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Many birds migrate between the US and South America or the Caribbean through Florida. [31] Ospreys (Pandion haliaetus) that spend summers in the eastern half of the U.S. fly through Florida to reach the Yucatán peninsula, the Caribbean islands, and South America. [32] Birds crossing the Gulf of Mexico stop in Florida to feed and rest. [33]
Ecoregions of North America, featuring the 50 United States, the District of Columbia and the five inhabited territories. The following is a list of ecoregions in the United States as identified by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF).
These effects will lead to less biodiversity in the area, which is one of the main combatant factors that biota have against climate change. As the effects of climate change continue to develop, North American Deserts will be increasingly affected, leading worsening biodiversity loss and decreases in the ecoregion productivity. Deserts are one ...
The standard reference is The Deciduous Forest of Eastern North America. [4] The adjoining forests in Canada are generally referred to as the Mixedwood Plains Ecozone or the Great Lakes-St.Lawrence Forest Region. 32 Texas Blackland Prairies; 33 East Central Texas Plains; 34 Western Gulf Coastal Plain; 36 Ouachita Mountains; 37 Arkansas Valley
The Tropical Wet Forests ecoregion in North America includes the southern tip of the Florida Peninsula in the United States; within Mexico, the Gulf Coastal Plain, the western and southern part of the Pacific Coastal Plain, most of the Yucatán Peninsula and the lowlands of the Chiapas Sierra Madre, which continue south to Central and South ...
North America has been joined by land bridges to both Asia and South America since then, which allowed an exchange of plant and animal species between the continents, the Great American Interchange. A former land bridge across the Bering Strait between Asia and North America allowed many plants and animals to move between these continents, and ...
One subspecies of wild turkey, Meleagris gallopavo, namely subspecies osceola, is found only in Florida. [24] The state is a wintering location for many species of eastern North American birds. There have been small numbers of several new species normally native to cooler areas to the north: snowy owls, snow buntings, harlequin ducks, and ...
North and Central America; South America; Africa, Europe and the Middle East; Continental Asia; South-east Asian Islands, New Guinea and Australia; Pacific Islands; This is followed by a similar set of regional analyses for other groups of animals and plants.