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The Sahara desert is a ecoregion, a major ecosystem defined by distinctive geography and receiving uniform solar radiation and moisture. The ecoregion include the hyper-arid central portion of the Sahara where rainfall is minimal and sporadic. The Sahara comprises several distinct ecoregions. With their variations in temperature, rainfall, elevation, and soil, these regions harbor distinct communities of plants and animals.
There some ecoregions in the Sahara those are Atlantic coastal desert, North Saharan steppe and woodlands, and South Saharan steppe and woodlands. The Tibesti ecoregion consists of the Tibesti and Jebel Uweinat highlands. There are also The Saharan halophytics is an area of seasonally flooded saline depressions which is home to halophytic. The Tanezrouft is one of the harshest regions on Earth as well as one of the hottest and driest parts of the Sahara, with no vegetation and very little life. It is along the borders of Algeria, Niger and Mali, west of the Hoggar mountains.
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The Sahara desert ecoregion, as also defined by the World Wide Fund for Nature, includes the hyper-arid center of the Sahara, between 18° and 30° N.[1] It is one of several desert and xeric shrubland ecoregions that cover the northern portion of the African continent. The ecoregion is mostly at the center of the Sahara desert. It also shows that the climate is very hot in the center.
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