The Ecological Relationships of Certain Plants in the Forest and Savanna of Central Nigeria

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Abstract
A study of 22 ecologically different species by mapping and statistical analysis of belt transects. Each species is studied in relation to annual firing, shade, soil, and water, and in the light of possible spread of forest species into savanna, or vice-versa. Special attention is paid to the position and size of their seed -lings and the growth of these in shade, parental shade and open situations. Few seedlings of forest species are found established under savanna cover. Some seedlings fail to grow under parental shade; some species lack middle-sized representatives. The extent of forest may be limited more by human activity than by dry-season water shortage. A discussion of the soils and a zoological note are included.

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