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Biodiversity in southern Africa - book contents
(vol. 1-3)
» 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”.
The “backbone” of BIOTA Southern
Africa is a globally unique
transect through six biomes with 37
BIOTA Observatories of 1 km² each,
on which biodiversity data of
various taxa (lichens, biological
soil crusts, vascular plants,
millipedes, several taxa of
insects) as well as the major
drivers of biodiversity (weather,
soil, land use) have been recorded
according to standardised
protocols. For the vegetation
(vascular plants), the sampling was
particularly elaborate with many
replicates, different spatial
scales, and annual repetition.
Volume 1 reports on the sampling
methods and presents the
biodiversity baseline data for all
Observatories in a detailed and
informative manner. Volume 2
analyses the data along the
transect and in relation to climate
and land use change. Finally,
Volume 3 combines the results from
the various disciplines into
integrated views per biome, linking
findings of the natural sciences to
socioeconomic perspectives.
With its attractive full-colour
layout, its magnificent
photographs, and its moderate
price, the series is not only
attractive for scientists of the
included disciplines (botany,
zoology, ecology, soil science,
agriculture, social sciences, etc.)
but also practitioners (farmers,
conservationists, politicians), and
interested lay-men. Thanks to the
uniqueness of the presented data
from a subcontinent particularly
susceptible to climate change and
the innovative sampling approach,
the series will also be valuable to
researchers outside southern
Africa.
The series was launched in South
Africa during the Arid Zone Ecology
Forum (AZEF) conference in Gariep
Dam (Free State Province, South
Africa), between 4th and 7th
October 2010. Further public launch
events are planned for Namibia and
Germany in October and November
2010.
Jürgens, N., Haarmeyer, D. H.,
Luther-Mosebach, J., Dengler, J.,
Finckh, M., Schmiedel, U. (2010)
[Eds.]: Biodiversity in southern
Africa. Volume 1: Patterns at local
scale – the BIOTA Observatories.
– XX + 801 pp., Klaus Hess
Publishers, Göttingen & Windhoek.
Schmiedel, U., Jürgens, N.
[Eds.]: Biodiversity in southern
Africa. Volume 2: Patterns and
processes at regional scale. –
XII + 348 pp., Klaus Hess
Publishers, Göttingen & Windhoek.
Hoffman, M. T., Schmiedel, U.,
Jürgens, N. (2010) [Eds.]:
Biodiversity in southern Africa.
Volume 3: Implications for landuse
and management. – XII + 226 pp.
+ CD-ROM, Klaus Hess Publishers,
Göttingen & Windhoek.
Namibia and South Africa:
ISBN: 978-99916-57-30-1;
suggested retail price: 600.00 N$/ZAR
Germany and rest of the
world:
ISBN: 978-3-933117-44-1; fixed
retail price in Germany: 75.00 €
Contact to the publisher:
URL:
www.k-hess-verlag.de
E-mail:
mail@k-hess-verlag.de
Contact to the editors:
E-mail:
biotabook@biota-africa.org
Further information about the
BIOTA AFRICA projects:
URL:
http://www.biota-africa.org/
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