Field Guide to Plants of Tanzania: Etymology and Eponyms for Understanding Botanical Names (ePub)
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This fully revised second edition of the plant field guidebook, was written in Tanzania by an experienced author in the field of conservation. The book is well researched and prepared to suit the demand of lecturers, students, researchers, conservationists, tour guides, tourists, horticulturalists, environmental Impact assessment (EIA) experts and natural resources consultants among others. The guidebook contains plants of different growth forms, both aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems, and therefore, it provides a good platform for considerate, understanding and conserving Tanzania's flora and hence, its sustainable utilization. Up to 387 plant species from 81 families have been identified and represented by coloured photographs, also furnished by glossaries of botanical terms, illustrations of leaf types, shapes, phyllotaxy, types of inflorescence and fruits.
Some of the plants included in this field guidebook are rare, endemic, threatened and invasive lien species. Knowing these species, therefore, helps in augmenting management efforts to conservation authorities, individual users and other stakeholders. Etymology and eponyms are the key concepts intended to help readers in understand in a simple, fascinating and instructive way, plants' scientific names presented in this field guidebook, which basically have their roots from the Latin and Greek languages. The guidebook is well organized with valuable contents, which surely enlightens readers' understanding in plant science. The author of this field guidebook is an experienced lecturer, researcher and consultant in a variety of fields, in particular, disaster risk management, environment, climate change and nature conservation.
Besides, Mr. Makunga has attended a number of short courses in GIS and Remote Sensing at the University of Dar es Salaam and Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology in Tanzania, which have augmented his inspiration in Land use/cover change detection and wildfire risk modeling specialty with respect to Climate Change and Disaster Management.
Mr. Makunga is a licenced professional consultant in the fields of disaster and conservation. He has also been involved in a number of research assignments since 2014 and has published several papers and books. Moreover, he had served as a freelance journalist since 2001, in a number of local media houses, including Press Service of Tanzania (PST); Sahara Media Group (SMG), formerly known as Sahara Communication & Publishing Company Ltd (SCPC); and Tanzania Wildlife Magazine, supported by the Tanzania Wildlife Protection Fund (TWPF). Based on his writing and communication skills, Mr. Makunga was appointed a Public Relations Officer at Pasiansi Wildlife Training Institute, where he has saved for five years from 2016 to 2020. Currently, Mr. Makunga is serving as a Quality Assurance and
- Autor: John E. Makunga
- 2024, Englisch
- Verlag: White Falcon Publishing
- ISBN-10: 8224129101
- ISBN-13: 9798224129102
- Erscheinungsdatum: 20.03.2024
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- Dateiformat: ePub
- Größe: 82 MB
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