Author:Walmsley, RDDate:1988This report presents a rationale to the development of a multi-disciplinary South African wetland research programme. A definition of what is meant by the term wetland is given along with a general description of what types of wetland occur ...Read more
Author:Nobre, AM; Musango, JK; de Wit, MP; Ferreira, JGDate:Feb 2008The objective of this report is to conceptualize ecological and economic interactions in mariculture; to implement a dynamic ecological-economic model in order to: simulate the socio-economics of aquaculture production, simulate its effects ...Read more
Author:Ramoelo, Abel; Munyati, C; Lück-Vogel, Melanie; Le Maitre, David C; Van Aardt, JDate:Sep 2007Land degradation is of great concern in South Africa particularly in the Inkomati catchment. Here a mosaic of different land use types such as plantation agriculture, subsistence farming, irrigated commercial farming, rural and urban settlements, ...Read more
Author:Lück-Vogel, Melanie; Strohbach, MDate:Jul 2009Detection and quantification of degradation processes as a first step for understanding and development of prevention and mitigation actions is of international interest as the described processes are observed in semi-arid landscapes globally. ...Read more
Author:Huntley, BJDate:Mar 1978A description of the objectives, organization and research programme of the Savanna Ecosystem Project being undertaken at Nylsvley in the northern Transvaal is presented. The project is a cooperative multi-disciplinary study of the structure ...Read more
Author:Motheeram, Preia; Herselman, Martha E; Botha, AdèleDate:Mar 2018This article presents a scoping review of digital open badge ecosystems. A scoping review can be seen as a methodology for systematically assessing the breadth of available research literature. This article is aimed at identifying the nature, ...Read more
Author:Du Preez, M; Van der Merwe, Martina R; Cumbana, A; Le Roux, Wouter JDate:Oct 2010This study determined whether the estuarine and freshwater environment in Beira, Mozambique, serves as a reservoir of Vibrio cholerae O1 and O139. Ninety-nine estuarine water samples were collected at 6 sites in Beira. An additional 54 samples ...Read more
Author:King, J; Pienaar, HarrisonDate:Sep 2011Water resources provide important benefits to humankind in the form of commodities such as water and food and by enhancing lives in many other ways. In South Africa, a water-scarce country, we recognise that water resources are under stress ...Read more
Author:Staver, AC; Archibald, S; Levin, SDate:2011Savannas are known as ecosystems with tree cover below climate-defined equilibrium values. However, a predictive framework for understanding constraints on tree cover is lacking. The authors present a) a spatially extensive analysis of tree ...Read more
Author:Du Plessis, CDate:Sep 2008This paper builds on earlier ecological approaches to urban development, as well as more recent thinking in the fields of sustainability science, resilience thinking and complexity theory, to propose a conceptual framework for understanding ...Read more