This paper provides a brief introduction to the physical environment of Namaqualand as well
as an overview of patterns of plant diversity. The diverse array of parent material and …

Global change is causing ecosystems to change at unprecedented rates and the urgency to
quantify ecological change is high. We therefore need all possible sources of ecological …

Abstract The **ghe County of the Ebinur Lake Basin was chosen as the study area. Based
on Landsat TM/OLI images obtained in 2007 and 2017, this paper attempts to use CLUE-S …

Conservation organizations are increasingly turning to landscape approaches to achieve a
balance between conservation and development goals. We use six case studies in Africa …

For the winter-rainfall region of South Africa, the frequency of drought is predicted to
increase over the next 100 years, with dire consequences for the vegetation of this …

Synergies between biodiversity conservation objectives and ecosystem service
management were investigated in the Succulent Karoo biome (83,000 km 2) of South Africa …

We used several large data sets at a range of temporal and spatial scales to document the
land-use/land-cover change (LULCC) dynamics of the semi-arid Succulent Karoo and Nama …

The combined effects of erosive rains, steep slopes and human land use have caused
severe land degradation in the Ethiopian Highlands for several thousand years, but since …

National parks are often places where people have previously lived and worked-they have
been formed by a combination of natural and human processes that embody an identifiable …

The decline or loss of traditional social-ecological systems may induce adverse effects to the
societies and ecosystems. Transhumance, the recurring and seasonal movement of grazing …