Browsing by Author "van Rensburg, BJ"
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Ecotones: Marginal or central areas of transition?
Kark, S; van Rensburg, BJ (2006)Areas of environmental transition, where ecological communities coincide, are sometimes termed ecotones. These regions often correspond with sharp environmmental gradients. Ecotones occur at multiple spatial scales, ranging ... -
People, species richness and human population growth
Evans, KL; van Rensburg, BJ; Gaston, KJ; Chown, SL (BLACKWELL PUBLISHING, 2006-11-01)Aim To investigate how the magnitude of conservation conflicts arising from positive relationships between human population size and species richness is altered during a period of marked human population growth (2% year(-1)). ... -
The value of community-based conservation in a heterogeneous landscape: an avian case study from sand forest in Maputaland, South Africa
van Eeden, DG; van Rensburg, BJ; Bothma, J. du P.; De Wijn, M (2006)A local community adjacent to Tembe Elephant Park, which is the largest protected portion of sand forest in South Africa, recently nominated a portion of their land for a community-based natural resource management project ...