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- Library Collection RecordThe invasion of Acacia mearnsii in the Kouga catchment, Eastern Cape, South Africa, has various negative impacts on the ecosystem. These impacts include: reduced species richness, increased water use…Publication Date 2009
- Acacia mearnsii
- Wattles
- soil erosion
- Conservation of Natural Resources
- biological invasions
- alien plants
- invasive plants
- biogeography
- soil management
- soil moisture
- Soils alien invasive species
- soil nutrients
- conservation
- restoration ecology
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe following dissertation sets out to investigate the decline of agriculture in Mission location at Butterworth, Transkei, using the Rehabilitation Scheme as a benchmark. The scheme was introduced…Publication Date 2003
- agriculture
- South Africa
- Transkei
- land use
- land tenure
- soil erosion
- politics
- policies
- communal farming
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordGlobally, ecosystems provide services of almost twice the value of global gross national product (Costanza et al., 2006). The Buffalo City Municipality (BCM), South Africa contains biodiversity of…Publication Date 2011
- biodiversity conservation
- South Africa
- Buffalo City
- ecosystem services
- biodiversity
- conservation
- mapping
- degradation
- GIS
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThis research investigated the role played by traditional leaders in environmental governance in the context of decentralization, based on a case study of grass utilization in QwaQwa. Specifically,…Publication Date 2008
- biodiversity
- conservation
- agriculture
- environmental aspects
- grasses
- South Africa
- QwaQwa
- grassland ecology
- veld grass
- grasswork
- tribal government
- chiefdoms
- environmental policy
- subsistence agriculture
- communal farming
- socio-economic aspects
- policies
- 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 RecordInternationally there is an increasing focus on involving local communities in natural resource management and monitoring. Monitoring methods which are professionally driven appear to be inadequate…Publication Date 2009
- Conservation of Natural Resources
- natural resources
- management
- Community development
- citizen participation
- Conservation of Natural Resources
- social aspects
- socio-economic aspects
- management
- natural resources
- monitoring
- communal farming
- conservation
- biodiversity
- rangelands
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe decommissioning of mines and mining-related activities brings about the onset of rehabilitation. A legacy that most coal mines must address is the rehabilitation of the coal discard dumps that…Publication Date 2009
- conservation
- mining
- rehabilitation
- restoration ecology
- soils
- grass
- seeds
- fertiliser
- management
- soil nutrients
- 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 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 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 RecordThe Minerals and Petroleum Resources Act (MRPDA) No 28 of 2002 of South Africa states that the holder of a mining permit remains liable for environmental consequences until a closure certificate has…Publication Date 2009
- landscape ecology
- South Africa
- Highveld
- grassland ecology
- gold mines
- mining
- environmental aspects
- spectrum analysis
- restoration ecology
- rehabilitation
- modelling
- monitoring
- remote sensing
- 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 RecordThe Great Escarpment forms a semi-continuous mountain system 5 000 km long, stretching from Angola in the north-west, south through Namibia, and into western, southern and eastern South Africa,…Publication Date 2010
- phytogeography
- Great Escarpment
- Sneeuberg
- Nuweveldberge
- Roggeveldberge
- Endemism
- Flora - migration
- conservation
- climate change
- degradation
- 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 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 RecordThe replacement of indigenous grasslands by commercial forestry plantations on the mountainous eastern escarpment of South Africa, has inevitably led to alteration of nutrient cycling. The overall…Publication Date 2005
- soil nutrients
- soil ecology
- plants nutrition
- soil nutrition
- landscape ecology
- Pinus patula
- South Africa
- Eucalyptus grandis
- trees
- growth
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe focus of this study is to explore and expand farmer learning processes in sustainable agriculture workplace contexts. It examines change oriented learning processes in the context of three…Publication Date 2010
- sustainable agriculture
- southern Africa
- Sustainable development
- Permaculture
- organic farming
- Training of farmers
- Zimbabwe
- South Africa
- Social and economic conditions
- socio-economic aspects
- communal farming
- Sustainable development
- 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 RecordWildfire prediction and management is an issue of safety and security for many rural communities in South Africa. Wildfire prediction and early warning systems can assist in saving lives,…Publication Date 2006
- vegetation mapping
- South Africa
- remote sensing
- fire ecology
- Mpumalanga
- Savanna ecology
- ground cover fires
- grassland fires
- grassland
- management
- 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