Documentation

Here you find the documentation, maps a selection of the species and resources for "Potential natural vegetation of south-western and central Kenya".

 

For you to get the full information you can require the CD "Potential natural vegetation of south-western and central Kenya" from Roeland Kindt

 

Documentation

Provides documentation on how the potential natural vegatation maps and species lists were obtained

• Short documentation (pdf)
• Detailed information: Part I (pdf) 
• Detailed information: Part II (pdf)

Map Sheets

Provides eletronic versions of the potential natural vegetation map

 

• Learn how to determine the vegetation type of your area of interest 
• Map sheet 1 (pdf)
• Map sheet 2 (pdf)
• Map sheet 3 (pdf)
• Map sheet 4 (pdf)

Species

Provides lists of indigenous tree species for potential natural vegetation types and summary and detailed information for a subset of the listed species

 

• Learn how to select tree species whit the SpeciesSelector spreadsheet (pdf)
• SpeciesSelector (MS Excel)
• Find out for which species fact sheets are available (pdf)
• Example of one of the 207 species descriptions obtained from the book on Useful Trees and Shrubs for Kenya (pdf Adenium obesum)
• Example of one of the 122 species descriptions obtained from AgroForestTree database (pdf Prunus africana)
• Example of one of the 21 species descriptions obtained from Seed Leaflets series from the Danish Center for Forest and Landscape (pdf Faidherbia albida)

Xtra Resources

Provides some of the materials that were compiled for the Tree Seeds for Farmers - toolkit, including all the chapters of the manual

• Tree Seeds for Farms manual (pdf)
• Tree Seeds Management field manual (pdf)
• Short guidelines for collecting tree seeds (pdf)
• Short guidelines for ordering tree seeds (pdf)
• Short guidelines for multiplying tree seeds (pdf)
• Guide to handling of tropical and subtropical forest seed
• Good tree nursery practices: practical guidelines for community nurseries 
• Good tree nursery practices: practical guidelines for research nurseries (pdf)

Publications

Use of vegetation maps to infer on the ecological suitability af species using central and western Kenya as an example - Part I 

 

Use of vegetation maps to infer on the ecological suitability af species using central and western Kenya as an example - Part II