Biodiversity Monitoring Program in the Mwaro ecological corridor, Mikeno Sector, Parc National des Virunga

• Table of Contents
  
  • 3.3.1. Vegetation structure within the 1-ha plot 20
    
• Acronyms
  
• Executive Summary
  
• Acknowledgements
  
  • 1.2. Objective of IGCP Monitoring Program in Mwaro corridor
    
  • 1. 3. Study Site
    
    • 1.3.1. Location
      
    • 1.3.2. Climate
      
    • 1.3.3. The Virunga National Park, the Mikeno sector and climate change
      
    • 1.3.4. Vegetation and biological value of the Mikeno sector
      
    • 1.3.5. Mikeno Sector Management
      
    • 1.3.6. Human Environment
      
      • 1.3.6.1. Demographical context
        
      • 1.3.6.2. Economic and Social Context
        
    • 1.3.7. Role of the International Gorilla Conservation Program in the Mikeno sector
      
• 2. METHOD
  
  • 2.1. Study techniques
    
    • 2.1.1. Site Selection of permanent transect and plot
      
    • 2.1.2. Establishment of the permanent transect and plot
      
      • 2.1.2.1 Opening the transect
        
      • 2.1.2.2. Establishment of the plot
        
    • 2.1.3. Data Collection
      
      • 2.1.3.1. Data collection on the transect
        
      • 2.1.3.2. Data sampling within the plot
        
    • 2.1. 4. Data processing
      
      • 2.1.4.1. Floristic richness
        
      • 2.1.4.2. Quantitative study of the flora
        
      • 2.1.4.3. Vegetation stratification
        
      • 2.1.4.4. Geographic data
        
    • 2.1.5. Documentary research
      
  • 2.2. Material
    
• 3. RESULTS
  
  • 3.1. Floristic richness of Muwaro corridor
    
  • 3.2. Morphological types of identified species
    
  • 3.3. Vegetation description of the Mwaro corridor
    
    • 3.3.1. Vegetation structure within the 1-ha plot
      
    • 3.3.2. Dynamic of vegetation prospected in the 1-ha plot
      
    • 3.3.3. Altitudinal distribution of the vegetation in the Mwaro ecological corridor
      
      • 3.3.3.1. Quantitative observation of vegetation in Muwaro corridor
        
    • 3.3.4. Herbaceous plant species identified in Mwaro corridor.
      
  • 3.4. Animals signs identified in Mwaro ecological corridor
    
  • 3.5. Human Activities in Mwaro ecological corridor.
    
• 4. DISCUSSION
  
  • 4.1. Floristic richness and variation between different phytocenoses
    
  • 4.2. Altitudinal variations along the line transect.
    
  • 4.3. Wildlife presence in the Mwaro ecological corridor
    
  • 4.4. Human Activities
    
  • 4.5. Flora of interest to the Mountain Gorilla
    
  • 4.6. Comparison of plant species consumed by gorillas according to different sites
    
• 5. CONCLUSION
  
• 6. REFENCES
  
• 7. ANNEX