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- ItemAssessment and evaluation of ecosystem services in the succulent karoo biome(2009-06) Le Maitre, David; O'Farrell, Patrick; Milton, Sue; Atkinson, Doreen; De Lange, Willem; Egoh, Benis; Reyers, Belinda; Colvin, Christine; Maherry, Ashton; Blignaut, James
- ItemFreshwater ecosystem service mapping: Concepts and examples from South Africa(2012-05-24) Nel, Jeanne; Job, Nancy; O'Farrell, Patrick; Smith-Adao, Lindie
- ItemManaging beyond protected areas boundaries(2017-06-22) Smith, Janis; O'Farrell, PatrickProtected areas have been viewed for decades as the cornerstones of biodiversity conservation. The main focus has been on conserving terrestrial biodiversity using a traditional protection strategy of restricting access and activities within these areas. Freshwater biodiversity has seldom been given explicit consideration in the location and design of protected areas, as evidenced by the poor levels of representation and protection for freshwater ecosystems in South Africa. Landscapes surrounding protected areas often help conservation areas maintain flows of water, nutrients, organisms and energy, which span both protected areas and the landscapes surrounding them. Protected areas should not function independently, but should form part of a broader social-ecological system. Emerging understanding highlights the importance of working both within and outside the protected areas, and demonstrates the benefits of contextualising protected areas as components of a social-ecological landscape. We used a variety of mapping approaches to explore how shifting park boundaries to natural features such as hydrological function, can benefit both people and protected areas. Area based approaches were used to analyse hydrological function for different park boundary sizes using buffer and subcatchment based approaches. We found that expanding protected areas based on hydrological features benefit both the protected area and people in the surrounding landscape. This allows people to not only benefit hydrologically from having protected areas in a landscape, but to reconnect to nature through protected areas.
- ItemMapping ecological infrastructure – for conservation and restoration action(2012-05-24) O'Farrell, Patrick; Reyers, Belinda; Le Maitre, David; Forsyth, Greg; Nel, Jeanne; Anderson, Pippin; Holmes, Anderson
- ItemMapping food and livelihood security in communal areas: invasive alien species impacts on grazing services(CSIR, 2014-05-14) Yapi, Thozamile; O'Farrell, Patrick; Esler, Karen
- ItemProject for Ecosystem Services: mapping ecological infrastructure at multiple scales(CSIR, 2014-05-14) Nel, Jeanne; Reyers, Belinda; O'Farrell, Patrick