Book
Vegetation field atlas of continental South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland
Strelitzia, 33, SANBI
2014
Abstract
Why this Atlas?
The publication of the Vegetation of South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland (known among peers as ‘the VegMap’), edited by Laco Mucina & Mike Rutherford, and assisted by Les Powrie and about 100 other co-authors, marked a milestone on a long journey laid down by South African vegetation science and plant ecology (Mucina & Rutherford 2006a). The classification of South Africa’s terrestrial ecosystems and featuring the diversity of vegetation types on a map resulted in a resource now widely used not only by botanists, vegetation scientists and plant ecologists, but also by users of botanical, vegetation and ecological information including those involved in zoology, other biological sciences, tertiary education, environmental consulting, nature conservation, and policy-making. Since its publication in 2006 (although the book became available only in early 2007) the book describing the vegetation of South Africa accrued more than 1200 citations (and counting, according to Google Search), or 153+ citations per year (Publish or Perish [computer program] 1 March 2014). What then, is the role of this ‘Atlas’, which reprints Chapter 18 of the VegMap (Mucina et al. 2006) – the vegetation map itself?...
Details
- Title
- Vegetation field atlas of continental South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland
- Authors/Creators
- Ladislav Mucina (Editor)Michael C. Rutherford (Editor)Leslie W. Powrie (Editor)Adriaan Van Niekerk (Editor) - Stellenbosch UniversityJohannes H. van der Merwe (Editor)
- Series
- Strelitzia; 33
- Publisher
- SANBI; Pretoria
- Number of pages
- IV, 47
- Identifiers
- 9781919976976; 1919976973; 991005580051207891
- Copyright
- © 2014 by South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI)
- Murdoch Affiliation
- Centre for Terrestrial Ecosystem Science and Sustainability
- Resource Type
- Book
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