Dynamics of the forest vegetation of the Umtiza Nature Reserve, East London
Bothalia - African Biodiversity & Conservation
| Field | Value | |
| Title | Dynamics of the forest vegetation of the Umtiza Nature Reserve, East London | |
| Creator | Midgley, J. J. Gobetz, P. N. | |
| Description | The forest community at the Umtiza Nature Reserve near East London was surveyed using 24 plots (0.04 ha) in which all woody stems 0.5 m tall were enumerated. Based on a classification using numbers of stems of canopy species, it was assumed that basically only one forest community was sampled. Further multivariate analyses suggest that this forest is fine-grained. Sample plots were similarly placed in ordination space irrespective of whether woody species occurrence was used as importance value or if species occurrence per size class was used separately [seedlings (0.5-1.0 m), saplings (1-5 m) or canopy individuals ( 5 m)). An analysis of size-class distributions of the most common canopy species indicated that the majority of species exhibited inverse J-shaped size-class distributions. This is the expected pattern for a fine-grained forest. In these measures of dynamics, this forest is not fundamentally different to the more temperate Afromontane forests. | |
| Publisher | AOSIS | |
| Date | 1993-10-10 | |
| Identifier | 10.4102/abc.v23i1.796 | |
| Source | Bothalia; Vol 23, No 1 (1993); 111-116 2311-9284 0006-8241 | |
| Language | eng | |
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