A lost biome: A tale of the South African coastal flora

dc.contributor.author	Potts, Alastair
dc.contributor.author	Grobler, Adriaan
dc.contributor.author	Cowling, Richard
dc.date.accessioned	2021-11-03T11:44:07Z
dc.date.available	2021-11-03T11:44:07Z
dc.date.issued	2018-06-21
dc.description.abstract	South African coastal vegetation is poorly defined and lacking consistent treatment as it is spread across different vegetation type definitions. However, in this talk, we suggest that this “dune thicket/fynbos mosaic” (also known as strandveld) should be considered a unique vegetation type based on floristics and ecology. This coastal flora is exceptionally rich when compared to similar habitats globally, with an initially surprising long list of endemics. Ecologically, it comprises fire-adapted underground forests (i.e. thicket lineages) that intermingle with fynbos elements. We argue that the “thicket/fynbos mosaic” are not competing vegetation types but a co-evolved community that arose on the PalaeoAgulhas Plain. The current coastal slivers of this vegetation represent the remains of an extensive biome that existed for most of the Quaternary, during lowered sea-levels, on the Palaeo-Agulhas Plain.	en_ZA
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12143/7799
dc.language.iso	en	en_ZA
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Biodiversity Planning Forum;
dc.subject	Vegetation	en_ZA
dc.subject	Coastal	en_ZA
dc.subject	Dune	en_ZA
dc.subject	Thicket	en_ZA
dc.subject	Fynbos	en_ZA
dc.title	A lost biome: A tale of the South African coastal flora	en_ZA

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