Environment, Biodiversity and Agricultural Change in West Africa (UNU, 1997, 141 pages): Pilot study of production pressure and environmental change in the forest-savanna zone of southern Ghana: 9: Floral and faunal diversity: Materials and methods

Environment, Biodiversity and Agricultural Change in West Africa (UNU, 1997, 141 pages)

Pilot study of production pressure and environmental change in the forest-savanna zone of southern Ghana

9: Floral and faunal diversity

		(introductory text...)
		Materials and methods
		Results and other observations
		Other observations
		Discussion
		Conclusion
		References

Materials and methods

Using principally the rapid multidisciplinary integrated transect survey method described in chapter 6, the following sites were surveyed:

the area centred on Yensiso (Yensiso, Adenya, Gyamfiase and Kokormu);
the area centred on Amanase (Amanase and Whanabenya); and
the area centred on Sekesua (Sekesua and Osonson; see figs. 6.1-6.3, pp. 44, 45, 46). Other methods were group discussion and interview by questionnaire.

A 30 m traverse chain was dragged along each selected traverse farm footpath extending 1.7 to 2.0 km in distance in each of the study areas. The 30 m chain drag along the footpath was used for the rough-and-ready measurement of the 30 x 30 m² quadrats within which the plant species (including trees, shrubs, herbs, climbers and geophytes) were rapidly surveyed, identified and recorded as far as one could see on the right-hand side of the transect direction.