Abstract Southern Africa's Greater Cape Floristic Region (GCFR)–a hotspot of biological
diversity and palaeo-anthropological evidence for modern human evolution–is a climatically …

Question: Is it feasible to establish a classification of large biotic units of the world related to
climatic types? Study area: The world. Methods: A total of 616 localities have been selected …

Aim Organisms on our planet form spatially congruent and functionally distinct communities,
which at large geographical scales are called “biomes”. Understanding their pattern and …

The Midlands region of KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) Province in South Africa was hitherto a
putative centre of floristic endemism (CFE) based on conjecture. The aim of this study was to …

Vegetation patterns of are the result of environmental drivers operating across a range of
ecological and evolutionary scale. Those vegetation patterns at global and continental …

Climatic, edaphic, and topographic differences between mountains and surrounding
lowlands result in mountains acting as terrestrial islands with high levels of endemic biota …

Understanding the relationship between climate and vegetation requires climate data to be
linked with ecological data, including habitat types and vegetation mapping. Our new R …

The extensive coastal forests in eastern southern Africa persist as a putative alternative
stable state in an open ecosystem mosaic that includes grassland and savanna. We …

Biome is a large-scale biotic community and its environment, defined using functional rather
than biodiversity-focused criteria of delimitation. Biotic communities are structured by drivers …

The alien tree Acacia melanoxylon (R. Br.) occurs extensively in the Southern Cape
Afrotemperate Forest (South Africa). Concerns exist about its potential negative effects on …