Conservation Services

Garden Route: Scientific Services

Publications and Popular Articles

A selection of manuscripts published by Garden Route (Rondevlei Unit) in recent years can be downloaded below:

Articles

• Alien Mediterranean Mussel invades the South Coast
• European Nightjar at Wilderness National Park
• Fire brings life to the Renosterveld of Bontebok National Park
• Guidelines for the Rehabilitation of Decommissioned Plantations in the Southern Cape
• High conservation importance estuaries: the pride of the Garden Route
• Indigenous freshwater fishes threatened by alien onslaught
• Rare orchids and gladiolus finds in the Garden Route
• Rare plants no rarity in Fynbos Parks
• The important role of Tsitsikamma's Marine Protected Area in Fisheries management
• To salvage or not to salvage – A SANParks dilemma
  
• What is a RAMSAR site?
• Evaluating of Themeda triandra an indicator for monitoring...
• Past approaches and future challenges to the management of fire and invasive alien plants... (2MB)
• Towards Adaptive Fire Management for Biodiversity Conservation...
• Fishery Monitoring within Natures Valley
• The Mosquitofish, a recent introduction to the Groot Estuary?
• Some results of the 2003/2004 Plettenberg Bay rock and surf Line Fishery Survey
• Does size really matter, and how do fish do it?
• The Unassuming Mudprawn
• Some pointers on Fishing Regulations
• Wilderness Lakes Bathymetry Mapping
• The cost of ignorance and non-compliance
• A passion for Sustainable Conservation...
• The who, where and when of Knysna Angling
• The Knysna Seahorse
• How to file and manage your digital plant photos
• Discovery on the Garden Route: the succulent Gasteria polita
• Redbait - Complex but interesting
• Cultural Heritage Monitoring made easy with Cybertracker
• How No-Man’s Land is now everyone’s problem
• Recovery of dune fynbos – out of the dead land
• Gasteria polita, an endangered succulent from South Africa
• Fragmented Fynbos patches of the Garden Route National Park

Abstracts

• Assessing Conservation priorities in the Benguela Ecosystem...
• Changes in the distribution of emergent aquatic plants...
• Effects of cutting Phragmites australis along an inundation gradient...
• Effects of rain, nitrogen, fire and grazing on tree recruitment...
• Invasion of an indigenous Perna perna mussel bed on the south coast of SA...
• Invasion of sandflats in Langebaan Lagoon, SA...
• Molt in African penguin in relation to its breeding season and food availability
• Patterns of endemism within the Karoo Nationa Park, SA
• Patterns of immigration to and emmigration from breeding colonies by African penguins
• Patterns of movements of the African penguin in SA and Namibia
• Vegetation changes in semi-arid Karoo shrubland, SA...
• Changing the Fire Management Regime in Renosterveld and Lowland Fynbos
• Habitat Selection by large herbivores in relation to fire...
• Flora of Bontebok National Park in a Regional Perspective
• Median pupping date, pup morality and sex ration of fur seals at Marion Island
• The leopard seal at Marion Island, vagrant or seasonal transient?
• Lightning and fire weather in eastern coastal fynbos shrublands...
• Historical fire regimes in a poorly understood, fire-prone ecosystem...
• Proteaceae juvenile periods and post-fire recruitment as indicators of minimum fire return interval...
• Diet of leopards in the southern Cape, South Africa.
• Trends in numbers of crowned cormorants in South Africa...
• Management of rare ungulates in a small park: habitat use of bontebok and Cape mountain zebra…

Pamphlets

• IUCN Red List Plant Species of GRNP
• Recreational Fishing Regulations and Information

Posters

• Fallow Land Recovery at Postberg - West Coast National Park
• Fire History at Bontebok National Park
• Monitoring of Environmental Indicators in Saline Aquatic Ecosystems - Wilderness National Park
• Recovery of Southern Cape Dune Fynbos
• Flora of Bontebok National Park
• Bait Collecting in the Tsitsikamma Section...
• Coastal Resource Use Monitoring in the Wilderness Section…
• Impacts of Anglers in the Garden Route National Park
• Marine Protected Ares: Sanctuaries for the Future
• Optimising Long Term Monitoring Protocols for Fish…
• Long Term Monitoring of Inshore Linefish…