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| Title: | Bamboo regeneration and succession in Echuya |
| Authors: | Banana, Abwoli Y. |
| Keywords: | Echuya
Forest Reserve |
| Issue Date: | 28-May-2003 |
| Publisher: | NARO |
| Series/Report no.: | Research |
| Abstract: | Echuya was gazetted in 1939 as 'a Forest Reserve. At that time, the forest vegetation
consisted of dense evergreen stands of Arundinaria alpina (bamboo) (Howard 1991).
.Kingston (1968) report that in 1947the bamboo stems in Echuya were big tall and dense, and
hardwood trees and shrubs were scattered in a few places. Botanical field trips conducted by
Eggeling (1934), Watt (1956). Kingston (1968) and Davenport. Howard & Mathews (1996)
recorded Arundinaria alpina as the dominant grass. Other conspicuous plants in the
vegetation included Cassipourea malosana. Afircania volkenii, Dombeya spp. Hagenia
abyssinia, Hypericum species, Nuxia congesta. Myrica salicifolia and Faurea salign.
However, the present concern by forest ecologists, environmentalists and the local
community is that the bamboo shrubs are losing ground to other vegetation types (Banana et
a1. 1993).
No previous studies have documented this ecological change and the major question
answered by this study was, what are the factors leading to the current ecological changes in
Echuya Forest Reserve? |
| Description: | National Stakeholder's Workshop to Review the sustainable Management of Non Wood Forest Products in Uganda Focussing on Bamboo and Rattan |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/50 |
| Appears in Collections: | Research publications (UFRIC)
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