Frontier Tanzania Environmental Research REPORT 110 ...

Kazimzumbwi Forest Reserve
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Executive Summary
Foreword
Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
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1. Introduction 1
1.1 Introduction to Coastal Forests 1
1.1.1 Location and Extent 1
1.1.2 Vegetation Types 2
1.1.3 Endemism 2
1.1.4 Threat 2
1.1.5 Protection and Management 3
1.1.6 Conservation 3
1.1.7 Previous work 3
2. Aims and Objectives 4
2.1 Aims 4
2.2 Objectives 4
3. Study Site 5
3.1 General Description 5
3.2 Location 5
3.3 Physical features and land use 5
3.3.1 Soils 5
3.3.2 Catchment values 5
3.3.3 Rainfall and topography 6
3.3.4 Vegetation 6
3.3.5 Land use 6
4. Floral diversity of Kazimzumbwi Forest Reserve 9
4.1 Introduction 9
4.2 Aims 11
4.3 Methods 11
4.3.1 Vegetation plots 12
4.3.2 Regeneration plots 12
4.3.3 Opportunistic botanial collection 12
4.4 Results 13
4.4.1 Vegetation plots 13
4.4.2 Regeneration plots 19
4.4.3 Opportunistic botanical collection 22
4.4.4 Vegetation types 25
4.5 Discussion 26
4.5.1 Botanical richness and diversitt 26
4.5.2 ‘New records’ 27
4.5.3 Forest dependency 28
4.5.4 Endemism 28
4.5.5 Regeneration 29
4.5.6 Threats 29
4.6 Conclusions 31