Author:Majozi, Nobuhle P; Mannaerts, CM; Ramoelo, Abel; Mathieu, Renaud SA; Nickless, A; Verhoef, WDate:Jul 2017Flux towers provide essential terrestrial climate, water, and radiation budget information needed for environmental monitoring and evaluation of climate change impacts on ecosystems and society in general. They are also intended for calibration ...Read more
Author:Kaszta, Z; Marino, J; Ramoelo, Abel; Wolff, EDate:Mar 2016The distribution and behaviour of African large grazers are regulated primarily from the bottom up, with some species showing clear preferences for certain vegetation types. While the African buffalo (Syncerus caffer) is sometimes considered ...Read more
Author:Landmann, TDate:Jul 2003Burn severity was quantitatively mapped using a unique linear spectral mixture model to determine sub-pixel abundances of different ashes and combustion completeness measured on the corresponding fire-affected pixels in Landsat data. A new ...Read more
Author:Van Wilgen, BW; Biggs, HCDate:Apr 2011This paper uses five inter-related topics (the management of rivers, fire regimes, invasive alien species, rare antelope and elephants) to assess 15 years of adaptive management in the Kruger National Park (KNP), South Africa. The importance ...Read more
Author:Archibald, SA; Kirton, A; Van der Merwe, Martina R; Scholes, RJ; Williams, CA; Hanan, NDate:2009Inter-annual variability in primary production and ecosystem respiration was explored using eddy-covariance data at a semi-arid savanna site in the Kruger Park, South Africa. New methods of extrapolating night-time respiration to the entire ...Read more
Author:Bengis, R; Govender, D; Lane, E; Myburgh, J; Oberholster, Paul J; Buss, P; Prozesky, L; Keet, DDate:Oct 2016Over the past decade, several clustered, multispecies, wildlife mortality events occurred in the vicinity of two man-made earthen dams in the southern and south central regions of the Kruger National Park, South Africa. On field investigation, ...Read morecbd
Author:Govender, N; Trollope, WSW; Van Wilgen, BWDate:Aug 2006Fire is important for the maintenance and conservation of African savanna ecosystems. Despite the importance of fire intensity as a key element of the fire regime, it is seldom measured or included in fire records. 2. We estimated fire intensity ...Read more
Author:Oberholster, Paul J; Myburgh, JG; Govender, D; Bengis, R; Botha, A-MDate:2009The eutrophic process potentially caused by a high urine and faecal load resulting from an unusually high hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibious) density in the Nhlanganzwane Dam, Kruger National Park, South Africa, triggered a chain of events ...Read more
Author:Buitenwerf, R; Bond, WJ; Stevens, N; Trollope, WSWDate:Feb 2012For the past century, woody plants have increased in grasslands and savannas worldwide. Woody encroachment may significantly alter ecosystem functioning including fire regimes, herbivore carrying capacity, biodiversity and carbon storage ...Read more
Author:Wessels, Konrad J; Prince, SD; Zambatis, N; Macfadyen, S; Frost, PE; Van Zyl, DDate:Mar 2006The relationship between multi-year (1989-2003), herbaceous biomass and 1-km(2) Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) data in Kruger National Park (KNP), South Africa is considered. The ...Read more
Author:Eckhardt, HC; Van Wilgen, BW; Biggs, HDate:Jun 2000South Africa’s Kruger National Park is one of the largest conservation areas in Africa. In 1940, 1974 and 1998 changes in the cover and density of shrubs and trees were assessed from aerial photographs, and in 1984 and 1996 fixed-point ...Read more