Biome

Tropical & Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests

The Tropical & Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests biome gathers 56 ecoregions in Plotwright's worldwide roster. 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.

Apure-Villavicencio dry forests Bajío dry forests Balsas dry forests Bolivian montane dry forests Brazilian Atlantic dry forests Caatinga Cape Verde Islands dry forests Cauca Valley dry forests Central American dry forests Central Deccan Plateau dry deciduous forests Central Indochina dry forests Chhota-Nagpur dry deciduous forests Chiapas Depression dry forests Chiquitano dry forests Cuban dry forests East Deccan dry-evergreen forests Ecuadorian dry forests Fiji tropical dry forests Hawai'i tropical dry forests Hispaniolan dry forests Irrawaddy dry forests Islas Revillagigedo dry forests Jalisco dry forests Jamaican dry forests Khathiar-Gir dry deciduous forests Lara-Falcón dry forests Lesser Antillean dry forests Lesser Sundas deciduous forests Madagascar dry deciduous forests Magdalena Valley dry forests Maracaibo dry forests Maranhão Babaçu forests Marianas tropical dry forests Narmada Valley dry deciduous forests New Caledonia dry forests North Deccan dry deciduous forests Panamanian dry forests Patía valley dry forests Puerto Rican dry forests Sierra de la Laguna dry forests Sinaloan dry forests Sinú Valley dry forests Sonoran-Sinaloan subtropical dry forest South Deccan Plateau dry deciduous forests Southeast Indochina dry evergreen forests Southern Pacific dry forests Southern Vietnam lowland dry forests Sri Lanka dry-zone dry evergreen forests Sumba deciduous forests Timor and Wetar deciduous forests Trinidad and Tobago dry forest Tumbes-Piura dry forests Veracruz dry forests Yap tropical dry forests Yucatán dry forests Zambezian evergreen dry forests