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<DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV><P><SPAN>Map of the vegetation types of South Africa (including Prince Edward and Marion Islands), Lesotho and Swaziland (Mucina & Rutherford 2006). There are 444 zonal and azonal vegetation types mapped at a working scale of 1:250 000 and sometimes better. The map is the result of a collaborative project involving about 60 individual contributors from a number of organizations. </SPAN></P><P><SPAN>Includes some mapping from Fine Scale Planning in Western Cape Province including: </SPAN></P><UL><LI><P><SPAN>Fixed forest at Eastern Cape/KwaZulu-Natal border that had been inadvertently deleted. Saldanha Peninsula, Bokkeveld and Sandveld Fine Scale Planning domains as done by Helme & Koopman (2007) and Helme (2007a,b). </SPAN></P></LI><LI><P><SPAN>Breede River Valley by Helme (2007) </SPAN></P></LI><LI><P><SPAN>Little Karoo by Vlok, Cowling, Wolf, (2005). </SPAN></P></LI><LI><P><SPAN>Hantam/Tanqua/Roggeveld by van der Merwe et al (2008a,b). </SPAN></P></LI></UL><P><SPAN>Projection is </SPAN><SPAN>Albers, WGS84, Central meridian 24, Reference latitude 0, Standard parallel 1 -30, Standard parallel 2 -20, no false Easting or Northing. </SPAN></P><P><SPAN>Prince Edward Islands: Data are in UTM projection, WGS84, Central Meridian 37 E. Use in view with Map units meters, Distance units kilometers. </SPAN></P><P><SPAN>References </SPAN></P><P><SPAN>Mucina, L. & Rutherford, M.C. (eds) 2006. The vegetation of South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland. Strelitzia 19. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. 800 pp. </SPAN></P><P><SPAN>Mucina, L., Rutherford, M.C. & Powrie, L.W. (eds) 2005. Vegetation Map of South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland, 1:1 000 000 scale sheet maps. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. ISBN 1-919976-22-1 </SPAN></P><P><SPAN>MUCINA, L., RUTHERFORD, M.C. & POWRIE, L.W. (eds) 2007. Vegetation Map of South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland, edn 2, 1:1 000 000 scale sheet maps. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. ISBN 978-1-919976-42-6. </SPAN></P><P><SPAN>Helme, N. A. 2007. Botanical report: Fine scale vegetation mapping of the Bokkeveld Escarpment. Report for CapeNature, as part of the C.A.P.E. programme. </SPAN></P><P><SPAN>Helme, N. A. 2007. Botanical report: Fine scale vegetation mapping in the Sandveld. Report for CapeNature, as part of the C.A.P.E. programme. </SPAN></P><P><SPAN>Helme, N. A. and R. Koopman. 2007. Botanical report: Fine scale vegetation mapping in the Saldanha Peninsula. Report for CapeNature, as part of the C.A.P.E. programme. </SPAN></P><P><SPAN>Helme, N. A. 2007. Botanical report: Fine scale vegetation mapping in the Upper Breede River Valley. Report for CapeNature, as part of the C.A.P.E. programme. </SPAN></P><P><SPAN>Vlok, J.H.J., Cowling, R.M. & Wolf, T., 2005. A vegetation map for the Little Karoo. Unpublished maps and report for a SKEP project supported by CEPF grant no 1064410304.</SPAN><SPAN /><SPAN /></P><P><SPAN><SPAN>Scott-Shaw, R. and Escott, B.J. (Eds) (2011) KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Pre-Transformation Vegetation Type Map </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN><SPAN>–</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN><SPAN>2011. Unpublished GIS Coverage [kznveg05v2_011_wll.zip], Biodiversity Conservation Planning Division, Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife, P. O. Box 13053, Cascades, Pietermaritzburg, 3202.</SPAN></SPAN></P><P STYLE="margin:0 0 0 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>Rebelo, A.G. Holmes, P.M. Dorse, C. & Wood, J (2010) ‘Impacts of urbanisation in a biodiversity hotspot: Conservation challenges in metropolitan Cape Town’, </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style:italic;"><SPAN>South African Journal of Botany </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN>(Volume 77): pp. 20-35</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV></DIV> |