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A rapid multi-disciplinary biodiversity assessment of the Kamdebooberge (Sneeuberg, Eastern Cape, South Africa): implications for conservation
Botanical work since 2008 on the Sleeping Giant section of the Kamdebooberge (Sneeuberg mountain complex, Eastern Cape, South Africa) has indicated that these mountains may be of significant conservation value. Accordingly, a precursory, rapid multi-disciplinary biodiversity assessment was undertake...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3540356/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23316449 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2193-1801-1-56 |
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author | Clark, Vincent R Perera, Sandun J Stiller, Michael Stirton, Charles H Weston, Peter H Stoev, Pavel Coombs, Gareth Morris, Dale B Ratnayake-Perera, Dayani Barker, Nigel P McGregor, Gillian K |
author_facet | Clark, Vincent R Perera, Sandun J Stiller, Michael Stirton, Charles H Weston, Peter H Stoev, Pavel Coombs, Gareth Morris, Dale B Ratnayake-Perera, Dayani Barker, Nigel P McGregor, Gillian K |
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description | Botanical work since 2008 on the Sleeping Giant section of the Kamdebooberge (Sneeuberg mountain complex, Eastern Cape, South Africa) has indicated that these mountains may be of significant conservation value. Accordingly, a precursory, rapid multi-disciplinary biodiversity assessment was undertaken in January 2011, focusing on plants, tetrapod vertebrates and leafhoppers. The botanical results confirm the Kamdebooberge as being of high botanical conservation value, hosting three strict endemics, healthy populations of five other Sneeuberg endemics, and fynbos communities comprising species not found elsewhere in the Sneeuberg. The Kamdebooberge are important for herpetofauna (excluding serpentoids) and mammals, hosting several range-restricted and regional endemics. The expedition uncovered three new leafhopper species, together with several species previously only known from the Cape Floristic Region. Further detailed faunal work may provide further interesting results from these mountains, which show a high conservation value unique to the southern Escarpment. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/2193-1801-1-56) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. |
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spelling | pubmed-35403562013-01-09 A rapid multi-disciplinary biodiversity assessment of the Kamdebooberge (Sneeuberg, Eastern Cape, South Africa): implications for conservation Clark, Vincent R Perera, Sandun J Stiller, Michael Stirton, Charles H Weston, Peter H Stoev, Pavel Coombs, Gareth Morris, Dale B Ratnayake-Perera, Dayani Barker, Nigel P McGregor, Gillian K Springerplus Research Botanical work since 2008 on the Sleeping Giant section of the Kamdebooberge (Sneeuberg mountain complex, Eastern Cape, South Africa) has indicated that these mountains may be of significant conservation value. Accordingly, a precursory, rapid multi-disciplinary biodiversity assessment was undertaken in January 2011, focusing on plants, tetrapod vertebrates and leafhoppers. The botanical results confirm the Kamdebooberge as being of high botanical conservation value, hosting three strict endemics, healthy populations of five other Sneeuberg endemics, and fynbos communities comprising species not found elsewhere in the Sneeuberg. The Kamdebooberge are important for herpetofauna (excluding serpentoids) and mammals, hosting several range-restricted and regional endemics. The expedition uncovered three new leafhopper species, together with several species previously only known from the Cape Floristic Region. Further detailed faunal work may provide further interesting results from these mountains, which show a high conservation value unique to the southern Escarpment. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/2193-1801-1-56) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. Springer International Publishing AG 2012-12-06 /pmc/articles/PMC3540356/ /pubmed/23316449 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2193-1801-1-56 Text en © Clark et al.; licensee Springer. 2012 This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Clark, Vincent R Perera, Sandun J Stiller, Michael Stirton, Charles H Weston, Peter H Stoev, Pavel Coombs, Gareth Morris, Dale B Ratnayake-Perera, Dayani Barker, Nigel P McGregor, Gillian K A rapid multi-disciplinary biodiversity assessment of the Kamdebooberge (Sneeuberg, Eastern Cape, South Africa): implications for conservation |
title | A rapid multi-disciplinary biodiversity assessment of the Kamdebooberge (Sneeuberg, Eastern Cape, South Africa): implications for conservation |
title_full | A rapid multi-disciplinary biodiversity assessment of the Kamdebooberge (Sneeuberg, Eastern Cape, South Africa): implications for conservation |
title_fullStr | A rapid multi-disciplinary biodiversity assessment of the Kamdebooberge (Sneeuberg, Eastern Cape, South Africa): implications for conservation |
title_full_unstemmed | A rapid multi-disciplinary biodiversity assessment of the Kamdebooberge (Sneeuberg, Eastern Cape, South Africa): implications for conservation |
title_short | A rapid multi-disciplinary biodiversity assessment of the Kamdebooberge (Sneeuberg, Eastern Cape, South Africa): implications for conservation |
title_sort | rapid multi-disciplinary biodiversity assessment of the kamdebooberge (sneeuberg, eastern cape, south africa): implications for conservation |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3540356/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23316449 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2193-1801-1-56 |
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