric scrub ecoregion, along the Caribbean Sea in northern Venezuela and Colombia, is a unique xerophytic area in the neotropics. Proposed as a bird center of endemism, this arid habitat is dominated by thorn scrub and succulents.

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Guianan Highlands Moist Forests Ecoregion (South America)

5 years ago By The Editor

Situated primarily in southeastern Venezuela, the Guianan Highlands moist forests ecoregion is distinct from other ecoregions in Amazonia due to its montane physiography. It hosts vast expanses of tall primary rainforests and open, semi-treeless savannas interrupted by gallery forests.

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Guianan Moist Forests Ecoregion (South America)

5 years ago By The Editor

Located on the northeast coast of South America, the Guianan moist forests are one of the world's most extensive continuous tracts of relatively pristine lowland tropical rainforest. As a result, it holds a wide variety of regional biodiversity with high species endemism and richness levels.

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Guianan Savanna Ecoregion (South America)

5 years ago By The Editor

The Guianan savanna is an ecoregion of the Amazon biome in the south of Venezuela, Guyana and Suriname, and the north of Brazil. The savanna covers an area of rolling upland plains on the Guiana Shield between the Amazon and Orinoco basins.

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Hispaniolan Dry Forests Ecoregion (Caribbean)

1 year ago By The Editor

The Hispaniolan dry forests are located throughout the southern and western two-thirds of the island of Hispaniola. The natural vegetation consists primarily of species belonging to the cactus family and shrubs and trees adapted to the limited water availability.

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