Eastern Guinean forests - Definition and Overview

The Eastern Guinean forests are lowland forests in West Africa, from the Atlantic coast to a few hundred kilometers inland. Areas in this ecozone include parts of Benin, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Côte d'Ivoire, Togo, Liberia, Nigeria, and Cameroon.

It is categorized as part of the Afrotropic ecozone, tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests terrestrial ecoregion, and tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands terrestrial biome.

Sources

• Conservation International profile (http://www.biodiversityhotspots.org/xp/Hotspots/west_africa/)
• World Wildlife Fund profile (http://www.worldwildlife.org/wildworld/profiles/terrestrial_at.html#moistbroad)
• Full-page map of the region (http://www.biodiversityhotspots.org/ImageCache/Hotspots/content/west_5fafrica_2d13/ci_5fmap13_2epdf/v1/ci_5fmap13.pdf) (PDF file)