WCMC Closed Moist Tropical Forest of Madagascar (Classification of Forest Types)

WCMC Africa Closed Moist Tropical Forest Database File: MADVEG.E00 Code: 132001-001 Vector Member The file is in Arc/Info Export format and should be imported with the Arc/Info command Import cover In-Filename Out-Filename. NOTE: Due to an Arc/Info bug, annotation that was included in the export files (E00) was deleted so that the files could be imported.

The WCMC Africa Closed Moist Tropical Forest Database is a compilation of national maps into comparable units by the World Conservation and Monitoring Centre (WCMC) of Great-Britain. National maps were used and legend units were grouped into 13 classes, describing forest types: 10 = Water bodies 130 = Degraded Rain Forest 111 = Mangroves 500 = Dry Forest 112 = Degraded Mangroves 510 = Pine Forest 113 = Inland Swamp Forest 114 = Degraded inland Swamp Forest 900 = Non Forest 121 = Montane Rain Forest 999 = no data 122 = Lowland Rain Forest 123 = Sun Montane Rain Forest In almost all coverages water bodies are labelled as 0 Contact : UNEP/GRID-Nairobi, P O Box 30552, Nairobi, Kenya References: WCMC Biodiversity Map Library.