Classification and ordination of aquatic macrophytes in the Pongolo River Pans, Natal
Bothalia - African Biodiversity & Conservation
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| Title | Classification and ordination of aquatic macrophytes in the Pongolo River Pans, Natal | |
| Creator | Musil, C. F. Grunow, J. O. Bornman, C. H. | |
| Description | The physiography, soils and climate are briefly described for the Pongolo River flood plain pans situated in north-east Zululand (27 S, 32 E), Natal, South Africa. Quantitative vegetation data obtained from 60 stands distributed over 9 pans were summarized using a Braun-Blanquet procedure and a Principal Components Analysis (PCA). Both approaches indicated that the aquatic vegetation could be subdivided into two main groups of growth forms: the submerged and the floating and/or rooted-floating aquatic plants, each showing a distribution influenced primarily by physical factors such as exposure and depth of water. In the PCA, each of the above groups was defined by two stand noda, each nodum representing a plant community that could be observed in the field. The Braun- Blanquet analysis further subdivided the floating and/or rooted-floating aquatic plants into groups of species on the basis of chemical and substrate factors. | |
| Publisher | AOSIS | |
| Date | 1973-07-22 | |
| Identifier | 10.4102/abc.v11i1/2.2000 | |
| Source | Bothalia; Vol 11, No 1/2 (1973); 181-190 2311-9284 0006-8241 | |
| Language | eng | |
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