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Kazimzumbwi Forest Reserve
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Table 6 Disturbance transect results for total pole counts (mean percentages in brackets).
Transect
Line
Transect
Length (m) (no.
of 50m
sections)
Total no.
poles
sampled
Total Number
Live poles (LP)
Total Number
Naturally
fallen poles
(NFP)
Total Number
Old Cut Poles
(OCP)
Total Number
New cut poles
(NCP)
A 4600 (92) 3295 2665 (80) 459 (14) 164 (5) 7 (0.2)
B 6650 (133) 5419 4469 (82) 589 (11) 339 (6) 22 (0.4)
C 5850 (117) 3491 2993 (86) 335 (10) 152 (4) 11 (0.3)
D 4150 (83) 4231 2695 (64) 610 (14) 904 (21) 22 (0.5)
E 750 (15) 686 382 (56) 17 (2) 278 (40) 9 (1.2)
TOTAL 22,000 (440) 17,122 13,204 2,010 1,837 71
Table 7 Disturbance transect results for total pole counts per hectare (percentages of all poles
sampled per hectare in brackets).
Transect Line
Transect
Length (m)
(no. of 50m
sections)
Transect
Length (m)
Number of poles
sampled per ha
Number of LP
per ha
Number of NFP
per ha
Number of
OCP per ha
Number of
NCP per ha
A 4600 (92) 4600 716 (100) 579 (81) 100 (14) 36 (5) 2 (0.3)
B 6650 (133) 6650 815 (100) 672 (83) 89 (11) 51 (6) 3 (0.4)
C 5850 (117) 5850 597 (100) 512 (86) 57 (10) 26 (4) 2 (0.3)
D 4150 (83) 4150 1020 (100) 649 (64) 147 (14) 218 (21) 5 (0.5)
E 750 (15) 750 915 (100) 509 (56) 23 (3) 371 (41) 12 (1.3)
MEAN
(Std. Dev.)
584.2
(67.5)
83.2
(41.7)
140.4
(135.0)
4.8
(3.8)
700
Mean number of poles per hectare
600
500
400
300
200
100
0
Live poles
Natural fallen
poles
Old cut poles
New cut poles
Figure 7 Mean number of live, naturally fallen, old cut and new cut poles per hectare throughout
Kazimzumbwi FR with standard error bars.
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