Publications

NEW:Wild Flowers of the Roggeveld and Tanqua by Helga van de Merwe in collaboraton with Gretal van Rooyen

The guide covers some 411 plant species with photographs and descriptions are given for all of these. More »

Plants of the Klein Karoo by Jan Vlok and Anne Lise Schutte-Vlok

The guide covers some 1 445 plant species, illustrations and descriptions are given for all of these. In addition, a CD with 2 000 images and a high resolution habitat map is included with the book. It will be useful to landowners, farmers, conservation managers, students and visitors to this unique area.
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Biodiversity in southern Africa (3-Volume series)

Recently, the 3-volume series “Biodiversity in southern Africa” has been published. On nearly 1,500 pages, 200 researchers from various countries report on the results of one decade of joint research by South African, Namibian, and German institutions within the project “BIOTA Southern Africa”.
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AZEF 2007: Related papers published in Volume 105 of the South African Journal of Science

The 2007 Arid Zone Ecology Forum meeting focussed specifically on drought in southern Africa's arid areas. Many of the speakers who attended, and the two associated Farmers' workshops, were funded by the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF), through their Succulent Karoo Ecosystem Partnership (SKEP) fund. A suite of papers emerged from that meeting, and are have been published in Volume 105 of the South African Journal of Science. They are posted here with kind permission from The Editor, SAJS.
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Ecological Best-Practice Livestock Production Guidelines for the Namakwa District

The “Ecological Best-Practice Livestock Production Guidelines for the Namakwa District” was produced by the Karoo Consortium (comprising Simon Todd, Sue Milton, Richard Dean, Peter Carrick and Andre Meyer) with funding from SKEP/CEPF through the Botanical Society of South Africa’s Namakwa District Products Project.
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