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Veracruz moist forests
Veracruz moist forests
RESOLVE 514
The Veracruz moist forests occupy the Gulf Coastal Plain of eastern Mexico, between the Sierra Madre Oriental and the Gulf of Mexico, centered on northern Veracruz and southern Tamaulipas and extending into San Luis Potosi, Hidalgo, Puebla, and Queretaro. This Neotropical tropical moist broadleaf forest carries a tall canopy reaching about 30 meters, with characteristic trees including Mayan breadnut (Brosimum alicastrum), sapodilla (Manilkara zapota), gumbo-limbo (Bursera simaruba), and mahogany (Swietenia macrophylla), over a well-developed understory of epiphytes, lichens, and fungi. The climate is tropical and humid with mild temperature variation and roughly seven rainy months, delivering about 1,100 to 1,600 mm of rain a year. One Earth describes it as one of the richest faunistic regions in the Western Hemisphere, sheltering jaguar, ocelot, and endemic birds, yet logging and cattle ranching have left it critically endangered with little protected ground. For gardeners in warm, humid climates, native trees such as gumbo-limbo (Bursera simaruba) are familiar ornamental and shade-tree choices.
Veracruz moist forests location on world map
Marker placed inside the RESOLVE 2017 polygon at 22.0°N, 98.3°W.
Climate snapshot for this ecoregion
Current zone range (2011–2040)
10b-13b
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CHELSA-derived typical winter month at this ecoregion's bbox grid.
Projected (2041–2070)
11a-13b
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Where the CHELSA models say the typical winter month is heading.
Average warming this ecoregion is on track for: +3.1°F by mid-century. SSP3-7.0 (current trajectory) · CHELSA v2.1 bio06 sampled across 7 of 10 points within this ecoregion's bounding box.
At a glance
Dominant biome
Tropical & Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Realm
Neotropic
Approximate area
26,690 sq mi
Conservation tier
Nature Could Recover (Dinerstein NNH 3)
About the tropical & subtropical moist broadleaf forests biome
Warm, wet, highly productive forests — including tropical rainforests — with closed canopies, near year-round growing seasons, and the richest terrestrial biodiversity on Earth. Low seasonality and high rainfall sustain dense, layered vegetation from canopy to forest floor.
Catalog plants suited to this ecoregion
Computed from each plant's stated USDA zone range against this ecoregion's CHELSA-derived current zone range, with the CHELSA mid-century warming delta applied for the projection. Plants whose stated range falls outside both the current and projected zone end up dropped; the rest land in one of the three buckets below.
Collections for this ecoregion
No curated collection's plants all fit this ecoregion's zone range. We surface a collection only when every member would grow here — partial fits get filtered out rather than mislead. As the catalog and the curated set both grow, this section will fill in.
Related ecoregions
Other tropical & subtropical moist broadleaf forests ecoregions to explore:
Sources
Summary drawn from One Earth, Wikipedia.
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