The current Tanzanian policy guidelines regarding ecological restoration encourage total protection (enclosure system) against grazing activities, fires and wood extraction to allow regeneration in state-based Miombo ...
Supported by Zunyi City Municipal and University Joint Science and Technology R&D Funding Project(HZ2023159);Zunyi Science and Technology Support Program Project(NS2023015);Guizhou Provincial Science and Technology Commissioner Innovation and Entrepreneurship Service Training Demonstration Base(HHG2023001);Guizhou Provincial Department of Education Natural Science Research Project(Qianjiaotongqi[2022]No.067);Natural Science Research Program of Guizhou Provincial Department of Education(Guizhou Education and Technology[2023]043).
Honghuagang District,Zunyi City,Guizhou Province,develops the characteristic industry of crispy peaches,and at the same time develops the forest economy and promotes the model of planting soybeans in peach orchards to...
Diospyros texana (Texas persimmon) is a secondary species in most Juniperus ashei/Quercus fusiformis woodlands in central Texas. It has high density, but plants are mostly in the community understory. Light response c...
It has been reported that changes to miombo woodland ecosystems through conversion to other land uses alter tree species diversity and soil properties. The aim was to assess whether the Important Value Index (IVI), Sh...
Community participation in forestry management is a good approach to protecting forests and woodlands. This study was carried out to assess factors affecting community participation in forestry management in Chiradzul...
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 ...
supported by National Council for Scientific and Technical Research(CONICET,Proyecto de Unidad Ejecutora 0042 IADIZA);National Agency for Scientific and Technological Promotion of Argentina(PICT 2017-2154);Secretary of Science,Technology and Postgraduate-U.N.Cuyo(Program 2016 and 2018);a graduate fellowship from CONICET to CS.
Background:The ecological indicators are useful tools to determine the effects of human disturbances on woodland biodiversity.Nevertheless,ecological indicators not always responded in the same way to disturbances,and...
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 The Future Okavango Project(Grant Number(01LL0912A))
This study in the dry tropical woodlands of SE Angola in Cuando-Cubango Province assessed the diversity and composition of woody species in fallows compared to those in mature woodlands. We assessed the population str...
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...