Developing fixed-point photography methodologies for assessing post-fire mountain fynbos vegetation succession as a tool for biodiversity management

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dc.contributor.advisorKnight, Richard
dc.contributor.advisorHarebottle, Doug
dc.contributor.authorAlkalei, Osama
dc.date.accessioned2021-03-25T13:02:37Z
dc.date.accessioned2024-10-30T11:28:11Z
dc.date.available2021-03-25T13:02:37Z
dc.date.available2024-10-30T11:28:11Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.descriptionMagister Scientiae (Biodiversity and Conservation Biology) - MSc (Biodiv and Cons Biol)en_US
dc.description.abstractAreas of high biodiversity and complex species assemblages are often difficult to manage and to set up meaningful monitoring and evaluations programmes. Mountain Fynbos is such an ecosystem and in the Cape of Good Hope (part of the Table Mountain National Park) plant biodiversity over the last five decades has been in decline. The reasons are difficult to speculate since large herbivores, altered fire regimes and even climate change could be contributors to this decline which has been quantified using fixed quadrats and standard cover-abundance estimates based on a Braun-Blanquet methodology. To provide more detailed data that has more resolution in terms of identifying ecological processes, Fixed-Point Repeat Photography has been presented as a management “solution”. However, photography remains a difficult method to standardize subjects and has certain operational limitations.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10566/16750
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Western Capeen_US
dc.rights.holderUniversity of Western Capeen_US
dc.subjectBiodiversity managementen_US
dc.subjectChange detectionen_US
dc.subjectFixed-point repeat photographyen_US
dc.subjectHigh-resolution imagesen_US
dc.subjectMountain Fynbosen_US
dc.subjectPost-fire successionen_US
dc.titleDeveloping fixed-point photography methodologies for assessing post-fire mountain fynbos vegetation succession as a tool for biodiversity managementen_US

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