2016

Abstracts

Presentations

2016 Fynbos Forum Presentations - Seven Sessions

Session 1: Paleoscapes

Keynote address: Richard Cowling: What environment conditions were associated with the emergence of modern humans on the Cape South Coast?

      pdf R M Cowling - Enviro conditions associated with emergence of modern humans on the Cape south coast (4.07 MB)

Karen Esler, Alastair Potts, Guy Midgley & Richard Cowling: Resource-scapes, what, why, when and how?

      pdf Karen Esler - Resourcescapes What, Why, When, How (2.36 MB)

Alastair Potts: Reconstructing the vegetation of the Cape paleolandscape using correlative and mechanistic models

      pdf Alastair Potts - Reconstructing vegetation of Cape paleolandscape (6.91 MB)

Elzanne Singels, Karen Esler & J Parkington: Underground storage organs in time and space.

      pdf E Singels - Geophytes in time and space (6.99 MB)

Susan Botha, Richard Cowling, Alastair Potts, Karen Esler & Jan de Vynck: The foraging potential of edible plants foods in the Southern Cape

      pdf Susan Botha - The foraging potential of edible plant foods in the southern Cape (4.48 MB)

Zintle Faltein: How might CO2 levels change the resource-scape picture? An assessment of geophyte growth at sub-atmospheric CO2 concentrations.

      pdf Zintle Faltein - An assessment of geophyte growth at sub atmospheric CO2 concentrations (1.30 MB)

Jan de Vynck, K Hill, R Anderson, Richard Cowling & Curtis Marean: Productive and resilient intertidal marine resources available to human foragers on the South Coast of South Africa

      pdf J C De Vynck - Intertidal marine resources available to human foragers on the South Coast of SA (11.76 MB)

Leesha Richardson: Marine bird exploitation: A key factor in better understanding foraging and mobility patterns of Later Stone Age people on the Mossel Bay coast.

      pdf Leesha Richardson - Marine bird exploitation (1.80 MB)

 

Session 2: People and Nature

Yvette van Wijk, Renee Rust, Madelon Tusenius, Cynthia Larbey & Sarah Wurz: The relationship between place, plants and people in the Klasies River area on the Tsitsikamma Coast, South Africa

      pdf Yvette van Wijk - Plants, Place, and People in the Klasies River area on the Tsitsikamma coast (2.76 MB)

Roger Bailey, K O’Grady, B Botha & P Vermaak: Big Support for small fynbos suppliers – protecting fynbos and livelihoods through a new approach

      pdf Flower Valley - Big support for small fynbos suppliers protecting fynbos and livelihoods (1.67 MB)

Rhoda Malgas, D Comley, B Jilisen, M Rafferty & S Jacobs: The Honeybush Knowledge Partnership: co-creation of knowledge through farmer-led research

      pdf Malgas - The Honeybush Knowledge Partnership (6.28 MB)

Nicolas Galuszynski, Alastair Potts & Richard Cowling: Honeybush cultivation, a potential ecological trap?

      pdf N C Galuszynski - Honeybush cultivation, a potential ecological trap (4.41 MB)

Leif Petersen & Neville van Schalkwyk: Making All Voices Count – Stories of wild herb collectors in Cape Town 

      pdf Leif Petersen: Herbanisation (2.81 MB)

Boitshekwane Kgantsi: Cultural ecosystem services of the Diep River Corridor: Community perceptions of the ecosystem service

      pdf Boitshekwane Kgantsi - Cultural ecosystem services of the Diep River Corridor (1.33 MB)

The Fynbos Forum of the future – what does it need to deliver? - The Fynbos Forum Committee

      pdf The Fynbos Forum of The Future (1.39 MB)

 

Session 3: Conservation priorities, Global chnage and Future directions

Brian van Wilgen: Ecological research and conservation management in the Cape Floristic Region between 1945 and 2015: History, current understanding and future challenges

      pdf Ecological research and conservation management (3.38 MB)

Nicky Allsopp, Karen Esler & Jasper Slingsby: Towards 100 priority questions for biodiversity conservation in the fynbos region

      pdf Nicky Allsopp - Towards 100 priority questions for biodiversity conservation (1.63 MB)

Glenn R Moncrieff, Jasper Slingsby, Alastair J Potts & Adam M Wilson: Real-time identification of land transformation and degradation in the Fynbos and thicket biomes from remotely-sensed vegetation activity.

      pdf Glenn R Moncrieff - Land transformation and degradation in the fynbos and thicket biomes (2.30 MB)

Nasiphi Ntshanga, Serban Proches & Jasper Slingsby: Are Cape lowland vegetation fragments doomed for climatic extinction?

      pdf Nasiphi Ntshanga - Are Cape Lowlands doomed for climatic extinction (921 KB)

Jeremy Shelton, Tumisho Ngobela, Bruce Paxton, Dean Impson, Karen Esler, Olaf Weyl & Helen Dallas: Vulnerability of fynbos fishes to climate change and other human impacts

      pdf Jeremy Shelton - Vulnerability of fynbos fishes to climate change and other human impacts (5.33 MB)

Jasper Slingsby, Cory Merow, Matt Aiello-Lammens, Stuart Hall, Hayley Kilroy, Ross Turner, Adam Wilson & John A Silander Jr: Intensifying postfire weather extremes and invasion history drive directional diversity loss in a Mediterranean-type crown-fire ecosystem

      pdf Jasper Slingsby - Post fire weather extremes and invasion history drive directional diversity loss (21.84 MB)

Annabelle Rogers, Glenn Moncrieff, Jasper Slingsby, Edmund C February: Forest expansion in relation to urbanization and changing fire vulnerability on the Cape Peninsula, South Africa

      pdf Annabelle Rogers - Urban mediated changes to the pattern of burn probability of Cape Peninsula (1.30 MB)

Tessa Oliver: Disaster Risk Reduction in the face of a changing climate- The GEF Fynbos Fire Project