A reconnaissance survey of the vegetation of the North Luangwa National Park, Zambia

Bothalia - African Biodiversity & Conservation

 
 
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Title A reconnaissance survey of the vegetation of the North Luangwa National Park, Zambia
 
Creator Smith, P. P.
 
Subject — Luangwa Valley; vegetation description; vegetation mapping; Zambia
Description A comprehensive survey of the vegetation of the North Luangwa National Park (NLNP) was carried out over a period of two years. The main aims of the survey were to describe the major vegetation communities in the park and to produce a vegetation map of the NLNP Initial differentiation of vegetation units was established by the appearance of the vegetation on aerial photographs Further information was derived from 353 ground plots in which 20 000 woody plants were identified and measured Thirteen broad vegetation types were recognised in the NLNP Details of their physiognomy, species composition, distribution, topography and edaphic associations are given.  
 
Publisher AOSIS
 
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Date 1998-10-06
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion — —
Format application/pdf
Identifier 10.4102/abc.v28i2.641
 
Source Bothalia; Vol 28, No 2 (1998); 197-211 2311-9284 0006-8241
 
Language eng
 
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Rights Copyright (c) 1998 P. P. Smith https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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