. The Conservation Atlas of Tropical Forests: Africa. Introduction. Notes: 1 Three of the four forest types shown Oowland, montane and swamp) comprise a combination of White's (1983) forest and forest mosaic categories, as explained in detail in Table The map represents the potential outer hmits of moist forest vegetation in the recent past, but note that the areas around the edge of the main forest block were mapped by White (1983) as forest/grassland mosaics, and may never have been totally forested. 3 To the east of the swamp forests of the Cuvette Centrale in Zaire, White (1983) portr
. The Conservation Atlas of Tropical Forests: Africa. Introduction. Notes: 1 Three of the four forest types shown Oowland, montane and swamp) comprise a combination of White's (1983) forest and forest mosaic categories, as explained in detail in Table The map represents the potential outer hmits of moist forest vegetation in the recent past, but note that the areas around the edge of the main forest block were mapped by White (1983) as forest/grassland mosaics, and may never have been totally forested. 3 To the east of the swamp forests of the Cuvette Centrale in Zaire, White (1983) portrayed a mosaic of swamp forest and lowland rain forest. In this map it has been mcluded in the lowland rain forest category. The location of this zone is shown in Figure 4 This adas is concerned with tropical forests, therefore the montane forests of temperate southern Africa, which are shown here for completeness, are not considered within it. Lowlond forest Montone forest Swamp Mon grove see Toble (or a fuil explonotion of itie forest types included Figure The distributional limits of the forest types from which selections have been made for this Atlas (generalised from White, 1983) 10. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Sayer, J. A. , Harcourt, C. S. , Collins, N. IUCN
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