SANBI Metadata
Little Karoo Spekboomveld Restoration Potential 2008 (Spekboom_restoration.shp)
Areas in the Little Karoo where potential exists for spekboom restoration.
Simple
- Date (Publication)
- 2008
- Edition
-
1.0
- Purpose
-
To identify areas in the Little Karoo where potential exists for spekboom restoration projects as well as projects aimed at using spekboom for carbon sequestration.
- Status
- On going
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
- Theme
-
-
Restoration
-
- Place
-
-
Little Karoo
-
South Africa
-
Western Cape
-
- Access constraints
- Copyright
- Use constraints
- otherRestictions
- Other constraints
-
Capture Source: Jan Vlok (Regalis Environmental Services)
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
- Denominator
- 50000
- Language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
-
- Environment
- Begin date
- 2016-01-01
))
- Reference system identifier
- WGS 1984
Distributor
- OnLine resource
-
A list of services published are available at this URL.
(
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
)
BGIS Map Services
- OnLine resource
-
A list of spatial data-sets are available at this URL.
(
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--related
)
BGIS Spatial Datasets
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Statement
-
The vegetation map for the Little Karoo (Vlok et al. 2005) and the Little Karoo Transformation Map (Thompson et al. 2008) were used to determine where potential exists for spekboom restoration. This potential was divided into four site classes based on four major habitat types where the veld is either moderately or severely degraded. The habitat types were classed in terms of growth potential as follows; arid thicket with spekboom = good, arid thicket with spekboom mosaics = low, valley thicket with spekboom = excellent and valley thicket with spekboom mosaics = moderate.
Available documentation:
Thompson, M., J. H. J. Vlok, M. Rouget, M. T. Hoffman, A. Balmford and R. M. Cowling. 2008. Mapping land transformation in a heterogeneous environment: a rapid and cost effective approach for assessment and monitoring. Journal of Environmental Management, in press.
Vlok, J. H. J., R. M. Cowling, R.M. and Wolf, T. 2005. A vegetation map for the Little Karoo. Unpublished maps and report for a SKEP project supported by Grant No 1064410304. (Cape Town, Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund) [online] URL: http://bgis.sanbi.org/littlekaroo/index.asp.
- File identifier
- ab1cabc7-8097-4802-907b-92af9ad58dfe XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Date stamp
- 2017-05-25T15:55:18
- Metadata standard name
-
SANS 1878
- Metadata standard version
-
FGDC-STD-001-1998
Overviews
Spatial extent
Provided by
