Biodiversity and Land use System on Mount Kilimanjaro

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会议名称:2013世界木材日研讨会(2013 World Wood Day Symposium)
会议时间:2013年3月19-20日
会议地点:Karimjee Hall, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
报 告 人:Neduvoto Piniel Mollel
     Research Scientist, National Herbarium
     Tropical Pesticides Research Institute

Abstract
Mount Kilimanjaro is Africa's highest mountain with 5895 meters above sea level and an assemblage and symbol for the continents ecosystem variety. From the lower hot and dry savanna, over the intensively managed home gardens  belt at around 1500m, throughout the rain and cloud forest between 2000 – 3000m, up to the alpine Helichrysum heath lands, the mountain harbours a tremendous diversity of plant species. Consideration of plant diversity is at, population, and community levels and their relationship. A full species list of 1500 vegetation surveys (over 2400 species in total) over the whole mountain range has been established, as well as the altitudinal ranges of species, their live forms and information about rarity, endemism and invasiveness.

Speaker Profile
Ms Neduvoto Piniel Mollel is a Tanzanian Research Scientist. She is a graduate in M.Sc (Plant Taxonomy and Biodiversity Conservation) from Leiden University Netherlands, and holds BSc from the University of Dar es Salaam; She   holds various certificates including International Certificates in Plant Conservation Techniques in East Africa from the National Museums of Kenya; Economic Botany and Ethno-botany and Indigenous Knowledge Systems both from the Leiden University in the Netherlands.
She works with the National Herbarium of Tanzania (NHT) at Tropical Pesticides Research Institute (TPRI) as Herbarium Botanist for 13 years now. She has carried out and participated in a number of researches with a number of publications and technical reports including: (i) Agro-biodiversity assessment in Arumeru District, Arusha Region Tanzania. People Land Management and Environmental Conservation (PLEC); (ii) Agro-biodiversity and plant uses in arid and semi-humid zones of Arumeru district as an adaptation to climatic variability and (iii) Ethno-botanical Inventories.

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