Map Showing Vegetation of Africa (IMAGE) U.S. National Science Foundation. Caption. Savanna and woodland extend across a broad swath of East Africa. Credit. AccessAfrica.

Sequences of vegetation types caused by regularly repeated physiographic or hydrographic conditions are shown as "catenas"—a word originally applied to soils in East Africa. The map brings out ...

University of Minnesota researchers created the world’s first global vegetation map based on data from 45,000 plants belonging to more than 3,600 species. More than 50 researchers worked on the ...

Africa exhibits some of the oldest species of vegetation on the planet, in rich variety and subject to harsh climatic extremes. Tall trees, creepers, carnivorous and giant plants dominate the ...

Supercomputing, machine learning, satellite data and field assessments allow to map billions of individual trees in West Africa. Martin Brandt, Author provided. Presently, this work is expanded to ...

Vegetation is ousting sand across a swathe of land stretching from Mauritania on the shores of the Atlantic to Eritrea 6000 kilometres away on the Red Sea coast. Nor is it just a short-term trend.