Ecological study of the vegetation in Gamo Gofa zone, southern Ethiopia

Tropical Ecology

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 209-221

  Soromessa, Teshome ^a   Teketay, Demel ^b   Demissew, Sebsebe ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b Forest Stewardship Council Ghana   (Ghana)

^c ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

Altitude; Diversity; Environmental variables; Evenness; Plant community types; Species richness

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; PLANT COMMUNITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES EVENNESS; SPECIES RICHNESS;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; ETHIOPIA; GAMO GOFA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WORLD;

ACTINIOPTERIS RADIATA; BRASSICACEAE; COMBRETUM; COMBRETUM MOLLE; COMMIPHORA; FABACEAE; HYPARRHENIA; POACEAE; SANSEVIERIA;

EID: 18544388403     PISSN: 05643295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (65)

1. Anonymous. 1988. National Atlas of Ethiopia. Ethiopian Mapping Agency, Addis Ababa.
2. Anonymous. 1997a. Ethiopia: National Conservation Strategy, Phase I Report. Ethiopian Environmental Authority, Addis Abeba.
3. Anonymous. 1997b. Conservation Strategy of Ethiopia. Environmental Protection Authority, Addis Abeba.
4. Bonnefille, R., G. Buchet, I. Friis, Ensermu Kelbessa & M.U. Mohammed. 1993. Modern pollen rain on an altitudinal range of forests and woodlands in Southwest Ethiopia. Opera Botanica 121: 71-84.
5. Chaffey, D.R. 1979. Southwest Ethiopia Forest Inventory Project, A Reconnaissance Inventory of Forest in Southwest Ethiopia. Land Resources Development Centre, Tolworth Tower Surbiton Sruvey, England.
6. Coetzee, J.A. 1978. Phytogeographical aspects of the montane forests of the chain of mountains on the eastern side of Africa. Erdwissenschaftliche Forschung 11: 482-494.
7. Cottenie, A. 1980. Soil and Plant Testing as a Basis of Fertilizer Recommendations. FAO Soil Bulletins No. 38/2, Rome.
8. Cufodontis, G. 1953-1972. Enumeratio plantarum Aethiopiae spermatophyte, Vol. 1 & 2. Jardin Botanique National De Belgique, Meise.
9. Daniel Gamachu. 1977. Aspects of Climate and water Budget in Ethiopia. Addis Ababa University Press, Addis Ababa.
10. Demel Teketay. 2000. Vegetation Types and Forest Fire Management in Ethiopia. pp. 1-35. In: MOA & GTZ (eds.) Proceedings of the Round Table Conference on Integrated Forest Fire Management in Ethiopia. Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) & Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ), Addis Abeba.
11. Demel Teketay & Tamrat Bekele. 1995. Floristic composition of Wof-Washa natural forest, Central Ethiopia: implications for the conservation of biodiversity. Feddes Repertorium 106: 127-147.
12. Edwards, S., Mesfin Tadesse & I. Hedberg (eds.) 1995. Flora of Ethiopia and Eritrea, Vol. 2, Part 2. The National Herbarium, Addis Abeba University, Addis Abeba & Department of Systematic Botany, Uppsala University, Uppsala.
13. Edwards, S., Mesfin Tadesse, Sebsebe Demissew & I. Hedberg (eds.) 2000. Flora of Ethiopia and Eritrea, Vol. 2, Part 1. The National Herbarium, Addis Abeba University, Addis Abeba & Department of Systematic Botany, Uppsala University, Uppsala.
14. Edwards, S., Sebsebe Demissew & I. Hedberg (eds.) 1997. Flora of Ethiopia and Eritrea, Vol. 6. The National Herbarium, Addis Abeba University, Addis Abeba & Department of Systematic Botany, Uppsala University, Uppsala.
15. EFAP. 1994. Ethiopian Forestry Action Program (EFAP). EFAP, Addis Abeba.
16. Fitzpatrick, E.A. 1974. An Introduction to Soil Science. Oliver and Boyd Ltd, Edinburgh.
17. Friis, I. 1986. The forest vegetation of Ethiopia. Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis Symbolae Botanicae Upsaliensis XXVI: 31-47.
18. Friis, I. 1992. Forest and forest trees of northeast tropical Africa. Kew Bulletin Additional Series 15: 1-396.
19. Friis, I. & Mesfin Tadesse. 1990. The evergreen forests of tropical Northeast Africa. Mitteilungen aus dem Institut für allgemeine Botanik Hamburg 23a: 249-263.
20. Friis, I., F.N. Rasmussen & K. Vollesen. 1982. Studies in the flora and vegetation of southwest Ethiopia. Opera Botanica 63: 8-70.
21. Gilbert, E.F. 1970. Mount Wachacha: A botanical commentary. Walia 2: 3-12.
22. Hailu Sharew. 1982. An Ecological Study of a Forest in Jemjem in Sidamo. M.Sc. Thesis, Addis Abeba University, Addis Abeba.
23. Haugen, T. 1992. Woody vegetation of Borana, South Ethiopia, a study on the main vegetation types of the area. SINET: Ethiopian Journal of Science 15: 117-130.
24. Hedberg, I. & S. Edwards (eds.). 1989. Flora of Ethiopia, Vol. 3. The National Herbarium, Addis Abeba University, Addis Abeba & Department of Systematic Botany, Uppsala University, Uppsala.
25. Hedberg, I. & S. Edwards (eds.). 1995. Flora of Ethiopia and Eritrea, Vol. 7. The National Herbarium, Addis Abeba University, Addis Abeba & Department of Systematic Botany, Uppsala University, Uppsala.
26. Hedberg, O. 1951. Vegetation belts of the east African mountains. Sevensk Botanisk Tidskrrift 45: 140-204.
27. Hedberg, O. 1957. Afroalpine vascular plants, a taxonomic revision. Symbolae Botanicae Upsaliensis 15: 1-411.
28. Hedberg, O. 1964. Features of the Afroalpine plant ecology. Acta Phytogeographica Suecica 49: 1-144.
29. Hunt, C.B. 1972. Geology of Soils, Their Evaluation, Classification and Uses. W. H. Freeman and Company. San Francisco.
30. Juo, A.S.R. (ed.). 1978. Selected Methods for Soil and Plant Analysis. International Institute of Tropical Agriculture. Ibadan.
31. Krebs, C.J. 1989. Ecological Methodology. Harper and Row Cop., New York.
32. Kumelachew Yeshitela & Tamrat Bekele. 2002. Plant community analysis and ecology of Afromontane and transitional rainforest vegetation of southwestern Ethiopia. SINET: Ethiopian Journal of Science 25: 155-175.
33. Lisanework Nigatu & Mesfin Tadesse. 1989. An ecological study of the vegetation of the Harenna Forest, Bale, Ethiopia. SINET: Ethiopian Journal of Science 12: 63-93
34. Logan, W.E.M. 1946. An introduction to the forests of central and southern Ethiopia. Imperial Forestry Institute Paper 24: 1-58.
35. Menassie Gashaw & Masresha Fetene. 1996. Plant communities of the Afroalpine vegetation of the Sanetti Plateau, Bale Mountains, Ethiopia. SINET: Ethiopian Journal of Science 19: 65-86.
36. Mesfin Tadesse. 1992. A survey of the evergreen forests of Ethiopia. NAPRECA Monograph Series No. 2: 1-18.
37. Miehe, S. & G. Miehe. 1994. Ericaceous Forests and Heath Lands in the Bale Mountains of South Ethiopia: Ecology and Man's Impact. Stiftung Walderhaltung in Africa, Hamburg.
38. Mohr, P.A. 1971. The Geology of Ethiopia. University College of Addis Ababa, Central Printing Press, Addis Ababa.
39. Mooney, H. 1963. An account of two journeys to the Araenna Mountains in Bale province (Southeast Ethiopia), 1958 and 1959-1960. Proceedings Linnaeus Society 172: 127-147.
40. Murphy, H.P. 1958. The Fertility Status of Some Soils of Ethiopia. College of Agriculture, Jimma.
41. Pichi-Sermolli, R.E.G. 1957. Una carta geobotanica dell'Africa Orientale (Eritrea, Etiopia, Somalia). Webbia 13: 15-132.
42. Podani, J. 1988. SYNTAX III. User's manual. Abstracta Botanica 12: 1-183.
43. Russ, G.W. 1945 (compiled by Wolde Michael Kelecha, 1979). Reports on Ethiopian Forest. Addis Abeba.
44. Sebsebe Demissew. 1988. The floristic omposition of the Menagesha state forest and the need to conserve such forest in Ethiopia. Mountain Research and Development.8: 243-247.
45. Statsoft. 1993. Statistica for Windows Release 4.0 E. Statsoft, Inc.
46. Tamrat Bekele. 1993a. Vegetation ecology of remnant Afromontane forests on the Central plateau of Shewa, Ethiopia. Acta Phytogeographica Suecica 79: 1-59.
47. Tamrat Bekele. 1993b. Studies on Remnant Afromontane Forests on the Central Plateau of Shewa, Ethiopia. Ph.D. Dissertation, Uppsala University, Uppsala.
48. Tamrat Bekele. 1994. Phytosociology and ecology of a humid Afromontane forest on the central plateau of Ethiopia. Journal of Vegetation Science 5: 87-98.
49. Tesfaye Awas, Tamrat Bekele & Sebsebe Demissew. 2001. An ecological study of the vegetation of Gambella region, southwestern Ethiopia. SINET: Ethiopian Journal of Science 24: 213-228.
50. Teshome Soromessa & Sebsebe Demissew. 2002. Some uses of plants by the Benna, Tsemay and the Zeyise people, southern Ethiopia. Ethiopian Journal of Natural Resources 4: 107-122.
51. Tewolde B.G. Egziabher. 1986. Ethiopian vegetation - past, present and future. SINET: Ethiopian Journal of Science 9 (suppl.): 1-13.
52. Tewolde B.G. Egziabher 1988. Vegetation and environment of the mountains of Ethiopia: implications for utilization and conservation. Mountain Research and Development 8: 211-216.
53. Tewolde B.G. Egziabher 1991. Diversity of Ethiopian flora. pp. 75-81. In: J.M.M Engels, J.G. Hawkes & Melaku Worede (eds.) Plant Genetic Resources of Ethiopia, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
54. Uhlig, S.K. 1988.Mountain forests and upper tree limit on the southeastern plateau of Ethiopia. Mountain Research and Development 8: 227-234.
55. Uhlig, S.K. & K. Uhlig. 1990. The floristic composition of a natural montane forest in southeastern Ethiopia. Feddes Repertorium 101: 227-234.
56. van der Maarel, E. 1979. Multivariate Methods in Phytosociology, with Reference to the Netherlands. The Study of Vegetation, Junk, The Hague.
57. von Breitenbach, F. 1961. Forests and woodlands of Ethiopia, a geobotanical contribution to the knowledge of the principal plant communities of Ethiopia, with special regard to forestry. Ethiopian Forestry Review 1: 5-16.
58. von Breitenbach, G. 1963. Indigenous Trees of Ethiopia. Ethiopian Forestry Association, Addis Abeba.
59. Weinert, E. & A. Mazurek. 1984. Notes on the vegetation and soil in Bale province of Ethiopia. Feddes Repertorium 95: 373-380.
60. Westphal, E. 1975. Agricultural Systems in Ethiopia. Center for Agricultural Publishing and Documentation, Wageningen.
61. Young, A. 1976. Tropical Soils and Soil Survey. Cambridge University Press, London.
62. Zerihun Woldu. 1985. Variation in Grassland Vegetation on the Central Plateau of Shewa, Ethiopia, in Relation to Edaphic Factors and Grazing Conditions. Doctoral Thesis, Uppsala University, Uppsala.
63. Zerihun Woldu & I. Backeus. 1991. The shrubland vegetation in western Shewa, Ethiopia and its possible recovery. Journal of Vegetation Science 2: 173-180.
64. Zerihun Woldu, E. Feoli & Lisanework Nigatu. 1989. Partitioning an elevation gradient of vegetation from southeastern Ethiopia by probability methods. Vegetatio 18: 189-198.
65. Zerihun Woldu & Mesfin Tadesse. 1990. The status of vegetation in the Lakes region of the Rift Valley of Ethiopia and the possibilities of its recover. SINET: Ethiopian Journal of Science 3: 97-120.