Useful Tree Species for Eastern Africa

a species selection tool based on the VECEA Map



Edaphic wooded grassland (wd)

Description

Within the VECEA map, we loosely defined “edaphic wooded grassland” as “edaphic grassland with scattered woody species” and “edaphic grassland” ( g ) as “edaphic grassland without scattered woody species”. This means that some vegetation types that would have been classified as “edaphic grasslands” in a strict physiognomic classification system (i.e. woody cover < 10% as defined by White 1983) may have been allocated to “edaphic wooded grasslands” in the VECEA map. (The definition of "grasslands" of Pratt et al. 1966 of "land dominated by grasses and occasionally other herbs; sometimes with widely scattered or grouped trees and shrubs, the canopy cover of which does not exceed 2%" may therefore provide a more accurate physiognomic definition of vegetation types that were classified as "edaphic grassland" by the VECEA project).

Although White (1983) described edaphic grasslands and wooded grasslands separately for the various floristic regions, we did not apply a floristic classification system to edaphic grasslands and edaphic wooded grasslands.


  1. Gachathi 2009; Figure 13.2 in VECEA Volume 5

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.Ibcat.IIcat.IIIcat.IVcat.VINCNPSum
Fb/Be/wd0630055415,8145,164172,154194,316
Wcd/wd028167000419614
wd1116,8372,2765,3864,1633,63947,07969,491
wd/P03760490501629
wd/R00470256227305
Sum1117,4982,5665,94020,0518,809220,380265,355
IUCNFb/Be/wdWcd/wdwdwd/Pwd/RSum
cat.Ib0011100111
cat.II630286,837307,498
cat.III01672,27676472,566
cat.IV55405,386005,940
cat.VI15,81404,163492520,051
NC5,16403,639068,809
NP172,15441947,079501227220,380
Sum194,31661469,491629305265,355

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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