An African account of ecosystem service provision: Use, threats and policy options for sustainable livelihoods

BN Egoh, PJ O'Farrell, A Charef, LJ Gurney… - Ecosystem …, 2012 - Elsevier
Scientific work on ecosystem services has been growing globally as well as in Africa.
Human dependence on provisioning ecosystem services in particular is mostly …

Developing products for conservation decision‐making: lessons from a spatial biodiversity assessment for South Africa

B Reyers, M Rouget, Z Jonas… - Diversity and …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
South Africa's first national assessment of spatial priorities for biodiversity conservation,
released in 2005, aimed to identify conservation priority areas for mainstreaming into all …

Potential impacts of climatic change on southern African birds of fynbos and grassland biodiversity hotspots

B Huntley, P Barnard - Diversity and Distributions, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Aim To examine potential impacts of climatic change on bird species richness of the fynbos
and grassland biomes, especially on species of conservation concern, and to consider …

[PDF][PDF] The prioritization of species and primary catchments for the purposes of guiding invasive alien plant control operations in the terrestrial biomes of South Africa

BW van Wilgen, GG Forsyth… - Unpublished report. CSIR …, 2008 - dws.gov.za
1. Invasive alien plant control requires the allocation of limited resources to control
operations to maximise benefits. The priorities for such allocation are based on a mixture of …

How much information do managers need? The sensitivity of ecosystem service decisions to model complexity

H Tallis, S Polasky - Natural capital: Theory and practice of …, 2011 - books.google.com
Natural systems and human systems are inherently complex. When they are examined as
coupled systems, which is necessary for the valuation of ecosystem services, the complexity …