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| Presentation |
Poster presentation |
| Title |
Combining Plant Functional Types and Landscape Functional Analysis - possible new tool for rangeland managers?
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| Short title |
Improved Rangeland Monitoring for Central Namibia
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| Author(s) |
Strohbach, M.; Van Rooyen, G.
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| Presenting author |
Strohbach, M.
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| Institution(s) |
Department of Plant Science, University of Pretoria
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| Keywords |
Plant Functional Types; Landscape Functional Analysis; rapid monitoring tool
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| Abstract |
Small-scale changes in soil characteristics and associated distribution of vegetation over time can be rapidly recorded on an annual or bi-annual basis by land-users themselves, using the Landscape Functional Analyses (LFA) method. Combining LFA with easily-understood Plant Functional Types, instead of just vegetation cover as used by the LFA method, can provide the land-user with valuable insights of the impact of his land-use practices. As the method is rapid to apply, simple to understand and provides easy descriptions of plant types and soil surface characteristics, it may prove to be a scientifically based method that is acceptable to land-users with little spare time and unfamiliar with scientific terminology or plant names. However, initial trials of this method have shown that it will have to be extensively tested over a range of vegetation types and vegetation states, before values obtained by this survey can be meaningfully interpreted in the Namibian context.
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Process Analysis
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