Claim · model-written summary
Authors recommend conserving the forest and monitoring its succession.
- Taxon
- Tree Speciest0
- Outcome
- this forest can be conservede0
- Qualifier
- monitor its successional developmente0
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleTreatmentComparatorSettingDirectionValue
Verbatim
e0“It is recommended that this forest can be conserved owing to its rich vegetation and to monitor its successional development”
t0“Tree Species”
Title
Tree Species Diversity in a Naturally Regenerated Secondary Forest in the Ruhande Arboretum, Rwanda
Canisius Patrick Mugunga; Mapendo Mindje; Henriette Abimana Cyuzuzo; et al. International Journal of Forestry Research 2022. doi:10.1155/2022/9707130
Other claims from this paper (13)
- Observation The forest contained 28 genera in 17 families.
- Observation Plots contained 844 plants, including 755 trees and 89 shrubs.
- Observation Most trees occupied smaller diameter classes.
- Observation One Markhamia lutea tree was in the 50–60 cm class.
- Observation One Polyscias fulva tree was in the >90 cm class.
- Observation Polyscias fulva was the dominant woody species due to largest diameters.
- Observation Individuals per family ranged from one in four families to 414 in Bignoniaceae.
- Observation Diameter at breast height ranged from 1.8–97 cm.
- Observation Species importance value index ranged from 0.3 for Nicotiana tabacum to 41.8 for P. fulva.
- Observation Family importance value index ranged from 0.2 to 41.6.
- Observation Shannon diversity index was 1.772.
- Observation Simpson diversity index was 0.707.
- Observation Forest evenness was 0.532.