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The effects of cattle on the development of plant communities in rehabilitating coastal dune forests at Richards Bay, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Dissertation (MSc (Zoology))--University of Pretoria, 1998.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/85477 The effects of cattle on the development of plant communities in rehabilitating coastal dune forests at Richards Bay, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Van Aarde, Rudi J. Coe, Malcolm Wassenaar, Theodorus Dallein UCTD Cattle Plant communities Rehabilitating Dune forests Richards Bay Kwazulu-Natal South Africa Dissertation (MSc (Zoology))--University of Pretoria, 1998. The effects of cattle on the herbaceous layer of coastal dune forest plant communities were investigated from May 1994 to March 1996 using an experimental application of three levels of grazing in a 16-year old stand of rehabilitating coastal dune forest north-east of Richards Bay. Rainfall had a dominant effect on all variables, but it was the same over all treatment levels. Treatment level did not affect species composition. Most of the univariate variables measured showed an interaction between time and level of treatment, with very few significant treatment effects. Significant effects were generally independent of the level of treatment. However, the presence of cattle caused a consistent treatment-dependent increase in coefficient of variation in almost all measured univariate variables. This probably has long term implications for the development of the plant community. It is concluded that cattle do have significant effects on some measures of species richness and vegetation cover of the herb layer, but it is not possible to state without any doubt that cattle will affect the process of succession significantly. Zoology and Entomology MSc (Zoology) Unrestricted 2022-05-17T11:21:44Z 2022-05-17T11:21:44Z 30/7/2021 1998 Dissertation * https://repository.up.ac.za/handle/2263/85477 en © 2020 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Cattle Plant communities Rehabilitating Dune forests Richards Bay Kwazulu-Natal South Africa The effects of cattle on the development of plant communities in rehabilitating coastal dune forests at Richards Bay, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa |
| title | The effects of cattle on the development of plant communities in rehabilitating coastal dune forests at Richards Bay, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa |
| title_full | The effects of cattle on the development of plant communities in rehabilitating coastal dune forests at Richards Bay, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa |
| title_fullStr | The effects of cattle on the development of plant communities in rehabilitating coastal dune forests at Richards Bay, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa |
| title_full_unstemmed | The effects of cattle on the development of plant communities in rehabilitating coastal dune forests at Richards Bay, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa |
| title_short | The effects of cattle on the development of plant communities in rehabilitating coastal dune forests at Richards Bay, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa |
| title_sort | effects of cattle on the development of plant communities in rehabilitating coastal dune forests at richards bay kwazulu natal south africa |
| topic | UCTD Cattle Plant communities Rehabilitating Dune forests Richards Bay Kwazulu-Natal South Africa |
| url | https://repository.up.ac.za/handle/2263/85477 |