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Arizona's
CWCS is based on a landscape-level approach-identifying
important habitats and conservation needs
to sustain fish and wildlife populations
and maintain ecosystem health.
"Ecoregions" are defined as large geographic
areas of land and water with landscape features
that are distinct from neighboring lands-differences
in vegetation, geology or soils, range of
elevation, annual rainfall, and/or unique
ecological or environmental patterns. Some
fish and wildlife species are only found in
one particular ecoregion, while other species
are able to live in and among multiple ecoregions.
The term "Ecoregion" is generally synonymous
with other classification terms like "Major
Land Resource Area," "Province," or "Biomes."
Arizona's
Ecoregions and Vegetative Communities
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Arizona's CWCS, six ecoregions were
identified:
- Colorado Plateau
- Arizona-New Mexico Mountains
- Apache Highlands North
- Apache Highlands South
- Sonoran Desert
- Mohave Desert
Within these ecoregions are 14 vegetative
communities (Brown and Lowe 1994)
and three aquatic systems
(including associated riparian habitat).
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Arizona's
major rivers, streams, lakes, springs,
and riparian habitats.
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| Components
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