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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 RecordThis chapter describes relationships between environmental stress and the reaction of plants thereupon. Plants might react to environmental stress on various levels: on the biochemical, cellular, or…Publication Date 2003
- Autecology
- biodiversity
- character state
- climate change
- ecotoxicology
- effects
- Ellenberg
- flora
- heavy metal
- IEPS
- insecticide
- PAF
- palynology
- photosynthesis
- Synecology
- vascular plants
- vegetation
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordSummary 10.1002/9780470292136.ch7.abs This chapter contains sections titled: * Objectives for This Chapter * Introduction * Defining Biodiversity * The Economic Value of Biodiversity * Threats to…Publication Date 2008
- biodiversity
- wildlife conservation
- ecosystem
- habitat destruction
- invasive species
- conservation
- ecosystem ecology
- Alien invasive species
- indigenous encroaching species
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordPeople have inhabited terrestrial ecosystems of the world for thousands of years. Both resource management systems and cosmological belief systems have evolved and continue to develop. In fact, most…Publication Date 2001
- conservation
- biodiversity
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe geology, climates past and present, and soils of Africa are summarized, as are the effects of fire on the vegetation. The vegetation and animals of each major zone – forest, tropical seasonal…Publication Date 2001
- ecosystem ecology
- biodiversity
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordIn the Sahel and the Kalahari, the growth in groundwater extraction via simple wells and boreholes is contributing to an increased use of dryland natural resources, to competition for resources, and…Publication Date 2003
- rangeland condition
- rainfall
- groundwater
- animal production
- vegetation dynamics
- biodiversity
- bush thickening
- indigenous encroaching species
- southern Africa