Bolivian montane dry forests
Bolivian montane dry forests
The Bolivian montane dry forests occupy the eastern flank of the Andes in south-central Bolivia, barely reaching into northwest Argentina, where they form a transitional band between the moister Yungas and high puna grasslands above and the lowland Chaco scrub below. Across rugged terrain of cliffs, steep hillsides, and river valleys, the vegetation is a xeric mosaic of dry slopes studded with scattered shrubs and columnar cacti, seasonal dry forest, and gallery forest along watercourses, with characteristic woody plants including Vachellia caven, hopseed bush (Dodonaea viscosa), Prosopis, and quebracho hardwoods such as Aspidosperma quebracho-blanco and Schinopsis. The climate is strongly seasonal and semi-arid, pairing a pronounced dry winter with summer rains. The World Wildlife Fund rates the ecoregion Critical/Endangered, as only about six percent of its original habitat remains amid fragmentation from urban sprawl, agriculture, overhunting, and fuelwood cutting; it nonetheless shelters numerous endemic birds, among them the Bolivian blackbird, Cochabamba mountain finch, and the endangered red-fronted macaw, with the torrent duck as a flagship species. For gardeners in dry, mild-winter climates, several of its natives, such as the ornamental hopseed bush and the fragrant-flowered Vachellia caven, are familiar landscape plants.
RESOLVE 523
Neotropic
28,190 sq mi
Tropical & Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
Type de paysage
Tropical & Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
Région végétale
Neotropic
Empreinte de la région
28,190 sq mi
Pression sur l'habitat
Nature Imperiled (Dinerstein NNH 4)
Sourcing et entretien
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Utilisez ceci comme schéma général de plantation pour la région : Tropical forests that pass through a pronounced dry season, when many trees drop their leaves to conserve water. They hold high biodiversity but are among the most threatened tropical habitats, sensitive to fire and to clearing for agriculture. Pour vos décisions de jardin, associez ce contexte à la liste de plantes ci-dessous, puis affinez selon les contraintes de lumière, d'eau, de sol et de taille adulte de votre site.
Range & origins
Repère placé à l’intérieur du polygone RESOLVE 2017 à 18.3°S, 65.1°W.
La région à travers le temps
Empreinte moderne
RESOLVE 2017 cartographie 28,190 sq mi
Cette limite est une empreinte écologique moderne pour Bolivian montane dry forests, et non une ligne permanente sur la planète. Elle est utile pour le contexte actuel des plantes et de la faune car elle suit des schémas récurrents de végétation, de climat, de relief et de perturbations.
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Conditions de tropical & subtropical dry broadleaf forests
La région se situe dans le règne Neotropic et est classée comme tropical & subtropical dry broadleaf forests. L'altitude, l'humidité, le feu, les sols, les côtes et l'utilisation humaine des terres peuvent tous rendre le paysage réel plus varié qu'une seule couleur de carte ne le laisse penser.
Pression du changement
Nature Imperiled
Plotwright affiche ceci comme l'empreinte RESOLVE actuelle. Au fil des décennies ou des siècles, le réchauffement, les perturbations, les espèces envahissantes, l'utilisation des terres et la restauration peuvent déplacer la bordure vivante d'une région même lorsque la carte de référence reste fixe.
Collections de plantation
Des recettes de plantation finalisées où chaque membre peut supporter la plage climatique de cette région. Le badge d'adaptation se base sur la plante la plus sensible de la collection, si bien qu'une collection résiliente est un point de départ plus sûr que n'importe quelle vedette isolée.
Actuellement adaptée · 2 plantes
Bright shade foundation
A part-shade planting with shrub structure and low foliage contrast.
Actuellement adaptée · 8 plantes
Climate-resilient natives for warming zones (eastern NA)
A pollinator-supporting palette of eastern North American natives with broad hardiness ranges and wide native distributions. Built for gardeners who want a planting that can handle warming zones without giving up wildlife value.
Actuellement adaptée · 3 plantes
Kitchen patio planters
A compact edible collection for containers, patios, and near-door harvesting.
Actuellement adaptée · 6 plantes
Mediterranean drought-tolerant edible
A low-water edible palette of culinary herbs + a hardy grape for hot dry sunny sites. Mediterranean-origin plants thrive on neglect; their primary failure mode is overwatering, not underwatering.
Actuellement adaptée · 9 plantes
Native pollinator border (eastern US)
A continuous-bloom native pollinator strip for eastern North America. Covers spring through frost with host + nectar plants spanning monarchs, native bees, hummingbirds, and specialist Lepidoptera. Little bluestem provides the matrix grass + Hesperiidae host.
Actuellement adaptée · 4 plantes
Sunny pollinator border
A durable sunny border with summer bloom, seedheads, and upright winter texture.
Régions de plantation similaires
Parcourez d'autres régions au rythme similaire d'étés chauds et secs. Leurs listes de plantes peuvent suggérer des espèces et des combinaisons à comparer.
RESOLVE 520 - Neotropic
Apure-Villavicencio dry forests
The Apure-Villavicencio dry forests stretch along the eastern foot of the Andes' eastern cordillera, spanning the Venezuelan states of Portuguesa, Barinas and Apure and the Colombian departments of Arauca, Casanare and Meta. This is a transitional ecoregion, a patchwork of premontane, gallery and deciduous dry forest grading into savanna where the Andean montane forests give way to the lowland Llanos grasslands. Characteristic woody plants include mesquite (Prosopis juliflora), palo verde (Cercidium praecox), kapok (Ceiba pentandra), yellow mombin (Spondias mombin), and palms such as the moriche (Mauritia flexuosa) and macaúba (Acrocomia aculeata). Its climate is equatorial with a pronounced dry winter (Köppen Aw), with temperatures ranging from about 19 to 33 degrees Celsius. The forests have been severely degraded by deforestation, farming and ranching, leaving poorly protected remnants that the World Wildlife Fund rates as Vulnerable, yet they still shelter the giant anteater, Geoffroy's spider monkey, and the flagship Colombian four-eyed frog. Gardeners may recognize several natives here as ornamentals, including the stately kapok tree and the moriche and macaúba palms.
Tropical & Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
Zones 12a-13b
+3.6°F d’ici 2070
26,469 sq mi
Niveau NNH 3
RESOLVE 521 - Neotropic
Bajío dry forests
The Bajío dry forests cover the southwestern Mexican Plateau in west-central Mexico, spanning the states of Jalisco, Guanajuato, and Michoacán across the Lerma River basin and the lake country around Chapala, Cuitzeo, and Pátzcuaro. Set in valleys between roughly 1,000 and 2,000 meters on shallow, rocky, well-drained volcanic and limestone soils, the region was historically dry deciduous forest whose characteristic trees included copal, pochote, palo amarillo, and mauto, with thorn-scrub communities of mesquite and huamúchil. The climate is tropical subhumid, with annual rainfall around 500 to 930 millimeters and a pronounced dry season that can last up to eight months. This is one of Mexico's most developed and densely populated landscapes, and centuries of agriculture and grazing have reduced the forest to small pockets now dominated by thorn scrub and subtropical matorral, leaving the ecoregion classed as critical or endangered with only about 7.5 percent in protected areas. Gardeners working in comparably dry, seasonal climates may recognize natives of this region in drought-adapted, deciduous trees such as mesquite and copal.
Tropical & Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
Zones 11a-11b
+2.8°F d’ici 2070
14,472 sq mi
Niveau NNH 4
RESOLVE 522 - Neotropic
Balsas dry forests
The Balsas dry forests occupy the basin of the Balsas River in western and central Mexico, spreading across the states of Michoacan, Guerrero, Morelos, Mexico, Puebla, and Oaxaca. This tropical dry broadleaf ecoregion is a deciduous and thorn forest dominated by Bursera trees, alongside the legume Haematoxylum brasiletto and abundant columnar cacti such as Pachycereus and Cephalocereus. The climate is tropical and subhumid, with seasonal rainfall and a severe dry season that can last up to eight months. The forests are a renowned center of plant endemism and speciation, especially for Bursera, with roughly half of the region's Bursera species found nowhere else, and they shelter the near-endemic Balsas screech-owl, though only about a tenth of the ecoregion lies within protected areas. For drought-tolerant or xeric plantings, the native Bursera (the source of copal incense) and the dyewood Haematoxylum brasiletto are ornamental genera that evolved here.
Tropical & Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
Zones 10b-13b
+3.1°F d’ici 2070
24,105 sq mi
Niveau NNH 4
RESOLVE 524 - Neotropic
Brazilian Atlantic dry forests
The Brazilian Atlantic dry forests form a tropical dry forest ecoregion of eastern Brazil, stretching across northern Minas Gerais, Bahia, and Piauí along the São Francisco River depression, where they sit between the Cerrado savannas of central Brazil and the Caatinga dry shrublands of the northeast. The vegetation is deciduous to semi-deciduous forest reaching roughly 25 to 30 meters tall, characterized by trees such as the bottle-trunked barriguda (Cavanillesia arborea), Brazilian cedarwood, and Tabebuia species. The climate is tropical with a pronounced dry season of about five months and annual rainfall of 850 to 1,000 mm, on eutrophic soils derived from Bambuí limestone. Conservation is a serious concern: around 70 percent of the native forest has been cleared for agriculture and charcoal production tied to Brazil's steel and pig-iron industries, and the region is home to the critically endangered Barbara Brown's titi as well as threatened birds like the hyacinth macaw. For gardeners, the native Tabebuia trumpet trees are familiar ornamental flowering trees rooted in this drought-adapted flora.
Tropical & Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
Zones 12b-13b
+3.3°F d’ici 2070
44,468 sq mi
Niveau NNH 4
RESOLVE 525 - Neotropic
Caatinga
The Caatinga is a semi-arid ecoregion covering the drier interior of northeastern Brazil, stretching across states including Piauí, Ceará, Rio Grande do Norte, Paraíba, Pernambuco, Alagoas, Sergipe, Bahia, and parts of Minas Gerais, and it ranks as the largest dry forest region in South America. Its vegetation is a heterogeneous xeric shrubland and thorn forest of small, drought-deciduous thorny trees, with a ground layer rich in cacti and succulents such as the mandacaru (Cereus jamacaru) and prickly pears (Opuntia), alongside carnaúba palms and fruit-bearing trees like umbú. The climate is hot and dry, with six to eleven dry months a year and average annual rainfall ranging from about 250 to 1,000 millimeters. Despite this aridity, the Caatinga harbors a unique biota with many endemic species and is the home of its flagship bird, the Spix's macaw (Cyanopsitta spixii), though less than seven percent of the ecoregion is currently protected. For gardeners in hot, dry climates, its native cacti such as Opuntia and Cereus are familiar ornamental and edible-fruit genera.
Tropical & Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
Zones 13a-13b
+3.0°F d’ici 2070
283,848 sq mi
Niveau NNH 4
RESOLVE 526 - Neotropic
Cauca Valley dry forests
The Cauca Valley dry forests form a long, narrow strip of tropical dry forest in Colombia, running north to south along the Cauca River between the Cordillera Occidental and the Cordillera Central in the northern Andes. The two ranges cast a rain shadow that leaves this inter-Andean valley markedly drier than the surrounding montane forests, supporting a mosaic of open woodland, deciduous and evergreen dry forest, riparian forest, arid scrub, and wetlands across low elevations. Where forest has regenerated, secondary vegetation is dominated by genera such as Cecropia, Cestrum, Inga, Croton, Isertia, Trema, and Vismia. The ecoregion harbors several endemic or near-endemic birds, including the white-chested swift (Cypseloides lemosi), grayish piculet (Picumnus granadensis), and apical flycatcher (Myiarchus apicalis). It is considered critically endangered, as most of its forest has been cleared for agriculture, with only small protected fragments remaining at the Laguna de Sonso (Sonso Lagoon) reserve.
Tropical & Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
Zones 10b-13b
+3.3°F d’ici 2070
2,836 sq mi
Niveau NNH 4
Sources et citations
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Plotwright. (n.d.). Bolivian montane dry forests (Bolivian montane dry forests). Retrieved 2026, June 24, from https://plotwright.com/regions/resolve-523
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