Article citationsMore>>

Schaafsma, M., Morse, S. J, Posen, P., Swetnam, R. D., Balmford, A., Bateman, I. J., Burgess, N., Chamshama, S. A.., Fisher, B., Freeman, T., Geofrey, V., Green, R., Hepelwa, A. S., Hernández, A. S., Hess, S., Kajembe, G. C., Kayharara, G., Kilonzo, M., Kulindwa, K., Lund, J. F., Madoffe, S. S., Mbwambo, I., Meilby, H., Ngaga, Y. M., Theilade, I., Treue, T., Beukering, P. V., Vyamana, V. G., & Turner, R. K. (2011). The Importance of Local Forests Benefits: Valuation of Non-Timber Forest Products in Eastern Arc Mountains in Tanzania, Working Paper 2011-05. Centre for Social and Economic Research on the global Environment, Norwich.

has been cited by the following article:

• TITLE: The Contribution of Hemispherical Photographs to Understand Natural Forest Regeneration in the AKAK Forest Area

  AUTHORS: Agbor James Ayamba, Nkwatoh Athanasius Fuashi, Kamah Pascal Bumtu

  KEYWORDS: Hemispherical Photographs, Natural Forest Regeneration, AKAK Forest

  JOURNAL NAME: Open Journal of Forestry, Vol.14 No.3, July 30, 2024

  ABSTRACT: Examining the contribution of hemispherical photographs in the understanding of Natural forest regeneration is very important in estimating the future forest structure, composition and to enforce conservation regulations. This study sets out to examine the interaction between stump sprouting, LAI, site and canopy openness for the entire AKAK forest area and for the logging compartments; 2013, 2015 and 2017 respectively. 49 sprouted stump were identified randonly. 20 m × 20 m plots were demarcated along a canopy gaps for each sprouted stump, the plots were established in such a manner that the sprouted stumps will be in the middle. For each of the selected 49 sprouted stump, indirect measurements of canopy cover were performed in the 49 plots of 20 m × 20 m (0.04 ha), giving a total of 1.96 ha of land covered. Galaxy S3 smartphone with a built-in Infinix ZERO 4 fish-eye lens with 198˚ view angle equidistant projection was used to take photos. The fish-eye lens was mounted on the phone camera and photograph were taken at a fixed height of 1.3 m. Results revealed that, the combine Principal Component Factor Analysis (2013, 2015 and 2017) of the correlation matrix for Sprout, Years, LAI 4%, LAI 5%, Canopy and Site openness, shows that factor 1 explained 62.6% of total variance while factor 2 explained 17.9% together explain 80.05% Communalities. For the year 2013, 2015 and 2017 respectively shows that there is a very strong correlation (p p