What constitutes a successful biodiversity corridor? A Q-study in the Cape Floristic Region, South Africa

S West, R Cairns, L Schultz - Biological Conservation, 2016 - Elsevier
… the effectiveness of various habitat patterns to ensure particular … for designing, implementing,
and participating in CFR … successful biodiversity corridors must address a range of goals, …

The Gauteng Conservation Plan: Planning for biodiversity in a rapidly urbanising province

PC Compaan, CA Whittington-Jones… - … & Conservation, 2017 - journals.co.za
… Plan identifies a set of areas that are required to achieve conservation targets. It is important
that … The efficiency of a conservation plan for a rapidly developing and economically active …

Ecological research and conservation management in the Cape Floristic Region between 1945 and 2015: history, current understanding and future challenges

BW Van Wilgen, KJ Esler, M Gaertner… - Transactions of the …, 2016 - journals.co.za
… expanded beyond the modest targets proposed by the Wicht … Conservation of what today
are known as “biodiversity … , initiating vegetation surveys, developing new fodder grasses, …

Assessing the effectiveness of Environmental Impact Assessment as a safeguard to biodiversity in the Cape Floristic Region of South Africa

G Nortje - 2017 - open.uct.ac.za
… • Biodiversity pattern (or composition): biodiversity pattern … land important for meeting targets
of biodiversity pattern. Secondly, … developing maps that show spatial biodiversity priorities”. …

[HTML][HTML] Identifying biodiversity knowledge gaps for conserving South Africa's endemic flora

LN Hoveka, M van Der Bank, BS Bezeng… - … and Conservation, 2020 - Springer
… challenge for megadiverse, developing countries, were the … Spatial patterns of observed
and projected endemic richness … This biome falls within the Cape Floristic Region biodiversity

Response of plant-pollinator interactions to landscape transformations in the Greater Cape Floristic Region (GCFR) biodiversity hotspot

OA Adedoja - 2019 - scholar.sun.ac.za
ABSTRACT: Landscape transformation is one of the leading causes of global biodiversity
decline. This decline is seen in terms of loss of species of ecological importance, and the …

Vegetation type conservation targets, status and level of protection in KwaZulu-Natal in 2016

D Jewitt - Bothalia-African Biodiversity & Conservation, 2018 - journals.co.za
… Wetlands form a major part of the landscape in KZN and have distinct floristic communities
… relative to the conservation target. In SA, conservation targets are the target for the amount of …

Planning for the maintenance of floristic diversity in the face of land cover and climate change

D Jewitt, PS Goodman, BFN Erasmus… - Environmental …, 2017 - Springer
… to major climatic gradients driving floristic pattern. We used Linkage … a framework for developing
landscape connectivity using … followed the provincial conservation targets and status, as …

Shifting baselines in a changing world: Identifying management targets in endangered heathlands of the Cape Floristic Region, South Africa

CJ Forbes, L Gillson, MT Hoffman - Anthropocene, 2018 - Elsevier
… Renosterveld fragments is critical to biodiversity conservation in this endangered habitat. …
facilitates comparisons and the identification of patterns that are robust across both data types. …

[HTML][HTML] Do Centres of Endemism provide a spatial context for predicting and preserving plant phylogeographic patterns in the Cape Floristic Region, South Africa?

NC Galuszynski, AJ Potts - PeerJ, 2020 - peerj.com
… Understanding spatial patterns of biodiversity is necessary to … subsequently used to define
conservation targets, were done on … for: developing phylogeographic research, aiding future …