Conservation Services

Garden Route: Scientific Services

Publications and Popular Articles

A selection of manuscripts published by Garden Route (Rondevlei Unit) in recent years can be downloaded below:

Articles - Complete Documents

• Alien Mediterranean Mussel invades the South Coast
• European Nightjar at Wilderness National Park
• Fire brings life to the Renosterveld of Bontebok National Park
• Guidelines for the Rehabilitation of Decommissioned Plantations in the Southern Cape
• High conservation importance estuaries: the pride of the Garden Route
• Indigenous freshwater fishes threatened by alien onslaught
• Rare orchids and gladiolus finds in the Garden Route
• Rare plants no rarity in Fynbos Parks
• Role of Tsitsikamma’s Marine Protected Area in Fisheries Management
• To salvage or not to salvage – A SANParks dilemma
  
• What is a RAMSAR site?
• Evaluating of Themeda triandra an indicator for monitoring
• Past approaches and future challenges to the management of fire and invasive alien plants (2MB)
• Towards Adaptive Fire Management for Biodiversity Conservation
• Fishery Monitoring within Natures Valley
• The Mosquitofish, a recent introduction?
• Results of 2003/2004 Line Fishery Survey
• Does size really matter?
• The Unassuming Mudprawn
• Some pointers on Fishing Regulations
• Wilderness Lakes Bathymetry Mapping
• The cost of ignorance and non-compliance
• A passion for Sustainable Conservation
• The who, where and when of Knysna Angling
• The Knysna Seahorse
  

Abstracts

• Assessing Conservation priorities in the Benguela Ecosystem
• Changes in the distribution of emergent aquatic plants
• Effects of cutting Phragmites australis along an inundation gradient
• Effects of rain, nitrogen, fire and grazing on tree recruitment
• Invasion of an indigenous Perna perna mussel bed on the south coast of SA
• Invasion of sandflats in Langebaan Lagoon, SA
• Molt of the African penguin
• Patterns of endemism within the Karoo Nationa Park, SA
• Patterns of immigration to and emmigration from breeding colonies by African penguins
• Patterns of movements of the African penguin in SA and Namibia
• Vegetation changes in semi-arid Karoo shrubland, SA
• How No-Man’s Land is now everyone’s problem
• Changing the Fire Management Regime in Renosterveld and Lowland Fynbos
• Habitat Selection by large herbivores in relation to fire
• Recovery of dune fynbos – out of the dead land
• Flora of Bontebok National Park in a Regional Perspective

Pamphlets

• IUCN Red List Plant Species of GRNP
• Recreational Fishing Regulations and Information

Posters

• Fallow Land Recovery at Postberg - West Coast National Park
• Fire History at Bontebok National Park
• Monitoring of Environmental Indicators in Saline Aquatic Ecosystems - Wilderness National Park
• Recovery of Southern Cape Dune Fynbos
• Flora of Bontebok National Park