Afromontane regions

Afromontane regions in Africa (after F. White 1978)

The Afromontane regions taken together form a vegetation geographic sub-region of the Afrotropic by Frank White , which is characterized by certain related plant communities afrotropischer mountains with comparable mountainous climate distinguished. The term afromontane includes both montane mountain forests ( Afromontane forests ) at altitudes between 1200/1500 (on South Africa's coasts below 1000 m) and 3000 m above sea level as well as subalpine bamboo vegetation and mountain bogs up to 3500 m as well as the treeless (afro) alpine above High mountain vegetation. The total of seven regions extend from the tropics to the subtropics .

White described The Afromontane region in 1978 in Biogeography and Ecology of Southern Africa . Since then, experts have been referring to him and his classification.

List of afromontane regions

Serial no	Zone	countries
I.	West African	Cameroon , Nigeria , Bioko ( Equatorial Guinea ), São Tomé ( São Tomé and Príncipe )
II	Ethiopian	Ethiopia
III	Kivu - Ruwenzori	Burundi , Democratic Republic of the Congo , Rwanda , Tanzania , Uganda
IV	Imatongs - Usambara	Kenya , Sudan , Tanzania, Uganda
V	Uluguru - Mulanje	Malawi , Tanzania, Zambia
VI	Chimanimani	Mozambique , Zimbabwe
VII	Drakensberg	Lesotho , South Africa , Swaziland

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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)
Afromontage Forest - Afromontage Forest. (PDF; 589 kB) Flyer for the exhibition of the University Botanical Garden, Vienna 2006.

Individual evidence

↑ Conradin Burga, Frank Klötzli and Georg Grabherr (eds.): Mountains of the earth - landscape, climate, flora. Ulmer, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-8001-4165-5 . P. 375.
^ East Africa Afromontane flora . In: brahmsonline.kew.org, Oxford University, accessed August 25, 2020.
^ F. White: The Afromontane region. In: MJA Werger (Ed.): Biogeography and Ecology of Southern Africa. Dr. W. Junk Publications, The Hague 1978, ISBN 90-6193-083-9 .

[1] Conradin Burga, Frank Klötzli and Georg Grabherr (eds.): Mountains of the earth - landscape, climate, flora. Ulmer, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-8001-4165-5 . P. 375.

[2] East Africa Afromontane flora . In: brahmsonline.kew.org, Oxford University, accessed August 25, 2020.

[3] F. White: The Afromontane region. In: MJA Werger (Ed.): Biogeography and Ecology of Southern Africa. Dr. W. Junk Publications, The Hague 1978, ISBN 90-6193-083-9 .