Useful Tree Species for Eastern Africa

a species selection tool based on the VECEA Map



Palm wooded grasslands

Description

Palm wooded grasslands are limited in area, but can easily be distinguished in the field, from aerial photographs or even some satellite imagery. Palm wooded grasslands often occur on riverine locations or in areas with drainage impediments. It would therefore be perfectly acceptable to classify and map these vegetation types as “edaphic wooded grassland” (wd) or “riverine wooded grassland” (wr), which we have done in several situations. We think that discrimination between these vegetation types is more a question of the scale of mapping since palm trees can easily be identified in the field.


J. Kalema; Figure 15.1 in VECEA Volume 3

Useful woody species

The main species recorded to occur within this vegetation type are listed below. Clicking the name of any of these species will open the page for that species on the Agroforestry Species Switchboard.

For more detailed information about the species occurrences see this excel workbook. It provides country specific information on species composition for this vegetation type. It also allows you to select a subset of useful tree species to provide desired products and services. For each species links to a number of websites / databases with information about this species are provided as well.

Conservation status

The table shows the area (km2) of the PNV is outside the protected areas (NP) and the area protected within one of the protected areas, split by IUCN management category. Only the nationally designated protected areas were included.

PNVcat.IIcat.IIIcat.IVcat.VINCNPSum
Be/P000001717
g/P5100012604667
P8301272642,0622,293
Wcd/P0365080165538
wd/P3760490501629
Wn/P50000698703
X/P00000715715
Sum14244112129764,7625,562
IUCNBe/Pg/PPWcd/Pwd/PWn/PX/PSum
cat.II051830350142
cat.III0003657600441
cat.IV0012000012
cat.VI007284900129
NC01264000076
NP176042,0621655016987154,762
Sum176672,2935386297037155,562

Ia - Strict nature reserve, Ib - Wilderness area, II - National park, III - Natural monument or feature, IV - Habitat/species management area, V - Protected landscape/seascape, VI - Protected area with sustainable use of natural resources, NC - unclassified or not assigned, NP - outside the protected areas

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