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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 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 RecordThe contribution deals with the contextual design of spatial data for regional development and land management purposes. Further development of information technologies, image processing techniques…Publication Date 2003
- management
- remote sensing
- GIS
- modelling
- southern 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 RecordUsing new tools (boosted regression trees) in predictive biogeography, with extensive spatial 23 distribution data for >19 000 species, we developed predictive models for South African plant…Publication Date 2006
- modelling
- species richness
- ecosystem ecology
- Alien invasive species
- grasslands
- Africa
- Library Collection Record[1] Land use/cover change has been recognized as a key component in global change. Various land cover data sets, including historically reconstructed, recently observed, and future projected, have…Publication Date 2007
- land use
- climate change
- management
- classification
- data analysis
- remote sensing
- modelling
- rainfall
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordHistorically, agriculturally induced CO2 release from soils has contributed to rising levels in the atmosphere. However, by using appropriate management, soils can be turned into carbon sinks. Many…Publication Date 2007
- carbon sequestration
- drylands
- modelling
- soil carbon
- farming systems
- tropics
- global warming
- carbon dioxide
- management
- subsistence agriculture
- socio-economic aspects
- 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 RecordAn 18-year time series of monthly NOAA-AVHRR Pathfinder Land burned area was analyzed for the region of tropical Africa, from July 1981 to June 1999. The transition period between NOAA-11 and NOAA-14…Publication Date 2007
- Global burned area
- Southern Oscillation Index
- NOAA-AVHRR Pathfinder Land
- Forecast
- SARIMA
- fire ecology
- NOAA
- modelling
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordEarly warning systems (EWS) tend to focus on the identification of slow onset disasters such famine and epidemic disease. Since hazardous environmental conditions often precede disastrous outcomes by…Publication Date 2006
- Early warning
- Africa
- food security
- NDVI
- precipitation
- rainfall
- Malaria
- Rift valley fever
- Pastoral livelihoods
- modelling
- drought
- management
- system ecology
- 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 RecordThis paper presents an environmental exposure assessment model for estimating chronic intake of vanadium (a transition metal) by cattle farmed extensively in areas contaminated by vanadium pollutants…Publication Date 2006
- Environmental epidemiology
- Vanadium
- pollution
- cattle
- model
- Transition metals and exposure assessment
- modelling
- 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 RecordEvidence suggests that C4 grasses, adapted to conditions of low CO2, high temperatures, and water-stressed environments, expanded relatively quickly, and in several geographically distinct regions,…Publication Date 2007
- Oligocene
- Climate modelling
- C4 grasses
- Miocene
- C3 grasses
- palaeobotany
- modelling
- 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 RecordPlant invasions are a serious threat to natural and semi-natural ecosystems worldwide. Most management-orientated research on invasions focuses on invaders that are already widespread and often have…Publication Date 2007
- biological invasions
- invasive alien plants
- Emerging plant invaders
- Bioclimatic modelling
- Potential distribution
- Alien invasive species
- biodiversity
- landscape ecology
- management
- modelling
- 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 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 RecordThis paper demonstrates the potential of hyperspectral remote sensing to predict the chemical composition (i.e., nitrogen, phosphorous, calcium, potassium, sodium, and magnesium) of three tree…Publication Date 2007
- hyperspectral
- chemical composition
- reflectance
- Derivative
- Continuum removal
- modelling
- remote sensing
- surface vegetation
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordWe evaluate the possible effects of climate change on vegetation in Central and West Africa. We chose two climate scenarios from the IPCC Third Assessment Report, ECHAM3 with scenario B2 and HADCM3…Publication Date 2008
- vegetation model
- climate change
- Central and West Africa
- modelling
- global warming
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordTraditional vegetative techniques to control gully development rely mainly on the effects of above ground biomass, whereas little attention has been given to the role of below ground biomass. Yet, in…Publication Date 2006
- roots
- grass
- Concentrated flow erosion
- Rill
- Gully
- Erodibility
- soil erosion
- rangelands
- hydrology
- modelling
- 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 RecordThis paper describes a procedure for evaluating the desertification risk in threatened areas. The procedure is based on an eight-equation dynamic model of a generic human-resource system that can be…Publication Date 2008
- Desertification risk
- System Dynamics
- Alternative long-term states
- desertification
- modelling
- management
- grasslands
- sustainability
- land use
- 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 RecordThe self-thinning line is a very robust pattern, which can be obtained in modeling studies by a variety of different mechanistic assumptions. Our opinion is that we can only advance in our…Publication Date 2008
- Size inequality
- Competitive asymmetry
- Zone of influence model
- Arid savanna
- Acacia reficiens
- Namibia
- Parsimony
- Pattern-oriented modeling
- savanna
- vegetation dynamics
- modelling
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordMany mechanisms have been suggested to explain the coexistence of woody species and grasses in savannas, yet, evidence from field studies and simulation models has been mixed. Shrub encroachment is…Publication Date 2007
- Patch-dynamics
- Cyclical succession
- shrub encroachment
- Spatially explicit root growth
- Computer simulation model
- Validation
- Latin Hypercube sensitivity analysis
- Acacia mellifera
- savanna
- indigenous encroaching species
- vegetation dynamics
- ecosystem ecology
- modelling
- rainfall
- fire
- soil moisture
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordIn arid and semi-arid savannas, species diversity is strongly influenced by structural diversity, which in these systems is characteristically formed by woody vegetation. Shrub encroachment,…Publication Date 2007
- Yellow mongoose
- rangelands
- Individual-based model
- shrub encroachment
- Spatial explicit
- structural diversity
- ecosystem ecology
- savanna
- biodiversity
- mammals
- indigenous encroaching species
- modelling
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordIn semiarid savannas of Southern Africa current land use practices and climate change may lead to substantial changes of vegetation structure in the near future, however uncertainty remains about the…Publication Date 2006
- Acacia erioloba
- Bush encroachment
- global change
- Grewia flava
- overgrazing
- seed dispersal
- shrub encroachment
- Southern Kalahari
- Spatial-explicit simulation model
- savanna
- land use
- grazing
- climate change
- vegetation dynamics
- cattle
- ecosystem ecology
- ecosystem dynamics
- rainfall
- fire ecology
- modelling
- conservation
- management
- carrying capacity
- biodiversity
- indigenous encroaching species
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordClassic rangeland theory advocates stocking rangelands at relatively low and constant levels. This theory has been labelled inappropriate for savanna rangelands, because savannas are strongly…Publication Date 2007
- Bush encroachment
- Disequilibrium theory
- Opportunistic strategies
- Grass-tree interactions
- fire
- livestock production
- savanna
- rangelands
- stocking rates
- management
- modelling
- sustainability
- animal production
- 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 RecordClimate matching can assist in exploration for biological control agents to control invasive organisms, especially when the native range of the target organism is broad, and control is required in a…Publication Date 2008
- Agent selection
- biological control
- Chromolaena odorata
- climate matching
- CLIMEX
- FloraMap
- Invasive alien species
- modelling
- Alien invasive species
- management
- decision support systems
- 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