Author:Le Maitre, David C; Gelderblom, C; Maphasa, L; Yssel, S; Van den Belt, M; Manuel, TDate:Aug 1997The objective of this study was to determine what value was placed on the endemic fynbos vegetation by students from a range of socio-economic backgrounds. Students at four schools were given: (a) a questionnaire to assess their existing ...Read more
Author:Jarman, MLDate:1986Natural 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
Author:Kruger, FJDate:Jun 1978The objectives, organization and research programme of the Fynbos Biome Project being undertaken in the south-west and southern Cape are described. The project is a cooperative multi-disciplinary study of the ecological characteristics, ...Read more
Author:Cowling, RM; Le Maitre, David C; McKenzie, B; Prys-Jones, RP; Van Wilgen, BWDate:1987This 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
Author:Higgins, SI; Turpie, JK; Costanza, R; Cowling, RM; Le Maitre, David C; Marais, C; Midgley, GFDate:Aug 1997Mountain fynbos ecosystems in South Africa are threatened by alien plant invasions and by a lack of funding for effective management of these invasions. This paper develops an ecological-economic argument for the effective management of plant ...Read more
Author:Van Wilgen, BDate:2012The Table Mountain National Park is a 265 km2 protected area embedded within a city of 3.5 million people. The park contains an extremely diverse flora with many endemic species, and has been granted World Heritage Site status in recognition ...Read more
Author:Van Wilgen, BWDate:Sep 2009The history and development of fire and invasive alien plant management policies in fynbos during the 20th century are reviewed. Fire was initially condemned outright as a destructive force, but as its vital role became better understood, ...Read more
Author:Cowling, R; Van Wilgen, BW; Kraaij, T; Britton, JDate:Sep 2009Successful land management depends in part on good planning. Planners often use brief descriptions of possible futures (termed scenarios) to help people to visualize the longer-term consequences of the actions they take (or fail to take) ...Read more
Author:Richardson, DM; Van Wilgen, BWDate:Jan 2004This paper examines the evidence for the effects of invasive alien plants in natural and semi-natural ecosystems in South Africa. Invasive alien plants are concentrated in the Western Cape, along the eastern seaboard, and into the eastern ...Read more
Author:Van Wilgen, BW; Forsyth, GG; Prins, PDate:Mar 2012The Table Mountain National Park is a 265-km² conservation area embedded within a city of 3.5 million people. The highly diverse and unique vegetation of the park is both fire prone and fire adapted, and the use of fire forms an integral part ...Read more
Author:Van Wilgen, BWDate:May 1996The Cape Peninsula is an area of outstanding natural beauty and exceptional biodiversity, worthy of proclamation as a World Heritage Site. The area is dominated by fynbos vegetation, usually managed by means of prescribed burning, together ...Read more
Author:Forsyth, GG; Le Maitre, David C; O'Farrell, Patrick J; Van Wilgen, BWDate:Jul 2012Invasions 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
Author:Forsyth, GG; Van Wilgen, BWDate:2008This 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
Author:Midgley, JJ; Bond, WJDate:Aug 1995The 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
Author:Hall, AV; Veldhuis, HADate:1985In 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
Author:Gelderblom, CM; Van Wilgen, BW; Nel, JL; Sandwith, T; Botha, M; Hauck, MDate:Jul 2003The 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
Author:Jovanovic, Nebojsa; Garcia, CL; Bugan, Richard DH; Teich, I; Garcia Rodriguez, CMDate:Mar 2014Quantification 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