Vegetation gradients in Southern Cape mountains

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dc.contributor.advisorMoll, EJen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorBond, William Jen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2015-11-30T08:30:03Z
dc.date.available2015-11-30T08:30:03Z
dc.date.issued1981en_ZA
dc.description.abstractSouthern Cape Mountain fynbos has been little studied in the past so that management and planners have had to draw heavily on Western Cape experience. This study arose from the need to define local vegetation patterns and their interdependence with animal life, climate and soil as a necessary prerequisite to vegetation mapping and Fynbos is part of the diverse and complex Cape Floral Kingdom. Field taxonomy in fynbos is often problematic for trained botanists and is an overwhelming obstacle for mapping and monitoring of vegetation by untrained observers. Even the most unsophisticated observer, however, can recognize consistent variation in non-floristic characters such as vegetation height, density and the relative abundance of Proteaceae, small leaved shrubs and graminoid plants. A major aim of the study was thus to test the feasibility of deriving a non-floristic vegetation classification using easily learnt characters which had predictive value and was independent of the complication of high species turnover from one area to the next.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationBond, W. J. (1981). <i>Vegetation gradients in Southern Cape mountains</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Science ,Department of Biological Sciences. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/15453en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationBond, William J. <i>"Vegetation gradients in Southern Cape mountains."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Science ,Department of Biological Sciences, 1981. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/15453en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationBond, W. 1981. Vegetation gradients in Southern Cape mountains. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Bond, William J AB - Southern Cape Mountain fynbos has been little studied in the past so that management and planners have had to draw heavily on Western Cape experience. This study arose from the need to define local vegetation patterns and their interdependence with animal life, climate and soil as a necessary prerequisite to vegetation mapping and Fynbos is part of the diverse and complex Cape Floral Kingdom. Field taxonomy in fynbos is often problematic for trained botanists and is an overwhelming obstacle for mapping and monitoring of vegetation by untrained observers. Even the most unsophisticated observer, however, can recognize consistent variation in non-floristic characters such as vegetation height, density and the relative abundance of Proteaceae, small leaved shrubs and graminoid plants. A major aim of the study was thus to test the feasibility of deriving a non-floristic vegetation classification using easily learnt characters which had predictive value and was independent of the complication of high species turnover from one area to the next. DA - 1981 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 1981 T1 - Vegetation gradients in Southern Cape mountains TI - Vegetation gradients in Southern Cape mountains UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/15453 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/15453
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationBond WJ. Vegetation gradients in Southern Cape mountains. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Science ,Department of Biological Sciences, 1981 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/15453en_ZA
dc.language.isoengen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Biological Sciencesen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Scienceen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subject.otherBotanyen_ZA
dc.titleVegetation gradients in Southern Cape mountainsen_ZA
dc.typeMaster Thesis
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dc.type.qualificationnameMScen_ZA
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