A vegetation survey of the Cape of Good Hope Nature Reserve

Taylor, Hugh Colin

A vegetation survey of the Cape of Good Hope Nature Reserve

Master Thesis

1969

Publisher

University of Cape Town

Department

Department of Biological Sciences

Faculty

Faculty of Science

Abstract

The survey was undertaken on a 30 square mile (78 square kilometer) area at the southern tip of the Cape Peninsula, in the Cape Province of South Africa. The applicability of association-analysis to the distinctive fynbos vegetation found in the Mediterranean type climate of this region, was tested. Subjectively, two formations, Fynbos and Broad-leaved Scrub, were recognized. Fynbos was subdivided into two alliances, Coast and Inland, and ten individually described associations. The association-analysis, based on 100 grid samples each 5 x 10 metres in extent, revealed 23 final groups. To provide an independent assessment of association-analysis, synthesis tables were constructed from the original plot data. The blocks of species-in-plots, obtained by standardized manipulation of the tabulated data, appear to provide a better correlation with habitat than either the final or recombined groups of the association-analysis.

Keywords

Botany

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