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- Library Collection RecordUtilization has been an important "tool" in range management since its beginnings. Despite utilization being a major area of emphasis in range monitoring, there is still concern in the…Publication Date 2016
- utilization
- rangeland
- monitoring
- Society for Range Management
- grasslands
- Library Collection RecordThe effects of fire and mechanical clearing were investigated for their potential in assisting with the eradication of Chromolaena odorata (previously Eupatorium odoratum). The study was divided into…Publication Date 2006
- Alien invasive species
- fire
- management
- restoration ecology
- drought
- savanna
- grassland
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordSummary in English and Afrikaans. Also issued in printed format.Publication Date 2007
- birds
- mammals
- ecology
- grasslands
- diet selection
- ecology
- game animals
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordAlso available on CD-ROM. Accompanying map and table in pocket at back of book. (copy one) Accomapnying map and table available on level 3 (copy two) Summary in English and Afrikaans. Vegetation…Publication Date 2007
- ecology
- grasslands
- mapping
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordAbstract: The KwaZulu-Natal Drakensberg, South Africa, is predominantly a grassland ecosystem maintained by fire. The effect of the current burning regime on invertebrate and flowering forb diversity…Publication Date 2006
- fire ecology
- grasslands
- ecosystem ecology
- biodiversity
- species richness
- invertebrates
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe Grassland biome of South Africa has been identified as critically endangered and the biome in South Africa most requiring conservation attention through the implementation of efficient,…Publication Date 2007
- grassland ecology
- South Africa
- grassland
- conservation
- natural resources
- grassland biome
- biodiversity
- degradation
- soil erosion
- Alien invasive species
- indigenous encroaching species
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe Ngorongoro Crater is a volcanic caldera located within the Ngorongoro Conservation Area in Tanzania. The Crater comprises a flat grassland plain surrounded by steep, bushy walls. It contains…Publication Date 2006
- grasslands
- conservation
- cattle
- fire ecology
- ecosystem ecology
- management
- monitoring
- vegetation dynamics
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe effect of livestock type (cattle-to-sheep ratio) and stocking rate on grassland species richness and vegetation composition were tested using two long-term trials in Highland Sourveld Grassland…Publication Date 2007
- grasslands
- grazing
- South Africa
- KwaZulu - Natal
- plant diversity
- grazing
- environmental aspects
- livestock
- cattle
- sheep
- stocking rates
- grassland
- species richness
- fire
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordA highly variable invasive shrub, Lantana camara L. (Verbenaceae), has been notoriously difficult to control thus far despite a well established biological control programme in South Africa. A…Publication Date 2009
- Lantana camara
- South Africa
- Eastern Cape
- biological control
- Biological pest control agents
- Weeds
- biological control
- invasive plants
- Hemiptera
- Miridae
- Alien invasive species
- management
- insects
- restoration ecology
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe exotic plant Lantana camara L. has invaded the riparian areas of the Victoria Falls World Heritage Site in Livingstone, southern Zambia, threatening native plant communities which support…Publication Date 2010
- Lantana camara
- Victoria Falls
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
- invasive plants
- biological control
- Riparian restoration
- riparian ecology
- restoration ecology
- herbicides
- seeds
- Weeds
- Alien invasive species
- conservation
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordSpecies possess characteristics that are considered adapted to burning and these allow them to outcompete species and dominate in fire prone environments. It has therefore been proposed that fire…Publication Date 2009
- photosynthesis
- Carbon metabolism
- grasses
- Effect of fires on plants
- grasslands
- fire ecology
- drought
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordSummary in English and AfrikaansPublication Date 2001
- plant autecology
- grasslands
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe project was initiated by Eastern Cape Parks (ECP) as a request for the construction of inventories of priority species and their population levels inside three nature reserves on the Eastern Cape…Publication Date 2010
- Plant diversity conservation
- South Africa
- Eastern Cape
- Rare plants
- Population viability analysis
- biodiversity
- Plant conservation
- Conservation of Natural Resources
- Human-plant relationships
- socio-economic aspects
- conservation
- Nature reserves
- subsistence agriculture
- management
- grasslands
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe overall aim of the study was to investigate re-vegetation of disturbed sites, using nursery grown plugs (from seedling trays) of Themeda triandra, Heteropogon contortus and Hyparrhenia dregeana…Publication Date 2005
- restoration ecology
- revegetation
- grasslands
- herbicides
- Alien invasive species
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordSummary in English and Afrikaans. Also issued on CD-ROM.Publication Date 2006
- savanna
- ecology
- restoration ecology
- Alien invasive species
- management
- South Africa
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordLantana camara (lantana), a thicket-forming shrub, a number of different varieties of which were introduced into South Africa as ornamental plants but which has become a serious invasive weed.…Publication Date 2002
- Biological pest control
- South Africa
- Lantana camara
- Beetles
- Hemiptera
- Weeds
- Alien invasive species
- biological control
- modelling
- southern Africa