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- Library Collection RecordBiomass burning contributes significantly to the global concentrations of greenhouse gases and aerosols in the atmosphere (Fishman et al., 2003, Kaufman et al., 1998). The African continent is…Publication Date 2010
- Air
- pollution
- earth sciences
- remote sensing
- image processing
- fire ecology
- groundcover fires
- environmental aspects
- southern Africa
- Savanna ecology
- biomass
- greenhouse gases
- savanna
- carbon dioxide
- Methane
- southern Africa
- 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 RecordThe 28-month study assessed the impacts of five syntopic medium-sized mammalian browsers and one fire event in a woodland savanna in the Matobo Hills, Zimbabwe. Aspects of herbivory, mechanical…Publication Date 2011
- antelopes
- Zimbabwe
- Duikers
- Bushbuck
- kudu
- seed dispersal
- grazing
- ecosystem ecology
- fire ecology
- savanna
- nutrients
- game plant production
- germination
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordLand use and land transformation are major threats to biodiversity. Only a small percentage of land and thus biodiversity is protected within reserves. The majority of biodiversity lies in the hands…Publication Date 2010
- biodiversity
- South Africa
- Eastern Cape
- Agrobiodiversity
- Agricultural ecology
- veld
- landscape assessment
- rangeland condition
- rangelands
- plant production
- grassland
- savanna
- socio-economic aspects
- communal farming
- grazing
- fire ecology
- soil erosion
- commercial agriculture
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordLand degradation is a global problem affecting many countries including South Africa. This study was conducted in order to assess and monitor the nature and extent of land degradation within Qoqodala…Publication Date 2009
- geographic information systems
- South Africa
- Eastern Cape
- remote sensing
- land degradation
- monitoring
- GIS
- indigenous encroaching species
- erosion
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordA history ofland degradation is reconstructed in a part of the dividing ridge between the Great Fish and Keiskamma rivers, in Peddie District, former Ciskei. The study entails a comparative…Publication Date 1997
- land use
- Eastern Cape
- South Africa
- erosion
- degradation
- Tenure
- land use
- Subsistence farming
- Commercial farming
- Traditional management
- betterment villages
- Aerial Photographs
- GIS
- 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 Mceula Commonage Land in the Hewu district lies due northwest of Whittle sea and west of Queenstown in the Eastern Cape. This thesis has two main objectives. Firstly, to survey and analyse the…Publication Date 2000
- natural resources
- management
- Eastern Cape
- subsistence agriculture
- Economic Aspects
- medicinal plants
- soil
- socio-economic aspects
- sustainability
- land use
- degradation
- participatory rural appraisal
- 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 Savanna biome covers around 60% of sub-Saharan Africa. The goods and services it provides are utilised and often depended upon by rural communities, commercial farmers and managers of…Publication Date 2011
- remote sensing
- Savanna ecology
- biomass
- spatial ecology
- spatial analysis
- plant biomass
- remote sensing
- fire ecology
- management
- MODIS
- Nature reserves
- savanna
- mapping
- 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 RecordAccelerated erosion is a major environmental, social and economical threat in South Africa. It is estimated that in excess of 400 million tones of soil is lost every year in South Africa, with much…Publication Date 2008
- soil erosion
- management
- bushveld
- rangelands
- savanna
- Game Reserve
- rainfall
- restoration ecology
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordSound understanding of the influence of scale and context on ecological patternprocess relationships is lacking in many systems. The hierarchical patch dynamics paradigm (HPDP) provides a framework…Publication Date 2008
- vegetation dynamics
- savanna
- riparian ecology
- South Africa
- Kruger National Park
- Savanna ecology
- spatial ecology
- management
- woody plants
- indigenous encroaching shrubs
- modelling
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe widespread provision of water points in protected areas in semi-arid savannas has supported associated increases in cumulative grazing pressure. This study addresses the management implications…Publication Date 2011
- water
- piosphere
- management
- savanna
- grazing
- nature reserve
- ecosystem ecology
- southern Africa