The woodland vegetation of the Katavi-Rukwa ecosystem in western Tanzania

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 255, Issue 8-9, 2008, Pages 3382-3395

  Banda, Tasila ^a   Mwangulango, Nathan ^b   Meyer, Britta ^b   Schwartz, Mark W ^a   Mbago, Frank ^c   Sungula, Michael ^d   Caro, Tim ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MKC/MKCB/587   (Tanzania)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DAR ES SALAAM   (Tanzania)

^d Tanzania Wildlife Research Institute ^*  (Tanzania)

^e TANZANIA WILDLIFE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

Community structure; Katavi Rukwa; Miombo; Species diversity; Woodland Fabaceae

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY;

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; KATAVI-RUKWA ECOSYSTEM; MIOMBO WOODLAND; WOODLAND FABACEAE;

VEGETATION;

BASAL AREA; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DRY FOREST; LEGUME; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TREE; VEGETATION; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; WOODLAND;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL POPULATIONS; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTS; PLANTS;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; KATAVI NATIONAL PARK; RUKWA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; TANZANIA;

BRACHYSTEGIA; COMBRETUM; FABACEAE; GREWIA; ISOBERLINIA; JULBERNARDIA; MARKHAMIA; TERMINALIA; TERMINALIA SERICEA;

EID: 43049138798     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2008.01.079     Document Type: Article

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