Estimation and monitoring of soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks is important for maintaining
soil productivity and meeting climate change mitigation targets. Current global SOC maps do …

The field of plant population ecology has advanced considerably in the last decade since
the first edition was published. In particular there have been substantial and ongoing …

Considerable efforts and resources are being invested in integrated conservation and
restoration interventions in rural arid areas. Empirical research for quantifying ecosystem …

We synthesize recent literature concerned with the nature, extent and rate of vegetation
change in the Albany thicket, Grassland and Nama-karoo biomes of the semi-arid, south …

Ecosystem restoration and reforestation often operate at large scales, whereas monitoring
practices are usually limited to spatially restricted field measurements that are (i) time-and …

The hypothesis that transformation of rangelands by domestic mesoherbivores follows state-
and-transition models allows for the prediction that the vegetation could cross an ecological …

Landscape processes fluctuate over time, influencing the intra-annual dynamics of
ecosystem services. However, current ecosystem service assessments generally do not …

Landscapes of the eastern Cape Floristic Region are extremely rich in biomes. Analysis of
the determinants of boundaries between biomes can generate insights and predictions that …

Investigations were made of plant and soil responses to severe degradation through heavy
grazing and browsing in arid, succulent, subtropical thicket. Severe degradation of thicket is …

The effects of goat grazing and woody charcoal production are analysed on the diversity,
structure, production and regeneration of the xerophytic thickets in southwestern …