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Forest Health Monitoring In The Ngangao Forest, Taita Hills, Kenya: A Five Year Assessment Of Change, Paul C. Rogers, B. O'Connell, J. Mwang'ombe, S. Madoffe, G. Hertel
Forest Health Monitoring In The Ngangao Forest, Taita Hills, Kenya: A Five Year Assessment Of Change, Paul C. Rogers, B. O'Connell, J. Mwang'ombe, S. Madoffe, G. Hertel
Paul Rogers
Forest Health Monitoring (FHM) provides a standardized detection-level survey of forest and tree characteristics for large forested areas. We have adopted FHM methods from this temperate-based program to tropical forests in the Eastern Arc Mountains (EAM) of Kenya and Tanzania. This paper reports the first assessment of trend data in the EAM over a period from 2001 to 2006. Growth and diversity statistics are presented for 11 forest plots in Ngangao Forest; only six (of 45) species constitute the predominance (68%) of basal area growth. Four endemic trees were tallied in our survey: Dasylepis integra, Leptonychia usambarensis, Macaranga conglomerata, and …