Country

Cuba: 6 ecoregions. Each with its climate now and toward 2050, and its conservation tier.

Cuba's six ecoregions are all its own or shared only with its Antillean neighbors. The Cuban dry forests are the largest, reflecting the island's long dry season, with Cuban moist forests in the wetter uplands and east, Cuban pine forests on nutrient-poor soils, Cuban wetlands in the great southern marshes, Cuban cactus scrub on the driest coastal strips, and Bahamian-Antillean mangroves ringing much of the shore. The planting picture is tropical but strongly seasonal: warmth year-round, with the wet-dry rhythm and soil type deciding what thrives where. Dry-forest and cactus-scrub conditions call for genuine drought tolerance, while the moist-forest zones and wetlands support lusher growth; the pine lands mark out acidic, infertile ground with its own specialist flora.