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Preliminary syntaxonomic scheme of vegetation classes for the Central Bushveld of South Africa

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2000
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Winterbach, R., Bredenkamp, G.J., Deutschländer, M.S. & Mucina, L. 2000. Preliminary syntaxonomic scheme of vegetation classes for the Central Bushveld of South Africa. In: White, P.S., Mucina, L., Lepš, J.S. & van der Maarel, E. (eds), Proceedings of 41th I.A.V.S. Symposium: 123-127. Opulus Press, Uppsala.
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School of Agriculture and Environment
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Department of Environmental Biology
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Data from 29 vegetation studies done in the socalled Central Bushveld, South Africa (a large region N and NW of Pretoria), were subject to syntaxonomic synthesis using TWINSPAN and further refined with traditional tablesorting procedures of the floristic-sociological approach to classification of vegetation. The analysis revealed four major groups of communities, interpreted at this stage as zonal vegetation classes which we preliminarily name: Commiphoromollis-Colophospermetea mopani, Panico maximi-Acaciatea tortilis, Terminalio sericeae-Combretetea apiculati and Englerophyto magalismontani-Acacietea caffrae.