PASTURE FLORISTIC COMPOSITION IN DIFFERENT EUCALYPTUS SPECIES PLANTATIONS IN SOME PARTS OF NORTHERN GUINEA SAVANNA ZONE OF NIGERIA

被引：4

作者：

IGBOANUGO, ABI

OMIJEH, JE

ADEGBEHIN, JO

机构：

[1] Savanna Forestry Research Station, Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria, P.M.B., Samaru-Zaria

[2] Agricultural Extension and Research Liaison Services, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria

来源：

AGROFORESTRY SYSTEMS | 1990年 / 12卷 / 03期

关键词：

Eucalyptus plantations; improved silvo-pastoralism; Nigeria; Northern Guinea savanna; understorey herbage;

D O I：

10.1007/BF00137288

中图分类号：

S3 [农学（农艺学）];

学科分类号：

0901 ;

摘要：

In view of the recurrent drought and human population pressures which have drastically reduced the density of pasture species within the Nigerian savannas, the nomadic herdsmen rely mostly on silvipastoralism, grazing their herds in Eucalyptus plantations. In this study, the population of understorey forage and non-forage speicies and the relative light intensities on the forest floors of two Eucalyptus species, viz: E. citridodora, and E. camaldǔlensis were compared with those of open savanna lands at Kabama, Samaru and Guga, all within the Northern Guinea savanna zone. At normal 3 m by 3 m spacing between trees, the herbages were fewer in the plantations and the E. citridora plantation had only about half the number of species observed under E. camaldǔlensis in the same and other sites despite similarities in light intensity levels in all the plantations. This information forms a guideline in using eucalyptus silvo-pastoral farms. © 1990 Kluwer Academic Publishers.

引用

页码：257 / 268

页数：12

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