renosterveld

Pollination and nutrient-cycling by termites, and termite-mound communities, mainly in the renosterveld flatlands, are notable; and the region has very high levels of bird - and mammal-pollinated plants.

Cape Floral Protected Areas, South Africa 2009

It grows on the predominant coarsely sandy, acidic nutrient-poor soils, and on alkaline marine sands and slightly richer alluvial soils of the renosterveld, poor in Protoaceae but rich in Asteraceae.

Cape Floral Protected Areas, South Africa 2009

There are five major threats facing remnant lowland fynbos and renosterveld habitat.

Lowland fynbos and renosterveld 2008

Fragmentation of South African renosterveld shrublands: effects on plant community structure and conservation implications.

Lowland fynbos and renosterveld 2008

Lowland fynbos and renosterveld - Encyclopedia of Earth

Lowland fynbos and renosterveld 2008

Most endemic species grow in fynbos vegetation, although locally endemic geophytes are relatively common in renosterveld vegetation in the western, winter-rainfall part of the combined lowland and montane fynbos ecoregions.

Lowland fynbos and renosterveld 2008

About 41 percent of the original extent of fynbos, and 75 percent of renosterveld have been transformed, principally by agriculture.

Lowland fynbos and renosterveld 2008

However, their geological histories, different climates, and different levels of threats separate the lowland and montane forms of fynbos and renosterveld.

Lowland fynbos and renosterveld 2008

Fynbos covers 19,227 km2 (53.8 percent) of this ecoregion and renosterveld covers 16,490 km2 (46.2 percent).

Lowland fynbos and renosterveld 2008

Owing to the spectacularly high plant diversity and endemism of the fynbos and renosterveld, this ecoregion has been previously identified as a biodiversity hotspot by Conservation International and as a WWF-IUCN Center of Plant Diversity.

Lowland fynbos and renosterveld 2008