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- Library Collection RecordThemeda triandra Forssk. is a common perennial grass in southern African grasslands that tolerates low nutrient soils. Establishment of the species into degraded or transformed areas is difficult,…Publication Date 2014
- grasslands
- soil nutrients
- tillers
- restoration ecology
- fertiliser
- nitrogen
- phosphorus
- potassium
- Themeda triandra
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordBush encroachment has been recognised in southern Africa since the late nineteenth century. Our review of 23 studies showed that the rate of woody cover change has ranged from ?0.131 to 1.275% y?1.…Publication Date 2014
- Bush encroachment
- ecosystem ecology
- grazing
- fire
- rainfall
- grasses
- carbon dioxide
- climate change
- management
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordT. Hoffman, U. Schmiedel & N. JĂźrgens ( eds ). Klaus Hess Publishers , GÄ‚Å›ttingen and Windhoek , 2010 . ISBN 9783933117422 ( hardback). ISBN 9783933117441 (Volumes 1, 2 and 3,…Publication Date 2012
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordNo abstract is available for this article. N. Jürgens, D. H. Haarmeyer, J. Luther-Mosebach, J. Dengler, M. Finckh & U. Schmiedel ( eds ). Klaus Hess Publishers , Göttingen and Windhoek , 2010…Publication Date 2012
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordNo abstract is available for this article. By Ross. A. Bradstock, A. Malcolm Gill and Richard J. Williams, CSIRO Publishing, Collingwood, 2012. xi?+?333 pp. Price A$79.95 (paperback; also available…Publication Date 2012
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThis study aimed to quantify and evaluate the effects of heavy land utilisation, mainly grazing, on plant species richness and diversity, species abundance, vegetation structure and soil…Publication Date 2012
- communal rangeland
- degradation
- grazing
- plant species rivhness
- Termites
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordNo abstract is available for this article.Publication Date 2012
- Australia
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordSavannahs cover more than 40% of Africa and provide a variety of important ecosystem services. Their productivity is constrained by disturbance and limiting resources. In southern Africa, fine-leaf…Publication Date 2012
- fertilization
- grazing
- Kalahari transect
- Namibia
- nitrogen
- phosphorus
- savannah
- southern Africa
- Library Collection Record1 GOVERNMENT NOTICE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS No. R. 2012 NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT: BIODIVERSITY ACT, 2004 ALIEN AND INVASIVE SPECIES REGULATIONS I, Bomo Edith Edna Molewa,…Publication Date 2011
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordAn interim solution for the toxic tide of acid mine water rising beneath the surface of South Africa 's Witwatersrand area will cost government an estimated R145-million, Water Affairs Minister…Publication Date 2011
- pollution
- degradation
- Waste management
- toxic
- acid mine drainage
- hazard assessment
- acid mine drainage
- economics
- pollution
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordEnvironmental Law provides a comprehensive and succinct examination of the entire environmental law landscape in South Africa. The second edition includes a new chapter on climate change, and also…Publication Date 2011
- legislation
- climate change
- Environmental impact assessment
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordA Team of Experts has been instructed by a Task Team, chaired by the Directors General of Mineral Resources and Water Affairs to advise the Inter-Ministerial Committee (IMC) on acid mine drainage (…Publication Date 2011
- pollution
- degradation
- Waste management
- toxic
- acid mine drainage
- hazard assessment
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordJuly 2011 | e-Agriculture Newsletter The e-Agriculture Newsletter is part of a global initiative to enhance sustainable agricultural development and food security by improving the use of Information…Publication Date 2011
- plant production
- animal production
- agriculture
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordLaunched in October 2009, The Regional Livelihoods Advocacy Project (REGLAP) is a Humanitarian Aid Department of the European Commission (ECHO) funded project working to reduce the vulnerability of…Publication Date 2011
- pastoralism
- socio-economic aspects
- subsistence agriculture
- policies
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordMonday, 23 August 2010 South African Water and Environmental Affairs Minister Sonjica Buyelwa confirmed on Friday that investigations regarding the quality of the water discharged at the troubled…Publication Date 2011
- mining activities
- pollution
- legislation
- acid mine drainage
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordAGRO-ICT-Backbone by PROGIS We want to draw your attention to the many benefits resulting from merging complementary technologies to one unique and outstanding integrated solution. I'm speaking…Publication Date 2011
- information technology
- agriculture
- GIS
- remote sensing
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordNo abstract available.Publication Date 2011
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordFour major climato-environmental phases have been identified in the Eastern Cape, Plettenberg Bay-Knysna region and Little Karoo between somewhat before ?40 000 cal. a BP and the present: the Birnam…Publication Date 2011
- palaeoclimate
- southern Africa
- Late Quaternary
- Last Glacial Maximum
- Late Glacial
- Holocene
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordKenya Environment and Science Journalists Association (KENSJA) Submitted by aventh on August 24, 2009 - 5:41am Initiated in February 2007, the Kenya Environment and Science Journalists Association (…Publication Date 2011
- ecosystem ecology
- economics
- legislation
- journalism
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordDescription of the Data The Global Agricultural Lands in the Year 2000 data set represents the proportion of land area used as cropland (land used for the cultivation of food) and pasture (land used…Publication Date 2011
- croplands
- pasture
- Data
- mapping
- satellite imagery
- MODIS
- agriculture
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordProtected areas are effective at stopping biodiversity loss, but their placement is constrained by the needs of people. Consequently protected areas are often biased toward areas that are…Publication Date 2011
- conservation
- biodiversity
- Economic Aspects
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe Yale Forum on Climate Change 38; The Media is an online publication and forum of Yale University, Connecticut, United States, to foster dialogue on climate change among scientists, journalists,…Publication Date 2011
- climate change
- policy
- forum
- Yale University
- southern Africa
- Library Collection Record1 GOVERNMENT NOTICE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS No. 2012 NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT: BIODIVERSITY ACT, 2004 PUBLICATION OF PROHIBITED ALIEN SPECIES I, Bomo Edith Edna Molewa, Minister…Publication Date 2011
- Alien invasive species
- prohibited species
- invasive species
- biodiversity
- Weeds
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordDate of Meeting: 22 Jun 2011 Chairperson: Mr J de Lange (ANC) Documents handed out: application/pdf icon National Treasury: Acid Mine Drainage : Funding 38; Recommendations application/pdf icon…Publication Date 2011
- acid mine drainage
- Parliamentary Report
- South Africa
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe second edition of the United Nations Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction is a resource for understanding and analysing global disaster risk today and in the future (Ban Ki-moon,…Publication Date 2011
- drought
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordA special Ministerial-level task team has been assembled by the South African government to develop a coordinated strategy to deal 'urgently' with the issue of acid-water drainage, which…Publication Date 2011
- acid mine drainage
- legislation
- pollution
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordOn a follow up insert on Carte Blanche on Sunday the 6th of March 2011, some possible solutions were shown to viewers of how to clean up the Acid Mine Drainage Problem plagueing South Africa. '…Publication Date 2011
- acid mine drainage
- economics
- pollution
- fertiliser
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordGOVERNMENT NOTICE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS No. 2012 NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT: BIODIVERSITY ACT, 2004 PUBLICATION OF EXEMPTED ALIEN SPECIES I, Bomo Edith Edna Molewa, Minister for…Publication Date 2011
- Alien invasive species
- exempted species
- invasive species
- biodiversity
- Weeds
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordGOVERNMENT NOTICE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS No. 2012 NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT: BIODIVERSITY ACT, 2004 PUBLICATION OF NATIONAL LIST OF INVASIVE SPECIES I, Bomo Edith Edna Molewa,…Publication Date 2011
- Alien invasive species
- exempted species
- invasive species
- biodiversity
- Weeds
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordJournalist Heather Dugmore is up in arms about Shell's bid to start hydraulic fracturing over 30000 square kilometres in the Karoo in the hunt for natural gas reserves. Here her article '…Publication Date 2011
- fracking
- shale gas
- Karoo
- natural gas
- ecology
- pollution
- degradation
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordIn the past few years, African medicinal plants have received considerable attention, and it has been lamented that the documentation of the continent's species that are used in traditional…Publication Date 2011
- medicinal plants
- rangelands
- savanna
- grasslands
- Ethnobotany
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordBook review of Taking action on climate change: Long-term mitigation scenarios for South AfricaPublication Date 2010
- climate change
- policiy
- environment
- modelling
- greenhouse gases
- mitigation
- gas emissions
- socio-economic aspects
- agriculture
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordPresented here are stable nitrogen isotope data from a rock hyrax (Procavia capensis) middens from northwestern Namibia that record a series of rapid aridification events beginning at ca. 3800 160;…Publication Date 2010
- Hyrax midden
- southern Africa
- Holocene
- palaeoclimate
- African Humid Period
- [delta]15N
- Orbital forcing
- Solar forcing
- Geomagnetism
- Namibia
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordOver the past decade, economic and agricultural growth in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has resumed. The secular downward trend in agricultural prices ended in the early 1990s; growing incomes in Asia and…Publication Date 2010
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordSpanning the period from 74-58 160;ka, and being broadly coeval with marine oxygen isotope stage 4 (MIS 4), the Still Bay and Howiesons Poort industries represent important phases in the development…Publication Date 2010
- palaeoenvironment
- Still bay
- Howiesons Poort
- Marine oxygen isotope stage 4
- Modern human behaviour
- palaeobotany
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordA 0.6-m-long horizontal core from a stalagmite in the entrance area of Wonderwerk Cave in South Africa, a National Heritage Site, has provided a 35 ka record of environmental change. A pollen…Publication Date 2010
- archaeology
- Caves
- dung
- Paleoclimate
- pollen
- Speleothem
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe Kalahari Transect (KT) is an International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme mega-transect designed to examine hydrological and ecological patterns and processes throughout the savannas of southern…Publication Date 2010
- grass biomass
- Kalahari
- phosphorus
- precipitation
- savanna
- rainfall
- ecology
- hydrology
- plant production
- Soil Condition
- fertilizer
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe relative abundance and distribution of trees in savannas has important implications for ecosystem function. High spatial resolution satellite sensors, including QuickBird and IKONOS, have been…Publication Date 2010
- Tree cluster
- canopy cover
- SPOT 5
- QuickBird
- Object based image analysis
- NDVI threshold
- savanna
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordAbstract Livestock grazing is often viewed as having detrimental effects on plants and plant communities. Livestock grazing can, however, be managed to be an effective tool for vegetation management…Publication Date 2010
- livestock
- grazing
- nutrition
- ecology
- management
- vegetation dynamics
- ecosystem ecology
- fire ecology
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordA thorough understanding of the behavior of fire in grasslands is critical to the minimization of the impact of fires on agricultural and pastoral land as well as the successful management of the…Publication Date 2010
- fire
- grasslands
- management
- species richness
- climate change
- fire ecology
- agriculture
- pastoralism
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThis project, developed by TrustAfrica, aims to support the implementation of the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP), signed by 53 African governments, which commits…Publication Date 2010
- socio-economic aspects
- policies
- decision support systems
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordSummary 10.1002/9780470609880.ch8.abs This chapter contains sections titled: * Introduction * Hominid Exploitation of Wetlands Environments and Resources * Early Hominins: Colonization of New…Publication Date 2010
- exploitation of wetlands environments and foods by pre-sapiens hominins
- early hominins - colonization of new environments
- preconditions for encephalization - physiological considerations
- palaeobotany
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordDrug discovery and development (very often unknowingly) is based on traditional and local knowledge about a species’ medical use or toxicological effects (both desired and undesired effects). The…Publication Date 2010
- anticancer agents
- anti-inflammatory natural products
- Artemisia annua
- drug development
- Euphorbia
- galanthamine
- Hoodia
- knowledge-based drug discovery
- taxol
- Traditional medicine
- medicinal plants
- Ethnobotany
- Ethnopharmacology
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordConservation Biology for All provides cutting-edge but basic conservation science to a global readership. A series of authoritative chapters have been written by the top names in conservation biology…Publication Date 2010
- conservation
- climate change
- socio-economic aspects
- ecosystem ecology
- management
- fire ecology
- invasive species
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe impacts of climate change, drought and desertification are closely interlinked, and most acutely experienced by populations whose livelihoods depend principally on natural resources. Given the…Publication Date 2009
- adaptation
- policy
- climate change
- desertification
- drought
- pollution
- socio-economic aspects
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordUsing a human security perspective, we investigate how the history of land tenure changes has driven sustainability in southern African savannas. The paper examines four countries-Botswana,…Publication Date 2009
- Human security
- land tenure
- savannas
- sustainability
- legislation
- socio-economic aspects
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordKnowledge of the southern Africa soil carbon pool, its heterogeneity, sources (from trees or grasses), and potential response to climate is extremely limited. In this study the Kalahari Transect (KT…Publication Date 2009
- geostatistics
- Kalahari
- savannas
- Soil [delta]13C
- soil organic carbon
- Stable isotope
- climate change
- savanna
- rainfall
- carbon sequestration
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThis chapter contains sections titled: * Introduction * Why has woody plant abundance increased on rangelands? * Traditional perspectives on woody plant encroachment * Emerging perspectives on woody…Publication Date 2009
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordIt has long been understood that as ephemeral landscape features sand dunes are highly sensitive to environmental change, and thus their distribution and the timing of their development may provide…Publication Date 2009
- Paleoclimate
- Paleoenvironment
- dune activity
- southern 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