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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 ...
The South African Astronomical Observatory: a treasure house of history and biodiversity
(Botanical Society of South Africa, 2010)
Traces the history of the Royal Observatory Cape of Good Hope, today known as the South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO). Describes the flora and its management.
Kelp forests: forests of a different kind
(Botanical Society of South Africa, 2011)
The United Nations (UN) Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) defines a forest as being 'more than 0.5 ha with trees higher than 5 m and a canopy cover of more than 10%, or trees able to reach these thresholds in situ', ...
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 ...
Abundance and species composition of non-geniculate coralline red algae epiphytic on the South African populations of the rocky shore seagrass Thalassodendron leptocaule M.C. Duarte, Bandeira & Romeiras
(Elsevier, 2013)
Seagrasses support a great diversity of epiphytic organisms and new research has
shown that non-geniculate coralline red algae are important occupiers of space on
the fronds of seagrasses. Except for a few scant records, ...
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 ...
Two new melobesioid algae (Corallinales, Rhodophyta), Synarthrophyton robbenense sp. nov. and S. munimentum sp. nov., in South Africa and Namibia
(International Phycological Society, 1997)
Synarthrophyton robbenense sp. nov. and S. munimentum sp. nov., the fourth and fifth species in this apparently southern hemisphere genus, are described from southern Africa. Synarhrophyton robbenense occurs on rock and ...