Veld Management: Principles and Practices

Veld Management, Principles and Practices supports land users professionaly managing the veld under their care.
van Oudtshoorn, Frits
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Title: Veld Management
Subtitle: Principles and Practices
Author: Frits van Oudtshoorn
Publisher: Briza Publications
Pretoria, South Africa 2019
ISBN 9781920217297 / ISBN 978-1-92-021729-7
Softcover, 17 x 24 cm, 256 pages, 380 colour photographs and illustrations

About: Veld Management Principles and Practices

Veld management - Principles and Practices, attempts to simplify a rather technical subject by including more than 380 photographs and illustrations and using easy understandable language. It contains four chapters. Chapter 1 is an introduction to the subject and also includes important legislation. Chapter 2 discusses the natural resources we are managing during veld and land management, such as soil, vegetation and water. Chapter 3 deals with ecological principles and includes sections on basic ecological processes, the role of plants and animals, and land degradation. Chapter 4 includes all the important practices such as property planning, grazing systems, fire management, the control of unwanted plants and many more. Appendices list declared weeds and invader plants as well as the herbicides commonly used to control unwanted plants during veld and environmental management.

About: Veld Management Principles and Practices

PREFACE
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION TO VELD MANAGEMENT
1.1 What is veld?
1.2 What is veld management?
1.3 Why is veld management important?
1.4 The land manager and veld management
1.5 Planning for good veld management
1.6 Legislation in South Africa
Chapter 2: NATURAL RESOURCES
2.1 SOIL
2.1.1 What is soil?
2.1.2 Soil formation
2.1.3 Soil properties
2.1.4 Soil classification
2.2 VEGETATION
2.2.1 Vegetation classification
2.3 SWEETVELD AND SOURVELD
2.4 PLANT-SOIL ASSOCIATIONS
2.5 CLIMATE
2.5.1 Rainfall
2.5.2 Temperature
2.5.3 Climate classification
2.5.4 Climatic extremes
Chapter 3: VELD MANAGEMENT PRINCIPLES
3.1 BASIC ECOLOGICAL PROCESSES AND PRINCIPLES
3.1.1 Photosynthesis
3.1.2 Nutrient cycle
3.1.3 The water cycle
3.1.4 Vegetation cover
3.2 PROCESSES RELATED TO LAND DEGRADATION
3.2.1 What is land degradation?
3.2.2 Causes of land degradation
3.2.3 Plant succession.
3.2.4 Soil erosion
3.2.5 Bush encroachment.
3.3 THE ROLE OF PLANTS AND ANIMALS
3.3.1 The role of grasses
3.3.2 The role of trees and shrubs
3.3.3 The role of forbs
3.3.4 Forage plants
3.3.5 Grazing value of grasses
3.3.6 Poisonous plants.
3.3.7 Plants and large herbivores
3.3.8 Predation.
3.4 ECOLOGICAL DISTURBANCES
3.4.1 Plant species and disturbances
3.4.2 Herbivore impact
3.4.3 Fire ecology
3.4.4 Drought.
3.4.5 Alien invasive plants
| Chapter 4: VELD MANAGEMENT PRACTICES
4.1 PROPERTY MAP AND PLANNING
4.1.1 Property mapping
4.1.2 Property planning
4.2 GRAZING SYSTEMS
4.2A Types of grazing systems
4.2.2 Grazing management on game ranches
4.3 DROUGHT MANAGEMENT
4.4 FIRE MANAGEMENT
4.4.1 Prevention and control of wild fires
4.4.2 Prescribed burning
4.5. CONTROL OF UNWANTED PLANTS
4.5.1. Control methods
4.5.2. Treatment and prevention of poisonous plants.
4.6 ASSESSMENT AND MONITORING OF VELD CONDITION
4.6.1 What is veld condition assessment?
4.6.2 What to assess
4.6.3 Where to assess
4.64 Data-collecting methods
4.6.5 Methods of assessing veld condition.
4.6.6 Calculating stocking rate
4.6.7 Supplement feeding
4.7 ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION
4.7.1 Other activities
4.7.2 Restoration during veld management
Terminology
References and further reading
Appendix A: Declared weeds and invader plants
Appendix B: Herbicides
Appendix C: Disc pasture meter calibration figures
Appendix D: Herbivore graze and browse equivalents
INDEX

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