According to the national policy, overall forest and agroforestry cover in Rwanda is to increase up to 30% land cover by 2020. On the other hand, demographic data reveal that Rwanda's urban areas are among the fastest-growing on the continent. Unfortunately, there is only little information of the...

Fossil pollen records provide key insight into the sensitivity of terrestrial ecosystems to climate change. However, tracing vegetation response to relatively modest historical climate fluctuations is often complicated by the overriding signature of anthropogenic landscape disturbance. Here we use...

Use of synthetic pesticides in developing countries is not only limited by their being expensive but also the small (uneconomic) fields whose limited production costs cannot offset costs of agricultural implements like agro-chemicals. Subsistence farmers, therefore, have no choice but to use local...

The natural regeneration status and other related parameters such as stem densities of woody plants and size-class distribution of mangrove species were studied in 6 mangrove forest plots (Abonema, undisturbed; Okrika 1, heavily polluted with crude oil; Okrika 2, natural regeneration on reclaimed...

This is one of a series of papers giving descriptions of fruit-producing trees (having edible fruits or seeds) of Cameroon, with information on their local names, distribution, utilization and morphology. The species (from the families Arecaceae [Palmae], Burseraceae, Capparidaceae and Cecropiaceae ...

In the root tips of six varieties of P. dactylifera and in P. canariensis, P. sylvestris, P. hanceana var. formosanum, P. humilis and P. reclinata 36 chromosomes were found. At meiotic metaphase in the first three species, 18 bivalents were observed.