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Commercial Forestry on Signal Hill and Lion's Head, Cape Town
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Forestry Journal • Authors: Chrisna Joubert --- Department of Nature Conservation and Oceanography, Cape TownThe history of afforestation with alien tree species on Signal Hill and Lion's Head, which form part of the Table Mountain Nature Reserve, Cape Town, was reconstructed. The natural vegetation comprises mostly West Coast Renosterveld which is considered the most... -
Development of a technique for assessing veld condition in the Kruger National Park using key grass species
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of the Grassland Society of Southern Africa • Authors: W.S.W. Trollope --- Sub‐departmont Pasture Science, Faculty of Agriculture, CiskeiA technique based on key grass species was developed for assessing veld condition in the Kruger National Park in terms of its potential to produce grass forage for consumption by herbivores and fine fuels for veld burning. Fourteen grass species... -
Medium-term changes in grass composition and diversity of Highland Sourveld grassland in the southern Drakensberg in response to fire and grazing management
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Range & Forage Science • Authors: A D Short T G O'Connor C R HurtThis study examined the compositional stability of Highland Sourveld in response to fire and grazing by wildlife (Coleford Nature Reserve) and by cattle on three properties over 20-25 years. A limited amount of compositional change took place except on a... -
Remote sensing from space—present and future applications in forestry, nature conservation and landscape management
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: The Southern African Forestry Journal • Authors: Christoph Kätsch --- Faculty of Forestry, Fachhochschule Hildesheim/Holzminden, Germany Holger Vogt --- Dipl. Forstwirt Holger Vogt, Faculty of Forestry, South AfricaPast studies have suggested that sound knowledge about the reflectance characteristics of objects could be of great value in understanding the physical, chemical, and the spatial properties of features on our planet. These characteristics can be assessed remotely, and the... -
Modelling highly variable daily maximum water temperatures in a perennial South African river system
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: NicholasA Rivers-Moore CarelN Bezuidenhout GrahamPW JewittThirty-three months of observed hourly water temperatures were used to calculate daily maximum water temperatures for nine sites within the Sabie-Sand River system, Mpumalanga Province, South Africa. A suite of statistical models for simulating daily maximum water temperatures, of differing... -
Innovating the Green Way: Natural Considerations for Sustainable Consumption
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Sajal Kabiraj --- International Center for Organization & Innovation Studies (ICOIS), ChinaLearn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can – there will always come a time when you will be grateful for what you did… Sarah Caldwell The five natural elements (Earth, Water, Fire, Air and Sky), the... -
Egg-capping in the Southern Ground-Hornbill Bucorvus leadbeateri
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Kathleen F Carstens --- DST/NRF Centre of Excellence at the Percy FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, South Africa‘Egg-capping’ describes occurrences of the empty shell from a hatched egg slipping over an unhatched egg from the same clutch. It is a rare phenomenon, occurring typically in <2% of nests monitored. Here I report the first two observed cases... -
Drug abuse by learners in South Africa: a replication and extension study
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Almon Shumba --- School of Postgraduate Studies, South Africa Alfred H. Makura --- School of Postgraduate Studies, South AfricaThis study sought to determine the nature, extent and causes of drug abuse in South African township schools. Interview data were collected from a convenience sample of 24 participants from 4 schools (10 learners, 8 school personnel and 4 School... -
Fiskale onderskeid tussen ’n wins van ’n kapitale aard en inkomste aard
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: De Ratione • Authors: Hendrik Coetzee --- Deeltydse professor by die Randse Afrikaanse Universiteit en verbonde aan die belastingpraktyk van KPMG, -
Journeying into interobjectivity: how worlds can be multiple and real
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Andre Goodrich --- Social Anthropology, School of Social and Government Studies, North-West University, South AfricaThe culture-nature division is fundamental to the division of academic labour between the social and natural sciences. In the face of climate change and other broad environmental threats, natural and social scientists are becoming critical of this division of labour... -
Rural people's perceptions of wildlife conservation—the case of the Masebe Nature Reserve in Limpopo Province, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Chris Boonzaaier --- Department of Anthropology & Archaeology,The First World rationale for nature conservation is usually the aesthetic and recreational experiences and opportunities that nature provides and its scientific importance, but rural populations in Africa tend to focus on the utilisation of natural resources. This paper argues... -
The politics of the liminal and the liminoid in transfrontier conservation in southern Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Marja Spierenburg --- Dept. of Sociology and Social Anthropology, The NetherlandsNature conservation in South(ern) Africa was for a long time dominated by white males and funded by a white elite. In postapartheid South Africa, government and conservation organisations have attempted to transform the sector by promoting the idea that local... -
Long-term response of an herbaceous sward to reduced grazing pressure and rainfall variability in a semi-arid South African savanna
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Range & Forage Science • Authors: Tim G O'Connor --- SAEON, South AfricaReduced grazing pressure is expected to promote recovery of degraded semi-arid savanna. Transformation of degraded livestock ranches to a wildlife reserve in 1982 created a system with about one-third of the grazing pressure, which was maintained until 2011. Herbaceous composition... -
Sustainable tourism development and the world heritage status of the Wadden Sea: The case of Terschelling
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: • Authors: Akke Folmer --- Research Group Marine Wetlands Studies, Stenden University of Applied Sciences, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands Hans Revier --- Research Group Marine Wetlands Studies, Stenden University of Applied Sciences, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands Tamara Cupido --- Research Group Marine Wetlands Studies, Stenden University of Applied Sciences, Leeuwarden, The NetherlandsNational governments and regions make great efforts to obtain international recognition for their natural heritage, for instance through UNESCO’s World Heritage Sites list. Since June 2009, the Dutch Wadden Sea has been on the World Heritage List. Our study investigates... -
Sustainable tourism development and the world heritage status of the Wadden Sea: The case of Terschelling
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Akke Folmer --- Research Group Marine Wetlands Studies, The Netherlands Hans Revier --- Research Group Marine Wetlands Studies, The Netherlands Tamara Cupido --- Research Group Marine Wetlands Studies, The NetherlandsNational governments and regions make great efforts to obtain international recognition for their natural heritage, for instance through UNESCO’s World Heritage Sites list. Since June 2009, the Dutch Wadden Sea has been on the World Heritage List. Our study investigates... -
An investigation into the normal tax implications of a carried interest in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Accounting Research • Authors: Ellané van Wyk --- Department of Accounting, South Africa Tertius Troost --- Mazars, South Africa‘Carried interest’ is not defined in the South African Income Tax Act 58 of 1962 as amended (the Act), nor has it been subject to scrutiny in South African courts. Uncertainty prevails regarding the classification of a carried interest for... -
Barriers hindering biomimicry adoption and application in the construction industry
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Olusegun A. Oguntona --- Sustainable Human Settlement and Construction Research Centre, Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, South Africa Clinton O. Aigbavboa --- Sustainable Human Settlement and Construction Research Centre, Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, South AfricaAttaining the goal of sustainability in the construction industry is a demanding task that comes with numerous challenges and complexities. To overcome these, biomimicry, as the study and emulation of nature’s features, processes and systems for solving diverse human issues... -
Comparison of socio-economic and ecological benefits of bamboo and trees: the perspectives of local communities in south-western Ghana
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern Forests: a Journal of Forest Science • Authors: Richard Osei --- Earth and Life Institute, Belgium Michael Ansong --- Department of Silviculture and Forest Management, Ghana Stefan Zerbe --- Faculty of Science and Technology, ItalyNatural forests are disappearing in many tropical countries, resulting in loss of biodiversity and erosion of forest-dependent livelihoods. The maintenance and restoration of forests as well as a search for alternative natural resources that can concurrently improve the environment and... -
Profiling work-related signature strengths of “Born Free” South Africans: A gender perspective
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Ita Geyser --- Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management (STH), South Africa Madelyn Geldenhuys --- Department of Industrial Psychology and People Management (IPPM), South AfricaThis study investigated the importance of signature strengths of South African trainees in the hospitality industry who are the “Born Free” generation, who have only lived in a democracy, and were given equal opportunities. Utilising a cross-sectional research design, we... -
Therianthropes as human-animal relations: contextualising rock art in anthropological perspective
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Robert J. Thornton --- , South AfricaSouthern African rock art is painted on exposed but sheltered rock faces and features involved collocations of images in generally ambiguous relation to one another. Therianthropes — mixtures of parts of humans and animals — condense in one image a... -
Is happiness based on psychological harmony? Exploring the mediating role of psychological harmony in the relationship between personality characteristics and occupational well-being
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Yuzhu Zhang --- , China Leigang Zhang --- , China Yunlong Wu --- , ChinaThis study proposed and tested a theoretical model for specifying the structural relationship between personality characteristics (including core self-evaluation, social comparison, philosophies of human nature, psychological capital), psychological harmony, and occupational well-being in a higher education setting. We analysed data... -
Using riparian plant species to locate the 1:2-year floodline on single channel rivers
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: MK Reinecke --- , South Africa CA Brown --- , South Africa KJ Esler --- , South Africa JM King --- , South AfricaRiparian zones can be characterised botanically into two main areas, a wet bank and a dry bank. These areas have been linked to the duration of inundation by river flow, the boundary between the two being the 1:2 year floodline... -
Social support seeking and self-efficacy-building strategies in enhancing the emotional well-being of informal HIV/AIDS caregivers in Ibadan, Oyo state, Nigeria
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Bernedette Okwuchukwu Okeke --- , NigeriaThis study examined the relative efficacy of social support seeking (SSS) and self-efficacy building (SEB) in the management of emotional well-being of caregivers of people suffering from HIV/AIDS. It was based at the United States President's Emergency Plan for AIDS... -
Sensory marketing and gastronomy: the case of Ecuadorian haute cuisine restaurants
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Klaes Eringa --- NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands Viviana Carolina Proaño Paredes --- NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The NetherlandsA visit to a haute cuisine restaurant is a feast for all the senses. This study investigates sensory aspects of Ecuadorian haute cuisine which has recently grown in popularity. A key reason for this popularity is the diversity and availability... -
Cross-disciplinary meaning and language for innovation in a business context: A conceptual paper
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Craig Andrew Duff --- Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa Jan Hendrik Dubery --- Tshwane University of Technology, South AfricaIn this conceptual work, we describe cross-disciplinary meaning and language related to the innovation phenomenon located in a business context. Our work attempts to find common meaning and language for innovation that can be applied across all business innovation projects... -
Interpersonal sensitivity, smartphone addiction, connectedness to nature and life satisfaction among college students: A moderated mediation model
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: --- Beijing Forestry University, China --- Hebei Normal University, China --- Beijing Forestry University, China --- Beijing Forestry University, ChinaThis study explored the relationship between interpersonal sensitivity and life satisfaction among college students, the mediating effect of smartphone addiction, and the moderating effect of connectedness to nature. A total of 702 college students (453 females, Meanage = 19.60 years,... -
Multiple circannual moult strategies: feather tract moult patterns for common birds of the central Fynbos region, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Alan TK Lee --- University of KwaZulu-Natal, South AfricaWhen and where birds lose their feathers during the annual moult cycle is a fascinating subject, but there is little reported on patterns and strategies of moult for most African bird species. While there have been great advances in our... -
Parents’ environmental knowledge and perception of young children’s nature connectedness: The serial mediating role of parents’ environmental concern and parent–child engagement
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Zeng Xiaoying --- Nanjing Normal University, ChinaThis study explored the relationship between parents’ environmental knowledge and 3- to 6-year-old children’s nature connectedness, and the mediating role of parents’ environmental concern and parent–child engagement in that relationship. Participants were 427 parents from rural western China (female =... -
The first description of the nest and egg of the Long-billed Forest-warbler Artisornis moreaui with additional notes on the breeding of the Red-capped Forest-warbler A. metopias
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Jasson John --- University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Edigar Apolinary --- , Tanzania Emmanuel Mgimwa --- , TanzaniaWe present the first description of the nest and egg of the Long-billed Forest-warbler Artisornis moreaui recently discovered in Nilo Nature Forest Reserve, Tanzania. Two subspecies are recognised: the nominate one, endemic to East Usambara Mountains in northeastern Tanzania, and... -
Highly variable breeding phenology in an arid region colonial cooperative breeder, the Sociable Weaver Philetairus socius
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Pietro B D’Amelio --- Université Paris-Saclay and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut des Neurosciences Paris-Saclay, France Nicolas J Silva --- , France Liliana R Silva --- University of Porto, Portugal André C Ferreira --- University of Zurich, Switzerland Franck Theron --- University of Porto, Portugal Claire Doutrelant --- , France Rita Covas --- University of Porto, PortugalDescribing breeding phenology (the timings of reproductive events) is central for studying individual fitness and population dynamics. While fundamental differences in breeding strategies between different biomes (e.g. tropics and temperate regions) have long been identified, detailed descriptions based on long-term... -
Living together, feeding apart: the comparative foraging ecology of two African flycatcher species
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Peter GH Frost --- , South Africa Suzanne K Frost --- FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, University of Cape Town, South AfricaThis study examined how habitat and resource conditions influence the foraging behaviour and ecology of the Pale (Pallid) Flycatcher Agricola pallidus and Marico Flycatcher Bradornis mariquensis, two perch-and-pounce insectivores that swoop on prey from elevated perches. These species were studied... -
Gratitude to nature and pro-environmental behaviour: A moderated mediated model
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Xiaoyu Li --- Inner Mongolia Normal University, China Xindi Kong --- Inner Mongolia Normal University, China Hongyu Liang --- Inner Mongolia Normal University, China Yifan Wang --- Inner Mongolia Normal University, ChinaWe examined the relationship between trait gratitude to nature and pro-environmental behaviours, and the roles of anthropomorphism and connectedness to nature within this relationship. University students (n = 966; female = 47.09%; mean age = 20.75 years, SD = 1.42... -
Re-storying Nature: An Eco-critical Reading of Parkes’s Tail of the Blue Bird
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Samuel Kwesi Nkansah --- University of Cape Coast, GhanaThis paper applies African eco-criticism to analyse human-nature relationships in Nii Ayikwei Parkes’s Tail of the Blue Bird. From the discussions, vivid depictions of rivers, forests, animals and spirits showcase profound connections through which nature shapes cultural identities. Specifically, Parkes’s... -
A blind signature scheme based on new cyclic groups
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Quaestiones Mathematicae • Authors: Elahe Mehraban --- Mathematics Research Center, Near East University TRNC, Turkey T. Aaron Gulliver --- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Victoria, Canada Evren Hincal --- Mathematics Research Center, Near East University TRNC, TurkeyIn this paper, the Fibonacci, Lehmer, and Mersenne sequences are used to define new sequences named the Hadamard-type Fibonacci-Lehmer sequences and Mersenne-Lehmer sequences, and some results regarding them are given. Then these sequences are employed to introduce new cyclic groups...
