Useful Tree Species for Eastern Africa

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Kalahari woodland

Description

Kalahari woodland occurs in the Kalahari Sands of the upper Zambezi basin. Zambezian dry evergreen forest (Fm) or Zambezian dry deciduous forest and scrub forest (Fn) was the original climax vegetation type in the most favourable soils (possibly only on higher landscape positions; J. Timberlake, pers. comm.). Kalahari woodland is either secondary (due to fire and cultivation) to these original dry forest types or is part of a catenary sequence from forests on ridges to seasonally waterlogged depressions. It is not easy to distinguish between these two types of Kalahari woodland (White 1983 p. 97).

Kalahari scrub woodland occurs in between Kalahari woodland and Kalahari suffrutex grassland (a vegetation type that we classified as edaphic grassland (g). It is characterized especially by Diplorhynchus condylocarpon, whereas other characteristic species include Brachystegia brachystemma, Burkea africana, Hymenocardia acida and Parinari curatellifolia (White 1983 p. 99).

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.VINCNPSum
g/Wk4255,5231982,7168,862
Wk2,14010,9033,91519,48436,442
Sum2,56516,4264,11322,20045,304
IUCNg/WkWkSum
cat.II4252,1402,565
cat.VI5,52310,90316,426
NC1983,9154,113
NP2,71619,48422,200
Sum8,86236,44245,304

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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