Gulf of California xeric scrub

Gulf of California xeric scrub
Gulf of California xeric scrub
	Approaching Gulf of California at Bahía de los Ángeles
	Location of the Gulf of California xeric scrub
Ecology
Realm	Nearctic
Biome	Deserts and xeric shrublands
Borders	Baja California desert; San Lucan xeric scrub,; Sonoran Desert;
Geography
Area	22,573 km2 (8,715 sq mi)
Country	Mexico
States	Baja California; Baja California Sur;
Climate type	Hot desert
Conservation
Conservation status	Vulnerable
Protected	11,386 km² (50%)

The Gulf of California xeric scrub (Spanish: Matorral xerófilo del Golfo de California) is a xeric shrubland ecoregion of Mexico's Baja California Peninsula.

^ Eric Dinerstein, David Olson, et al. (2017). An Ecoregion-Based Approach to Protecting Half the Terrestrial Realm, BioScience, Volume 67, Issue 6, June 2017, Pages 534–545; Supplemental material 2 table S1b. [1]