Biogeography And Ecology Of Southern Africa
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Biogeography and Ecology of Southern Africa
Author | : M. J. A. Werger,Adolf Cornelis van Bruggen |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 788 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Biogeography |
ISBN | : UCSD:31822006522932 |
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Biogeography and Ecology of Southern Africa
Author | : Marinus J.A. Werger,A.C. van Bruggen |
Publsiher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 1402 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9789400999510 |
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Southern Africa is certainly not a naturally bounded area so that there are several possibilities for delineating it and concepts about its extent. Wellington* discussed the various possibilities for delineation and suggested that one line stands out more clearly and definitely as a physical boundary than any other, namely the South Equatorial Divide, the watershed between the ZaIre, Cuanza and Rufiji Rivers on the one hand and the Z ambezi, Cunene and Rovuma Rivers on the other. This South Equatorial Divide is indeed a major line of separation for some organisms and is also applicable in a certain geographical sense, though it does not possess the slightest significance for many other groups of organisms, ecosystems or geographical and physical features of Africa. The placing of the northern boundary of southern Africa differs in fact strongly per scientific dis cipline and is also influenced by practical considerations regarding the possibilities of scientific work as subordinate to certain political realities and historically grown traditions. This is illustrated, for example, in such works as the Flora of Southern Africa, where the northern boundary of the area is conceived as the northern and eastern political boundaries of South West Africa, South Africa and Swaziland. Botswana, traditionally included in the area covered by the Flora Zambesiaca, thus forms a large wedge in 'Southern Africa'.
Biogeography and Ecosystems of South Africa
Author | : Michael Edward Meadows |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Biogeography |
ISBN | : CORNELL:31924050294184 |
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Southern African Landscapes and Environmental Change
Author | : Peter Jeremy Holmes,John Boardman |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1315537974 |
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This volume provides a textbook and reference work on the physical and biotic landscapes of Southern Africa. It examines the links between these environments and the ways in which they have been, are and will likely be subject to change. It covers the geomorphology, soils, vegetation and land use across a range of landscapes, including mountains, coasts, savannah, drylands and wetlands, and identifies the impacts of current and potential climate change and other factors on these environments. The geographical focus is on the region defined by Namibia, South Africa, Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Lesotho and Swaziland. Illustrated throughout in full colour, the book will serve as a reference volume for researchers and environmental professionals internationally, as well as a textbook for senior undergraduate and graduate-level students of geography, ecology and environmental studies in Southern Africa.
Bioclimatology and Biogeography of Africa
Author | : Henry N. Houérou |
Publsiher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2008-12-10 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9783540851929 |
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Covering an area of over 130 million km2 spanning the Mediterranean, equator and tropics, the African continent features a spectacular geographic diversity. Consequently, it is characterised by extremely variable climatic, edaphic and ecological conditions, associated with a wide range of natural vegetation and wildlife, as well as human population density, crops and livestock. In this book, Henry Le Houérou presents his bioclimatic and biogeographic classification of Africa. The extensive data provide the basis for comparisons between various African regions, and with regions on other continents such as Latin America or the Indian subcontinent. The results constitute a rational basis for national, regional and sub-regional rural development planning, and for agricultural research dealing with aspects such as plant and animal introductions, the extrapolation or interpolation of experimental or developmental findings, and ecosystems dynamics. Possible problems of applications are also examined.
African Ecology
Author | : Clive Spinage |
Publsiher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 1582 |
Release | : 2012-05-07 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9783642228711 |
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In view of the rapidly changing ecology of Africa ,this work provides benchmarks for some of the major, and more neglected, aspects, with an accent on historical data to enable habitats to be seen in relation to their previous state, forming a background reference work to understanding how the ecology of Africa has been shaped by its past. Reviewing historical data wherever possible it adopts an holistic view treating man as well as animals, with accent on diseases both human and animal which have been a potent force in shaping Africa’s ecology, a role neglected in ecological studies.
Biogeography and Ecology of the Rain Forests of Eastern Africa
Author | : Jon C. Lovett,Samuel K. Wasser |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2008-07-31 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0521068983 |
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Eastern African rain forests are remarkable in their high level of endemism. Miocene uplift of the central African plateau separated these montane and coastal forests from the main Guineo-Congolian forest of west and central Africa. Since then, stable Indian Ocean temperatures maintained a region of high rainfall throughout Pleistocene droughts that devastated forest elsewhere on the continent. Relics of the former Pan-African rain forest survived here, the study of which provides a unique insight into tropical evolutionary processes. This book brings together research on the animals, plants and geography of this intriguing residual forest, and highlights the need for effective management practices to conserve its exceptional biodiversity in the face of increasing pressure for land for cultivation.
African Biodiversity
Author | : Bernhard A. Huber,Bradley J. Sinclair,Karl-Heinz Lampe |
Publsiher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 2007-04-29 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780387243207 |
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In May 2004, the Alexander Koenig Zoological Research Museum hosted the Fifth International Symposium on Tropical Biology. This series was established at the ZFMK in the early 1980s, and has variably focused on systematics and ecology of tropical organisms, with an emphasis on Africa. Previous volumes are those edited by Schuchmann (1985), Peters and Hutterer (1990), Ulrich (1997), and Rheinwald (2000). The symposium in 2004 was organized by the Entomology Department under the direction of Michael Schmitt. The intention was to focus on Africa rather than on a particular taxon, and to highlight biodiversity at all levels ranging from molecules to ecosystems. This focus was timely partly because of the currently running BIOTA Africa programmes (BIOdiversity Monitoring Transect Analysis in Africa). BIOTA is an interdisciplinary research project focusing on sustainable use and conservation of biodiversity in Africa (http://www.biote-africa.de). Session titles were Biogeography and Speciation Processes, Phylogenetic Patterns and Systematics, Diversity Declines and Conservation, and Applied Biodiversity Informatics. Each session was opened by an invited speaker, and all together 77 lectures and 59 posters were presented. There were over 200 participants and it was gratifying to us to meet colleagues from 26 nations, including Russia, Ukraine, Japan, USA, and ten African countries. We thank all participants for their valuable contributions.