Floodplain_Vegetation_Monitoring_by_Okavango_Research_Institute_2017_onward

It is a long-term series baseline establishment developed to document shifts and changes in vegetation composition, species diversity richness and abundance driven by flooding regime. Flood variation and hydro period influences ecological functioning, vegetation distribution creates new habitats for colonization by flood tolerant plant species in the Okavango Delta. The on-going monitoring exercise targets different habitats of hydrophytes, herbs, grasses and sedges categorically based on the heterogeneity of the Nxaraga flood plain. Sampling and vegetation identification is conducted in three phases of flooding regime, before flooding, during flood and after flood. This undertaking aims to scientifically have baseline data of morphological structure, physiological adaptation and trends in vegetation distribution, composition, abundance and community dynamics as influenced by flood regimes