A description of rangeland on commercial and communal land, Peddie district, South Africa

Kiguli, L.N.; Palmer, A.R.; Avis, A.M.

1999

African Journal of Range and Forage Science 16(2/3): 89-95

A description of rangeland on commercial and communal land, Peddie district, South Africa

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Kakembo, V.; Rowntree, K.; Palmer, A.R., 2007: Topographic controls on the invasion of Pteronia incana (Blue bush) onto hillslopes in Ngqushwa (formerly Peddie) district, Eastern Cape, South Africa. The role of topographic factors in the invasion of hillslopes by Pteronia incana, an unpalatable shrub, was investigated. The study combined field observations with image analysis based on high-resolution infrared imagery. A Digital Elevation Mod...

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Kakembo, V.; Palmer, A.; Rowntree, K., 2006: The use of high resolution digital camera imagery to characterize the distribution of Pteronia incana invader species in Ngqushwa (formerly Peddie) District, Eastern Cape, South Africa. High resolution infrared digital camera imagery was used to determine the extent of the invasion of hill slopes by Pteronia incana, an unpalatable dwarf shrub. On the basis of a priori field surveys, the imagery was classified into different degre...