International Journal of
Biodiversity and Conservation

  • Abbreviation: Int. J. Biodivers. Conserv.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN: 2141-243X
  • DOI: 10.5897/IJBC
  • Start Year: 2009
  • Published Articles: 679

Full Length Research Paper

Conservation of plant biodiversity of Namatimbili forest in the southern coastal forests of Tanzania

Mligo, C.
  • Mligo, C.
  • Department of Botany, P. O. Box 35060, University of Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania.
  • Google Scholar


  •  Received: 07 October 2014
  •  Accepted: 08 December 2014
  •  Published: 30 March 2015

References

Armesto JJ, Packet STA (1985). Experiments on disturbance in old-field plant communities' impacts on species richness and abundance. Ecol. 66:230-240.
Crossref

 

Ball SMJ (2004). Stocks and exploitation of East African Blackwood Dalbergia melanoxylon: a flagship species of the Tanzanian's miombo woodlands? Oryx: 266-272.
Crossref

 

 

Bin Y, Wanhui Y, Muller-Landau HC, Wu L, Lian J, Key HC (2012). Unimodal Tree Size Distributions Possibly Result from Relatively Strong Conservatism in Intermediate Size Classes. PLOS ONE: 7 (12) e52596.
Crossref

 

 

Blomley T, Pfliegner K, IsangoJ, ZahabuE, Ahrends A, Burgess N (2008). Seeing the wood for trees: an assessment of the impact of participatory forest management on forest conditions in Tanzania. Oryx 42:380–391.
Crossref

 

 

Brooks TM, Mittermeier RA, Mittermeirer CG, de Fonseca GAW, Reynolds AB, Konstant WR, FlickP, Pilgrim J, Oldfield S, Magin G, Hilton-Taylor C (2002). Habitat loss and extinction in the hotspots of biodiversity. Conserv. Biol. 16: 909–923.
Crossref

 

 

Brooks T (2010). Conservation planning and priorities. Oxford University Press 11, 199-219.
Crossref

 

 

Burgess ND, Clarke GP (eds) (2000). Coastal Forests of Eastern Africa IUCN Forest Conservation Series 434pp Cambridge & Gland: IUCN.

 

 

Burgess ND, Clarke GP, Rodgers WA (1998). Coastal Forests of eastern Africa: status, species endemism and its possible causes. Biol. J. the Linn. Soc.64: 337-367.
Crossref

 

 

Burgess ND, Clarke GP, Madgewick J, Robertson SA, Dickinson A (2000). Distribution and status In Burgess ND and Clarke GP (eds), The Coastal Forests of Eastern Africa IUCN Gland and Cambridge, UKPp 71-81.

 

 

Clarke GP (2011). Observations on the Vegetation and Ecology of Palma and Nangade Districts, Cabo Delgado Province, Mozambique. 130pp. http://coastalforests.org/ Accessed in November 2014.

 

 

Clarke GP, Burgess ND, Mbago FM, Mligo C, Mackinder B, Gereau RE (2011). Two 'extinct' trees rediscovered near kilwa, Tanzania. J. E. Afr. Nat. Hist 100: 133-140.
Crossref

 

 

Clarke GP (2001). The Lindi local centre of endemism in SE Tanzania. Systematics and Geography of Plants, 71: 2.
Crossref

 

 

Clarke GP, Vollensen K, Mwasumbi LB (2000). Vascular plants In: Burgess, ND, and Clarke GP (eds) Coastal forests of Eastern African IUCN Glands, Switzerland and Cambridge UK, pp 443.

 

 

Clarke GP, Robertson SA (2000). Vegetation communities In: Burgess, ND & Clarke, GP (eds) Coastal forests of eastern Africa, IUCN Forest Conservation Programme Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. pp 83-102

 

 

Condit R, Sukumar R, Hubbell SP, Foster RB (1998). Predicting population trends from size distributions: a direct test in a tropical tree community. Am. Nat.152:495–509.
Crossref

 

 

Deb P, Sundriyal RC (2008). Tree regeneration and seedling survival patterns in old-growth lowland tropical rainforest in Namdapha National Park, northeast India. For. Ecol. Manag. 225:3995–4006.
Crossref

 

 

Diekman U (1994). Coevolutionary Dynamics of Stochastic Replicator Systems Juelich, Germany: Central Library of the Research Center.

 

 

Graphpad Instat (2003). GraphpadInstat software Inc, 306.

 

 

Grime JP (1979). Plant strategies and Vegetation process. John Wiley and Sons, Chichester.

 

 

Gentry AH, Dodson C (1987). Contribution of nontrees to species richness of a tropical rain forest. Biotropica 19:149–156.
Crossref

 

 

Hall SM, Standdon S, Howell KM, Fanning E (eds) (2004). Kazimzumbwi Forest Reserve. A biodiversity survey Frontier Tanzania Environmental Research Report, Dar es Salaam.

 

 

Halpern CB, Spies TA (1995). Plant species diversity in natural and managed forests of the Pacific Northwest. Ecol Appl. 5: 913-934.
Crossref

 

 

Hobbs RJ, Huenneke LF (1992). Disturbance, diversity and invasion: implications for conservation. Conserv. Biol. 6:324-337.
Crossref

 

 

Howell KM, Msuya CA, Mligo C, Werema C, Kihaule P, Honorati NK, Suleiman HO (2012). Biodiversity surveys of poorly Known Coastal Forests of Southern, Eastern Tanzania and Zanzibar.

 

 

IUCN (2011). IUCN Red List of Threatened Species wwwiucnredlistorg [accessed on 30th December 2013]

 

 

Kasenene JM (1987). The influence of the mechanized, selective logging, felling intensity and gap size on the regeneration of tropical moist forest in Kibale Forest Reserve, Uganda Unpublished PhD Thesis, Michigan State University, Eat Lansing, USA.

 

 

Kohira M, Ninomiya I (2003). Detecting tree populations at risk for forest conservation management: using single-year vs long-term inventory data. Ecol. Manag. 174: 423–435.
Crossref

 

 

Kohyama T (1994). Size class structure – based models for forest Dynamics to intercept population and community level mechanisms. J. Plant Res.107: 107-116.
Crossref

 

 

Kent M, Coker P (1992). Vegetation Description and AnalysisA practical Approach John Willey and Sons, New York, pp 319.

 

 

Kumlachew Y, Taye B (2003). The Woody Species Composition and Structure of Masha-Anderacha Forest, Southwestern Ethiopia. Ethiop. J. Biol. Sci. 2:31-48.

 

 

Mittermeier RA, Gil PR, Hoffman M, PilgrimJ, BrooksT, Mittermeier CG, Lamoreux J, da Fonseca GAB (2004). Hotspots Revisited: Earth's Biologically Richest and Most Endangered Ecoregions University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois.

 

 

Mittermeier RA, MyersN, Gil PR, Mittermeier CG (1999). Hotspots: Earth's Biologically Richest and Most Endangered Terrestrial Ecoregions (Cemex, Conservation International and Agrupacion Sierra Madre, Monterrey, Mexico).

 

 

Mligo C, Lyaruu HVM, Ndangalasi HJ (2011). The effect of anthropogenic disturbances on population structure and regeneration of Scorodophloeus fischeri and Manilkara sulcata in coastal forests of Tanzania. Sci. For.73(1):33-40.

 

 

Myers N, Mittermeier RA, Cristina G, Mittermeier CG, Gustavo AB, da Fonseca GAB, Kent J (2000). Biodiversity Hotspots for Conservation Priorities. Nature, 403:853.
Crossref

 

 

Murali KS, Shaanker RU, Ganeshaiah KN, Bawa KS (1996). Extraction of non-timber forest products in the forests of Biligiri Rangan Hills, India Imppact of NTFP extraction on regeneration, population structure and species composition. Econ. Bot.50: 252-269.
Crossref

 

 

Perkin A, Leonard C, Doggart N (2008). Document Prepared as an input to the GEF PPG process to develop a full sized proposal for the Tanzania Coastal forests Tanzania Forest Conservation Group. Landscape Profile: Kilwa, Tanzania.

 

 

Peterson DW, Reich PB (2001). Prescribed Fire in Oak Svanna: Fire Frequency Effects on Stand Structure and Dynamics. Ecol. Appl. 3: 914-927.
Crossref

 

 

Prins E, Clarke GP (2007). Discovery and enumeration of Swahilian Coastal Forests in Lindi region, Tanzania, using Landsat TM data analysis. Biodiv. Conserv.16: 1551-1565.
Crossref

 

 

Rodrigues ASL (2007). Effective global conservation strategies. Nature 450: e19.
Crossref

 

 

Shannon CF, Weiner W (1948). The Mathematical Theory of Communication University of Illinois Press, Urbana pp150.

 

 

Stohlgren TJ, Falkner MB, Schell LD (1995). A modified- Whitataker nested vegetation-sampling methods. Veget. 17:113-121.
Crossref

 

 

Tabor K, Burgess ND, Mbilinyi B, Kashaigili JJ, Steininger MK (2010). Forest and woodland cover and change in coastal Tanzania and Kenya, 1990 to 2000. J. E. Afr. Nat. Hist. 99(1):19–45.
http://dx.doi.org/10.2982/028.099.0102

 

 

Ter Braak CJF, Smilauer P (2005). CANOCO reference manual and user's guide to Canoco for Windows – software for canonical community ordination (version 4) Microcomputer Power, Ithaca, NY.

 

 

Utumi (2002). Bidiversity Surveys in Lindi and Kilwa Districts, Tanzania. Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Tanzania. Ref. No. 104.Tan.1.MRS.11. pp77.

 

 

Wright SJ, Muller-Landau HC, Condit R, Hubbell SP (2003). Gap-dependent recruitment, realized vital rates and size distributions of tropical trees. Ecol. 84: 3174–3185.
Crossref

 

 

WWF Tanzania Country Office (2012). Neil D. Burgess, Paul Harrison, Peter Sumbi, James Laizer, Adam Kijazi, John Salehe, Isaac Malugu, Richard Komba, Nicholaus Kinyau and Almas Kashindye (eds). Synthesis. Baseline Report for Coastal Forests in Tamzania. WWF-Tanzania, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.pp 158.

 

 

Virillo CB, Martins FR, Tamashiro JY, Santos FAM (2010). Is size structure a good measure of future trends of plant populations? An empirical approach using five woody species from the Cerrado (Brazilian savanna). Act. Bot. Bras.25:593-600.
Crossref