Biodiversity in southern Africa, Volume 1: Patterns at local scale. The BIOTA Observatories

Biodiversity in southern Africa, Volume 1: Patterns at local scale. The BIOTA Observatories. ISBN 783933117458 / ISBN 78-3-933117-45-8 (Europe) / ISBN 9789991657318 / ISBN 978-99916-57-31-8 (Southern Africa)

This Volume 1 of Biodiversity in southern Africa: Patterns at local scale - The BIOTA Observatories, serves the needs of local users and is concerned primarily with the findings associated with each of the 37 BIOTA Biodiversity Observatories (standardised, biodiversity long-term monitoring plots, see Part II) located along the BIOTA Southern Africa transect.

Norbert Jürgens  Ute Schmiedel  

It has been designed specifically for all land owners, and landusers as well as the managers of conservation areas and members of municipalities and local communities. Together with a relatively brief introductory section (i.e. Part I), the volume consists of a more comprehensive Part II, entitled "The BIOTA Observatories". This Part consists of detailed information on each of the standardised Biodiversity Observatories, grouped into six Chapters according to the six biomes, to which they belong. It begins with a detailed description of the methods and spatial sampling design used to gather and analyse the data. The bulk of Part II, however, provides information on the observed local patterns in Observatory-related climate, soil fertility, plants, animals, and microorganism as well as on their observed trends and changes over time.

Contributing authors to Biodiversity in southern Africa, Volume 1: Patterns at local scale. The BIOTA Observatories:

Renate Austermühle, Jennifer Bausch, Klaus Berger, Britta M. Bösing, Burkhard Büdel, Nikolaus Classen, Tatyana Darienko, Jürgen Deckert, Jürgen Dengler, Kirstin Deutschewitz, Stephanie Dojani, Stephanie E. Domptail, Jens Dorendorf, Wouter Dorigo, Niels Dreber, Elke Erb, Karen J. Esler, Sophia Etzold, Thomas Falk, Manfred Finckh, Thomas Friedl, Tarig Gibreel, Angelika Graiff, Constanze Grohmann, Alexander Gröngröft, Lisa Grotehusmann, Daniela H. Haarmeyer, Andreas Haensler, Wiebke Hanke, Judith Hecht, M. Timm Hoffman, Anke Hoffmann, Patrick Hoyer, Lara B. Husted, Norbert Jürgens, Fransiska N. Kangombe, Sven-Eric Kanzler, Manfred Keil, Raphael Y. Kongor, Cornelia B. Krug, Timo Labitzky, Hartmut Lang, Lena A. B. Lieckfeld, Cornelia Limpricht, Theresa Linke, K. Eduard Linsenmair, Jona Luther-Mosebach, Denise Mager, Wolfram Mey, Kathrin I. Mohr, Gerhard Muche, Christiane Naumann, Jens Oldeland, Tessa Oliver, Magdalena Pellowski, Jan Peters, Andreas Petersen, Leslie W. Powrie, Michael Pröpper, Gerhard Rambold, Inga Ute Röwer, Michael C. Rutherford, Ute Schmiedel, Ute Schneiderat, Zuna M. September, Tene Kwetche Sop, Ben J. Strohbach, M. W. (Gretel) van Rooyen, Katrin Vohland, Bettina Weber, Janne Weber, Dirk Wesuls, Jan Willer, Ulrike Wisch, Luciana Zedda, Ulrich Zeller.

Table of content: Biodiversity in southern Africa, Volume 1: Patterns at local scale. The BIOTA Observatories

Preface
Organisations that participated in BIOTA Southern Africa
Acknowledgements of the editors
Authors' general acknowledgements
Part I: BIOTA Southern Africa
1.1 Challenges and international framework
1.2 Structure and elements of the project and course of the project over the three Phases
1.3 BIOTA's contribution to global biodiversity monitoring and standardization - in the past, at present, and in the future
Part II: The BIOTA Observatories
II.1 Methods
II. 1.1 The BIOTA transects in southern Africa
II. 1.2 Spatial design of the BIOTA Biodiversity Observatories
II. 1.3 Responsible authors per Section type and Observatory in alphabetic order
II. 1.4 Sampling and analytical methods used for the standardised descriptions of the Observatories
II.1.5 How to read the Observatory descriptions
II.2 Woodland Savanna
II.2.1 Mile 46
II.2.2 Mutompo
II.2.3 Sonop
II.2.4 Ogongo
II.2.5 Omano go Ndjamba
II.3 Thornbush Savanna
II.3.1 Toggekry
II.3.2 Otjiamongombe
II.3.3 Okamboro
II.3.4 Rooisand
II.3.5 Claratal
II.3.6 Sandveld
II.3.7 Alpha
II.4 Nama Karoo
II.4.1 Narais
II.4.2 Duruchaus
II.4.3 Niko North
II.4.4 Niko South
II.4.5 GellapOst
II.4.6 Nabaos
II.4.7 Karios
II.5 Namib Desert
II.5.1 Wlotzkasbaken
II.5.2 Kleinberg
II.5.3 Gobabeb
II.5.4 Ganab
II.6 Succulent Karoo
II.6.1 Koeroegap Vlakte
II.6.2 Numees
II.6.3 Groot Derm
II.6.4 Soebatsfontein
II.6.5 Paulshoek
II.6.6 Remhoogte
II.6.7 Goedehoop
II.6.8 Ratelgat
II.6.9 Moedverloren
II.7 Fynbos
II.7.1 Rocherpan
II.7.2 Riverlands
II.7.3 Elandsberg
II.7.4 Cape of Good Hope
II.7.5 Nieuwoudtville
II.8 References

This is an excercpt from Biodiversity in southern Africa, Volume 1: Patterns at local scale. The BIOTA Observatories.

Title: Biodiversity in southern Africa, Volume 1
Subtitle: Patterns at local scale. The BIOTA Observatories
Editors: Norbert Jürgens; Daniela H. Haarmeyer; Jona Luther-Mosebach; Jürgen Dengler; Manfred Finckh; Ute Schmiedel
Contributers: as listed above
© University of Hamburg
Publisher: Klaus Hess Publishers
Göttingen, Namibia 2010
ISBN  783933117458 / ISBN 78-3-933117-45-8 (Europe)
ISBN 9789991657318 / ISBN 978-99916-57-31-8 (Southern Africa)
Hardcover, 21 x 30 cm, 350 pages, throughout photos, figures, tables and maps