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Author: John C. Manning
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Published: 2003
Total Pages: 68
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis field guide introduces the little-documented world of parasitic and carnivorous plants, a category of flora that is often overlooked. This title explains how these unusual plants grow and reproduce, and why they are dependent on other species in order to flourish.
Author: Gideon Smith
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
Published: 2011-11-05
Total Pages: 110
ISBN-13: 1431702498
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis first field guide to aloes of southern Africa provides fascinating insight into the aloes of the region. Full-colour photographs, distribution maps and easy-to-read text will help the budding naturalist to identify the more common aloes found in southern African gardens and landscapes, discover where they occur, and learn about their unique features.
Author: Cliff Turk
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
Published: 2013-03-27
Total Pages: 96
ISBN-13: 177584045X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSasol First Field Guide to Skywatching in Southern Africa provides a fascinating insight into the southern skies by night. Full-colour photographs and illustrations, monthly star charts and easy-to-read text will help the budding astronomer to identify the more visible objects in our night skies, as well as those that are less obvious, and discover some of the extraordinary phenomena of our galaxy.
Author: Tracey Hawthorne
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
Published: 2012-07-27
Total Pages: 118
ISBN-13: 1431702536
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSasol First Field Guide to Common Birds of Southern Africa provides fascinating insight into the birdlife of the region. Through full-colour photographs and distribution maps, and easy-to-read text, the young adult and budding naturalist will be able to identify the more common bird species found in southern Africa, discover where they live, and learn about their unique feeding and nesting habits.
Author: John Manning
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
Published: 2011-11-05
Total Pages: 101
ISBN-13: 1431702552
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSasol First Field Guide to Fynbos of Southern Africa is a beginner's guide to one of the most complex and fascinating communities of plant species in the world. Included in this guide are particularly striking specimens and those that display typical fynbos features. Full-colour photographs, distribution maps, and easy-to-read text will help the beginner and emerging naturalist to discover where fynbos occurs, how it has evolved and survives and how to recognize and identify specimens in the field.
Author: Warren Goodwin
Publisher: Struik Publishers
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 62
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis field guide introduces readers to the little-known world of the colourful dragonflies and damselflies of southern Africa. The introduction explores dragonfly characteristics and biology, and offers useful advice for collectors.
Author: Sean Fraser
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Published: 1998
Total Pages: 60
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis series of natural history field guides has been developed in the hope that young people and anyone with a budding interest in natural history will take up the challenge to learn the secrets of Southern Africa's fascinating fauna and flora.
Author: Alan Weaving
Publisher:
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 60
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKSasol First Field Guide to Insects of Southern Africa provides fascinating insight into the insects of the region. Full-colour photographs and easy-to-read text will help the beginner and budding naturalist to explore the more common insect groups that occur in southern Africa, discover where they are found, and learn about their behaviour and unusual features.
Author: Pedro P. Olea
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2019-07-22
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 3030165019
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCarrion, or dead animal matter, is an inherent component of aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems worldwide, and is exploited by a wide diversity of organisms from different trophic levels, including microbes, arthropods and vertebrates. Further, carrion consumption by scavengers, i.e. scavenging, supports key ecosystem functions and services such as recycling nutrients and energy, disposing of carcasses and regulating disease spread. Yet, unlike dead plant matter, dead animal decomposition has received little attention in the fields of ecology, wildlife conservation and environmental management, and as a result the management of carrion for maintaining biodiversity and functional ecosystems has been limited. This book addresses the main ecological patterns and processes relating to the generation and consumption of carrion both in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. It also discusses a number of conservation concerns and associated management issues, particularly regarding the increasing role of human-mediated carrion in ecosystems. Lastly, the book outlines future research lines in carrion ecology and management, and identifies the major challenges for scavengers and scavenging processes in the Anthropocene.
Author: Tony Rebelo
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Published: 2001
Total Pages: 364
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKSynonymous with South Africa, proteas form part of a family that includes some 370 species of leucospernums, leucadendrons, serrurias and others. This book describes all known species of Proteaceae in the Cape Floral Kingdom and future afield, and includes diagrammatic quick keys and clear, concise text. Diagnostic features are highlighted, and a distribution map accompanies each species description. For amateur botanists and those who like to ramble in the fynbos.
