Impact of land use on vegetation composition, diversity, and selected soil properties of wetlands in the southern Drakensberg mountains, South Africa

Wetlands Ecology and Management

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 329-348

  Walters, D J J ^a   Kotze, D C ^b   O'Connor, T G ^c  

^a Wildlife and Environment Society of South Africa   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Carbon; Communal; Cultivation; DCA; Invasives; Oxbows; Plant diversity; South Africa

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; GRAZING PRESSURE; LAND USE; ORDINATION; PLANT COMMUNITY; SOIL CARBON; SOIL NITROGEN; SOIL PROPERTY; VEGETATION; WETLAND;

AFRICA; DRAKENSBERG; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

RUBUS CUNEIFOLIUS; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 33746454751     PISSN: 09234861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11273-005-4990-5     Document Type: Article

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