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A Learning Process on Spekboom-Based Carbon Economy Systems and Opportunities

A Learning Process on Spekboom-Based Carbon Economy Systems and Opportunities

Jun 10, 2022 | Scientific Reports, Spekboom Carbon Sequestration Thicket

Executive summary This report was commissioned as a learning process for practitioners who are involved in the Gouritz Cluster Biosphere Reserve (GCBR) and the Jobs for Carbon project (J4C). The report looks mainly at the carbon economy and how the J4C can further...

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Prescribing Innovation within a Large-Scale Restoration  Programme in Degraded Subtropical Thicket in South Africa

Prescribing Innovation within a Large-Scale Restoration  Programme in Degraded Subtropical Thicket in South Africa

Jun 10, 2022 | Scientific Reports, Spekboom Carbon Sequestration Thicket

Abstract: Commonly cited requirements for bridging the “science-practice divide” between  practitioners and scientists include: political support, communication and experimentation.  The Subtropical Thicket Restoration Programme was established in 2004 to...

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Rate of Carbon Sequestration at Two Thicket Restoration Sites in the Eastern Cape, South Africa

Rate of Carbon Sequestration at Two Thicket Restoration Sites in the Eastern Cape, South Africa

Jun 10, 2022 | Scientific Reports, Spekboom Carbon Sequestration Thicket

Abstract  Ecosystem carbon storage in intact thicket in the Eastern Cape, South Africa exceeds 20 kg/m2, which is an unusually large amount for a semiarid ecosystem. Heavy brows ing by goats transforms the thicket into an open savanna and can result in carbon...

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Effects of goat pastoralism on ecosystem carbon storage in  semiarid thicket, Eastern Cape, South Africa

Effects of goat pastoralism on ecosystem carbon storage in  semiarid thicket, Eastern Cape, South Africa

Jun 10, 2022 | Scientific Reports, Spekboom Carbon Sequestration Thicket

Abstract Intensive pastoralism with goats transforms semiarid thicket in the Eastern Cape, South Africa from a dense vegetation of tall shrubs to an open landscape dominated by ephemeral grasses and forbs. Approx. 800 000 ha of thicket (which prior to the introduction...

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Spontaneous Return of Biodiversity in Restored Subtropical Thicket: Portulacaria afra as an Ecosystem Engineer 

Spontaneous Return of Biodiversity in Restored Subtropical Thicket: Portulacaria afra as an Ecosystem Engineer 

Jun 10, 2022 | Scientific Reports, Spekboom Carbon Sequestration Thicket

Abstract  An accepted criterion for measuring the success of ecosys tem restoration is the return of biodiversity relative to intact reference ecosystems. The emerging global carbon economy has made landscape-scale restoration of severely degraded Portulacaria afra...

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