WorldMap Plant Mapping

WorldMap shows single species plant distributions and cumulative map
distributions for the following plant groups in sub Saharan Africa:
Gymnosperms, Dicotyledons, Monocotyledons, Kenyan Trees, Shrubs, and
Lianas, Northeastern Tropical African forest trees, and Southern
Africa trees.

There are thousands of single species plant distribution maps
currently in distribution, documenting plant distributions over the
vast majority of sub-Saharan Africa. The maps display species
distributions on a per-species basis, and date back over the last 100+
years documenting what for many was a life's work.

Current conservation initiatives call for the understanding of the
total species composition, or the levels of diversity, of areas under
analysis. The raw data for this is available in The single species
distribution maps. However, cumulative maps of species distributions
displaying broader distributions at higher taxonomic scales have
historically not been available due to technological limitations.

The advent of faster computers with large amounts of digital storage
space, and the development of the software application 'WORLDMAP,'
makes constructing these cumulative plant species databases a
possibility.

It is predicted that there are around 40,000 sub-Saharan African plant
species. It is the aim of CELP to compile 10-15% of these from
available distribution maps. To date, over 3500 available species have
been mapped at the 1-degree resolution here at CELP.

Information was obtained from
"http://www.york.ac.uk/res/celp/webpages/projects/worldmap/worldmap.htm"