Cover Gradients and the Forest-Community Frontier: Indigenous Forests Under Communal Management at Vondo and Xanthia, South Africa

Munyati, C.; Sinthumule, Ndidzulafhi Innocent

doi:10.1080/10549811.2014.925809

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“…Because the species is widespread in the drier areas where drought is relatively frequent, Nyoka et al (2015) noted that it forms part of the survival systems of the people. This is in line with findings in rural communities in sub-Saharan Africa where people have an almost inseparable connection with the environment for their livelihoods (Koziell & Saunders, 2001;Munyati & Sinthumule, 2014). This reliance on harvesting from the environment has often resulted in the decline in forest and environmental degradation (Coetzer, Erasmus, Witkowski, & Bachoo, 2010;Hosonuma et al, 2012), particularly in communal areas.…”

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Communities and Conservation: Marula Trees (Sclerocarya birrea subsp. caffra) Under Communal Management at Matiyane Village, Limpopo Province, South Africa

Sinthumule

Mzamani

2019

Tropical Conservation Science

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Sclerocarya birrea subsp. caffra (Marula) is widely used throughout its natural distribution range by rural populations to meet livelihoods requirements. Every part of the tree, including the fruits, branches, stem and roots, provides goods and services of high cultural, social, and economic importance. Its usefulness and unique properties have encouraged local people to retain S. birrea in communal areas. However, there is a paucity of data quantifying the role of local communities in conserving S. birrea. This study quantifies the role of local communities in protecting S. birrea in 300 randomly selected households in Matiyane Village, Limpopo Province, South Africa. The study found that the majority of the respondents (92%; N ¼ 276) are positive about the conservation of S. birrea. Most importantly, the respondents play a significant role in the protection of S. birrea in the village. Management strategies and factors responsible for the protection of S. birrea in communal land are discussed.

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Communities and Conservation: Marula Trees (Sclerocarya birrea subsp. caffra) Under Communal Management at Matiyane Village, Limpopo Province, South Africa

Sinthumule

Mzamani

2019

Tropical Conservation Science

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“…The findings in TVFR are not surprising considering the recent claim by Munyati and Sinthumule [51] on the decline of deforestation rate and recovery of forest conditions in TVFR vegetation. The conformity of species richness response to IDH may hint that the local assemblage of land use regimes (along a land use intensity gradient) in HMFL in TVFR are more resilient to land use disturbance.…”

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“…However, the similarity in local assemblage declined along the land use gradient. Such a pattern hints at the higher influence of landscape species pool, ecological connectivity [51], and the positive influence of forest landscape complexity during disturbance-recovery [30]. The conformity of species richness response to IDH in the presence of clear gradient in mean β-diversity hints at the fact that species replacement was practically insignificant to override an orderly local extinction/gain gradient of the TVFR.…”

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Contrasting the Effect of Forest Landscape Condition to the Resilience of Species Diversity in a Human Modified Landscape: Implications for the Conservation of Tree Species

Araia

Chirwa

Assèdé

2019

Land

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Using landscape moderation insurance and Intermediate Disturbance Hypothesis (IDH) as frameworks, this study assessed the response of local assemblage among different land use regimes (mean β-diversity), using the Jaccard dissimilarity matrix in contrasting Human Modified Forest Landscapes (HMFLs). The study was conducted at the relatively simplified Mafhela Forest Reserve and the complex Thathe Vondo Forest Reserve in South Africa. The patterns of overall β-diversity between HMFL and State-protected Indigenous Forests (SIF) were compared and the leading change drivers were then untangled. This study found that human disturbance affects mean β-diversity of local assemblages among land use regimes between the two HMFLs in an ecologically contrasting manner. The HMFL in Mafhela Forest Reserve had distinct local assemblages among land use regimes and did not conform to the expectation of IDH. On average, HMFL had the same average local species richness as SIF, mainly due to change in species composition (species replacement) induced by land use disturbance. Land use intensity gradient was the leading change driver to explain the overall β-diversity of the Mafhela Forest Reserve. The findings in the Thathe Vondo Forest Reserve were in contrast with the Mafhela Forest Reserve. Although on average the HMFL had the same local species richness as SIFs, this was mainly due to a trade-off of species gain in trees along the rivers and streams and species loss in Culturally Protected Areas (sacred forests) (CPA) as expected by IDH. The contrasting findings imply that the effectiveness of any alternative conservation strategy is context-dependent. The resilience of local assemblages and conservation value of HMFL depends on the condition of the overall forest landscape complexity and cannnot be captured by one theory, nor by one species diversity matrix (e.g., β-diversity or Richness). It thus demands the application of complementary theoretical frameworks and multilevel modeling.Land 2020, 9, 4 2 of 19 surprising considering that "vulnerability," and "representativeness" of species diversity have been the two guiding criteria for setting priority areas for the protection of biodiversity hotspots [4]. Hence, it is counterintuitive to presume that human modified landscapes, under different land use disturbance intensity, can be an alternative or complementary form of biodiversity conservation.Despite the negative connotation of the literal meaning of disturbance as a disruptive force on different biological organizations [5], some have argued that the higher species diversity in the tropical forests is the result of the concurrent effect of natural and anthropogenic disturbance [6]. Without disturbance, the tropical forests would have been associated with poorer species diversity [7]. Others have counterargued that the impact of anthropogenic disturbance on species diversity is idiosyncratic [8], and adversely affects vulnerable tropical forest biodiversity [9].Considering that only a few fragments of tropical forests have rem...

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“…This study has provided indicative data at the local (large) spatial scale. Such data could provide a basis for monitoring the changes in tree cover in the long-term, which is vital so as to provide threshold indicated alarms based on the rates of conversion that are subsequently established (Munyati et al, 2014).…”

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Change Detection of Vegetation Cover by NDVI Technique on Catchment Area of the Panchet Hill Dam, India

2016

International Journal of Research in Geography

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Exhaustion of green cover has been started from the very beginning of the human civilization over space. Declining trend of natural forest owing to development projects emerges as problematic issue on environment. Dam construction by impeding of natural flow of river is a fact of depletion of green plants. It affects the vegetation on both upper and lower catchment area. This disturbance can be analyzed by different methods of Vegetation Index (VI) on the basis of Remote Sensing (RS) and Geographical Information System (GIS) techniques. Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) is one of the most usable techniques for detection of vegetation cover. It is a numerical indicator that uses the visible and near-infrared bands of the electromagnetic spectrum. The NDVI index is also important to measure the periodical change of vegetation coverage and is related to Photosynthetically Active Radiation (PAR). The Panchet Hill dam situated in the margin of the states of West Bengal and Jharkhand was constructed in 1959 by impeding of the Damodar River which affects the surrounding vegetation in the catchment area. Main objective of this paper is to identify the change of vegetation pattern and abolition of green coverage of the area through NDVI technique.

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Cover Gradients and the Forest-Community Frontier: Indigenous Forests Under Communal Management at Vondo and Xanthia, South Africa

Cited by 13 publications

References 26 publications

Communities and Conservation: Marula Trees (Sclerocarya birrea subsp. caffra) Under Communal Management at Matiyane Village, Limpopo Province, South Africa

Communities and Conservation: Marula Trees (Sclerocarya birrea subsp. caffra) Under Communal Management at Matiyane Village, Limpopo Province, South Africa

Contrasting the Effect of Forest Landscape Condition to the Resilience of Species Diversity in a Human Modified Landscape: Implications for the Conservation of Tree Species

Change Detection of Vegetation Cover by NDVI Technique on Catchment Area of the Panchet Hill Dam, India

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