scholarly journals Subadult male Flap-necked Chameleon, Chamaeleo dilepsis, day-resting in a small bush in Telperion Nature Reserve, South Africa. This species' common name derives from the large and movable flaps that protrude from either side of the upper surface of the n

Ethology ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 123 (8) ◽  
pp. i-i
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Nature Reserve ◽  
Subadult Male

An encapsulated haemogregarine from the evileye pufferfish in South Africa

2001 ◽  
Vol 81 (5) ◽  
pp. 751-754 ◽  
Author(s):  
N.J. Smit ◽  
A.J. Davies
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Nature Reserve ◽  
Developmental Stages ◽  
The Third ◽  
Blood Smears

Developmental stages of a haemogregarine were found within polychromatocytes and erythrocytes in Giemsa-stained blood smears from six evileye pufferfish (Amblyrhynchotes honckenii) caught at Koppie Alleen in the De Hoop Nature Reserve, South Africa. This unusual haemogregarine, Haemogregarina (sensu lato) koppiensis sp. nov., was characterized by encapsulated gamonts with recurved tails, features more common in haemogregarines infecting amphibian and reptilian erythrocytes than in those from fish. Haemogregarina koppiensis is only the third species of fish haemogregarine to have been described from South Africa.

scholarly journals The vegetation of the southern Langeberg, Cape Province. 2. The plant communities of the Marloth Nature Reserve

Bothalia ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 153-174 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. J. Mcdonald
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Plant Communities ◽  
Nature Reserve ◽  
Hierarchical Classification ◽  
Forest Patches ◽  
Afromontane Forest ◽  
Lower South ◽  
Mature Stands

The Marloth Nature Reserve, encompassing the mountain catchments of the southern Langeberg immediately above Swellendam, Cape Province. South Africa, is described. The vegetation of the reserve was sampled along a transect representing the variation in plant communities over the range from the lower south to the lower north slopes. Eighty-three sample sites were subjectively located in mature stands of fynbos vegetation (10 years old). The relev£ data were initially classified using TWINSPAN and then refined by Braun-Blanquet (BB) phytosociological procedures. The Afromontane Forest patches which occur mainly on the lower south slopes were not sampled but are briefly discussed. The fynbos plant communities are described, based on tables, and a hierarchical classification is proposed.

scholarly journals Home range utilization by chacma baboon (Papio ursinus) troops on Suikerbosrand Nature Reserve, South Africa

PLoS ONE ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. e0194717 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kerry Slater ◽  
Alan Barrett ◽  
Leslie R. Brown
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Home Range ◽  
Nature Reserve ◽  
Papio Ursinus ◽  
Chacma Baboon

Clivia mirabilis (Amaryllidaceae: Haemantheae) a new species from Northern Cape, South Africa

Bothalia ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. P. Rourke
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
New Species ◽  
Vegetative Growth ◽  
Mediterranean Climate ◽  
Nature Reserve ◽  
Late Summer ◽  
Distribution Area ◽  
Early Autumn ◽  
Northern Cape ◽  
A New Species

Clivia mirabilis Rourke is a new pendulous tubular-flowered species from Oorlogskloof Nature Reserve in Northern Cape. Its distribution area is some 800 km outside the previously accepted range of the genus Clivia. This sun-tolerant species is adapted to an arid Mediterranean climate, producing vegetative growth in winter and maturing its seeds rapidly in late summer/early autumn to synchronize with the arrival of winter rains.

Vegetation and vegetation-environment relationships at Grootbos Nature Reserve, Western Cape, South Africa

Bothalia ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Mergili ◽  
S. Privett
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Nature Reserve ◽  
Soil Depth ◽  
Vegetation Type ◽  
Cape Floristic Region ◽  
Western Cape ◽  
Floristic Diversity ◽  
Rock Cover ◽  
Scrub Forest ◽  
Fire Incidence

The private Grootbos Nature Reserve is located at the Western edge of the Agulhas Plain in the Cape Floristic Region of South Africa, an area characterized by high habitat and floristic diversity. The Reserve is covered in near-natural fynbos shrublands with a few patches of forest and wetland. The main objective of this study was to classify the vegetation into discrete units and relate them to the prevailing environmental conditions. The vegetation was analysed by numerical means (TWINSPAN, DC A, CCA) and mapped on GIS. At the vegetation type level. Forest Thicket and Fynbos formed distinctive clusters, whereas the wetland releves were intermixed, but without relationships to one of these units. Fire incidence served as the major determinant of the forest-fynbos boundary. The Forest Thicket grouping was separated into Thicket (as transitional to fynbos), Afromontane Forest and Milkwood Scrub Forest. Two broad complexes were distinguished within the Fynbos grouping, the Alkaline Sand Fynbos Complex corresponding to Coastal Fynbos. and the Acid Sand Fynbos Complex corresponding to Mountain Fynbos. They discriminated along gradients of pH. soil depth and rock cover. The complexes were further subdivided into formations by using one or a few subjectively chosen dominant species as indicators. The transitions between these formations were rather continuous than discrete. The vegetation type and complex levels correspond well to existing fynbos-wide classifications. Comparing the formations to the results of other vegetation studies is problematic even on the scale of the Agulhas Plain, due to the high regional plant diversity in the Fynbos Biome.

A phytosociological classification of the Rustenburg Nature Reser ve

Bothalia ◽  
1975 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 561-580 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. J. Coetzee
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Nature Reserve ◽  
Vegetation Types ◽  
Habitat Features ◽  
Community Types

I he vegetation of the Rustenburg Nature Reserve, situated on the Magaliesberg in Acocks’s (1953) Sour Bushveld veld Type ot South Africa, is classified by the Braun-Blanquet Method. Five major vegetation types, including mam subtypes, basic community types, variations and sub-variations are described floristically, physiognomically and in terms of habitat features. The vegetation is mapped at community tvpe and variation level, at a scale of 1 : 30 000.

A Phytosociological Study of the Cape Fynbos and other Vegetation at Jonkershoek, Stellenbosch

Bothalia ◽  
1972 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 599-614 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. J. A. Werger ◽  
F. J. Kruger ◽  
H. C. Taylor
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Nature Reserve ◽  
Forest Vegetation ◽  
Western Cape ◽  
The South ◽  
Cape Fynbos ◽  
Phytosociological Study

The Braun-Blanquet phytosociological method was tested in the complex Fynbos vegetation of the South-western Cape Region o f South Africa. In the Swartboschkloof Nature Reserve, Jonkers- hoek, the Fynbos, riverine scrub and forest vegetation was classified preliminarily into eight com­munities, which are described floristically and related to habitat. The results hold promise, and the possibilities of classifying the Cape Fynbos in a formal phytosociological system are discussed.

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