"EUR 17322 Vegetation map of Central Africa, 1997." "Derived from NOAA AVHRR imagery." "A joint project between the Joint Research Centre and the European Space Agency was initiated in 1991 entitled ...

Savanna and woodland extend across a broad swath of East Africa. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing ...

Applied Vegetation Science, Vol. 7, No. 1 (May, 2004), pp. 19-28 (10 pages) Various attempts have been made to describe and map the vegetation of southern Africa with recent efforts having an ...

THE Geographical Review has published a reprint of an article from the January 1949 issue entitled "A Vegetation-types Map of Tanganyika", by the late Clemert Gillman. This study of the natural ...

Scientists from the U.S. and South Africa are launching a campaign to map marine, freshwater, and terrestrial species and ecosystems in one of Earth’s biodiversity hotspots: the Greater Cape Floristic ...

(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– What might happen if droughts were predicted months ahead of time? Food aid and other humanitarian efforts could be put together sooner and executed better, say UC Santa ...

The southern Saharan desert is in retreat, making farming viable again in what were some of the most arid parts of Africa. Burkina Faso, one of the West African countries devastated by drought and ...

Question: What are the relationships between edaphic factors, fire regime and woody vegetation structure and composition in savannas at landscape to regional scales? Location: The Transboundary 'W' ...

Dead Dichrostachys cinerea following a severe drought in Kruger National Park, South Africa. D. cinerea is a prolific woody encroacher in southern African savannas but was heavily impacted by drought.

It’s definitely a contender. Africa’s tallest indigenous tree – measuring a whopping 81.5 metres – has been discovered in a remote valley on the continent’s highest mountain, Kilimanjaro. The colossus ...