English: Tropical wet forests. The humid tropical biome was delineated using the World Wildlife Fund terrestrial ecoregions map. This map was modified to exclude mountain and coastal forest mosaic ecoregions in Africa.
Français : Forêts tropicales humides.
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"Biome boundary. The humid tropical biome was delineated using the World Wildlife Fund terrestrial ecoregions map. This map was modified to exclude mountain and coastal forest mosaic ecoregions in Africa." on Global Forest Monitoring Projectarchive copy at the Wayback Machine
Original data licensed as : "Provided data are available for use for valid scientific, conservation, and educational purposes as long as proper citations are used. We ask that you credit the Humid Tropical Monitoring data as follows:
Hansen, M.C., Stehman, S.V., Potapov, P.V., Loveland, T.R., Townshend, J.R.G., DeFries, R.S., Pittman, K.W., Stolle, F., Steininger, M.K., Carroll, M., Dimiceli, C. (2008) Humid tropical forest clearing from 2000 to 2005 quantified using multi-temporal and multi-resolution remotely sensed data. PNAS, 105(27), 9439-9444."