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Profiles of Angola’s Biomes and Ecoregions

Brian John Huntley

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Abstract Each of Angola’s 6 biomes and 16 ecoregions is described and illustrated by habitat photographs to provide an introduction to their distribution, physiognomic structure and floristic and faunistic composition. The largest ecoregion (Angolan Wet Miombo Woodlands) covers 408,457 km2, or 34.8% of the country, while the smallest (Afromontane Forest) covers less than 200 km2 or 0.01% of Angola. Ecoregions are thus defined and mapped not on physical dimension but on their landscape and climatic characteristics, vegetation structure and floristic composition, and their land use potential.

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Abstract Each of Angola’s 6 biomes and 16 ecoregions is described and illustrated by habitat photographs to provide an introduction to their distribution, physiognomic structure and floristic and faunistic composition. The largest ecoregion (Angolan Wet Miombo Woodlands) covers 408,457 km2, or 34.8% of the country, while the smallest (Afromontane Forest) covers less than 200 km2 or 0.01% of Angola. Ecoregions are thus defined and mapped not on physical dimension but on their landscape and climatic characteristics, vegetation structure and floristic composition, and their land use potential.

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Abstract Each of Angola’s 6 biomes and 16 ecoregions is described and illustrated by habitat photographs to provide an introduction to their distribution, physiognomic structure and floristic and faunistic composition. The largest ecoregion (Angolan Wet Miombo Woodlands) covers 408,457 km2, or 34.8% of the country, while the smallest (Afromontane Forest) covers less than 200 km2 or 0.01% of Angola. Ecoregions are thus defined and mapped not on physical dimension but on their landscape and climatic characteristics, vegetation structure and floristic composition, and their land use potential.

Key concepts: Ecoregion, Biome, Floristics, Geography, Woodland, Vegetation (pathology), Habitat, Ecology

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