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Online Vegetation and Plant Distribution Maps: Africa

Lists of online vegetation maps from website titled "Checklist of Online Vegetation and Plant Distribution Maps." These lists of links are no longer being actively maintained and are provided for archival purposes only.

Africa

Africa

Actual Biomass Density in Tropical Africa
Africa: an overview (March 2002)
Africa : Anthropogenic Biomes
Africa : Dry Plant Formations
Africa : Human Footprint Index
Africa : Human Influence Index
Africa : Last of the Wild
Africa : Natural Vegetation
Africa : Open Forests South of the Equator
Africa Phyto-geographic Domains
Africa Vegetation
Africa Vegetation
Africa Vegetation
Africa Vegetation Map
African Lowland Rain Forest   (In Vegetation Patterns and Environmental Gradients in Benin / Aristide Cossi Adomou, p. 2)
Biota Maps of Africa
Cloud Forest Sites in Africa  (UNEP-WCMC)
The Conservation Atlas of Tropical Forests
Current Vegetation Map of Africa
Degradation Ratio in Tropical African Forests
Digitized Vegetation Map of Africa
Distribution Map of Coffea Showing Location of Clades and Groups
Forest and Protected Area Distribution within Ecological Zones, Africa
Global Ecological Zones Africa
The Grass Cover of Africa
The Holocene Landscape and Vegetation History of Northern and Western Africa
JERS-1 Map of Tropical Forest of Africa
The land cover of Africa for the year 2000. March 2003
A land cover map of Africa; Carte de l'occupation du sol de l'Afrique. 2003
Mountains and Mountain Forests Africa
Natural Vegetation in Africa (US CIA)  
Paleovegetation Map of Amazonia and Africa for the Last Glacial Maximum
Prevailing Vegetation  (Inset on: Africa -- Political.   In: Times Survey Atlas of the World, 1922)
Tropical Africa: Land Use, Biomass and Carbon Estimates for 1980
Vegetation Map of Africa = Carte de Végétation de l'Afrique  (3 sheets/feuilles: Southern Africa -- North-Western Africa -- North-Eastern Africa)
Vegetation Map of Africa During the Climatic Optimum Warm/Humid Period
Vegetation Map of Africa During the Extreme Cold/Dry Last Glacial Period
Vegetation Map of Africa South of the Tropic of Cancer = Carte de la Végétation de l'Afrique au Sud du Tropique du Cancer
Vegetation Map of South America and Africa for the LGM
Vegetation of Subsahara Africa
Vegetationskarte von Afrika
White's 1983 Vegetation Map of Africa : a Contrasting Approach or Vegetation of Africa (White 1983)

Africa, Central

Afrique Central Ouest, Afrique Central Est  (In: Atlas des populations indigènes des forêts denses humides)
CARPE Mapper   (Central African Regional Program for the Environment)
Land Cover Changes between 1968 and 1993 in South Cameroon
Landsat-derived Land Cover Map of the Sangha Tri-National Park Region
New Vegetation Map of Central Africa, Derived from SPOT-VEGETATION Imagery of 1998
Potential Biomass Density in Central Africa
Vegetation Cover in Zaire, Burundi, and Rwanda (Old Belgian Congo), by Devred
Vegetation Map of Central Africa
Vegetation Map of Central Africa Derived from AVHRR LAC and GAC Imagery
Vegetation Map of Central Africa from AVHRR 1992/1993
Vegetation Map of West & Central Africa

Africa, East

Afrika Kartenwerk. E7. Vegetationsformations und Vegetationsformationskomplexe (Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania)
East Africa Vegetation
Vegetation Map of the Flora Zambesiaca Area

Africa, North

African Side of Mediterranean Basin

Africa, Southern

National Vegetation Map of Southern Africa Project   (Maps covering South Africa, Lesotho, Swaziland; South African National Biodiversity Institute)
SAFARI 2000 NBI Vegetation Map of the Savannahs of Southern Africa
South Africa vegetation  (Maps covering Baviaanskloof Mega-Reserve, South Africa and Nambia vegetation types, Mpumalanga vegetation, and Little Karoo)
Southern Africa : Normalised Difference Vegetation
Southern Africa Temperate Forest and Protected Areas
Vegetation Map of the Flora Zambesiaca Area
Vegetation of South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland

Africa, West

Distribution of Tropical Humid Forests in West Africa
Land cover map of southern hemisphere Africa using SPOT-4 Vegetation data, March 2003
Vegetation Map of West & Central Africa
Vegetation Map of West Africa Showing the Rain Forest Zone and Benin Indicating the Semi-deciduous Forest Sites Where Data Were Collected  (In Vegetation Patterns and Environmental Gradients in Benin / Aristide Cossi Adomou, fig. 4.1)
West Africa : NOAA Derived Forest Map: Closed Forest, Mangrove, Mixed Agriculture, Forest Fallow, Non-forest

 

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South America

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  • Amazon Basin
  • South America by Country and Region

North America

Pacific

Arctic (Polar Regions)

Guide History

Original title of website: Checklist of Online Vegetation and Plant Distribution Maps

Compiled by Claire Englander (1996-2013).  Founding co-compiler Philip Hoehn (1996-2009).   With thanks to Phyllis Bischof, Ed Colijn, Rheal Coupal, John Creaser, Larry Cruse, Joe Dalton, Hugh Eva, Vic Fazio, Xavier Font Castell, Steve Glenn, Lawrence Hislop, Robert Hoare, Michael Jennings, Stephen Killeffer, Brian Klinkenberg, Raino Lampinen, Andrew Lillie, David MacDevette, Philippe Mayaux, Justin Moat, Jim Moore, Tom Owens, Scott Sundberg, Thomas A. Stone, Urs-Beat Brändli, Rob Waller, Hugh D.Wilson and George Wooten.

Maps are no longer being added to or deleted from these lists - the lists are maintained in this guide for archival purposes only.

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