Monts Doudou, Gabon

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Excerpt from Monts Doudou, Gabon: A Floral and Faunal Inventory With Reference to Elevational DistributionOur survey of Monts Doudou was organized under the auspices of the World Wide Fund for Nature (wwf), Central Africa. Since the Monts Doudou survey, we have con ducted a similar inventory in the Parc National dzanga-ndoki, in the extreme southwest of the Central African Republic. Each of these sites is a focal point of conservation efforts by wwf in collaboration with host country scientists and government agencies.Collecting information about the living things on this planet is fundamental to reaching the goal of basic science and conservation. Even after 200 years of biological exploration, we have few answers to these simple questions: What kinds of living things exist? Where do they live? How are they related? Based on the fact that you can identify any bird in North America and Europe with a small field guide, it is easy to think that we know enough about life on this planet and that 19th century field collecting is no longer needed. It is a shock to most people to realize how little we know about the diversity of life on this planet. Systematists have identified million species - a mere fraction of the creatures living on this planet.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.