Research Papers

MT Hoffman and RM Cowling                                                                                          

1

‘Enough to be considered useful’: John Acocks’ contribution to South African botany

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GJ Bredenkamp and LR Brown                                                                                       

7

A reappraisal of Acocks’ Bankenveld: origin and diversity of vegetation types

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JHJ Vlok, DIW Euston-Brown and RM Cowling                                                               

27

Acocks’ Valley Bushveld 50 years on: new perspectives on the delimitation, characterisation and origin of subtropical thicket vegetation

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MC Rutherford, L Mucina and LW Powrie                                                                      

52

Nama-karoo veld types revisited: a numerical analysis of original Acocks’ field data

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ME Meadows                                                                                                                  

62

John Acocks and the expanding Karoo hypothesis

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WRJ Dean and SJ Milton                                                                                               

68

Did the flora match the fauna? Acocks and historical changes in Karoo biota

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WJ Bond, GF Midgley and FI Woodward                                                                       

79

What controls South African vegetation — climate or fire?

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MT Hoffman                                                                                                                    

92

‘Nature’s method of grazing’: Non-Selective Grazing (NSG) as a means of veld reclamation in South Africa

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MC Rutherford, LW Powrie and GF Midgley                                                                  

99

ACKDAT: a digital spatial database of distributions of South African plant species and species assemblages

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TG O’Connor, CD Morris and DJ Marriott                                                                      

105

Change in land use and botanical composition of KwaZulu-Natal’s grasslands over the past fifty years: Acocks’ sites revisited

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Book Review

Reviewed by Laco Mucina                                                                                           

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Nature Divided: Land Degradation in South Africa by Timm Hoffman and Ally Ashwell