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Aliens in the nursery : assessing the awareness and attitudes of Cape Town nursery managers in regard to invasive species regulations

Author: Cronin, Kate Date: 2015 The horticultural industry is recognised as one of the major pathways for the introduction and spread of invasive alien plants (IAPs). In recognition of this, the South African government has recently enacted a new set of Alien and Invasive ... Read more
A long-term record of the physiological plasticity of stomatal condactance in Proteaceae

Author: Cronin, Kate Date: 2013 Bioclimatic models suggest that Protea species are likely to be severely affected by predicted increases in temperature and reductions in rainfall in the Western Cape. However, throughout their 400 million year history, land plants have been ... Read more
Reconstructing the late pleistocene palaeoenvironment of the Richtersveld using fossil charcoal

Author: Cronin, Kate Date: 2013 The Succulent Karoo is recognised as an important biodiversity hotspot and many of the key plant lineages that characterise the biome are thought to have originated during the Pleistocene epoch. However, due to the paucity of palaeobiological ... Read more

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