ABSTRACT
The ten biomass classes identified in Zimbabwe can be divided into three broad categories:
i) Savannah woodlands with a high growing stock and medium levels of productivity. These are found over much of the Highveld and along the mountainous Mozambique border region and are known locally as Msasa-mnondo woodlands. Plantations are also included in this category, which accounts for 35.8% of the country. These correspond partially to the closed woody vegetation mapped previously in Zimbabwe. Whitlow (1980a) has measured a 4% decrease in the area under closed woody vegetation (the broad equivalent of this category) between 1963 and 1973.
