Plant Conservation Unit at Interfaces 2008
A joint meeting of the Fynbos and Arid Zone Ecology Fora took place at Oudtshoorn, 3 -7th August. The meeting provided the Plant Conservation Unit with an opportunity to showcase our work and share ideas with fellow researchers and conservation practitioners.
- Director of the Unit, Professor Timm Hoffman gave an invited presentation, “that was then … this is now” on the theme of disturbances through time and space.
- Pippin Anderson gave a prize-winning presentation on her PhD research on the effects of grazing in the Kamiesberg.
- Fiona Ballantyne spoke on her MSc research on Palaeoecology and Fire management in the Cederberg Wilderness Area.
- Ryan Blanchard presented results from the re-survey and analysis of the Cape Peninsula permanent vegetation plots.
- Daniela Bonora gave a poster presentation illustrating her work on the collapse of the Calnwilliam Cedar
- Peter Carrick, Raldo Kruger and Andre Mayer described the achievements of the Namaqualand Restoration Initiative, and held a workshop on carrying capacity related issues in the Karoo.
- Visiting researcher Ryan Chisholm (Princeton University) presented his work on ecosystem services and price elasticity.
- Lindsey Gillson gave a plenary address on “Thresholds in the Palaeo-record”.
- Rainer Krug presented a poster on the management of Invasive alien plants in the Cape Floristic Region.
- Igshaan Samuels spoke on livestock mobility on the commons of Namaqualand.
- Simon Todd described the influence of soils and geology on the vegetation of the Bokkeveld plateau.
- Thuli Wistebaar presented results of her MSc project on remote sensing of land degradation in the arid grasslands of Bushmanland.
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