Location of the Atlantic coastal desert (in purple)
Ecology
Realm
Palearctic
Biome
Deserts and xeric shrublands
Borders
Mediterranean Acacia-Argania dry woodlands
North Saharan steppe and woodlands
Saharan halophytics,
Sahelian Acacia savanna
Geography
Area
39,137 km2 (15,111 sq mi)
Countries
Mauritania
Western Sahara
Conservation
Conservation status
Relatively stable/intact
Protected
6,872 km2 (18%)[1]
The Atlantic coastal desert is the westernmost ecoregion in the Sahara Desert of North Africa. It occupies a narrow strip along the Atlantic coast, where the more frequent fog and haze generated offshore by the cool Canary Current provides sufficient moisture to sustain a variety of lichens, succulents, and shrubs.
^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]
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