#guinean

Equatorial Africa possesses one of the most complex physical ecologies on earth. The region can be imagined as a layer cake of ecological zones running east to west as the Sahara receives virtually no precipitation and forms a forbidding but not impassable barrier stretching from the Atlantic to the Red Sea. To its immediate south, the harsh Sahel is a tropical steppe that is visited by the summer rains. It gives way to the tropical savanna of the Sudan, a lush carpet of grasslands sweeping across Africa.

Equatorial Africa possesses one of the most complex physical ecologies on earth. The region can be imagined as a layer cake of ecological zones running east to west as the Sahara desert rapidly changes into rainforest (see figure 8.1).

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