Mount Cameroon and Bioko montane forests information
Mount Cameroon and Bioko montane forests
Satellite imagery of the Mount Cameroon and Bioko montane forests. Mount Cameroon is the peak in the center of the picture; Bioko is visible in the lower left.
Location map of the Mount Cameroon and Bioko montane forests
Ecology
Realm
Afrotropical
Biome
tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests
Borders
Cross-Sanaga-Bioko coastal forests
Geography
Area
1,141 km2 (441 sq mi)
Countries
Cameroon
Equatorial Guinea
Conservation
Conservation status
Critical/endangered
Global 200
yes
Protected
736 km² (64%)[1]
The Mount Cameroon and Bioko montane forests is a tropical moist broadleaf forest ecoregion in central Africa. It occupies the upper slopes of coastal Mount Cameroon in Cameroon, and the mountains of nearby Bioko island in Equatorial Guinea.[2][3][4]
^Eric Dinerstein, David Olson, et al. (2017). An Ecoregion-Based Approach to Protecting Half the Terrestrial Realm, BioScience, Volume 67, Issue 6, June 2017, Pages 534–545; Supplemental material 2 table S1b. [1]
^"Map of Ecoregions 2017". Resolve. Retrieved August 20, 2021.
^"Mount Cameroon and Bioko montane forests". Digital Observatory for Protected Areas. Retrieved August 20, 2021.
^"Mount Cameroon and Bioko montane forests". The Encyclopedia of Earth. Retrieved August 20, 2021.
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