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    The Leeward Islands xeric scrub ecoregion (WWF ID: NT1310) covers the dry ('xeric'), non-forested areas of the Leeward Islands on the northeastern edge...
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    The Guajira–Barranquilla xeric scrub is a xeric shrubland ecoregion in Colombia, Venezuela, and the ABC Islands (Leeward Antilles), covering an estimated...
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    The Cuban cactus scrub is a xeric shrubland ecoregion that occupies 3,300 km2 (1,300 sq mi) on the leeward coast of Cuba. Most of it occurs in the southeastern...
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    northwest and western Argentina. Eastern South America includes the Caatinga xeric shrublands of northeastern Brazil, the broad Cerrado grasslands and savannas...
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    Virgin Islands contain the Leeward Islands moist forests and Leeward Islands xeric scrub terrestrial ecoregions. The United States Virgin Islands experience...
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  • (Saint Pierre and Miquelon) Leeward Islands xeric scrub (Guadeloupe, Saint Martin, Saint Barthelemy) Windward Islands xeric scrub (Martinique) Guianan mangroves...
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    flat island composed of limestone and coral. The British Virgin Islands contain the Leeward Islands moist forests and Leeward Islands xeric scrub terrestrial...
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  • Caribbean bioregion (category Biota of the Caribbean islands)
    Aruba-Curaçao-Bonaire cactus scrub (Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao) Cayman Islands xeric scrub (Cayman Islands) Cuban cactus scrub (Cuba) Leeward Islands xeric scrub (Anguilla...
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  • defines a number of ecoregions that belong the deserts and xeric shrublands biome: "Deserts and xeric shrublands". WWF. Retrieved 2018-12-19. Eric Dinerstein...
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  • Cayman Islands xeric scrub (Cayman Islands) Cuban cactus scrub (Cuba) Leeward Islands xeric scrub (Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, British Virgin Islands, Guadeloupe...
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    Collectivity of Saint Martin (category Saint Martin (island))
    Pond and Red Pond. The land is part of the Leeward Islands xeric scrub ecoregion. Numerous small islands lie off the coast, including Rock of the Cove...
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    Realm - Tundra Biome: 1 North-east Antarctic Peninsula; 2 South Orkney Islands; 3 North-west Antarctic Peninsula; 4 Central south Antarctic Peninsula;...
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    the ABC islands (Leeward Antilles) to the east of the mouth of Lake Maracaibo and includes the Paraguaná Peninsula. A belt of the xeric scrub extends...
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    13 ecoregions across four biomes in the same realm. By contrast, Rhode Island is the least biodiverse with just one ecoregion—the Northeastern coastal...
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    support moist forests of the Windward Islands moist forests ecoregion. The largest area of dry forests on the islands is on Saint Lucia, where the dry forests...
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    Cuban cactus scrub ecoregion, and the island of Hispaniola (which contains the Caribbean's highest mountain ranges), which results in xeric semi-arid shrublands...
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    Cascadian bioregion), as well as the cold-winter intermountain deserts and xeric shrublands and temperate grasslands and shrublands of the Western United...
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    Dominica (redirect from The Nature Island)
    Within its borders lie two ecoregions: Windward Islands moist forests and Windward Islands xeric scrub. The most mountainous of the Lesser Antilles, its...
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    ecoregions: Windward Islands moist forests, Leeward Islands dry forests, Windward Islands dry forests, Windward Islands xeric scrub, and Lesser Antilles...
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    Grenada (category Volcanic islands)
    ecoregions: Windward Islands moist forests, Leeward Islands dry forests, Windward Islands dry forests, and Windward Islands xeric scrub. It had a 2018 Forest...
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    beach. Curaçao's flora differ from typical tropical island vegetation. Guajira-Barranquilla xeric scrub is the most notable, with various forms of cacti...
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    The natural vegetation in most of the peninsula is xeric scrub, part of the Northwestern thorn scrub forests ecoregion. The word ghati (Hindi: घाटी) means...
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    Sahara (category Deserts and xeric shrublands)
    Saharan montane xeric woodlands". Terrestrial Ecoregions. World Wildlife Fund. Retrieved 29 December 2007. "Tibesti-Jebel Uweinat montane xeric woodlands"...
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    island (Blockstein 1988, Blockstein and Hardy 1989, Bird Life International 2000). True dry forest ecosystems are remnants of a type of xeric scrub habitat...
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    Cordillera Oriental. The semiarid Guajira Peninsula and Guajira–Barranquilla xeric scrub, in the extreme north, bear little resemblance to the rest of the region...
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    often, but not always, treated as part of the Northern Andes. The Leeward Antilles islands Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao, which lie in the Caribbean Sea off...
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    are often defined by negatives. J. Robert Macey defines the "Great Basin scrub desert as lacking creosote bush." The Great Basin Desert includes several...
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    Slope, the Gobernador Slope, and the Chuska Valley. An arid region of high xeric scrubland and desert steppe, the canyon and wider basin average 8 in (200 mm)...
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  • Gray) represented. Ponderosa pine is the most abundant species on mesic or xeric terrain. Douglas-fir is common, and can be dominant on moist sites. White...
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