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The Role of Environmental Factors in Promoting and Limiting Biological Invasions in South Africa
South Africa is a megadiverse country in terms of biodiversity, with continental South Africa composed of nine terrestrial biomes. This diversity is in part due to the wide range of climatic and topographic co...
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Soil infiltrability as a driver of plant cover and species richness in the semi-arid Karoo, South Africa
Data from 199 plots in the semi-arid Karoo showed that relationships between soil infiltrability and plant cover/species richness, as depicted by boundary lines, yielded ecological insights not evident if only...
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Transformation of thicket to savanna reduces soil quality in the Eastern Cape, South Africa
Xeric succulent thicket in the Eastern Cape, South Africa has been used for farming goats since the early 1900s. This habitat is characterised by a dense cover of the succulent bush Portulacaria afra and by a war...