title: List of desert and xeric shrubland ecoregions
text: # List of desert and xeric shrubland ecoregions
  
  The World Wide Fund for Nature defines a number of ecoregions that belong the deserts and xeric shrublands biome:
  
  ## List of ecoregions
  
  Afrotropical deserts and xeric shrublands ecoregionsvte :
  
  | 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 ecoregionsvte :
  
  | 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 ecoregionsvte :
  
  | 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 ecoregionsvte :
  
  | 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 ecoregionsvte :
  
  | 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 |
  