Secondary vegetation provides a reservoir of non-timber forest products and agroforestry service options for forestry plantation systems, Maputaland, South Africa

dc.contributor.authorStarke, A.P. (Allister)
dc.contributor.authorGeldenhuys, Coert Johannes
dc.contributor.authorO'Connor, T.G.
dc.contributor.authorEverson, Colin Stuart
dc.date.accessioned2024-08-12T09:29:06Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstractTree species providing non-timber forest products (NTFPs) have the potential to enhance the socio-economic value of forestry plantation systems and mitigate biodiversity loss associated with production landscapes in Southern Africa. This can be accomplished by integrating NTFP agroforestry systems with forestry plantation systems but raises questions around which species and products are suited to the different environments that exist within large plantation systems or plantation landscapes. These questions can be answered by assessing the NTFP and agroforestry system (AFS) value of native species that form part of secondary vegetation within forestry plantations by shedding light on the disturbance regimes and environmental conditions that NTFP species prefer. This study assessed the NTFP value of secondary vegetation growing within abandoned clear-felled and abandoned unharvested forestry compartments. It addressed differences between the NTFP value of secondary vegetation and natural forest while providing options for how native species could be integrated into a forestry plantation system using agroforestry. We found that secondary vegetation growing in abandoned compartments provided roughly two-thirds of the NTFP uses provided by natural forest. The state of the compartment at the time of abandonment influenced which NTFPs were available. Secondary woodland developing in clear-felled compartments contained NTFPs which were associated with fire-adapted woodland species (e.g. fruit and oils from Marula trees). Naturalising forest in unfelled plantation compartments contained a composition of NTFPs associated with the provision of wood products. Our results show that native vegetation growing as secondary vegetation in forestry plantation systems has the potential to guide the development of native species agro-forestry systems and, in general, can contribute to a more formalised approach for integrating NTFP supply in forestry plantation systems.en_US
dc.description.departmentPlant Production and Soil Scienceen_US
dc.description.embargo2024-12-14
dc.description.librarianhj2024en_US
dc.description.sdgSDG-15:Life on landen_US
dc.description.sponsorshipThe Water Research Commission (WRC) of South Africa and the Department of Economic Development, Tourism and Environmental Affairs (EDTEA).en_US
dc.description.urihttp://www.tandfonline.com/loi/tsfs20en_US
dc.identifier.citationA.P. Starke, C.J. Geldenhuys, T.G. O’Connor & C.S. Everson (2023) Secondary vegetation provides a reservoir of non-timber forest products and agroforestry service options for forestry plantation systems, Maputaland, South Africa, Southern Forests: a Journal of Forest Science, 85:3-4, 162-173, DOI: 10.2989/20702620.2023.2257663.en_US
dc.identifier.issn2070-2620 (print)
dc.identifier.issn2070-2639 (online)
dc.identifier.other10.2989/20702620.2023.2257663
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/97554
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherNISC (Pty) Ltd and Informa UK Limited (trading as Taylor and Francis Group)en_US
dc.rights© 2023 NISC (Pty) Ltd. This is an electronic version of an article published in Southern Forests, vol. , no. , pp. , 2023. doi : . Southern Forests is available online at : http://www.tandfonline.comloi/tsfs20 [12 months embargo]en_US
dc.subjectNon-timber forest products (NTFPs)en_US
dc.subjectAgroforestry tree productsen_US
dc.subjectHuman-modified landscapesen_US
dc.subjectManaged natural regenerationen_US
dc.subjectMultipurpose treesen_US
dc.subjectPlantation ecosystem servicesen_US
dc.subjectSDG-15: Life on landen_US
dc.titleSecondary vegetation provides a reservoir of non-timber forest products and agroforestry service options for forestry plantation systems, Maputaland, South Africaen_US
dc.typePostprint Articleen_US

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