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Contents: The Guinea - Congo lowland rain forest: an overview/Soils of the lowland forests of West and Central Africa/ The Africanrain forest- main charcteristics of changes in vegetation and climatefrom the Upper Cretaceous to the Quaternary/ Holes and the sums ofparts in Ghanaian forests: regeneration, scale and sustainable use/A structural analysis of rain forest at Korup and Douala - Edea,Cameroon/ Secondary metabolites/ Mammals of the Guinea - Congo rainforest/ Ichthyogeography of the Guinea - Congo rain forest, West Africa/Ectomycorrhizal fungi of the Guinea - Congo region/ Saprotrophic fungiof the Guinea - Congo region/ Forest indigenous peoples: concept,critique and cases.