| Title |
Patterns of forest composition and their long term environmental drivers in the tropical dry forest transition zone of southern Africa |
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| Author |
De Cauwer V, Geldenhuys CJ, Aerts R, Kabajani M & Muys B |
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| Abstract |
Tropical dry forests cover less than 13 % of the world’s tropical forests and their area and biodiversity are declining. In southern Africa, the major threat is increasing population pressure, while drought caused by climate change is a potential threat in the drier transition zones to shrub land. Monitoring climate change impacts in these transition zones is difficult as there is inadequate information on forest composition to allow disentanglement from other environmental drivers.
This study combined historical and modern forest inventories covering an area of 21,000 km2 in a transition zone in Namibia and Angola to distinguish late succession tree communities, to understand their dependence on site factors, and to detect trends in the forest composition over the last 40 years. |
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| Citation |
De Cauwer, V., Geldenhuys, C.J., Aerts, R. et al. For. Ecosyst. (2016) 3: 23. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40663-016-0080-9 |
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