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Trees and Shrubs of Mozambique
Trees and Shrubs of Mozambique
Author: John Burrows, Sandra Burrows, Mervyn Lotter and Ernst Schmidt
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THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO THE TREES AND SHRUBS OF MOZAMBIQUE
MOZAMBIQUE is a land of immense variety of landscape and biological diversity. However, its forests and woodlands are being cleared at an alarming rate. With few exceptions, the country has no inventory of its trees and shrubs, the component that forms the web or skeleton of Mozambique’s vegetation.
Trees and Shrubs of Mozambique provides the first accurate and comprehensive account of the woody plants of Mozambique and their distribution and how to identify them through the use of keys, descriptions and illustrations.
Aimed at botanists – both amateur and professional – conservationists, foresters, university and secondary school students, NGOs and eco-tourists, this book covers some 1,780 species of trees and shrubs, illustrated with over 9650 colour photographs, as well as leaf line drawings and distribution maps:
- The first book to illustrate, map and describe all the known woody plants of Mozambique
- Covers approximately 1,780 species of trees and shrubs
- Over 9650 colour photographs and pen and ink line drawings
- Mozambique’s major vegetation types illustrated and briefly described
- Conservation status of rare, endemic and threatened plants
- The essential guide to Mozambique’s rapidly dwindling and increasingly threatened woody flora
- A guide to the tree and shrubs of much of south-eastern tropical Africa.
Twelve years of travel and research have resulted in this, the definitive work on the woody plants of Mozambique and south-eastern tropical Africa. Comprehensive, authoritative and lavishly illustrated, this is the essential reference work for every tree-lover.
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MEET THE AUTHOR
John Burrows, Sandra Burrows, Mervyn Lotter and Ernst Schmidt
JOHN BURROWS was a trustee, and the manager, of Buffelskloof Nature Reserve in Mpumalanga, South Africa, and curator of the Buffelskloof Herbarium (BNRH). John has a Diploma in Horticulture and an MSc in Botany from the University of KwaZulu-Natal. In addition to having published numerous scientific papers, he has authored the following books: Trees & Shrubs of Mpumalanga and Kruger National Park (2002) (Editor); Figs of Southern and South-Central Africa (2003) (with S.M. Burrows); Plants of the Nyika Plateau: an account of the vegetation of the Nyika National Parks of Zambia & Malawi (2005) (with C. Willis).
SANDRA BURROWS is a trained horticulturist, an experienced field botanist and one of South Africa’s leading botanical illustrators. She was awarded 1st Prize in the 2009 Margaret Flockton Award for Excellence in Scientific and Botanical Illustration. Besides the numerous scientific papers she has illustrated and books she has co-authored, she has illustrated the following major works: Plants of the Nyika Plateau; an account of the vegetation of the Nyika National Parks of Zambia & Malawi (2005); Figs of Southern and South-Central Africa (2003).
MERVYN LÖTTER joined the Mpumalanga Tourism & Parks Agency as a botanist working on threatened plants in 1994 and now heads their Biodiversity Planning and GIS unit. Mervyn has developed two systematic conservation plans for the province and currently serves on the Board for the Society of Conservation GIS. He holds a PhD (Botany) from the University of the Witwatersrand. Selected Publications include: Sappi tree spotting lifer list Jacana Media (2004); Marxan Good Practices Handbook (2008) (co-author in two Chapters); The vegetation of South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland (2006) (Co-author in three Chapters).
ERNST SCHMIDT is a retired lawyer who now farms in the Hazyview area of Mpumalanga, South Africa. He has a keen interest in nature and a love of trees; he also curates his own private herbarium which houses ± 6,000 specimens. Publications include: Trees & Shrubs of Mpumalanga and Kruger National Park (2002) (Senior Author); Sappi tree spotting lifer list Jacana Media (2004).