B. Dekker et N. Vanrooyen, THE PHYSICAL-ENVIRONMENT AND PLANT-COMMUNITIES OF THE MESSINA-EXPERIMENTAL-FARM, South African journal of botany, 61(3), 1995, pp. 158-167
A description of the climate, geology and plant communities of the stu
dy area is presented. The result of a TWINSPAN classification of 149 r
eleves was refined by Braun-Blanquet procedures, Eight plant communiti
es of which one is divided into three variations, were distinguished.
A hierarchical classification, ecological interpretation and vegetatio
n map delineating the extent of the plant communities, are presented.
An agro-ecological quantification of the woody vegetation was done in
each plant community.