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Forest vegetation covers 13,000 ha or 38 percent of the land surface of St. Vincent Island. More than half of the forest area is successional, and there are substantial areas of palm, dwarf, and dry scrub forests. Nearly 5 percent of the land area is composed of mature, mostly undisturbed primary forest. Inga vera, licania ternatentis, Dacryodes excelsa, and Cecropia peltata are common tree species in natural forests. Hibiscus elatus, Pinus caribaea, and Swietenia macrophylla are tree species that have been planted in St. Vincent. Pinus caribaea has attained the best growth rates

Author

Birdsey, Richard A.

Publisher

U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Forest Experiment Station, 1986.

Published

1986

Language

EN