Download Volume 8

Volume 8 provides a national atlas for Kenya. We also provide a summary of the descriptions and species composition of potential vegetation types that occur.

Download Volume 8 chapter 1 to chapter 40

• Chapter 1 - The rationale of the VECEA map
  Chapter 2 - Definition of forest, woodland, wooded grassland, bushland and thicket
  Chapter 3 - What is potential natural vegetation
• Chapter 4 - Maps of Kenya
  • Maps of Kenya part 1
  • Maps of Kenya part 2
  • Maps of Kenya part 3
  • Maps of Kenya part 4
  • Maps of Kenya part 5
  • Maps of Kenya part 6
  • Maps of Kenya part 7
  • Maps of Kenya part 8
  • Maps of Kenya part 9
  • Maps of Kenya part 10
  • Maps of Kenya part 11
  • Maps of Kenya part 12
• Chapter 5 - Description and species list for Kenya
  Chapter 6 - Afromontane rain forest (Fa)
• Chapter 7 - Afromontane undifferentiated forest (Fbu) and Afromontane single-dominant Juniperus procera forest (Fbj)
• Chapter 8 - Afromontane single-dominant Hagenia abyssinica forest (Fd)
  Chapter 9 - Afromontane moist transitional forest (Fe)
  Chapter 10 - Lake Victoria transitional rain forest (Ff)
  Chapter 11 - Afromontane dry transitional forest (Fh)
• Chapter 12  - Lake Victoria drier peripheral semi-evergreen Guineo-Congolian rain forest (Fi)
  Chapter 13 - Zanzibar-Inhambane lowland rain forest (Fo)
  Chapter 14 - Zanzibar-Inhambane undifferentiated forest (Fp)
  Chapter 15 - Zanzibar-Inhambane scrub forest (Fq)
• Chapter 16 - Zanzibar-Inhambane scrub forest on coral rag (edaphic forest type, fc)
  Chapter 17 - Riverine forests (edaphic forest type, fr)
  Chapter 18 - Swamp forest (edaphic forest type, fs)
• Chapter 19 - Combretum wooded grassland (Wc)
  Chapter 20 - Acacia-Commiphora deciduous wooded grassland (synonym: deciduous wooded grassland, Wd)
• Chapter 21 - Biotic Acacia wooded grassland (We)
  Chapter 22 - Miombo woodland (Wm)
• Chapter 23 - Palm wooded grassland (physiognomically easily recognized type, P)
  Chapter 24 - Edaphic wooded grassland on drainage-impeded or seasonally flooded soils (edaphic vegetation type, wd)
• Chapter 25 - Somalia-Masai Acacia-Commiphora deciduous bushland and thicket (Bd)
• Chapter 26 - Evergreen and semi-evergreen bushland and thicket (synonym: evergreen bushland, Be)
• Chapter 27 - Montane Ericaceous belt (easily identifiable type, E)
  Chapter 28 - Termitaria vegetation (easily identifiable and edaphic type, including bush groups around termitaria within grassy drain-age zones, T)
• Chapter 29 - Afroalpine vegetation (A)
  Chapter 30 - Afromontane bamboo (B)
  
• Chapter 31 - Desert (D)
• Chapter 32 - Grassland (exluding semi-desert grassland and edaphic grassland, G)
• Chapter 33 - Mangrove (M)
• Chapter 34 - Somalia-Masai semi-desert grassland and shrubland (S)
• Chapter 35 - Fresh-water swamp (X)
  Chapter 36 - Halophytic vegetation (Z)
• Chapter 37 - Edaphic grassland on drainage-impeded or seasonally flooded soils (edaphic vegetation-type, g)
  Chapter 38 - Edaphic grassland on volcanic soils (edaphic subtype, gv)
  Chapter 39 - Vegetation of sands (edaphic type, s)
  Chapter 40 - References