List of desert and xeric shrubland ecoregions

List of ecoregions

Afrotropical deserts and xeric shrublands ecoregions^[2] v t e
Arabian Peninsula coastal fog desert	Oman, Saudi Arabia, Yemen
Aldabra Island xeric scrub	Seychelles
East Saharan montane xeric woodlands	Chad, Sudan
Eritrean coastal desert	Djibouti, Eritrea
Ethiopian xeric grasslands and shrublands	Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan
Gulf of Oman desert and semi-desert	Oman, United Arab Emirates
Hobyo grasslands and shrublands	Somalia
Ile Europa and Bassas da India xeric scrub	Bassas da India, Europa
Kalahari xeric savanna	Botswana, Namibia, South Africa
Kaokoveld desert	Angola, Namibia
Madagascar spiny thickets	Madagascar
Madagascar succulent woodlands	Madagascar
Masai xeric grasslands and shrublands	Ethiopia, Kenya
Nama Karoo	Namibia, South Africa
Namib desert	Namibia
Namibian savanna woodlands	Namibia
Socotra Island xeric shrublands	Yemen
Somali montane xeric woodlands	Somalia
Southwestern Arabian foothills savanna	Saudi Arabia, Yemen
Southwestern Arabian montane woodlands	Saudi Arabia, Yemen
Succulent Karoo	South Africa

Australasian deserts and xeric shrublands ecoregions v t e
Carnarvon xeric shrublands	Australia
Central Ranges xeric scrub	Australia
Gibson Desert	Australia
Great Sandy-Tanami desert	Australia
Great Victoria Desert	Australia
Nullarbor Plain xeric shrublands	Australia
Pilbara shrublands	Australia
Simpson Desert	Australia
Tirari–Sturt stony desert	Australia
Western Australian mulga shrublands	Australia

Indomalayan deserts and xeric shrublands ecoregions v t e
Deccan thorn scrub forests	India, Sri Lanka
Indus Valley desert	India, Pakistan
Northwestern thorn scrub forests	India, Pakistan
Thar desert	India, Pakistan

Nearctic deserts and xeric shrublands ecoregions v t e
Baja California desert	Mexico
Central Mexican matorral	Mexico
Chihuahuan Desert	Mexico, United States
Colorado Plateau shrublands	United States
Columbia Plateau shrublands	Canada, United States
Great Basin shrub steppe	United States
Gulf of California xeric scrub	Mexico
Meseta Central matorral	Mexico
Mojave Desert	United States
Snake–Columbia shrub steppe	United States
Sonoran Desert	Mexico, United States
Tamaulipan matorral	Mexico
Tamaulipan mezquital	Mexico, United States
Wyoming Basin shrub steppe	United States

Neotropical deserts and xeric shrublands ecoregions v t e
Araya and Paria xeric scrub	Venezuela
Aruba–Curaçao–Bonaire cactus scrub	Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao
Atacama Desert	Chile, Peru
Caatinga	Brazil
Cayman Islands xeric scrub	Cayman Islands
Cuban cactus scrub	Cuba
Galápagos Islands xeric scrub	Ecuador
Guajira–Barranquilla xeric scrub	Colombia, Venezuela
La Costa xeric shrublands	Venezuela
Leeward Islands xeric scrub	Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, British Virgin Islands, Guadeloupe, Saint Martin, Saint Barthélemy, Saba, US Virgin Islands
Malpelo Island xeric scrub	Colombia
Motagua Valley thornscrub	Guatemala
Paraguana xeric scrub	Venezuela
San Lucan xeric scrub	Mexico
Sechura Desert	Peru
Tehuacán Valley matorral	Mexico
Windward Islands xeric scrub	Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Martinique, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Saint Peter and Saint Paul Archipelago	Brazil

^ "Deserts and xeric shrublands". WWF. Retrieved 2018-12-19.
^ Eric Dinerstein, David Olson, Anup Joshi, Carly Vynne, Neil D. Burgess, Eric Wikramanayake, Nathan Hahn, Suzanne Palminteri, Prashant Hedao, Reed Noss, Matt Hansen, Harvey Locke, Erle C Ellis, Benjamin Jones, Charles Victor Barber, Randy Hayes, Cyril Kormos, Vance Martin, Eileen Crist, Wes Sechrest, Lori Price, Jonathan E. M. Baillie, Don Weeden, Kierán Suckling, Crystal Davis, Nigel Sizer, Rebecca Moore, David Thau, Tanya Birch, Peter Potapov, Svetlana Turubanova, Alexandra Tyukavina, Nadia de Souza, Lilian Pintea, José C. Brito, Othman A. Llewellyn, Anthony G. Miller, Annette Patzelt, Shahina A. Ghazanfar, Jonathan Timberlake, Heinz Klöser, Yara Shennan-Farpón, Roeland Kindt, Jens-Peter Barnekow Lillesø, Paulo van Breugel, Lars Graudal, Maianna Voge, Khalaf F. Al-Shammari, Muhammad Saleem, An Ecoregion-Based Approach to Protecting Half the Terrestrial Realm, BioScience, Volume 67, Issue 6, June 2017, Pages 534–545, [1].

v t e Palearctic deserts and xeric shrublands ecoregions
Africa	Atlantic coastal desert North Saharan steppe and woodlands Red Sea coastal desert Sahara desert South Saharan steppe and woodlands Tibesti–Jebel Uweinat montane xeric woodlands West Saharan montane xeric woodlands
Western Asia	Arabian Desert Azerbaijan shrub desert and steppe Central Persian desert basins Mesopotamian shrub desert Persian Gulf desert and semi-desert Red Sea Nubo–Sindian tropical desert and semi-desert South Iran Nubo–Sindian desert and semi-desert
Central Asia	Afghan Mountains semi-desert Badghyz and Karabil semi-desert Baluchistan xeric woodlands Caspian lowland desert Central Afghan Mountains xeric woodlands Central Asian northern desert Central Asian riparian woodlands Central Asian southern desert Kazakh semi-desert Kopet Dag semi-desert Paropamisus xeric woodlands Registan–North Pakistan sandy desert
Eastern Asia	Alashan Plateau semi-desert Dzungaria Eastern Gobi desert steppe Gobi Lakes Valley desert steppe Great Lakes Basin desert steppe Qaidam Basin Taklamakan Desert