European and African scientists have launched an ambitious project to review the current literature about useful plants of tropical Africa. From 2003 to 2013, researchers will examine and update all ...
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75% of Kilimanjaro's natural plants have been wiped out, and climate change isn't the biggest threat
Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania is sold to the world as frozen romance and pure nature. But the real story today is at its feet ...
Coastal dunes are increasingly at risk due to pressures deriving from global climate change, sea level rise, recreation and development. The consequences of the "coastal squeeze" in which dunes are ...
THE author of this volume spent six months' leave in South Africa in the latter half of 1921. During that time he introduced Livingston atmometers to South African botanists, distributed through the ...
Dominant vegetation types across Africa in Miocene climate simulations. each map shows the spatial distribution of major plant functional types (PFts) derived from simulations using the dynamic ...
In the dry regions of East Africa lives a group of animals unlike any others. Known as the Samburu Special Five to safari ...
"EUR 17322 Vegetation map of Central Africa, 1997." "Derived from NOAA AVHRR imagery." "A joint project between the Joint Research Centre and the European Space Agency was initiated in 1991 entitled ...
Why it's incredible: Kilimanjaro hosts huge, endemic plants called giant groundsels. On the middle-altitude slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro grows a strange plant not found anywhere else on Earth. The ...
Zander Venter receives funding from GreenMatter, the Oppenheimer Memorial Trust, Red Meat Producers Organization and Cape Wools SA. An example of woody plant encroachment over Eagle-Siding in South ...
The facts are mind-blowing – 9000 species in just 90,000 square-kilometres, making it even more rich and varied than the ...
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