Useful Tree Species for Eastern Africa

a species selection tool based on the VECEA Map



Lake Victoria drier peripheral semi-evergreen Guineo-Congolian rain forest

Description

White (1983 p. 46) defined semi-evergreen forests as forests where some canopy species are briefly deciduous, but not necessarily at the same time, and most members of the understorey are evergreen.

The Lake Victoria regional mosaic consists of floristically impoverished variants of the characteristic vegetation types of the Guineo-Congolian, Sudanian, Zambezian and Somalia-Masai regional centres of endemism, sometimes with an admixture from Afromontane species (White 1983 p. 181). Lake Victoria drier peripheral semi-evergreen Guineo-Congolian rain forest is therefore expected to be a floristically impoverished variant of drier peripheral semi-evergreen Guineo-Congolian rain forests described for the Guineo-Congolian region (White 1983 p. 79).

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.

PNVIIIIIIVVINCNPSum
Fi1,590496116424,54541,43448,223
Sum1,590496116424,54541,43448,223
IUCNFiSum
II1,5901,590
III496496
IV116116
VI4242
NC4,5454,545
NP41,43441,434
Sum48,22348,223

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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