Irrawaddy dry forests

Irrawaddy dry forests
Irrawaddy dry forests in Bagan
Ecoregion territory (in purple)
Ecology
RealmIndomalayan realm
Biometropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests
Borders
Geography
Area34,988 km2 (13,509 sq mi)
CountryMyanmar
Administrative divisions
Conservation
Conservation statusCritical/endangered
Protected167 km² (>1%)[1]

The Irrawaddy dry forests is a tropical dry broadleaf forest ecoregion in central Myanmar. The ecoregion occupies portions of the Irrawaddy, Sittaung, and Salween river basins, in areas with less than 800 mm of annual rainfall.

  1. ^ Eric Dinerstein, David Olson, et al. (2017). An Ecoregion-Based Approach to Protecting Half the Terrestrial Realm, BioScience, Volume 67, Issue 6, June 2017, Pages 534–545; Supplemental material 2 table S1b. [1]