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Impact of Pteridium aquilinum on vegetation in Nyungwe Forest, Rwanda
(Heliyon, 2020)
Pteridium aquilinum acts as an important ecological filters in dominated communities. A study to investigate the
effects of its dominance in the vegetation of Nyungwe was conducted. Sampling was done in Mubuga and
Uwajerome ...
Phenotypic Variation of Four Populations of Osyris lanceolata Hochst. & Steud. (African Sandalwood) in Kenya
(Africa Environmental Review, 2022)
African sandalwood (Osyris lanceolata) is a dioecious and semi-parasitic tree at risk of
extinction due to overexploitation for its essential oil, a product used in the perfumery and
pharmaceutical industries. This study ...
Effects of Varying Storage Conditions on the Vigour of Fresh Seeds of Ekebergia capensis
(AER Journal, 2019)
Ekebergia capensis is a popular indigenous tree valued for its medicinal uses. However, it is
an endangered tree species because of overexploitation and its slow regeneration rate in
nature. Production of this tree is ...
Properties of potential wood carving species in Kenya
(Advances in Plants & Agriculture Research, 2019)
This study compared the wood properties of five species as potential wood carving
materials with those of five commonly used species. Five small logs each of potential and
conventional wood carving species were randomly ...
Genetic diversity of endangered sandalwood (Osyrislanceolata) populations in Kenya using ISSR molecularmarkers
(EAST AFRICAN AGRICULTURAL AND FORESTRY JOURNAL, 2018)
Osyris lanceolatais an evergreen, drought tolerant tropical Africantree species belonging to the family Santalaceae. It is endangered,owing to overexploitation for its essential oil used in cosmetics andpharmaceutical ...
Spatial Distribution in Tree Species Composition, Abundance and Diversity in Embobut River Basin
(Africa Environmental Review Journal, 2019)
Embobut Forest Reserve in Elgeyo Marakwet County is one of the five major water towers in Kenya where there is increasing encroachment by humans for settlement and agriculture. Therefore, the influence of settlement ...
Environmental Conditions and the Growth Patterns of Acacia melanoxylon in Highland Humid Forests in North Tinderet Forest Block (Kenya)
(University of Eldoret, 2023-04)
Acacia species represent one of the most important alien invasive species in many forest
ecosystems. The number of quantitative studies exploring their response to environmental
heterogeneity is few, especially in tropical, ...