Conserving species relies upon acquiring an understanding of their use of habitat,yet our understanding of the use of habitat by co-existing species of different guilds at microgeographic scales remains poor.In partic...
Miombo woodlands near human settlements are under significant pressures from human activities,with negative consequences on their structure and composition.As studies are limited,we assessed the structure and species ...
Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) of Germany,funded the PhD programme of the lead author through the West African Science Service Centre for Climate Change and Adapted Land use (WASCAL)。
Background: Modelling aboveground biomass(AGB) in forest and woodland ecosystems is critical for accurate estimation of carbon stocks. However, scarcity of allometric models for predicting AGB remains an issue that ha...
supported by Kenya Forestry Research Institute(KEFRI/FBEM 2014_2015/2.3);International Foundation for Science(IFS D5452-1)
Despite the ecological and economic importance of Acacia senegal, little is known about the effects of anthropogenic disturbances on its natural regeneration patterns and population structure. We investigated the effe...
supported by Vice Chancellor for Research,Shiraz University,Iran;Erasmus Mundus scholarship for travel to Goettingen,Germany
The efficiency of sample-based indices proposed to quantify the spatial distribution of trees is influenced by the structure of tree stands, environmental heterogeneity and degree of aggregation. We evaluated 10 commo...
Our study focused on the effects of wood poaching on the vegetation structure and composition in Mukuvisi Woodland, Zimbabwe. Mukuvisi Woodland, located within the precincts of Harare urban area, Zimbabwe, suffers fro...
Under the auspices of the Seventh Framework Programme(European Commission,No.226818);National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.31070294,31072070,31100331)
Elm (Ulmus pumila), widely distributed in the north temperate zone, contributes to a special savanna-like woodland in typical grassland region in the northeastern China. This woodland performs a variety of ecologica...
the staff members of AMU in Dar-es-Salaam for logistic support and field assistance;financed by SIDA/SAREC under the«Propagation and phytochemical studies of endangered or economically important plants and fungi of Tanzania»project;study was performed by C.Cruaud at the Genoscope or“Consortium National de Recherche en Génomique”near Paris(France)as part of the agreement n°2005/67 on the project“Macrophylogeny of life”between the Genoscope and the“service de systématique moléculaire”(CNRS IFR 101)of the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle and receives continuing support from the ATM-project“Barcode of life”(Dirs.L.Legall and S.Samadi).
The authors present a combined morphological and molecular approach of the genus Cantharellus in Africa.Morphological descriptions and detailed illustrations are provided for five new species from the Zambezian savann...
We studied woodland vegetation in broad-leaved deciduous woodlands of Metema in northwestern Amhara regional state, Ethiopia Our objective was to describe plant species composition, diversity, re- generation status, a...