A phytosociological classification of the Nylsvley Nature Reserve
Bothalia - African Biodiversity & Conservation
| Field | Value | |
| Title | A phytosociological classification of the Nylsvley Nature Reserve | |
| Creator | Coetzee, B. J. van der Meulen, F. Zwanziger, S. Gonsalves, P. Weisser, P. J. | |
| Description | The vegetation of the Nylsvley Nature Reserve in the Transvaal Mixed Bushveld is classified hierarchically by the Braun-Blanquet Method of vegetation survey. The vegetation is seasonal grassland and deciduous savanna with four floristically distinct major groups of plant communities: (I) grasslands and broad-leaved savannas on non calcareous sandy soils on elevated sandstone and felsite areas; (2) microphyllous thorn savannas on calcareous, clayey, bottomland alluvial soils and termitaria thickets; (3) grassland and thorn savanna on calcareous self-mulching vertic soils; and (4) secondary communities on long abandoned native settlements and recently ploughed land. Seven primary communities with 12 community variations and 4 subvariations, and three secondary communities are described on the basis of 216 releves. The survey was carried out at two levels of detail, an ecosystem study area in the broad-leaved savanna being surveyed in more detail, floristically and structurally, than the rest of the Reserve. | |
| Publisher | AOSIS | |
| Date | 1976-11-10 | |
| Identifier | 10.4102/abc.v12i1.1388 | |
| Source | Bothalia; Vol 12, No 1 (1976); 137-160 2311-9284 0006-8241 | |
| Language | eng | |
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