The Baja California desert is a Deserts and xeric shrublands is a biome in which the climate is very dry, either hot or cold It is characterized by water : almost none temperature : hot or cold soil : very limited plants : very sparse (succulents) animal : very sparse (insect, reptiles, arachnids, nocturnal birds) Colorado... Desert An ecoregion is a relatively large area of land or water that contains a geographically distinct assemblage of natural communities. This description is part of a definition, by the World Wildlife Fund that is widely accepted and used. However, the use of the term relatively large is interpreted differently in... ecoregion of The United Mexican States or Mexico ( Spanish: Estados Unidos Mexicanos or México; regarding the use of the variant spelling Méjico, see section The name below) is a country located in North America, bordered to the north by the United States of America, to the southeast by... Mexico's Baja California (highlighted) Alternative use: Baja California (state) Baja California or Lower California is a peninsula in the west of Mexico. It extends some 1250 km from Tijuana in the north to Cabo San Lucas in the south, separating the Pacific Ocean from the Gulf of California (or Sea of... Baja California Peninsula.

Setting

The ecoregion covers 77,700 square kilometers (30,000 square miles), and includes most of the Peninsula's western slope. It is bounded on the west by the The Pacific Ocean (from the Latin name Mare Pacificum, peaceful sea, bestowed upon it by the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan) is the worlds largest body of water. It encompasses a third of the Earths surface, having an area of 179.7 million km² (69.4 million sq... Pacific Ocean and on the east by the The Peninsular Ranges are a group of mountain ranges which stretch 900 miles from southern California to the southern tip of Baja California, part of the North American Coast Ranges that run along the Pacific coast from Alaska to Mexico. The Peninsular ranges run predominantly north-south, unlike the Transverse... Peninsular Ranges. North of 30º north latitude, the Baja California desert transitions to the The California chaparral and woodlands is a terrestrial ecoregion of central and southern California (United States) and northwestern Baja California (Mexico), located on the west coast of North America. It is a Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and shrub ecoregion, part of the Nearctic ecozone. Chaparral, Santa Ynez Mountains, near Santa Barbara... California chaparral and woodlands. The southern tip of the peninsula lies within the San Lucan xeric scrub ecoregion.

The climate is dry and subtropical. Although rainfall is low, the Pacific Ocean provides some humidity and moderates the temperature compared to the Categories: Stub | Deserts | Ecoregions | Arizona geography | California geography | Geography of Mexico ... Sonoran desert, which lies on the east slope of the Peninsular Ranges.

Flora

The ecoregion is mostly covered by Deserts and xeric shrublands is a biome characterized by a dry climate. Deserts and xeric shrublands occur in tropical, subtropical, and temperate climate regions. It is characterized by rainfall : almost none temperature : hot or cold soil : very limited plants : very sparse (succulents) animal : very sparse... xeric The word bush re-directs here; for alternate uses see Bush (disambiguation). Shrub is also a derogatory nickname for United States President George W Bush. A willow shrub A shrub or bush is a horticultural rather than strictly botanical category of woody plant, distinguished from a tree by its multiple... shrubs, which create varying associations based on elevation and soil conditions. The ecoregion has close to 500 In biology, a species is a kind of organism. Loosely speaking, a species is a related group of organisms that share a more or less distinctive form and are capable of interbreeding. As defined by Ernst Mayr, species are groups of actually or potentially interbreeding natural populations which are reproductively... species of Divisions Non-seed-bearing plants Equisetophyta Lycopodiophyta Psilotophyta Pteridophyta Superdivision Spermatophyta Pinophyta Cycadophyta Ginkgophyta Gnetophyta Magnoliophyta The vascular plants are those plants that have specialized cells for conducting water and sap within their tissues, including the flowering plants, conifers and other gymnosperms, but not mosses, algae, and the like (nonvascular... vascular plants, of which a number are This article is about the ecological meaning of endemic. See also endemic (epidemiology). Endemic in biology and ecology means exclusively native to a place or biota. It is in contrast to any one of several terms meaning not native (e.g., adventive, exotic, alien, introduced, naturalized, non-native). However it... endemic.

Fauna

Conservation

External link

Baja California desert (World Wildlife Fund) (http://www.worldwildlife.org/wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/na/na1301_full.html)