Afromontane

As an African montane zones between large areas of Africa are referred to in which there are evergreen forests in the high altitudes of the mountains. Depending on location and climatic conditions, these forests also Afro -montane forests are called to meet in layers between 1500 m and 3000 m altitude. Along the coasts, even down to 1200 m The mean annual precipitation amounts to above of 800 to 1000 mm, so that the forests can survive.

F. White, had a division of the African continent into zones made ​​in his article The Afromontane region, which was published in 1978 in the publication Biogeography and Ecology of Southern Africa, where these forests occur. Since then the scientific community refers to him and his made ​​division.

List of Afro- montane zones

Swell

  • Report to the World Heritage Committee, Thirtieth Session, July 2005 - Vilnius, Lithuania. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland, May 2006, pp. 83-89. ( WHC-06/30.COM/INF.8B2 )
  • [ homepage.univie.ac.at / ~ puffc9/AF_afromont.htm AFRO and Montane - Alpine Region] - University of Vienna - ( accessed on 21 December 2009 ) - Link no longer available (7 August 2012)
  • Afromontane forests - Afro assembly Forest. (PDF, 589 kB) flyer for the exhibition of the botanical garden of the University of Vienna in 2006.
Cameroon Bioko São Tomé Kivu Burundi Tanzania Usambara Mountains Uluguru Mountains Mozambique Drakensberg
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