Weather data
A large number of automatic weather stations has been implemented in the frame of the BIOTA AFRICA project by the Namibian National Botanical Research Institute (NBRI) and the Group "Biodiversity, Evolution and Ecology" (BEE) of the University of Hamburg. The website offers hourly updates of data and graphs of a large number of weather parameters.


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Subproject S12

Subproject Coordination: Dr. Cornelia B. Krug, Conservation Ecology Department, University of Stellenbosch, Private Bag X1, Matieland 7602, South Africa
ckrug@sun.ac.za

Collaborators: Prof MJ Samways, Department of Entomology, University of Stellenbosch, Private Bag X1, Matieland 7602, South Africa
samways@sun.ac.za

Prof MA McGeoch, Conservation Ecology Department, University of Stellenbosch, Private Bag X1, Matieland 7602, South Africa
mcgeoch@sun.ac.za

Zoological Diversity in transformed landscapes of the Western Cape, South Africa

Subproject S12 investigates the impact of human induced land transformation on zoological diversity across a range of taxa. In the Western Cape, more than 90% of the Lowland vegetation types (Renosterveld and Sand Fynbos) have been transformed due to agriculture and urbanisation. This transformation left the natural vegetation highly fragmented, and small vegetation remnants are often isolated and surrounded by agricultural fields or urban areas. In addition, the vegetation found in these natural vegetation fragments degraded, as natural ecological processes are interrupted. Within a number of project, we want to determine the response of zoo-diversity to human induced land transformation, and which factors contribute to changes in species assemblages.

Studies for this subproject are located in the southernmost observatories of the BIOTA transect: Cape Point, Elandsberg, Riverlands and Rocherpan.

Workpackages:  WP1  WP2  WP3  WP4