Sinaloan dry forests

Sinaloan dry forests
View from Acatitán, Sinaloa, Mexico
The map of Sinaloan dry forests ecoregion
Ecology
RealmNeotropical
Biometropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests
Borders
Geography
Area77,201 km2 (29,807 sq mi)
CountryMexico
States
Conservation
Conservation statusCritical/endangered[1]
Global 200Mexican dry forests
Protected7,815 km2 (10%)[2]

The Sinaloan dry forests is a tropical dry broadleaf forest ecoregion in western Mexico. It is the northernmost ecoregion of the Neotropical realm.

  1. ^ "Sinaloan dry forests". Terrestrial Ecoregions. World Wildlife Fund.
  2. ^ Dinerstein, Eric [in German]; Olson, David; Joshi, Anup; et al. (2017-04-05). "An Ecoregion-Based Approach to Protecting Half the Terrestrial Realm". BioScience. 67 (6): 534–545, Supplemental material 2 table S1b. doi:10.1093/biosci/bix014. ISSN 0006-3568. PMC 5451287. PMID 28608869.