Annals of the Cape Provincial Museums
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Page : 230 pages
File Size : 10,28 MB
Release : 1961
Category : Natural history
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Page : 230 pages
File Size : 10,28 MB
Release : 1961
Category : Natural history
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Author : Cape Provincial Museums
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Page : 554 pages
File Size : 35,54 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Natural history
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Page : 254 pages
File Size : 14,38 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Natural history
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Page : 128 pages
File Size : 11,48 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Anthropology
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Author : W. Richard J. Dean
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 38,67 MB
Release : 1999-06-24
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1139429159
The succulent and Nama-karoo form part of the arid south-western zone of Africa, a vast region of rugged landscapes and low treeless vegetation. Studies of this unique biome have yielded fascinating insights into the ecology of its flora and fauna. This book, originally published in 1999, is the first to synthesise these studies, presenting information on biogeographic patterns and life processes, form and function of animals and plants, foraging ecology, landscape-level dynamics and anthropogenic influences. Detailed analyses of the factors distinguishing the biota of the Karoo from that of other temperate deserts are given and generalisations about semi-arid ecosystems challenged. The ideas expounded, the ecological principles reviewed, and the results presented are relevant to all those working in the extensive arid and semi-arid regions of the world.
Author : Mike Picker
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
Page : 1011 pages
File Size : 16,64 MB
Release : 2012-05-30
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1920572252
This is the first comprehensive field guide to the insect fauna of South Africa, with detailed descriptions of over 1 200 of the most common, most economically and ecologically important, and most interesting and attractive insects in the region. The easy-to-read text is matched with superb photography. Each account covers identification, biology, distribution and related species, and is accompanied by a colour photograph of the species or family.
Author : Rodney Moffett
Publisher : UJ Press
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 45,6 MB
Release : 2021-04-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 1928424457
This bibliography includes scientific articles on the Drakensberg, Maloti and Adjacent Lowlands published between 1808 and 2019. Although focussing on material appearing in accredited journals, there is such a wealth of information in the form of unpublished, yet traceable, reports, documents, presentations and dissertations, these are also included. The bibliography has two parts – a complete list arranged alphabetically, and the same references arranged in 33 different disciplines. These range from Palaeobotany with 17 entries, to Rock Art with 502 entries.
Author : B.R. Allanson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 26,95 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9400923821
Limnology - the study of inland waters - had its genesis in Europe about the turn of the century. The studies of Fore1 on Lake Geneva were of seminal value at this time. It prospered under the early guidance of Thienemann, Naumann and Wesenberg-Lund in Europe and, soon transplanted, of Birge and Juday in North America (to name just a few early spirits). Now, liminology is a respectable scientific discipline taught at many universities, and limnologists are recognized as important contributors to our understanding of how this fragile spaceship functions. All this acknowledged, it must also be acknowledged that limnology is not yet a globally comprehensive science. To be sure, much is known about globally applicable processes, and the structural elements of aquatic ecosystems worldwide, but limnological emphases, interests and concerns remain essentially European and North American in balance. Much is known about lakes and rivers in less than one fifth of the world's land area (northern temperature regions); rather little is known about inland waters elsewhere.
Author : Carolyn Hamilton
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 595 pages
File Size : 42,14 MB
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1776142969
The idea that the period of social turbulence in the nineteenth century was a consequence of the emergence of the powerful Zulu kingdom under Shaka has been written about extensively as a central episode of southern African history. Considerable dynamic debate has focused on the idea that this period – the ‘mfecane’- left much of the interior depopulated, thereby justifying white occupation. One view is that ‘the time of troubles’ owed more to the Delagoa Bay Slave trade and the demands of the labour-hungry Cape colonists than to Shaka’s empire building. But is there sufficient evidence to support the argument? The Mfecane Aftermath investigates the very nature of historical debate and examines the uncertain foundations of much of the previous historiography.
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Page : 440 pages
File Size : 18,57 MB
Release : 1987-03
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