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A status quo, vulnerability and adaptation assessment of the physical and socio-economic effects of climate change in the Western Cape

Author: Midgley, G F ; Chapman, R A ; Hewitson, B ; Johnston, P ; de Wit, M ; Ziervogel, G ; Mukheibir, P ; van Niekerk, L ; Tadross, M ; van Wilgen, B W ; Kgope, B ; Morant, P D ; Theron, A ; Scholes, R J ; Forsyth, G G Date: 2005 The South African Country Study on Climate Change, carried out in the late 1990’s, identified the Northern and Western Cape Provinces as being most at risk from projected climate change-induced warming and rainfall change (results of this ... Read more
What controls South African vegetation - climate or fire?

Author: Bond, W J ; Midgley, G F ; Woodward, F I Date: 2003 The role of fire in determining biome distribution in South Africa has long been debated. Acocks labelled veld types that he thought were ‘fire climax’ as ‘false’. He hypothesised that their current extent was due to extensive forest clearance ... Read more

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