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Woody plants diversity and type of vegetation in non cultivated plain of Moutourwa, Far-North, Cameroon

Journal of Agriculture and Environment for International Development

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Title Woody plants diversity and type of vegetation in non cultivated plain of Moutourwa, Far-North, Cameroon
 
Creator Todou, Gilbert
Froumsia, Moksia
Souaré, Konsala
Nnanga, Jeanne Flore
 
Description In order to valorize the wild vegetal resources for the efficient conservation and sustainable use in sahelo-sudanian zone in Cameroon, a study of non cultivated plain of Moutourwa was carry out to assess the floristic richness, the specific diversity and the type of vegetation. The inventory of all trees and shrubs (dbh ? 2.5 cm) and the determination of the vegetation cover were done in five linear transects (20 m × 1000 m). In total, 27 families, 54 genera and 75 species were found. Caesalpinaceae is the most abundant family that relative abundance (pi*100) is 34.41%, the most abundant genus was Piliostigma (pi*100 = 30.66%) and the most represented species was Piliostigma reticulatum (pi*100 = 29.56%; D = 53.6 stems/ha). The Simpson index (E= 0.89), the Shannon index (H= 3.2) and the equitability index of Pielou (J= 0.74) indicated that there were moderate diversity with more or less equitable species. The wild fruits species were numerous (pi*100 = 32.76%; D = 59.7 stems/ha). A. senegalensis is was the most represented (pi*100 = 9.04 ; D = 16.4) followed by Hexalobus monopetalus (pi*100 = 5.16 ; D = 9.4) and Balanites aegyptiaca (pi*100 = 3.69 ; D = 6.7). These results contribute efficaciously to valorize the wild vegetal resources for efficient conservation and sustainable use.
Keywords: Woody plants diversity, conservation, sustainable use, sahelo-sudanian, Moutourwa
 
Publisher Italian Agency for Development Cooperation
 
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Date 2016-12-22
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Identifier http://www.iao.florence.it/ojs/index.php/JAEID/article/view/452
10.12895/jaeid.2016110.452
 
Source Journal of Agriculture and Environment for International Development; Vol 110, No 2 (2016); 217-227
Journal of Agriculture and Environment for International Development (JAEID); Vol 110, No 2 (2016); 217-227
2240-2802
1590-7198
 
Language eng
 
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