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- Library Collection RecordSoils of South Africa is the first book in seventy years that provides a comprehensive account of South African soils. The book arranges more than seventy soil forms into fourteen groups and then…Publication Date 2012
- soil
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordAs a textbook, the volume is well organised, with introductory chapters on the scope and key concepts of restoration ecology, followed by chapters on its ecological foundations – landscape,…Publication Date 2014
- restoration ecology
- Europe
- USA
- Australia
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe study was conducted in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa during the period 2005 to 2009 to investigate factors that affected the decision of small-scale farmers who kept cattle and sheep…Publication Date 2012
- climate change
- small-scale cattle and sheep farming
- Binary logistic model
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordChanging climate adds a very significant dimension to the complex problem of ensuring that agriculture worldwide can feed the burgeoning human population. Ensuring food security must reduce…Publication Date 2009
- climate change
- plant production
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordAn overview of ecological models of grasslands and their research questions is presented. For the purpose of this article, models are regarded as a simplified and formalized representation of…Publication Date 2008
- competition
- disturbance
- Ecosystem modeling
- Grassland dynamics
- grazing
- Optimal life-history strategies
- primary production
- Remote sensing data
- Spatially explicit models
- succession
- modelling
- ecosystem ecology
- community
- vegetation dynamics
- plant production
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordSummary The growth of agricultural production worldwide has led to an increasing role of agro-ecosystems within the global carbon cycle. Arable land in the world covers about one-tenth of the 134…Publication Date 2001
- plant production
- carbon dioxide
- animal nutrition
- animal production
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordSummary The savanna biome is diverse, including formations ranging from almost treeless grasslands to more or less closed-canopy woodlands with considerable variation in plant composition, biomass,…Publication Date 2001
- savanna
- animal production
- plant production
- plant community ecology
- land use
- degradation
- agriculture
- ecology
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe world population has increased from 2–10 million at the dawn of settled agriculture about 10–12 millennium ago to 6.5 billion in 2006, and may stabilize at 10–12 billion by 2100. Most of…Publication Date 2007
- socio-economic aspects
- agriculture
- pastoralism
- soils
- management
- plant production
- animal production
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordPublished studies relating erosion and productivity have been generally based on information derived from expert opinion on the extent and severity of soil erosion and on limited data on its impact…Publication Date 2003
- soil erosion
- plant production
- management
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe use of fire in the management of grassland is a common rangeland practice in South Africa. This portends ecological implication for the sustainability of the savannah rangelands as a system. A…Publication Date 2008
- fire ecology
- management
- savanna
- grasslands
- rangelands
- Soil Condition
- plant production
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordTransformation of indigenous vegetation for production purposes impacts negatively on biodiversity but does this necessarily equate with a decrease in phytomass accumulation, which may influence…Publication Date 2008
- grasslands
- plant production
- carbon sequestration
- land use
- management
- conservation
- agriculture
- pasture management
- biodiversity
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordSince the rise of its first democratically elected government in 1994, South Africa has sought to redress its highly inequitable land distribution through a series of land-reform programs. In this…Publication Date 2008
- land redistribution
- Limpopo Province
- political ecology
- South Africa
- Western Cape Province
- land reform
- policies
- land use
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe relationship between above and belowground species composition has been researched in forests, grasslands, and wetlands to understand what mechanisms control community composition. I thoroughly…Publication Date 2007
- grasslands
- plant community ecology
- plant production
- plant autecology
- species richness
- seed banks
- management
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordFlood depth has been frequently used to explain the distribution of plant species in seasonally flooded grasslands, but its relation with vegetation production has remained ambiguous. The…Publication Date 2007
- grasslands
- plant production
- hydrology
- plant autecology
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordResidues of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) may be important for agroecosystem functioning due to their ability to promote soil aggregation, especially in coarse textured soils with little biomass…Publication Date 2007
- soil organic matter
- Glomalin
- arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi
- Biomarker
- Arable land use
- savanna
- soils
- ecosystem ecology
- plant production
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordA vegetation survey of natural grasslands was undertaken in the urban areas of Gauteng, supporting about 20% of the country's population. Relevés were compiled in 132 sample plots placed in…Publication Date 2006
- grasslands
- South Africa
- vegetation
- Gauteng
- ecology
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordCeropegia macmasteri, a new species from Cathcart in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa, is only known from a single population in Dohne sourveld grassland where it occurs with another rare…Publication Date 2006
- Ceropegia macmasteri
- Eastern Cape
- South Africa
- sp. nov.
- taxonomy
- classification
- endemic species
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThis paper evaluated the capacity of SPOT VEGETATION time-series to monitor the vegetation biomass and water content in order to improve fire risk assessment in the savanna ecosystem of Kruger…Publication Date 2006
- biomass
- Fire risk assessment
- SPOT VEGETATION
- time-series
- Vegetation water content
- fire ecology
- savanna
- vegetation dynamics
- monitoring
- plant production
- national parks
- remote sensing
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe palynology of two overlapping Holocene cores from Lake Sibaya in KwaZulu-Natal elucidates the relationship between climate, vegetation and human impact in the region. By means of twenty-one AMS…Publication Date 2008
- palynology
- Vegetation history
- Holocene
- South Africa
- palaeobotany
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe tree-grass interactions of African savannas are mainly determined by varying rainfall patterns and soil fertility. Large savanna trees are known to modify soil nutrient conditions, but whether…Publication Date 2007
- canopy
- Fibre content
- Grass structure
- grazing
- nitrogen
- phosphorus
- savanna
- rainfall
- soil fertility
- plant production
- nutrition
- soil organic carbon
- biomass
- forage quality
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordIn South Africa, formal titles to land have generally been restricted to 'commercial' farms under white ownership. However, in Namaqualand in the Northern Cape Province, mapping of…Publication Date 2008
- mapping
- Formalisation
- Land rights
- communal rangeland
- South Africa
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordSouth Africa' s winter-rainfall zone is a climatically sensitive region, lying at the interface of the earth's temperate and sub-tropical climatic systems. Its seasonally arid climate has…Publication Date 2006
- South Africa
- Quaternary
- pans
- palynology
- Luminescence dating
- palaeoenvironment
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordSavannah (C4) grasses are first recorded at low latitudes in the mid-Miocene prior to their expansion towards mid-latitudes by approximately the Miocene-Pliocene boundary. In an attempt to determine…Publication Date 2006
- isotopes
- carbon
- Microwear
- Rodent
- South Africa
- Pliocene
- savanna
- palaeobotany
- palaeoclimate
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe environmental contexts of the karstic hominin sites in South Africa have been established largely by means of faunal associations; taken together these data suggest a trend from relatively closed…Publication Date 2007
- Environmental change
- grasslands
- [delta]13C
- Fossil enamel
- Plio-Pleistocene
- South Africa
- palaeobotany
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordEthnopharmacological relevance In South Africa, tuberculosis (TB) caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis is the most commonly notified disease and the fifth largest cause of mortality, with one in ten…Publication Date 2008
- Antimycobacterial
- Mycobacterium
- South Africa
- Tuberculosis
- medicinal plants
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordEthnopharmacological context Cape herbal medicine as a distinct and unique healing system is conceptualized for the first time, together with a first compilation of the authentic materia medica of…Publication Date 2008
- Cape herbal medicine
- Ethnobotany
- Khoikhoi
- medicinal plants
- San
- South Africa
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordAim of the study Livestock keepers in many developing countries with restricted access to orthodox veterinary healthcare services commonly use traditional remedies to treat their animals when disease…Publication Date 2008
- Ethnoveterinary medicine
- Livestock disease
- South Africa
- Traditional remedies
- medicinal plants
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThere are many individuals in the Bredasdorp/Elim area who still use plants as medicines to treat many conditions. This study aimed to document some of this knowledge and present an inventory of all…Publication Date 2006
- South Africa
- Southern Overberg
- Ethnobotanical survey
- medicinal plants
- questionnaires
- Ethnobotany
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThere is an urgent need for quantitative methods by which actual, as opposed to potential degradation can be mapped using spatially consistent criteria for large regions. This study tested the Local…Publication Date 2008
- AVHRR
- Communal lands
- desertification
- Local NPP scaling
- rangelands
- South Africa
- communal farming
- remote sensing
- degradation
- mapping
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordDespite the ubiquity of sub-tropical savannas throughout the earth, limitations of savanna productivity are understudied relative to other terrestrial systems. The limitations of savanna productivity…Publication Date 2008
- grass
- nitrogen
- phosphorus
- savanna
- rainfall
- soil nutrients
- plant production
- plant autecology
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordIn South Africa, 'black ' and 'coloured ' farmers engaged in several occupational activities are often considered as being 'not interested in farming ' or 'not…Publication Date 2007
- Labour
- Commons
- Pluriactivity
- Occupational paths
- Farm settlement
- South Africa
- socio-economic aspects
- management
- houeshold income studies
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordIn South Africa, interventions in communal rangelands proposed by most agriculture-sector institutions are still dominated by the belief that communal herders have little technical skills and by the…Publication Date 2007
- Communal pastoral systems
- Herder practices
- Perceptions of rangeland condition
- Grazing management models
- Tragedy of the Commons
- agricultural development
- South Africa
- socio-economic aspects
- rangeland management
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordAdvanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR), Normalized Difference Vegetation Index data (NDVI, 1 km2, 1985-2003) and modeled net primary production (NPP, 8 km2, 1981-2000) data were used to…Publication Date 2007
- monitoring
- AVHRR
- NDVI
- rain-use efficiency
- NPP
- Communal lands
- South Africa
- degradation
- land use
- remote sensing
- NDVI values
- mapping
- rainfall
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordTransfrontier conservation has taken Southern Africa by storm, where the modus operandi remains simple and intuitive: by dissolving boundaries, local benefits grow as conservation and development…Publication Date 2008
- Transfrontier conservation
- Neoliberalism
- Community-based natural resources management
- Livelihoods
- South Africa
- transfrontier parks
- conservation
- socio-economic aspects
- eco-tourism
- decision support systems
- economics
- policies
- land use
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe idealization of natural landscapes and peoples during colonialism, coupled with the popularity of sustainable development in the postcolonial era, has contributed to the expansion of conservation…Publication Date 2007
- South Africa
- Mahushe Shongwe Game Reserve
- conservation
- Community conservation
- Livelihood
- development
- national parks
- socio-economic aspects
- economics
- conservation agriculture
- rural areas
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordSouth Africa is unique in that its globally significant biodiversity, which is under significant threat, coexists with an apartheid history of dispossession that produced a starkly unequal land…Publication Date 2006
- conservation
- Biodiversity economy
- Land rights
- Farm dwellers
- South Africa
- Baviaanskloof
- socio-economic aspects
- legislation
- Poverty
- rural areas
- policies
- ecotourism
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordLand use change and livelihood systems are often analyzed separately or with one "driving "the other. This "driver-feedback "relationship has been buttressed by approaches to…Publication Date 2006
- land use
- Livelihoods
- Co-production
- South Africa
- Ghana
- Drivers of change
- socio-economic aspects
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordIndigenous forests and savannas, along with plantation forests, offer numerous benefits to rural communities and society at large. Yet, the role of forests and forestry in contributing to sustainable…Publication Date 2007
- ecotourism
- forestry
- Non-timber forest products
- Plantations
- Poverty
- Safety-net
- savannas
- South Africa
- sustainable livelihoods
- socio-economic aspects
- savanna
- sustainability
- subsistence agriculture
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordSouth Africa is poorly endowed with natural forests, and is heavily dependent on plantations of exotic forestry species to meet its timber needs. The first forest plantations of exotic trees were…Publication Date 2007
- forest plantations
- Hydrological impacts
- legislation
- Licensing
- South Africa
- hydrology
- land use
- monitoring
- decision support systems
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordReconstructions of African palaeoenvironments are essential for a full understanding of early hominin evolution, but they are often hampered by low-resolution or discontinuous climatic data. Here we…Publication Date 2007
- stable isotopes
- flowstone
- South Africa
- Homo
- savannahs
- Precession
- palaeoclimate
- palaeoenvironmental data
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordClimate change factors interact to modify plant growth and development. The objective of this study was to evaluate the response to temperature of big bluestem (Andropogon gerardii Vitman)…Publication Date 2007
- big bluestem
- biomass
- development
- Growth Rates
- Partitioning
- Seed number
- climate change
- temperature
- plant autecology
- plant production
- carbon dioxide
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordPrecision agriculture (PA) is an innovative, int+O101egrated and internationally standardized approach aiming to increase the efficiency of resource use and to reduce the uncertainty of decisions…Publication Date 2008
- precision agriculture
- grassland
- Perspectives
- Constraints
- interdisciplinary research
- grasslands
- remote sensing
- plant production
- Economic Aspects
- agriculture
- decision support systems
- management
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThis paper reports on the development and testing of a simulation model to assess the impacts of two seed-feeding biological control agents on the dispersal of an invasive perennial tree, Hakea…Publication Date 2008
- Hakea sericea
- South Africa
- biological control
- population dynamics
- seed dispersal
- Weibull distribution
- fire frequency
- seed banks
- Alien invasive species
- fire
- modelling
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordA payments for ecosystem services (PES) system came about in South Africa with the establishment of the government-funded Working for Water (WfW) programme that clears mountain catchments and…Publication Date 2008
- Working for Water
- Payment mechanisms
- ecosystem services
- water supply
- Poverty relief
- Poverty
- Alien invasive species
- fire
- plant production
- biodiversity
- hydrology
- vegetation dynamics
- Economic Aspects
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordPalaeoenvironmental evidence indicative of former climatic conditions in the Eastern and adjoining Western Cape during the last ~ 45 000 yr is presented and summarised. Interstadial conditions began…Publication Date 2008
- Late Quaternary
- Last Glacial Maximum
- Late Glacial
- Holocene
- Palaeoclimatology
- palaeoenvironments
- South Africa
- palaeoclimate
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordWater erosion creates negative impacts on agricultural production, infrastructure, and water quality across the world. Regional-scale water erosion assessment is important, but limited by data…Publication Date 2006
- Review
- land degradation
- soil erosion
- remote sensing
- modelling
- Validation
- degradation
- agriculture
- plant production
- animal production
- satellite imagery
- monitoring
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordSoluble organic N and C were extracted from soils under long-term kikuyu grass pasture, annual ryegrass pasture and annual maize production using water, 0.5 M K2SO4 and 2 M KCl. Quantities…Publication Date 2006
- Arable
- grassland
- nitrate leaching
- nitrogen loss
- Soluble organic matter
- land use
- pasture management
- plant production
- soil fertility
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe differences in knowledge of biological resource use between societal and demographic groups are often poorly understood; yet they are an important element of sustainability. Differences in gender…Publication Date 2008
- conservation
- Indigenous knowledge
- Livelihoods
- Non-timber forest products
- Red Data Lists
- savannas
- South Africa
- woody plants
- medicinal plants
- subsistence agriculture
- non-grazing resources
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThis series of two papers describes a mechanistic model that simulates within years the productivity of vegetation and livestock on the communal semi-arid rangeland of the Succulent Karoo of South…Publication Date 2007
- semi-arid rangelands
- Mechanistic model
- plant growth
- diet selection
- food intake
- animal productivity
- rangeland condition
- rangelands
- plant production
- animal production
- communal farming
- livestock
- management
- soil moisture
- rainfall
- runoff
- modelling
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordClimate is one of the most important factors determining the sustainability of agricultural production systems. More emphasis must be placed on understanding the influence of changing climate…Publication Date 2007
- sustainable agriculture
- climate variability
- climate change
- Agricultural weather policy
- climate
- agriculture
- animal production
- plant production
- Africa