List of ecoregions in Cameroon explained

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 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). Freshwater Ecoregions of Africa and Madagascar: A Conservation Assessment. Island Press, Washington DC.