Ecological Profiles of Ghanaian Forest Trees

Textual summaries are presented of the ecology of most forest trees which in Ghana attain 5 cm dbh. For rarer and smaller trees, the text is reduced to little more than name and brief ecological group, but for others information is presented under various headings relating to tree distribution and regeneration ecology, taxonomy, and miscellaneous other notes. 1260 charts are included, summarising aspects of the ecology in Ghana of 210 of the most important species (including some few-species groups). A series of five charts summarises abundance across Ghana's forest zone, stratified into 21 broad landscape and forest type categories. A sixth chart summarises for each of the 210 important species trends of crown exposure. The crown exposure charts are potentially of value as objective indices of the extent to which each species is a 'light-demander', or 'shade-bearer', and how this changes with tree size. The potential use, origin and explanation of these summaries is explained first in an introductory section.