Sudanian savanna

Sudan bioregion
بِلَادُ السُّوْدَان
Throughout the Sudan region's savanna grasslands, kob are found migrating along freshwater bodies
Extension of the western and eastern ecoregions comprising the Sudan bioregion and divided by the Mandara mountains
Ecology
RealmAfrotropical
BiomeTropical savanna
Borders
Animalselephant, cheetah, giraffe, lion, buffalo, kob
Geography
Area2,550,451 km2 (984,735 sq mi)
RiversWhite Nile, Niger and Chari
Climate typeTropical savanna (Aw)
Conservation
Conservation statusCritical/endangered
Global 200priority
Protected18.1%[1][2]

The Sudanian savanna or Sudan region is a broad belt of tropical savanna that runs east and west across the African continent, from the Ethiopian Highlands in the east to the Atlantic Ocean in the west. It represents the central bioregion within the broader tropical savanna biome of the Afrotropical realm. The Sahel acacia savanna, a belt of drier grasslands, lies to the north, forming a transition zone between the Sudanian savanna and the Sahara Desert phytochorion. To the Sudan's south, the more humid forest-savanna mosaic forms a transition zone between the Sudanian savanna and the Guineo-Congolian forests that lie nearer the equator.

  1. ^ "East Sudanian savanna | DOPA Explorer". dopa-explorer.jrc.ec.europa.eu.
  2. ^ Dinerstein, Eric [in German]; Olson, David; Joshi, Anup; et al. (2017-04-05). "An Ecoregion-Based Approach to Protecting Half the Terrestrial Realm". BioScience. 67 (6): 534–545, Supplemental material 2 table S1b. doi:10.1093/biosci/bix014. ISSN 0006-3568. PMC 5451287. PMID 28608869.