List of ecoregions in Cameroon
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The following is a list of ecoregions in Cameroon, according to the Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF).
Terrestrial ecoregions
by major habitat type
Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests
Atlantic Equatorial coastal forests
Cameroonian Highlands forests
Cross–Sanaga–Bioko coastal forests
Mount Cameroon and Bioko montane forests
Northwestern Congolian lowland forests
Tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests
Tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands
East Sudanian savanna
Guinean forest–savanna mosaic
Mandara Plateau mosaic
Northern Congolian forest–savanna mosaic
Sahelian Acacia savanna
Flooded grasslands and savannas
Lake Chad flooded savanna
Mangroves
Central African mangroves
Freshwater ecoregions
by bioregion
Nilo-Sudan
Lake Chad Catchment
West Coastal Equatorial
Central West Coastal Equatorial
Northern West Coastal Equatorial
Western Equatorial Crater Lakes
Congo
Sangha
Marine ecoregions
Gulf of Guinea Central
References
Burgess, Neil, Jennifer D’Amico Hales, Emma Underwood (2004). Terrestrial Ecoregions of Africa and Madagascar: A Conservation Assessment. Island Press, Washington DC.
Spalding, Mark D., Helen E. Fox, Gerald R. Allen, Nick Davidson et al. "Marine Ecoregions of the World: A Bioregionalization of Coastal and Shelf Areas". Bioscience Vol. 57 No. 7, July/August 2007, pp. 573–583.
Thieme, Michelle L. (2005).
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