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Jamaica: 2 ecoregions. Each with its climate now and toward 2050, and its conservation tier.

Jamaica splits cleanly between its two ecoregions. The Jamaican moist forests, a tropical moist broadleaf system, cover most of the island, including the Blue Mountains and the wet windward slopes; the much smaller Jamaican dry forests hold the rain-shadowed south coast, where tropical dry broadleaf conditions bring a real dry season and thornier, drought-adapted vegetation. Both ecoregions are named for the island alone, wet and dry faces of one small landmass. Temperatures stay warm year-round everywhere, so exposure and rainfall side decide what grows: lush, moisture-loving tropicals on the north and in the hills, and drought-tolerant, dry-forest species, succulents, and hardy natives along the southern littoral.