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Vegetation-environment relationships in a catchment containing a dambo in central Zimbabwe

Author(s) -

I. Mapaure,

Matthew McCartney

Publication year - 2001

Publication title -

bothalia

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.457

H-Index - 20

eISSN - 2311-9284

pISSN - 0006-8241

DOI - 10.4102/abc.v31i1.511

Subject(s) - vegetation (pathology) , drainage basin , wetland , canonical correspondence analysis , geography , environmental science , vegetation classification , ecology , hydrology (agriculture) , species richness , geology , biology , cartography , medicine , geotechnical engineering , pathology

Seasonally saturated wetlands, known as dambos. are a common landscape element throughout much of southern Africa. The diversity of species composition within catchments containing dambos is widely attributed to hydrological conditions, but plant-water relationships are poorly established. In this paper a detailed classification and a vegetation map are presented for a small catchment in central Zimbabwe containing a dambo. Canonical Correspondence Analysis has been applied to explore the link between vegetation composition and environmental variables. This confirms that water is a key influence in species distribution and small-scale patterning of vegetation within the catchment.

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