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An assessment of the effectiveness of a large, national-scale invasive alien plant control strategy in South Africa

Author: Van Wilgen, BW ; Forsyth, GG ; Le Maitre, David C ; Wannenburgh, A ; Kotzé, JDF ; Van den Berg, E ; Henderson, L Date: Apr 2012 This paper presents an assessment of a large, national-scale alien plant control program that has operated in South Africa for 15 years. We reviewed data from three national-level estimates of the extent of invasion, records of the costs and ... Read more
Conservation priorities in lowland regions of the Fynbos biome

Author: Jarman, ML Date: 1986 Natural vegetation in the lowland regions of the fynbos biome has been transformed by modern land-use practices to a patchwork of small remnants. A system is described for identifying sites of conservation merit from these known remnants, and ... Read more
Description of the Karoo Biome project

Author: Cowling, RM Date: 1986 The ecological characteristics and ecological problems of the karoo biome are briefly described. A conceptual basis and guidelines for the development of the Karoo Biome Project are outlined by addressing project goals, project structure and ... Read more
Disturbance and the dynamics of fynbos biome communities

Author: Cowling, RM ; Le Maitre, David C ; McKenzie, B ; Prys-Jones, RP ; Van Wilgen, BW Date: 1987 This volume comprises invited review and research papers dealing with the effects of disturbance on the dynamics of fynbos biome communities. Since fire is the most important disturbance factor in the biome, most contributions concentrate ... Read more
Karoo biome: a preliminary synthesis. Part 2 - vegetation and history

Author: Cowling, RM ; Roux, PW Date: 1987 This volume is the second in a series of syntheses of existing knowledge of the karoo biome. The first volume summarized what is currently known on the physical environment of the biome namely geology, soils, climate, hydrology, geohydrology ... Read more
Karoo biome: a preliminary sythesis. Part 1 - physical environment

Author: Cowling, RM ; Roux, PW ; Pieterse, AJH Date: 1986 This report, the first of three volumes, forms part of the Karoo Biome Project. One of the aims is to synthesize existing knowledge of the Karoo biome and so provide a foundation for further research in areas where it is considered necessary. ... Read more
Remotely sensed phenology for mapping biomes and vegetation functional types

Author: Wessels, Konrad J ; Steenkamp, Karen C ; Von Maltitz, Graham P ; Archibald, S ; Scholes, RJ ; Miteff, S ; Bachoo, A Date: Jul 2009 This study used remotely-sensed phenology data derived from Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR), in a fully supervised decision-tree classification based on the new biome map of South Africa. The objectives were: (i) to investigate ... Read more
Remotely sensed vegetation phenology for describing and predicting the biomes of South Africa

Author: Wessels, Konrad J ; Steenkamp, Karen C ; Von Maltitz, Graham P ; Archibald, S Date: Feb 2011 What are the patterns of remotely sensed vegetation phenology, including their inter-annual variability, across South Africa? What are the phenological attributes that contribute most to distinguishing the different biomes? How well can the ... Read more
Satellite derived phenology of southern Africa for 1985-2000 and functional classification of vegetation based on phenometrics

Author: Steenkamp, Karen C ; Wessels, Konrad J ; Archibald, S ; Von Maltitz, Graham P Date: May 2009 Remotely-sensed phenological metrics (or phenometrics) were derived from AVHRR vegetation-index time-series data and to describes seasonal growth in terms of start, end, length of season and estimates of net primary production (NPP). This ... Read more
South African Red Data Book: Plants - fynbos and Karoo biomes

Author: Hall, AV ; Veldhuis, HA Date: 1985 In this report a list is given of 1 808 rare, threatened and recently extinct plants in the fynbos and karoo biomes in the Cape Province of South Africa. The area covers the south-western and southern Cape, Namaqualand and the Karoo. Following ... Read more

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