Descripción de la Vegetación Natural Leñosa

An eastern Melanesian archipelago of more than 80 islands as large as 3 900 km2 (Espiritu Santo) and as high as 1 879 m (also Espiritu Santo), the woody vegetation of Vanuatu includes lowland rain forest, montane cloud forest, seasonal rainshadow forest, mangrove forest, littoral forest and secondary forest. After Espiritu Santo, the largest islands are Malakula (2 000 km2), Erromango (1 000 km2), Efate (900 km2) and Ambrym (665 km2). Anatom (150 km2) is the southernmost island in the group. The following description of vegetation types is derived from Corner et al. (1975) and Mueller-Dombois and Fosberg (1998).