Field Guide to the Forest Trees of Uganda : For Identification and Conservation (eBook)

James Kalema (Author) Jimmy Kalema graduated from Makerere University in 1994 with a doctorate in environment and natural resource management and then worked as a national park warden in Uganda before securing a position as a lecturer in botany at Makerere. He was in charge of the herbarium and botanical garden of the university from 2008 to 2017, becoming an associate professor in 2018. His research has included the assessment of priority places and species for plant conservation in Uganda and studies of cycads, carnivorous plants and Acanthaceae. He is one of the authors of a conservation checklist for Ugandan trees. He helped design Uganda's National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan and is a member of the East Africa Plant Red List Authority and Global Tree Specialist Group (IUCN). He was the principal investigator in a project to establish how the sites used in oil and gas exploration in Uganda can be ecologically restored. His publications include 14 contributed book chapters and 25 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals.Alan Hamilton (Author) Alan Hamilton has been a lecturer in botany, geography and environmental science, variously in the UK and Uganda. His research has been mainly on the environmental history of East Africa during the Quaternary, for which he was awarded a Doctorate in Science from the University of Cambridge. He served as Plants Conservation Officer for WWF-International (1989-2004) and as Plants Conservation and Livelihoods Officer for Plantlife International (2005-2008), in which roles he was responsible for many plant conservation projects around the world. He was one of the originators and the overall manager of the People and Plants Initiative (PPI) of WWF, UNESCO and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, which aimed to increase global capacity in applied ethnobotany. One of his duties in PPI was to organise publication and distribution of a number of manuals on plant conservation in three languages (English, Spanish and Chinese). He is the recipient of an Honorary Doctorate from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and remains actively involved in conservation in China. He is the author of eight scientific books and about 100 scientific papers.

1. Introduction .


2. Keys to the species .


3. Descriptions and illustrations of the species.

4. Glossary


5. Index of vernacular names

Index of species

James Kalema and Alan Hamilton have prepared a revised and updated version of Hamilton's "A Field Guide to Uganda Forest Trees" published in 1981. The ever-growing threats to forests prompted the authors to extend the text with details on conservation status, as well as on cultivation and propagation. All in all, the book covers 451 species of which 321 are illustrated. There are 1104 tree names in 21 indigenous languages. Cultivation and propagation notes are provided for 62 species. This scholarly treatment of the Ugandan forest trees will be welcomed by botanists, foresters, conservationists and by people with an interest in forest biodiversity. I can highly recommend it.