Basins xeric

|----- | colspan=2 align=" center" cellpadding=" 0" | |----- ! colspan=2 align=" center" cellpadding=" 0" style=" make-size: 90%" | The basin of the Lake Eyre, in southernmost Australia |}

The xeric basins - a watery Biome - correspond to stretches of water in the middle of arid areas, these basins are generally dry, they fill at the time of rare the Pluie S often separated by tens of years.

In the case of the Lake Eyre as well as others in the Chihuahua, it acts of salted lakes, share this fact, one can observe a big number of endemic species to these places.

The basins xeric adopt sometimes names of episodical sheets of water or Artesian basins .

Geography

In the Total 200 of WWF, 3 écorégion S - in danger - are indexed in the basins category xeric:

fresh water of central Australia, 1 340 000 km ².
fresh water of Anatolia, (Western Asia, close to the littorals the Mediterranean NS Syria NS and Turkish)
fresh water of Chihuaha, fed mainly by the Rio Conchos, located in the South of the the United States D 'America (Texas, Arizona, New Mexico) like in the Mexican area of Chihuahua.

External bonds

deh.gov.au/biodiversity/../gabsprings.html
wetlands.dri.edu/2002/Ponder.pdf
panda.org/../habitats/habitatsdetail.cfm?habitatID=21

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