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The prioritisation of invasive alien plant control projects using a multi-criteria decision model informed by stakeholder input and spatial data

Author: Forsyth, GG ; Le Maitre, David C ; O'Farrell, Patrick J ; Van Wilgen, BW Date: Jul 2012 Invasions by alien plants are a significant threat to the biodiversity and functioning of ecosystems and the services they provide. The South African Working for Water program was established to address this problem. It needs to formulate ... Read more
Recent fire history of the Table Mountain National Park and implications for fire management

Author: Forsyth, GG ; Van Wilgen, BW Date: 2008 This paper provides an assessment of fire regimes in the Table Mountain National Park over the past four decades. The authors compiled a GIS database of all fires between 1970 and 2007 and analysed the fire regime in terms of the frequency, ... Read more
Relative attractiveness of seeds of myrmecochorous Australian and South African plants to ants, and the chemical basis of this attraction

Author: Midgley, JJ ; Bond, WJ Date: Aug 1995 The responses of an indigenous acid an exotic (South American) ant was compared to seeds from exotic (Australian) and indigenous Caps myrmecochorous plants. Non-South African ants were more attracted to seeds of myrmecochorous species, than ... 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
Turning strategy into action: implementing a conservation action plan in the Cape Floristic Region

Author: Gelderblom, CM ; Van Wilgen, BW ; Nel, JL ; Sandwith, T ; Botha, M ; Hauck, M Date: Jul 2003 The Cape Floristic Region and adjoining marine areas have exceptionally high levels of biodiversity and endemism, concentrated in a relatively small area of 90,000 km2. Major threats to this biodiversity include the loss of habitat to ... Read more
Validation of remotely-sensed evapotranspiration and NDWI using ground measurements at Riverlands, South Africa

Author: Jovanovic, Nebojsa ; Garcia, CL ; Bugan, Richard DH ; Teich, I ; Garcia Rodriguez, CM Date: Mar 2014 Quantification of the water cycle components is key to managing water resources. Remote sensing techniques and products have recently been developed for the estimation of water balance variables. The objective of this study was to test the ... Read more

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