Author: Janine E. VictorPublisher: National Botanical Institute Sabonet
ISBN: 9781919976013
Category : Botanical specimens
Languages : en
Pages : 93
Book Description
Herbarium Essentials
Author: Janine E. VictorPublisher: National Botanical Institute Sabonet
ISBN: 9781919976013
Category : Botanical specimens
Languages : en
Pages : 93
Book Description
The Status and Distribution of Freshwater Biodiversity in Southern Africa
Author: Will DarwallPublisher: IUCN
ISBN: 2831711266
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 131
Book Description
CD ROM to accompany this book available from Library Office.
Plants of the Nyika Plateau
Author: John Eric BurrowsPublisher: Southern African Botancial Diversity Network
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Bothalia
Author: Strategic Opportunism: What Works in Africa
Author: Brian John HuntleyPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031248805
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 149
Book Description
This open access book. provides a synthesis of six projects, across ten countries, each of which have been sustained for two or more decades, and which illustrate how success can be achieved regardless of systems of governance, of a nation’s wealth, or of culture. Detailed narratives are presented on the key personalities that have conceived, conducted and concluded long-term projects: personal stories of vision, failure, frustration and persistence ultimately leading to success. The case studies vary widely in their geography and goals. The single-handed commitment to re-discover the last surviving populations of Giant Sable in the miombo woodlands of central Angola, through the capture, translocation and establishment of robust breeding herds of this magnificent antelope, contrasts with the massively funded, three-decade programme with over one hundred participants that reversed the annual loss to predation by feral cats of 455 000 seabirds from a sub-Antarctic island. Similarly, the foresight of Zimbabwean and Namibian ecologists to place rural communities at the centre of conservation programmes by giving value to wildlife populations and benefits to local people, transformed a land degradation problem to a socio-ecological solution. Across ten countries, building capacity in botanical collection, documentation and herbarium management expanded into a global project to place the knowledge base of Africa’s flora onto an electronic data system accessible to researchers and conservation planners in even the most remote corners of the continent. None of these projects enjoyed immediate results. Each required leadership skills that combined vision, a generosity of spirit, fortuitous timing and the exploitation of unexpected opportunities.
Plant Names
Author: Roger SpencerPublisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN: 064309945X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
Plant Names is a plain English guide to the use of plant names and the conventions for writing them as governed by the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature and the International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants. It covers the naming of wild plants, plants modified by humans, why plant names change, their pronunciation and hints to help remember them. The final section provides a detailed guide to web sites and published resources useful to people using plant names. The book incorporates the latest information in the most recently published Botanical and Cultivated Plant Codes, both of which are technical scientific publications that are difficult to read for all but the most dedicated botanists and horticulturists. From botanists to publishers, professional horticulturists, nurserymen, hobby gardeners and anyone interested in plant names, this book is an invaluable guide to using the potentially confusing array of scientific, commercial and common names.
Africa Environment Outlook 2
Author: United NationsPublisher: UNEP/Earthprint
ISBN: 9280726919
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
This is the second comprehensive report on the state of Africa's environment, produced in collaboration with the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN). This report highlights the central position Africa's environment continues to play in sustainable development, as well as its potential to achieve progress in the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals. The report profiles Africa's environmental resources as an asset for the continent's development. It highlights the opportunities presented by the region's natural resource base to support the continent's development. It also underscores the concept of sustainable livelihoods, and the importance of the environmental initiatives in supporting them.
Taxonomy and Plant Conservation
Author: Etelka LeadlayPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521845068
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
Highlights the key role played by taxonomy in the conservation and sustainable utilisation of plant biodiversity.
Growing Rare Plants
Author: Geoff NicholsPublisher:
ISBN: 9781919976174
Category : Endangered plants
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
Biodiversity across Afromontane Environments
Author: David HorákPublisher: Frontiers Media SA
ISBN: 2832514510
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description