• In West Africa, the Dahomey Gap refers to the portion of the Guinean forest-savanna mosaic that extends all the way to the coast in Benin, Togo, and Ghana...
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  • Nigeria, and Cameroon. It is separated from Upper Guinea by the drier Dahomey Gap. Lower Guinean forests Middle Guinea Upper Guinea "Guinea". britannica...
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    Northern Congolian forest–savanna mosaic, which lies to the east. The Dahomey Gap is a region of Togo and Benin where the forest-savanna mosaic extends...
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    and at least eastern Ghana, are part of a larger region known as the Dahomey Gap; a relatively dry region that separates the rainforests of West Africa...
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    season in September and October. The city’s location on the edge of the Dahomey Gap makes it much drier than would be expected so close to the equator, although...
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    developed when the AHP ended. The Dahomey Gap is a region without forests in southern Benin, Ghana and Togo that forms a gap in the Guineo-Congolian forest...
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    Hirundinidae. It is widespread across the African tropical rainforest (Dahomey Gap also). BirdLife International (2016). "Hirundo nigrita". IUCN Red List...
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    Guinea in the west to the Sanaga River of Cameroon in the east. The Dahomey Gap, a region of savanna and dry forest in Togo and Benin, divides the Guinean...
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  • Liberia, southeastern Guinea, Côte d'Ivoire, and southwestern Ghana. The Dahomey Gap, a drier region of Ghana, Togo, and Benin where the Guinean forest-savanna...
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    Spring of 2021, via video cameras), but are believed to come from the Dahomey Gap, an area of savannah which is a portion of the Guinean forest-savanna...
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    extinct. The subspecies is separated by over 1,800 km (1,100 mi) and the Dahomey Gap, a region of savanna that divides the forest regions of West Africa....
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    there they produce many unexpected climatic effects: The dryness of the Dahomey Gap, due to the rain-bearing winds moving parallel to the coast. The summer...
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  • African ivory. The establishment of a Portuguese fort at the mouth of the Dahomey Gap in Benin in 1482 suggest that ivory hunted in this region was sent to...
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  • common. The geographic range of E. ocellatus extends to the coast via the Dahomey Gap. They are mainly found in savanna and occasionally in wooded areas. Sexually...
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    series, organised by GhanaThink Foundation. Owing to its location in the Dahomey Gap, where the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean coast runs parallel...
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    yellow-billed turaco has a discontinuity, due to the dryer climate in the Dahomey Gap,[citation needed] separating two morphologically distinct subspecies...
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  • the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Nigeria, Uganda and west of the Dahomey Gap in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast and Ghana. BirdLife International...
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    priorities of the city and its inhabitants. Owing to its location in the Dahomey Gap, Lomé has a tropical savanna climate (Köppen climate classification Aw/As)...
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  • and Benin. The Upper Guinean forests are bounded on the east by the Dahomey Gap, a region of Ghana and Benin where the drier forest-savanna mosaic extends...
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  • Gulf of Guinea from eastern Benin through Nigeria and Cameroon. The Dahomey Gap, a region of savanna and dry forest in Togo and Benin, divides the Lower...
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    forests of West Africa extend along the coast from Guinea to Togo. The Dahomey Gap, a zone of forest-savanna mosaic that reaches to the coast, separates...
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    in the folk beliefs of the Germanic peoples. Across Benin and Togo (Dahomey Gap, West Africa), sacred forests form islands of biodiversity in the middle...
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    forests and the savannas and grasslands of the Sudan further north. The Dahomey Gap, a region of Togo and Benin where the Guinean forest-savanna mosaic extends...
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  • d'Ivoire and Nigeria, and parts of Ghana, Togo and Guinea-Bissau. The Dahomey Gap splits the forest zone into two halves by producing an area of much drier...
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    Discovery of a new duiker species (Bovidae: Cephalophinae) from the Dahomey Gap, West Africa. Zootaxa, 2637: 1–30. Preview The African Wildlife Foundation...
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  • endemic to Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana (in the Krokosua Hills and across the Dahomey Gap), and Nigeria. It is threatened by habitat loss by the deforestation...
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    from Senegal on the west to the Cameroon Highlands on the east. The Dahomey Gap is a region of Togo and Benin where the forest-savanna mosaic extends...
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    "Discovery of a new duiker species (Bovidae: Cephalophinae) from the Dahomey Gap, West Africa". Zootaxa. 2637 (1): 1. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2637.1.1. Groves...
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    mouse Hylomyscus mpungamachagorum - Mahale wood mouse Hylomyscus pamfi - Dahomey Gap wood mouse Hylomyscus parvus - little wood mouse Hylomyscus pygmaeus...
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    lagoons which separate the coastal plains from the sea. Togo lies in the Dahomey Gap, an area of savannah grassland that separates the Upper Guinean forests...
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