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	Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Central Zambezian Miombo woodlands (AT0704)
		In this ecoregion, mature miombo woodland trees are usually 15 to 20 m tall, with a broadleaf shrub and grass understory beneath.
		The miombo in transition: woodlands and welfare in Africa.
		Miombo woodlands in the wider context: macro-economic and inter-sectoral influences.
	www.worldwildlife.org /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/at/at0704_full.html (3952 words)

	The Mpingo Conservation Project : Miombo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		In miombo competition for water during the dry season causes the trees to be quite widely spaced such that their canopies do not form a complete cover.
		Typically miombo trees are semi-deciduous meaning that they lose some or all of their leaves in the dry season depending on its severity.
		Miombo's structure and composition is largely maintained by periodic dry season fires, which can be a frequent as twice a year in populated areas.
	www.sbcomp.demon.co.uk /miombo.html (289 words)

	Vegetation
		Miombo woodlands are generally considered to be deciduous, but they are neither strictly evergreen nor deciduous.
		Miombo is regarded as woodland, in spite of its closed canopy (with crowns touching), because of its light foliage which allows sufficient light to reach the ground to support a continuous ground cover of grasses and other herbs.
		Miombo woodland is defined as any woodland which is dominated by species of three related genera in the family Leguminosae: Brachystegia, Julbernardia and Isoberlinia.
	www.zambiatourism.com /travel/general/vegetati.htm (4559 words)

	Introduction To the LUCC Miombo Project
		Miombo CD Miombo comprises those ecosystems in the seasonal tropics dominated by trees of the closely related genera Brachystegia, Julbernardia and Isoberlinia (subfamily Caesalpinioideae, family Fabaceae - the legumes).
		Miombo woodland is the dominant vegetation type of the Central African plateau, extending from Tanzania and the Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire), through Zambia, Malawi and eastern Angola, to Zimbabwe and Mozambique.
		Studies of the patterns, causes and consequences of land-use and land-cover changes in miombo are intended to be undertaken by a consortium of participating institutions and individuals, drawn primarily from within the region, at a network of sites to be located along complex gradients of increasing land-use intensity and rainfall in the region.
	www.geo.ucl.ac.be /LUCC/data/miombo/intro.html (1172 words)

	IK Monitor Articles (7-2) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		And yet there was evidence that the adult trees were valued by the local people, and this gave rise to plans to study their knowledge of the trees in the stages prior to the fully grown state.
		As is clear from the survey, local people have no trouble identifying the valuable miombo hardwood species when they are growing in the forests: such mature trees may be recognized by their tree architecture, characteristic bark, leaves, and/or inflorescence and fruits.
		It is interesting to note that many of the miombo species which are already being grown by local farmers belong to the first category, while all five hardwood species studied belong to the latter category.
	www.nuffic.nl /ciran/ikdm/7-2/munyanzi.html (2313 words)

	Projekt:H.Geist
		Situated within the savanna ecosystem, miombo is close to the rain forest and therefore called,fringe rain forest" (Baker 1993).
		The upper table provides data for the extent of miombo and tobacco with regard to the annual forest cover change during 1990 to 1995 on the basis of Worldbank and FAO data.
		Satellite imagery has proved that from 1972 to 1991, the area under miombo declined by 11% in hilly areas and by 85% in flat areas which are the most suitable tobacco lands.
	www.psychologie.uni-freiburg.de /umwelt-spp/proj2/geist.html (4904 words)

	Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Angolan Miombo woodlands (AT0701)
		Miombo woodland is distinguished from other African savanna, woodland and forest formations by the dominance of tree species in the family Fabaceae, subfamily Caesalpinioideae, particularly in the genera Brachystegia, Julbernardia, and Isoberlinia which are seldom found outside miombo (Campbell et al.
		Most of the miombo tree and shrub species shed their leaves in the late dry season, and the miombo vegetation is bare for a short time, usually less than three months.
		The mammal fauna of miombo woodlands is poorer in both species and animal numbers than in the savanna communities of the Southwest arid biome to the south or the Guineo-Congolian forests to the north (Huntley 1974).
	www.worldwildlife.org /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/at/at0701_full.html (3568 words)

	Data Sets Available at RRSU (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Miombo areas of high herp species diversity were selected by experts in the various worshops held in different countries and were demacated at these workshops.
		The miombo and allied woodlands are not particularly species-rich.
		The Miombo priority areas are areas selected by experts in different fields of Conservation as exhibiting important biological diversity.The areas were demacated at different workshops held in different countries that are part of the Miombo Network and exerpts from the respective countries identified these areas.
	www.sadc-fanr.org.zw /rrsu/clrnghse/wwfsarpo.htm (1382 words)

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		The vegetation of the park (Cassells, 1995) is predominantly miombo, a deciduous woodland dominated by the leguminous tree genera Brachystegia, Julbernardia and Isoberlinia.
		Miombo is generally more easily defined floristically than physiognomically, and this applies to the KNP where miombo woodland ranges from single storey scrub on shallow soils to tall woodland with a canopy height of 20 metres or more.
		Miombo ecosystems also encompass the grassy, seasonally waterlogged depressions called dambos which are characterised by poorly drained acid vertisols and are dominated by the nutritionally poor grasses Loudetia simplex and Hyparrhenia spp.
	www.kasanka.com /thestudy.htm (4199 words)

	Nicholas J. Haan
		“Miombo” woodlands, an ecosystem stretching from Central East to West Africa dominated by Brachystegia, Julbernardia, and Isoberlinia, are a unit of ecological analysis for research on global deforestation, as exemplified by the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme’s research project entitled “The Miombo Network”.
		This hypothesis follows from various reports on deforestation in the miombo region of Tanzania as well as from the broader relationships articulated in cultural and political ecology and land use/cover change research.
		As the conversion of miombo woodlands into cashew farms (for cash crops) is common in Southeastern Tanzania, the research design uses the conversion into cashew as an indicator of market integration.
	earth.clarku.edu /sr_haan.htm (860 words)

	Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Eastern Miombo woodlands (AT0706)
		Unlike the other miombo woodland ecoregions (Angolan, Central Zambezian, and Southern), which are found on the Central African Plateau, this ecoregion is mostly confined to lower elevations of the East African Plateau (Bridges 1990), ranging from 200 m along the eastern coastal regions to 800 to 900 m in the interior.
		The underlying geology of the Eastern Miombo Woodland consists mainly of metamorphosed upper-Precambrian schists and gneisses, interspersed with intrusive granites (Bridges 1990).
		This ecoregion is separated from other miombo ecoregions in that it is mostly confined to lower elevations of the East African Plateau, and is dominated by the floristically impoverished ‘drier Zambezian miombo woodland’ outlined by White (1983).
	www.worldwildlife.org /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/at/at0706_full.html (3027 words)

	Africa: Vast Continent, Vast Changes
		Miombo is a verna- cular term for woodland ecosystems dominated by trees of the family Fabaceae.
		The miombo ecosystem directly supports some 39 million people living in seven Central African countries-countries with some of the lowest per capita incomes and the highest rates of population growth in the world.
		Miombo ecosystems are heavily influenced by fire, whether set deliberately or arising naturally.
	www.evsc.virginia.edu /news/esreport99/africa.htm (642 words)

	Mpingo Fact Sheet
		Miombo* woodlands containing Mpingo and other species once covered vast areas of the African savannah from Ethiopia to South Africa.
		Miombo woodlands including mpingo as one of its mixed species serve as a barrier to spreading desertification.
		Miombo occupy about 5 million square km, and support about 100 million people with food, fuel, building materials, medicines and water." This definition is taken from the Miombo Network.
	www.blackwoodconservation.org /facts.html (424 words)

	MIOMBO CD-ROM DATABASES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Miombo comprises those ecosystems in the seasonal tropics dominated by trees of the closely related genera Brachystegia, Julbernardia and Isoberlinia (subfamily Caesalpinioideae, family Fabaceae - the legumes).
		The Miombo Network [1] is a cooperative research initiative into the causes and consequences of land-use and land-cover change in the Miombo ecosystems of south central Africa.
		Nº1: Miombo" was to compile as many datasets as possible from both the international and regional communities and make these available to researchers that in most cases do not have access to them or do not even know them.
	www.creaf.uab.es /miramon/publicat/papers/lisboa98/miombo.htm (3156 words)

	Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Zambezian flooded grasslands (AT0907)
		Located within the miombo and mopane woodlands of the Central African Plateau, Zambezian Flooded Grasslands are an anomaly of productivity and abundance in a landscape characterized by nutrient poor soil and vegetation.
		Embedded predominantly within miombo and mopane woodlands, the Zambezian Flooded Grasslands form a discontinuous ecoregion distributed between northern Botswana in the south, to northern Tanzania.
		Reliant on miombo woodland or open country bearing fruiting trees, this species is mostly found on the woody margins of flooded grassland areas.
	www.worldwildlife.org /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/at/at0907_full.html (3882 words)

	Miombo Network (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Miombo Network was formed to create a regional network for global change research on the dominant biome of Southern Africa: the Miombo Woodlands, and to design a project based on the IGBP Transects framework (IGBP Report 36) and the LUCC Core Project.
		A Miombo Network meeting was held in Zomba, Malawi during December 4-7th, 1995, with funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation and the IGBP.
		The expected result of these studies on miombo is the development of an understanding that can be translated into the sustainable management of the miombo ecosystems and natural resources, taking full account of human social and economic factors.
	www.santren.com /live/santren/content/e9/e38/index_eng.html (361 words)

	Miombo Safari Lodge: Location \| Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Miombo Safari Lodge is located approximately 20km from Hwange Airport, on the boundary of Hwange National Park.
		Miombo Safari Lodge is situated on the boundary of Hwange National Park, one-minute drive from the new Dete gate and 15 minutes drive from the Main Camp.
		Miombo Safari Lodge facilities include a large thatched central dining complex overlooking a swimming pool, where the wild animals have been seen drinking in the drier months.
	www.zimbabwe.co.za /miombo-safari-lodge-zimbabwe_location.html (203 words)

	Miombo Safari Lodge: Accommodation \| Hwange, Zimbabwe \| Chalet Accommodation... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		At Miombo Safari Lodge guests are accommodated in four rusting ground chalets as well as 2 open fronted tree lodges.
		Miombo tree and ground Lodges are set beneath a towering canopy of magnificent Mukwa and Msasa trees.
		Miombo is situated on the boundary of Hwange National Park (Zimbabwe), a 15-minute drive from the Main Camp entrance and 1 minute's drive from the Dete Gate.
	www.safpar.co.za /miombo-safari-lodge-zimbabwe_accommodation.html (290 words)

	ETFRN Newletter 30 - 2000
		Miombo woodlands are the world's largest continuous dry deciduous forests.
		The objective of Miombo Forum is to empower miombo peoples to manage their woodlands responsibly through provision of information, expertise and finance.
		Miombo Forum is an initiative of the UK's Forest Management Foundation and will be launched at a conference on "Alternative trade and ecolabelling in miombo woodlands" in Kabompo, Zambia in June 2000.
	www.etfrn.org /ETFRN/newsletter/nl30_on.html (1462 words)

	Niassa Reserve, Mozambique - About the Niassa Reserve (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Niassa Reserve is in the core of the vast Miombo Ecoregion covering approximately 3.6 million square Km and extending from the Angolan escarpment in the west up to (but not including) the coastal woodlands and forests of Mozambique and Tanzania in the East (WWF.
		Niassa Reserve is one of the largest protected miombo forest ecosystems in the world, with a surface of 42,000 km², the Niassa Reserve is the largest conservation area of Mozambique and it contains by far the greatest concentration of wildlife in the country.
		This type of Miombo is floristically poorer than the wet Miombo and it is dominated by the presence of Brachistegia spiciformis, B. boehmil and Jubernardia globiflora.
	www.niassa.com /home/?PrintableVersion=enabled (702 words)

	WORLDTWITCH - Zambia & Northern Namibia Birding Trip Report by Jon Hornbuckle
		A good track with a hard sand surface leads for 25 km through miombo woodland to the camp in the wilderness area, where there is a well-maintained camp-site and good chalet accommodation (full board $45 a day single, $80 double).
		One perched in open miombo near Pioneer Camp, Lusaka, and an accipiter at Mutinondo was thought to be this sp.
		A small featureless honeyguide in miombo at Mutinondo was thought to be this species, unrecorded for certain here although another unconfirmed sighting had been made.
	www.worldtwitch.com /zambia_jh.htm (4445 words)

	A fungal feast?
		In dried form, wild edible foods from the miombo can help to eke out the meagre diet during the hungry period; 1.2kg of rehydrated fungi and leaf vegetables would provide a family of four with the non-staple part of their diet for two weeks.
		The Miombo Edible Fungus Project, which is funded by the UK Department for International Development, has being running for three years and has been a widely recognized success.
		In all, 365 species have been recorded and much of the data is applicable to the wider realm of Miombo woodland, an area which extends south from Tanzania to Mozambique and west to Angola.
	www.new-agri.co.uk /02-4/develop/dev03.html (691 words)

	Wisp'r archive, Issue 03 - 21.01.1999 Page 01 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Because of their small size, these trees fall below the official 'quantifiably productive' cut-off point of a 15 cm diameter." Miombo forests cover 270 million ha in Southern Africa and are becoming more common in forestry research because of their many beneficial qualities.
		Miombo foliage also provides a very good source of fodder for cattle and the trees have a remarkable capacity for regeneration."
		His design is based on an analysis of the Miombo trees along a 4x50 m transect typical of the vegetation on existing farms, and keeps within the socio-economic restrictions of an 'average' farmer in the region.
	www.gcw.nl /wispr/w990301.htm (434 words)

	Sarah M. Walker's research and CV
		Miombo woodlands in the new millennium: trends, uses and their role in sustainable development, a regional workshop for the Miombo Network, funded by: FAO and NASA’s LCLUC GOFC 26-28 September 2001, Manica, Mozambique.
		The Miombo Woodlands naturally contain low amounts of soil carbon (0.25-4.0% C at surface) and agricultural use is decreasing these levels further.
		C analysis will be used to estimate the contribution of maize crops to the soil carbon stock and to estimate the rate of soil carbon cycling.
	www.people.virginia.edu /~sw2t (1162 words)

	Birdwatching Trip Report from Zambia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Woodland consists mainly of miombo, a type of dry forest where Brachystegia is the dominant tree.
		Miombo dominates but at a certain stage an open plain — the Chitunta plain — appears.
		This are lies in far northwestern Zambia, close to the border with both Angola and the Democratic Republic of the Congo and is a good area for spotting several birds that are otherwise less accessible.
	www.birdtours.co.uk /tripreports/zambia/zambia2/zam-dec-2002.htm (1391 words)

	PRINS Engineering: Remote sensing / GIS - deforestation in Miombo woodland, Landsat and change detection in Africa, ...
		Miombo woodland is a very resilient vegetation type, however, continuous mismanagement
		large scale deforestation in miombo woodland is possible with Landsat data.
		It is possible to assess conversion of miombo woodland into cleared and regrowth areas
	www.prinsengineering.com /front_chunya_e.htm (170 words)

	Birdlife and specie types
		In some areas the miombo woodland is replaced by other woodland types, dry forest or thicket.
		Miombo is the commonest woodland type in Zambia and such areas have an undisturbed avifauna.
		Miombo woodland on rocky ground occurs patchily over much of Zambia, though not in areas of Kalahari Sand.
	www.zambiatourism.com /travel/wildlife/birdlife.htm (3313 words)

	EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
		This miombo sub-type, according to Schmitz, is an edaphic association and although not explicitly part of a regression sequence, is regarded by him as a form of degraded evergreen forest or ‘muhulu’.
		Although there was a chipya/mateshe area adjacent to the miombo woodland plots, which could act as a source of evergreen species for colonisation of fire-protected miombo, this was not included in the experiment.
		Fanshawe was therefore close to Lawton (1964) in that he believed that miombo species were invading the degraded evergreen habitat, and that continued fire pressure selected the fire-tolerant miombo species that eventually make up the woody component of chipya.
	www.kasanka.com /executivesummary.htm (7979 words)

	Kasanka/Bengweulu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Kasanka National Park is approximately 420 km² and is situated on the southern side of the Bangweulu wetlands.
		Kasanka is well known as a place to see large mammals, particularly the elusive Sitatunga, but it is also excellent for birding, containing as it does a large number of different habitats, from dry miombo woodland through mushitu forests to papyrus swamp.
		Miombo dominates the area, but amongst the broad range of other habitats are an unusually high number of lakes (pans), some papyrus swamp, dambo, mushitu, riparian forest and a few patches of dry evergreen forest.
	www.sabirding.co.za /birdspot/150030.asp (297 words)

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