The vegetation of the Nylsvley Nature Reserve in the Transvaal Mixed Bushveld is classified hierarchically by the Braun-Blanquet method of vegetation survey. The vegetation is seasonal grassland and deciduous savanna with four floristically distinct major groups of plant communities : Grasslands and broad-leaved savannas on non-calcareous sandy soils on elevated sandstone and felsite areas; microphyllous thorn savannas on calcareous, clayey, bottomland alluvial soils and termitaria thickets; grassland and thorn savanna on calcareous self-mulching vertic soils; and secondary communities on long abandoned native settlements and recently ploughed land. Seven primary communities with 12 community variations and four subvaria-tions, and three secondary communities are described on the basis of 216 releves. The survey was carried out at two levels of detail, the ecosystem study area in the broad-leaved savanna being surveyed in more detail, floristically and structurally, than the rest of the Reserve.
Reference:
Coetzee, BJ et al. 1977. Phytosociological classification of the Nylsvley nature reserve. SANSP Report 20, Dec 1977, pp 39
Coetzee, B., Van Der Meulen, F., Zwanziger, S., Gonsalves, P., & Weisser, P. (1977). Phytosociological classification of the Nylsvley nature reserve (CSIR). Cooperative Scientific Programmes: CSIR. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10204/2212
Coetzee, BJ, F Van Der Meulen, S Zwanziger, P Gonsalves, and PJ Weisser Phytosociological classification of the Nylsvley nature reserve. CSIR. Cooperative Scientific Programmes: CSIR, 1977. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/2212
Coetzee B, Van Der Meulen F, Zwanziger S, Gonsalves P, Weisser P. Phytosociological classification of the Nylsvley nature reserve. 1977 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10204/2212
