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Is your garden green? How to be kind to your garden
(Botanical Society of South Africa, 2008)
Years ago, there was plenty of open, natural veld surrounding our towns and it was rich in wildlife. As towns expanded the natural veld and wildlife shrank into patches between towns, factories and farm land. With this ...
Of sea lettuces and green sea intestines: common intertidal green seaweeds of the Cape Peninsula
(Botanical Society of South Africa, 2000)
Most of us know seaweed as that slippery stuff growing on the rocks or lying strewn along the beach at low tide making the beach smell. But do we really know much about them? Although not entirely true, seaweeds (or marine ...
Abalone farming in South Africa: an overview with perspectives on kelp resources, abalone feed, potential for on-farm seaweed production and socio-economic importance
(Elsevier, 2006)
The South African abalone cultivation industry has developed rapidly and is now the largest producer outside Asia. With a rapid decline in wild abalone fisheries, farming now dominates the abalone export market in South ...
Three species of Mastophora (Rhodophyta: Corallinales, Corallinaceae) in the tropical Indo-Pacific Ocean: M. rosea (C. Agardh) Setchell, M. pacifica (Heydrich) Foslie, and M. multistrata sp. nov
(International Phycological Society, 2009)
Three species of Mastophora (Corallinaceae, Corallinales, Rhodophyta) were found in extensive studies of non-geniculate coralline algae in various areas of the tropical Indo-Pacific, including French Polynesia, Fiji, Ryukyu ...
Don't cut that 'grass'
(Botanical Society of South Africa, 2006)
Introduction: Have you ever noticed the abundance
of wildflowers on public open
spaces during spring in Cape Town? I
suppose some Capetonians would be
aware of Rondebosch Common and
the astonishing botanical diversity ...
Scale insects on ericas : an apparently natural, unnoticeable threat to local biodiversity
(Botanical Society of South Africa, 2008)
Introduction: An excursion into the Limietberg Nature Reserve in the Bain's Kloof Mountains during the winter of 2006, one that I have undertaken regularly over the past ten years or so, had revealed a noticeably high ...
West Coast plants for a waterwise garden
(Botanical Society of South Africa, 2009)
The new gardening mantra is 'grow indigenous'. Besides their aesthetic value, most indigenous plants are less costly to maintain, largely because they have long adapted to the local climate and thus to the local rainfall. ...
You use seaweeds for that?
(Botanical Society of South Africa, 2006)
Introduction: The word seaweed is commonly used, yet to refer to these marine algae as 'weeds' is very far from the truth. Together with microscopic algae called phytoplankton and other photosynthetic organisms, seaweeds ...
Synarthrophyton papillatum sp. nov.: a new species of non-geniculate coralline algae (Rhodophyta, Corallinales, Hapalidiaceae) from South Africa and Namibia
(Elsevier, 2008)
Polychaete worm tubes within the mid to lower intertidal zone along the South African west coast were frequently observed to be overgrown by a minutely papillate species of encrusting coralline algae. Analysis of the ...
The growth of post-weaning abalone (Haliotis midae Linnaeus) fed commercially available formulated feeds supplemented with fresh wild seaweed
(National Inquiry Services Centre (NISC) and Taylor & Francis, 2008)
The effect of five formulated feeds, supplemented with fresh wild seaweed on the growth of post-weaning juvenile abalone (6 - 20
mm shell length), Haliotis midae Linnaeus was investigated by means of a growth trial at a ...