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Medium-Term Changes of Vegetation Pattern in Transkei

B. A. McKenzie

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SYNOPSIS Vegetation change was examined over a 45 year period in parts of Transkei. Maps produced from aerial photographs indicated that the main changes, which were an increase or decrease in woodland, were influenced by the establishment or abandonment of cultivated fields. It is suggested that this pattern of land use is indicative of land use over the past few centuries and that Iron Age people may not have been responsible for the destruction of vast woodland communities to create grasslands.

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SYNOPSIS Vegetation change was examined over a 45 year period in parts of Transkei. Maps produced from aerial photographs indicated that the main changes, which were an increase or decrease in woodland, were influenced by the establishment or abandonment of cultivated fields. It is suggested that this pattern of land use is indicative of land use over the past few centuries and that Iron Age people may not have been responsible for the destruction of vast woodland communities to create grasslands.

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SYNOPSIS Vegetation change was examined over a 45 year period in parts of Transkei. Maps produced from aerial photographs indicated that the main changes, which were an increase or decrease in woodland, were influenced by the establishment or abandonment of cultivated fields. It is suggested that this pattern of land use is indicative of land use over the past few centuries and that Iron Age people may not have been responsible for the destruction of vast woodland communities to create grasslands.

Key concepts: Woodland, Vegetation (pathology), Geography, Abandonment (legal), Period (music), Land use, Grassland, Forestry

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