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Papers

  • Keynote addresses
  • Session 1: Pollination Symposium
  • Session 2: Policy
  • Session 3: Environmental Management
  • Session 4: Fire
  • Session 5: Stewardship
  • Session 6: Partnerships
  • Session 7: Sustainable Harvesting
  • Session 8: Conservation & Conservation Planning
  • Session 9: Ecology
  • Session 10: Education
  • Session 11: Aquatics
Keynote Addresses
  • Marcelo Aizen: The global pollination crisis: myth and reality.
    [Keynote sponsored by SAEON]
  • Mark Simmons: Restoration of a Texas savanna: the different effects of prescribed fire on native and invasive species
    [Keynote sponsored by SAEON]
  •      Martin de Wit: "After all those cosy years of working together, show me the money" Presentation | Paper
  • Sean Privett: Invest in opportunity, not inventory in hotspots.
Session 1: Pollination Symposium
  • Ruan Veldtman: The importance of pollination related ecosystem services to the Western Cape deciduous fruit industry.
  • Madelé Rademan: Are pollination-related ecosystem services comparable to managed honeybee colonies for apple production in the Western Cape.
  • Mariette Brand: The impact of managed Cape honeybee colonies on the forage behaviour of ivertebrate anthophiles in fynbos habitat.
  • Rosanne Stanway: High selfing rate in a Cape plant community increase resilience to pollinator loss
  • Sjirk Geerts: An applied ecological question: can pollinator decline cause population extinction in Brunsvigia orientalis?
  • Petra Wester: Nightlife - when mice meet Whiteheadias [PRIZE WINNER]
  • Marinus de Jager: Pollinator mediated interactions determine the assembly of flower colour within co-flowering Oxalis communities
  • Hellen Curran: Anther-smut infection of South African Oxalis species - Spatial distribution patterns and impacts on host fecundity.
  • Nathalie Theron: Mite communities in Protea infrutescences.
  • Jonathan Colville: Partitioning explained variations in species composition of pollinating beetles.
  • Vera Hoffmann: Species remain distinct despite gene flow. The case of Jamesbrittenia pedunculosa and J. racemosa.
Session 2: Policy
  • Nicky Allsopp: Using evidence from environmental policy and management - a not so obvious choice.
  • Cornelia B. Krug: Keeping the Cape Lowland archipelagos afloat: bridging the knowing-doing gap.
  • Sarshen Marais: The conservation road to Copenhagen: an NGO perspective through the Climate Action Partnership.
  • Azisa Parker: An overview of the C.A.P.E. Programme: where are we heading in the Fynbos Biome?
  • Domitilla Raimondo: Application of the Red List for conservation practitioners.
  • Kas Hamman:How not to communicate a new approach to the management of damage-causing animals.
Session 3: Environmental Management
  • Pierre de Villiers: A strategy aimed at establishing management plans for estuaries in the Cape Floristic Region.
  • Charl de Villiers: The Langtou River pilot study, Western Cape.
  • David le Maitre: Water and soils: A call for an integrated approach to sustainable management.
  • Greg Forsyth: Prioritizing quatenary catchments for invasive alien plant control within the fynbos and karoo biomes of the Western Cape province.
  • Rainer Krug: Towards more efficient management of invasive alien plants: spatial prioritisations.
Session 4: Fire
  • Anne Lise Schutte-Vlok & Jan Vlok: Fiddling while Rome is burning - Fire management in the Cape Mountains
  • Zane Erasmus: The demand for resources to practice fire management in the protected areas of the Western Cape, South Africa
  • Wessel Vermeulen, T Kraaij, AHW Seydack, CJ Van der Merwe & J Britton: Towards an adaptive interference fire management system for the Outeniqua and Tsitsikamma Mountains
  • Augustine Morkel: Predictive modelling and conservation managers' decision making systems related to fire - a management perspective
  • Tieneke Kraaij: Towards determining the ecological fire regime for the Garden Route coastal mountains
  • Val Charlton, Leanne McKrill, Christalene de keller & Sam Cloete: Firewise South Africa
Session 5: Stewardship
  • Glenda Raven: Working with People Working the Land: Case Studies of Professional Development for Stewardship and Extension in Conservation
  • Nora Sperling Thiel: Western Cape Conservation Stewardship Association: CAPE STEWARDSHIP since 2003
  • Pamela Booth: The declaration of a Protected Environment: who, how, where, why and when?
  • Rhett Smart: The Role of the Environmental Impact Assessment Process in Conservation Gains: Reactive Stewardship
  • Paula Hathorn & Nkisi Mlotywa: People and nature on the Cape Flats: Experiments & Lessons
  • Mark Ogilvie: Huniki: Changing lives through nature!
  • Farha Ally: Kenilworth Racecourse Conservation Area: Working Together for a Living Landscape.
Session 6: Partnerships
  • Tertius Carinus: Agulhas Biodiversity Initiative: Current and way forward
  • Odette Curtis: People & Conservation: Are we losing our lowlands?
  • Inge Kotze: Bottoms up! Viewing conservation challenges through the wine glass.
  •      Maarten Groos: Tourism as a tool for the conservation of fynbos [PDF not available].
  • Anton Odendal: The Western Cape Birding Route: A different role for fynbos.
  •      I Ebrahim and V Zikishe: The CREW programme: making volunteers work for conservation [PDF not available].
  • Rory Allardice: The establishment of a protected environment on the Agulhas plain.
  • Wilfred Chivell: Dyer Island Conservation Trust.
Session 7: Sustainable Harvesting
  •      Sean Privett & Mirijam Gaertner: Flower Valley's sustainable harvesting research programme on the Agulhas Plain. [PDF not available]
  • Roger Bailey: Agulhas Plain - A resource base survey for wild fynbos.
  •      Joan Prins & Lesley Richardson: Agulhas Plain - Does the sustainable harvesting of fynbos have an impact on the lives of people? [PDF not available]
  • Hans Knoesen: Does wild fynbos pay?
  • Vicki Hudson:Sustainable harvesting in nature reserves - a case study.
  • Grant Forbes: Impacts of harvesting on reproduction of commercially exploited fynbos species - Recommendations for the flower industry
Session 8: Conservation & Conservation Planning
  • Kate Snaddon: City of Cape Town's Biodiversity "Wetwork": prioritisation of City wetlands for conservation
  • Stephen Holness: The Overberg Finescale Conservation Plan - How do you tell them you need everything?
  • Rupert Koopman & Ismail Ebrahim: Conserving priority lowland areas - assessing the status of the Jarman sites.
  •      Ernst Baard: Status and distributino update of the geometric tortoise and speckled padloper in the Western Cape
  • Mick D'Alton: The occurrence of the Cape Hare Lepus capensis on the Agulhas Plain - Questions raised.
  • Otto Beukes: The Guttural Toad - Indigenous African... Cape Town invader
Session 9: Ecology
  • Anne Horn: In ditches and dongas: but down and out? The value of conservation corridors in West Coast Renosterveld.
  • Robin Jangle: Renosterveld - not always what it seems.
  •      Tali Hoffmann: Is space a limiting factor for the Chacma Baboons (Papio h. ursinus) of the Cape Peninsula? [PDF not available]
  • Robin Colyn: Using bird species diversity as an indicator of habitat alteration in the Kogelberg Nature Reserve.
  • Ann Ketley: Aquatic invertebrates - potential indicators of thermal stress.
Session 10: Education
  • Victoria Wilman: Growing plants and growing people - an integrated restoration nursery and learning village.
  • Alice Ashwell: How do teens feel about nature?
  • Mswazi: WESSA/WWF-SA Eco-schools Programme - Fynbos Node.
  • Larissa Smit: Morgenson Primary School
  • Phakamani Xaba: Horticulture as a catalyst for Biodiversity conservation, skill development and sustainable income generation in semi-rural communities: lessons from SANBI's Overberg Useful Plants Project.
Session 11: Aquatics
  • M. Pandelani & P. Buwa: Vegetation assessment of riparian zones on the Breede River Catchment.
  • Terence Bellingan: Biotic signatures of rivers in and around the Tsitsikamma National Park based on Trichoptera.
  • Martine Jordaan: An assessment of the ichthyofauna of the Breede River System in the Western Cape Province as part of the National River Health Programme.
  • Dean Impson: Is river rehabilitation involving alien fish eradication about getting the alien fish out or getting the anglers on your side? Four CFR rivers as a case history.
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