Afrotropics

Within the tropics, rates of land conversion to agricul­tural use range from very high in the Indo-Malayan realm to moderate in the Neotropics and the Afrotropics, where large increases in cropland area have taken place since the 1950s.

Ecosystems and Human Well-being~ Biodiversity Synthesis~ Key Questions on Biodiversity in the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment 2008

The coastal portion of Africa also contains plant species with more widespread distributions, including those found more typically in the Palearctic, and those that are more typically in the Afrotropics.

Mediterranean acacia-argania dry woodlands and succulent thickets 2007