Hostname: page-component-cb9f654ff-k7rjm Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2025-08-30T21:34:04.575Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Chance Discoveries and Germ-plasm Conservation in Tanzania: Some Observations on ‘Reserved’ Trees

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

Ladi Nshubemuki  and
Ancelm G. Mugasha
Ladi Nshubemuki
Affiliation:
Director of Forest Production Research and Forest Research Officer, Tanzania Forestry Research Institute, PO Box 1854, Morogoro, Tanzania.
Ancelm G. Mugasha
Affiliation:
Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Forestry, Sokoine University of Agriculture, PO Box 3010, Chuo Kikuu, Morogoro, Tanzania.
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

The concept of chance discoveries — serendipity — has been examined with respect to ex situ conservation of ‘reserved’ trees in Tanzania, where selection has little regard to climatic matching. Support for such departure from traditional practice is offered by the introduction, and subsequent growth, of Maesopsis eminii Engl. in the East Usambaras, and by the growth of the dry-savanna Acacia sieberiana DC. var. sieberiana and A. seyal Del. at Lushoto, in a wetter and cooler ecozone.

Information

Type
Main Papers
Information
Environmental Conservation , Volume 22 , Issue 1 , Spring 1995 , pp. 51 - 55
Copyright
Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 1995

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Article purchase

Temporarily unavailable

References

Anon. (1988). Tropical Forestry Action Plan (Issues Paper). Forestry and Beekeeping Division, Ministry of Lands, Natural Resources and Tourism, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: 21 pp.Google Scholar
Babaleye, Taye (1988). Preserving Africa's Genetic Heritage. D+C Development and Cooperation, Nr 2/88, pp. 21–2, 2 figs.Google Scholar
Borota, Jan (1969 a). The Eucalyptus at Lushoto Arboretum. Tanzania Silviculture Research Note, Nr 12, 14 pp., 5 figs.Google Scholar
Borota, Jan (1969 b). The results of gap planting in natural forests. Tanzania Silviculture Research Note, Nr 13, 10 pp.Google Scholar
Brenan, J.P.M. & Greenway, P.J. (1949). Check-list of the Trees and Shrubs of the British Empire, Nr 5 Tanganyika, Territory, Part II. Imperial Forestry Institute, Oxford, England, UK: vii + 652 pp.Google Scholar
El-Tayeb, O.M. (1981). FAO/UNEP Expert Consultation on in-situ Conservation of Forest Genetic Resources. Rome 2-A December 1980, FAO, Rome, Italy: iii + 34 pp. (Appendix B).Google Scholar
FAO (1975). Proposal for global programme for the improved utilization of forest genetic resources. Forest Genetic Resource Information, Nr 4, 1975/1, FAO, Rome, Italy: iii + 68 pp.Google Scholar
Forest Division (1984). Trees for Village Forestry. Ministry of Lands, Natural Resources and Tourism, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: v + 125 pp.Google Scholar
Forest and Beekeeping Division & Finnmap-Silvestria (1987). East Usambara Mountains Forests and Forestry. Amani Forest Inventory and Management Planning Project, Finnida, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: 180 pp., illustr.Google Scholar
Frankel, O.H. (1970 a). Genetic conservation in perspective. Pp. 469–89 in Genetic Resources in Plants — Their Exploitation and Conservation (Eds Frankel, O.H. & Bennett, E.). IBP Handbook Nr 11, Blackwell Scientific Publication, Oxford, England, UK: ix + 675 pp., illustr.Google Scholar
Frankel, O.H. (1970 b). Evaluation and utilisation — Introductory Remarks. Pp. 395–401 in Genetic Resources in Plants — Their Exploitation and Conservation (Eds Frankel, O.H. & Bennett, E.). IBP Handbook Nr 11, Blackwell Scientific Publication, Oxford, England, UK: ix + 675 pp., illustr.Google Scholar
Kigomo, Ben N. (1987). Some observations on regeneration trials in the Kakamega and South Nandi natural forests, Kenya. East Africa Agriculture and Forestry Journal, 52, pp. 184–95.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Mugasha, Ancelm G. (1983). The silviculture of Tanzanian indigenous tree species II: Maesopis eminii. Tanzania Silviculture Technical Note (New Series) Nr 52, 14 pp.Google Scholar
Mugasha, Ancelm G. & Msanga, Heriel P. (1987). Maesopsis eminii seed coat impermeability is not the cause of sporadic and prolonged seed germination. Forest Ecology and Management, 22, pp. 301–5.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Nshubemuki, Ladi (1983). Performance of tree species and provenances in Dodoma and Singida. Tanzania Silviculture Technical Note (New Series) Nr 60, 39 pp.Google Scholar
Palmberg, Christel (1980). Principles and strategies for the improved use of forest genetic resources. Pp. 23–40 in Forest Tree Improvement, FAO Forestry Paper 20, vii + 271 pp., illustr.Google Scholar
Rogers, Everett M. & Shoemaker Floyd, F. (1971). Communications of Innovations. The Free Press, New York, NY, USA: xix + 476 pp.Google ScholarPubMed
Senftl, Johal F., Bendtsen, Allan B. & Galligan, William L. (1985). Weak wood: fast grown trees make problem lumber. Journal of Forestry, 83, pp. 477–84.Google Scholar
Shipman, Marten (1981). The Limitation of Social Research, 2nd edn.Longman, London, England, UK: xiii + 210 pp.Google Scholar
Wang, B.S.P. (1978). Tree seed and pollen storage for genetic conservation: possibilities and limitations. In Methods of Conservation of Forest Genetic Resources (Ed. Roche, L.). FAO Misc/75/8, FAO/UNEP, Rome, Italy: vii + 127 pp.Google Scholar
Watkins, G. (1960). Trees and Shrubs for Planting in Tanganyika. Government Printer, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: vi + 158 pp.Google Scholar
Willan, Richard L. (1963 a). Artificial regeneration in Kwamkoro Forest: Interim Report. Tanzania Silviculture Technical Note, Nr 35, 9 pp.Google Scholar
Willan, Richard L. (1963 b). Gap planting. Tanzania Silviculture Technical Note, Nr 54, 10 pp.Google Scholar