Soil-plant Relationships in the Central Kruger National Park
Koedoe - African Protected Area Conservation and Science
| Field | Value | |
| Title | Soil-plant Relationships in the Central Kruger National Park | |
| Creator | Fraser, S.W. van Rooyen, T.H. Verster, E. | |
| Description | There is a significant relationship between the tree communities and the soils in the Mooiplaas- Mahlangeni region of the central Kruger National Park. Shrub savanna dominated by Colophospermum mopane (mopane) as a multiplestemmed shrub occurs on all the fine-textured soils derived from basic rocks i.e. basalts, diabase and olivine gabbro. Mixed savanna woodlands dominated by either mopane or Combretum apiculatum (red bushwillow) occur on the coarse-textured soils derived from granitic gneiss. The red bushwillow is dominant on the more shallow soils. Mopane occurs in very dense stands as either stunted trees or as single-stemmed shrubs on most duplex soils. Relatively low-lying areas with saline soils are treeless. Terminalia sericea (silver cluster- leaf) is characteristic of deeper coarse-textured and somewhat poorly drained soils. | |
| Publisher | AOSIS Publishing | |
| Date | 1987-10-21 | |
| Identifier | 10.4102/koedoe.v30i1.499 | |
| Source | Koedoe; Vol 30, No 1 (1987); 19-34 2071-0771 0075-6458 | |
| Language | eng | |
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