Browsing Natural and Agricultural Sciences by Subject "Bush thickening"
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Composition and structure of woody vegetation in thickened and controlled bushveld savanna in the Molopo, South Africa
(North-West University (South Africa), 2016)A large portion of South Africa’s semi-arid Molopo Bushveld savanna is thickened (encroached) by indigenous increaser shrubs and trees (also known as bush encroachment), mainly as a result of poor grazing management ... -
Determining the effect of soil on bush encroachment between 1993 and 2018 in the North West Province
(North-West University (South Africa), 2022)Bush encroachment (BE) is a serious form of land degradation and South Africa alone has lost an estimated 8 million hectares (ha) of grazing or cultivation land due to BE. This consequently leads to decreased food security. ... -
Evaluation of restoration and management actions in the Molopo savanna of South Africa : an integrative perspective
(2013)The loss of ecosystem resilience and range-land (often referred to as veld in South Africa) productivity is a major problem in the semi-arid Savanna environments of southern Africa. The over-utilization of range-lands in ... -
Landscape function in bush thickened and -controlled areas of the semi-arid savanna in the Molopo region, South Africa
(North-West University, 2017)Bush thickening (bush encroachment) and the effects thereof on the environment has been a very well debated topic over the past few decades which led to the formation of two valid but rather opposite opinions. Pasture ...