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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
agricultural and biological sciences
On the delineation of tropical vegetation types with an emphasis on forest/savanna transitions
Plant Ecology and Diversity, Volume 6, No. 1, Year 2013
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Background: There is no generally agreed classification scheme for the many different vegetation formation types occurring in the tropics. This hinders cross-continental comparisons and causes confusion as words such as 'forest' and 'savanna' have different meanings to different people. Tropical vegetation formations are therefore usually imprecisely and/or ambiguously defined in modelling, remote sensing and ecological studies.Aims: To integrate observed variations in tropical vegetation structure and floristic composition into a single classification scheme.Methods: Using structural and floristic measurements made on three continents, discrete tropical vegetation groupings were defined on the basis of overstorey and understorey structure and species compositions by using clustering techniques.Results: Twelve structural groupings were identified based on height and canopy cover of the dominant upper stratum and the extent of lower-strata woody shrub cover and grass cover. Structural classifications did not, however, always agree with those based on floristic composition, especially for plots located in the forest-savanna transition zone. This duality is incorporated into a new tropical vegetation classification scheme.Conclusions: Both floristics and stand structure are important criteria for the meaningful delineation of tropical vegetation formations, especially in the forest/savanna transition zone. A new tropical vegetation classification scheme incorporating this information has been developed. © 2013 Copyright 2013 Botanical Society of Scotland and Taylor & Francis.
Authors & Co-Authors
Torello-Raventos, Mireia
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Feldpausch, Ted R.
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Veenendaal, Elmar M.
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Schrodt, Franziska
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Saiz, Gustavo
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Domingues, Tomas Ferreira
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Djagbletey, Gloria Djaney
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Ford, Andrew J.
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Kemp, Jeanette E.
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Marimon, Beatriz Schwantes
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Marimon-Júnior, Ben Hur
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Lenza, Eddie
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Ratter, James A.
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Maracahipes, Leandro
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Sasaki, Denise
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Sonké, Bonaventure
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Zapfack, Louis
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Taedoumg, Hermann Evariste
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Villarroel, Daniel
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Schwarz, Michael
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Quesada, Carlos Alberto Nobre
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Yoko Ishida, F.
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Nardoto, G. B.
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Affum-Baffoe, Kofi
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Arroyo, Luzmila P.
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Bowman, David M.J.S.
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Compaoré, Halidou
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Davies, Kalu
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Diallo, Adama
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Fyllas, Nikolaos M.
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Gilpin, Martin
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Hien, Fidele
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Johnson, Michelle
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Killeen, Timothy J.
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Metcalfe, Daniel B.
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Miranda, Heloisa S.
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Steininger, Marc K.
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Thomson, John
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Sykora, Karle
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Mougin, Éric
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Hiernaux, Pierre
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Bird, Michael I.
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Grace, John
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Lewis, Simon L.
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Phillips, Oliver L.
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Lloyd, Jon J.
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Statistics
Citations: 123
Authors: 46
Affiliations: 23
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1080/17550874.2012.762812
ISSN:
17550874
e-ISSN:
17551668