The impact of pine plantations and alien invertebrates on native forest and fynbos invertebrate communities in Table Mountain National Park

While the Cape Peninsula (South Africa) is renowned for its exceptional plant and invertebrate diversity and endemism, extensive alien plant invasions and exotic pine plantations threaten and reduce native species richness. This study frames invasion ecology theory in a conservation context, and exa...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Uys, Charmaine Janet
Other Authors: Picker, Mike
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: University of Cape Town 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11427/6888