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Vegetation gradients in Southern Cape mountains
Southern Cape Mountain fynbos has been little studied in the past so that management and planners have had to draw heavily on Western Cape experience. This study arose from the need to define local vegetation patterns and their interdependence with animal life, climate and soil as a necessary prereq...
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| author | Bond, William J |
| author2 | Moll, EJ |
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| description | Southern Cape Mountain fynbos has been little studied in the past so that management and planners have had to draw heavily on Western Cape experience. This study arose from the need to define local vegetation patterns and their interdependence with animal life, climate and soil as a necessary prerequisite to vegetation mapping and Fynbos is part of the diverse and complex Cape Floral Kingdom. Field taxonomy in fynbos is often problematic for trained botanists and is an overwhelming obstacle for mapping and monitoring of vegetation by untrained observers. Even the most unsophisticated observer, however, can recognize consistent variation in non-floristic characters such as vegetation height, density and the relative abundance of Proteaceae, small leaved shrubs and graminoid plants. A major aim of the study was thus to test the feasibility of deriving a non-floristic vegetation classification using easily learnt characters which had predictive value and was independent of the complication of high species turnover from one area to the next. |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/15453 Vegetation gradients in Southern Cape mountains Bond, William J Moll, EJ Botany Southern Cape Mountain fynbos has been little studied in the past so that management and planners have had to draw heavily on Western Cape experience. This study arose from the need to define local vegetation patterns and their interdependence with animal life, climate and soil as a necessary prerequisite to vegetation mapping and Fynbos is part of the diverse and complex Cape Floral Kingdom. Field taxonomy in fynbos is often problematic for trained botanists and is an overwhelming obstacle for mapping and monitoring of vegetation by untrained observers. Even the most unsophisticated observer, however, can recognize consistent variation in non-floristic characters such as vegetation height, density and the relative abundance of Proteaceae, small leaved shrubs and graminoid plants. A major aim of the study was thus to test the feasibility of deriving a non-floristic vegetation classification using easily learnt characters which had predictive value and was independent of the complication of high species turnover from one area to the next. 2015-11-30T08:30:03Z 2015-11-30T08:30:03Z 1981 Master Thesis Masters MSc http://hdl.handle.net/11427/15453 eng application/pdf Department of Biological Sciences Faculty of Science University of Cape Town |
| spellingShingle | Botany Bond, William J Vegetation gradients in Southern Cape mountains |
| thesis_degree_str | Master's |
| title | Vegetation gradients in Southern Cape mountains |
| title_full | Vegetation gradients in Southern Cape mountains |
| title_fullStr | Vegetation gradients in Southern Cape mountains |
| title_full_unstemmed | Vegetation gradients in Southern Cape mountains |
| title_short | Vegetation gradients in Southern Cape mountains |
| title_sort | vegetation gradients in southern cape mountains |
| topic | Botany |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/15453 |
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