The impacts of sustained heavy grazing on plant diversity and composition in lowland and upland habitats across the Kamiesberg mountain range in the Succulent Karoo, South Africa

2007 ◽  
Vol 70 (4) ◽  
pp. 686-700 ◽  
Author(s):  
P.M.L. Anderson ◽  
M.T. Hoffman
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Plant Diversity ◽  
Mountain Range ◽  
Succulent Karoo ◽  
Heavy Grazing

The impact of heavy grazing on an ephemeral river system in the succulent karoo, South Africa

2007 ◽  
Vol 71 (1) ◽  
pp. 82-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Allsopp ◽  
L. Gaika ◽  
R. Knight ◽  
C. Monakisi ◽  
M.T. Hoffman
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
River System ◽  
Succulent Karoo ◽  
Heavy Grazing ◽  
The Impact

scholarly journals The spiders of the Swartberg Nature Reserve in South Africa (Arachnida: Araneae)

Koedoe ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
A.S. Dippenaar-Schoeman ◽  
A.E. Van der Walt ◽  
M. De Jager ◽  
E. Le Roux ◽  
A. Van der Berg
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Nature Reserve ◽  
New Records ◽  
First Record ◽  
Mountain Range ◽  
Western Cape ◽  
Western Cape Province ◽  
Succulent Karoo ◽  
Annotated Checklist

The Swartberg Nature Reserve is situated in the Large Swartberg mountain range, in the Oudtshoorn district of the Western Cape Province. Spiders were collected from the reserve over a 10-year period. This is one of the inventory projects of the South African National Survey (SANSA) for spiders of the Succulent Karoo Biome. A total of 45 families comprising 136 genera and 186 species were collected, all which are new records for the area. This represents about 9.4 of the total known South African spider fauna. Of the spiders collected 142 species (76.5 ) were wanderers and 44 (23.5 ) web dwellers. The plant dwellers comprised 43.3 of the total number of species and the ground dwellers 56.7 . The Gnaphosidae was the most diverse family represented by 33 species, followed by the Salticidae with 23 and Thomisidae with 15. Ten species are possibly new to science and the Filistatidae is a first record for South Africa. An annotated checklist with information on the guilds, habitat preference and web types are provided.

scholarly journals Indigenous vascular plants of the Soutpansberg, South Africa

Bothalia ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Norbert Hahn
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Conservation Planning ◽  
Vascular Plants ◽  
Biosphere Reserve ◽  
Herbarium Specimens ◽  
Mountain Range ◽  
Floristic Diversity ◽  
Literature Reviews ◽  
The Status ◽  
Herbarium Collections

Background: The first checklist for the Soutpansberg was published in 1946, and the second list was compiled by the author in 2006 as part of his doctoral thesis. Currently, there is a need for an updated account of the biodiversity of the Soutpansberg Centre of Endemism and Diversity for conservation planning in the Vhembe Biosphere Reserve, within which the Soutpansberg is the principle geomorphological feature.Objectives: To present an updated list of vascular plants recorded for the Soutpansberg.Method: The list was compiled from various sources including literature reviews, herbarium specimens, herbarium databases and personal observations.Results: This article presents the most geographically accurate and taxonomically updated list of the indigenous vascular flora of the Soutpansberg, the northernmost mountain range of South Africa. Altogether 2443 taxa are recorded belonging to 922 genera in 187 families and 64 orders.Conclusion: The list presented in this article confirms the status of the Soutpansberg as a centre of floristic diversity in southern Africa. Notable is the higher-order diversity of the flora. It is likely that both future surveys and reviews of herbarium collections will add new taxa to the current total.

scholarly journals Vegetation dynamics after experimental fire disturbance in the arid Succulent Karoo, South Africa

2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-135 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helga van der Merwe ◽  
Sebataolo Rahlao ◽  
Liesel Hein ◽  
Suzanne J Milton
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Vegetation Dynamics ◽  
Fire Disturbance ◽  
Succulent Karoo

scholarly journals Rich sister, poor cousin: Plant diversity and endemism in the Great Winterberg–Amatholes (Great Escarpment, Eastern Cape, South Africa)

2014 ◽  
Vol 92 ◽  
pp. 159-174 ◽  
Author(s):  
V.R. Clark ◽  
A.P. Dold ◽  
C. McMaster ◽  
G. McGregor ◽  
C. Bredenkamp ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Plant Diversity ◽  
Eastern Cape ◽  
Great Escarpment

An updated checklist of the vascular flora of Sierra Nevada (SE Spain)

Phytotaxa ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 261 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
JUAN LORITE
Keyword(s):  
Alien Species ◽  
Sierra Nevada ◽  
Plant Diversity ◽  
Mediterranean Basin ◽  
Conservation Management ◽  
Mountain Range ◽  
Se Spain ◽  
Vascular Flora ◽  
Threat Status ◽  
The Mediterranean Basin

To have an updated checklist available for a given area is crucial for many purposes (educational, conservation, management, etc.). In this paper, a complete and updated checklist of the vascular flora of Sierra Nevada mountain range (SE Spain), a recognized hotspot for plant diversity in the Mediterranean basin, is presented. It includes 2,353 taxa, 359 more than in the previous checklist (an increase of 15.25%). Also, data are shown on composition (in terms of families, number of hybrids, native/alien species, endemics, etc.) and threat status according to the IUCN. The result is a complete and updated checklist flora of this recognised biodiversity Mediterranean hotspot.

Diversity and seasonality of fungal communities in soil from the Succulent Karoo biodiversity hotspot, South Africa

2020 ◽  
Vol 172 ◽  
pp. 104020
Author(s):  
Zelda Pieterse ◽  
Theresa A.S. Aveling ◽  
Adriana Jacobs ◽  
Don A. Cowan
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Biodiversity Hotspot ◽  
Fungal Communities ◽  
Succulent Karoo
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