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Table 1 in Temperate grassy wetlands of South Africa: Description, classification and explanatory environmental factors
Authors/Creators
- 1. School of Agricultural, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Private Bag X 54001, Westville 4001, South Africa
- 2. Free State Department of Economic, Small Business Development, Tourism and Environmental Affairs, South Africa
- 3. Center for Environment and Development, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
- 4. Department of Botany, University of the Free State, Qwaqwa Campus, South Africa
- 5. Groundtruth Consulting, UK
Description
Table 1 Historical datasets that were included in the present dataset. The shaded references at the bottom are those that only have a few plots that were used.
| Publication/dataset | Area | Comments | No. of plots |
|---|---|---|---|
| Furness (1981) | Pongola floodplain | Vegetation plots 10 × 10 m | 26 |
| Fuls, Bredenkamp & Van Rooyen (1992) | Pans of Northwestern Free State | No coordinates, poor environmental data | 4 |
| Fuls (1993) | Grasslands Northern Free State | Vegetation plots of 10 × 10 m | 43 |
| Bloem, Theron & Van Rooyen (1993) | Verlorenvlei, Mpumalanga | Vegetation plots of 10 × 10 m | 13 |
| Coetzee, Bredenkamp & Van Rooyen (1993) | Belfast- Wakkerstroom- Barberton- Piet Retief | No exact coordinates available, unpublished | 18 |
| Eckhardt, Van Rooyen & Bredenkamp (1993a,b) | Wetlands Northeastern Free State | Vegetation plots of 10 × 10 m | 28 |
| Coetzee, Bredenkamp & Van Rooyen (1994) | Wetlands of Heidelberg, Witbank, Pretoria area | Vegetation plots 10 × 10 m | 30 |
| Guthrie (1996) | Hlatikhulu, Mooi River, Ntabamhlophe | Three large wetlands, cover values not in same format | 123 |
| Eckhardt, Van Rooyen & Bredenkamp (1996) | Wetlands of Northwestern KwaZulu-Natal | Vegetation plots of 10 × 10 m | 78 |
| De Frey (1996) | South-eastern Mpumalanga | Vegetation plots 10 × 10 m | 46 |
| Smit, Bredenkamp, Van Rooyen, van Wyk & Crombrinck (1997) | Witbank Nature reserve | Very small amount of wetland plots, mostly terrestrial vegetation | 4 |
| Cilliers, Schoeman & Bredenkamp (1998) | Urban wetlands in Potchefstroom | Three wetlands in detail | 41 |
| Perkins, Bredenkamp & Granger (2000) | Southern KwaZulu-Natal | Vegetation plots of 10 × 10 m | 146 |
| Burgoyne, Bredenkamp & Van Rooyen (2000) | Northeastern Mpumalanga | Vegetation plots large, 20 × 10 m, heterogeneous | 23 |
| Taylor (2000) | Mdlanzi Pan, Zululand | Plots on transects, no wetness data | 6 |
| Neal (2001) | Mkhuze floodplains | Plots on transects, no wetness data | 12 |
| Goge (2002) | Eastern shores Lake St. Lucia | Poor IDs in Swamp Forest | 5 |
| Venter (2002) | Mfabeni Swamp, Eastern shores | One large wetland sampled | 6 |
| Siebert, Van Wyk, Bredenkamp & Du Plessis (2002) | Sekhukhuneland | No coordinates, plots large 20 × 10 m, heterogeneous | 12 |
| Kotze and O'Connor (2000) | Middelvlei Wetland, Stellenbosch | Plots of only 1 × 1 m | 4 |
| Venter, Bredenkamp, and Grundling (2003) | Rietvlei in Gauteng | Many plots in pioneer stage after disturbance | 10 |
| Malan (2003) | Cookes Lake recreational area, Mmabatho | One urban wetland, largely disturbed | 16 |
| Janecke, DuPreez & Venter (2003) | Soetdoring Nature Reserve | Two wetlands | 9 |
| Cilliers & Bredenkamp (2003) | Pans in Northwest Province | Four large pans, many plots with very poor cover | 6 |
| Cleaver, Brown & Bredenkamp (2004) | Kamanassie Mountains | Maybe not all clear wetlands, small springs, plot size variable | 4 |
| Sieben, Ellery, Garden & Grenfell (2006) | Wetlands South of Richards Bay | Unpublished consultancy | 5 |
| Sieben, Kotze & Morris (2010) | Maloti-Drakensberg Transfrontier Park | 147 | |
| Van Aardt (2010) | Vet River | No coordinates, poor environmental data | 19 |
| Collins (2011) | Free State pans and Valley bottoms | Soil data and many other variables available | 134 |
| Corry (2011) | Western Cape lowlands | Soil data and many other variables available for most plots | 77 |
| Pretorius (2011) | Wetlands Northern Maputaland | Results not yet published and soil data not yet available | 12 |
| Cowden, Kotze, Ellery & Sieben (2014) | Rehabilitated wetlands in KwaZulu-Natal | Many disturbed sites | 35 |
| Boucher (1987) | West Coast | 3 | |
| Schoultz (2000) | Mkhuze Swamps | 1 | |
| Grobler (2009) | Swamp Forest Kosi Bay | 2 |
Notes
Published as part of Sieben, E. J. J., Collins, N. B., Kotze, D. C., Mofutsanyana, S. S. & Janks, M., 2017, Temperate grassy wetlands of South Africa: Description, classification and explanatory environmental factors, pp. 69 in South African Journal of Botany 113 (10) on page 69, DOI: 10.1016/j.sajb.2017.07.009, http://zenodo.org/record/14036637
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- Fuls, E. R., 1993. Vegetation Ecology of the Northern Orange Free State. PhD Thesis. University of Pretoria.
- Bloem, K. J., Theron, G. K., Van Rooyen, N., 1993. Wetland plant communities of the Verlorenvallei Nature Reserve in the North-eastern Sandy Highveld, Transvaal. S. Afr. J. Bot. 59, 281 - 286.
- Coetzee, J. P., Bredenkamp, G. J., Van Rooyen, N., 1993. Unpublished Wetland Vegetation Data for Belfast-Wakkerstroom-Barberton-Piet Retief Area.
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- Taylor, C. A., 2000. The Relationship Between Plant Community Distribution and Environmental Gradients of the Totweni Pan. Honours Project, University of Natal, Durban.
- Neal, M., 2001. The vegetation ecology of the lower Mkuze River floodplain, northern KwaZulu-Natal: a landscape ecology perspective. Masters thesis. University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban.
- Goge, M. C., 2002. Classification of wetlands of the Greater St. Lucia Wetland Park: a hydrogeomorphic approach. MSc Thesis. University of KwaZulu-Natal.
- Venter, C. E., 2002. The Vegetation Ecology of Mfabeni peat Swamp, St. Lucia. MSc Thesis, University of Pretoria.
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- Malan, P. W., 2003. Phytosociology of the wetland communities of Cookes Lake Recreational Area in Mmabatho, North-West Province, South Africa. S. Afr. J. Bot. 69, 555 - 562.
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- Sieben, E. J. J., Ellery, W. N., Garden, S., Grenfell, M., 2006. Unpublished Vegetation Data for the Wetlands of Zulti South, Richard's Bay.
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