Guidelines Savanna Biome Workshop 30 January 2018 Location TOR and - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Guidelines Savanna Biome

Workshop 30 January 2018

Location

TOR and Procedure

• Use Mucina & Rutherford (2006) as baseline to

identify management units

• Strictly follow format of Chapter 5 in “Ecosystem

Guidelines for Environmental Assessment in the Western Cape”

Identification of management units

• 86 vegetation types (too narrow??)
• 6 bioregions (too wide??)
• Effort to find a compromise 14 units
• During write-up found it was still clumsy
• Final map?? 8 mapping units

Vegetation types

Bioregions

Compromise? 14 mapping units

Current final map?? 8 mapping units

Current Final Map??

• Differs from the bioregion map in:
• Lowveld savanna divided into
• Arid Lowveld Bushveld and
• Moist Sour Lowveld Savanna
• Mountain Bushveld in all bioregions

Final? Management Units

• 1. Kalahari Duneveld
• 2. Kalahari Thornveld and Vaalbosveld
• 3. Central Plains Bushveld
• 4. Mopane Bushveld
• 5. Arid Lowveld Bushveld
• 6. Moist Sour Lowveld Savanna
• 7. Sub-escarpment Savanna
• 8. Mountain Bushveld

Am I satisfied? Not entirely: suggestions Central Plains? Vaalbosveld? Mountain Bushveld?

Maps

• Map each ecosystem’s locality with municipalities
• Give for each ecosystem the following:
• Land cover – built-up, agriculture, forestry, mining, bare

areas, gulley erosion: all together as transformed? or separately?

• Conservation and protected areas – National Parks,

provincial and other nature reserves, conservancies, game farms??

• Threatened ecosystems
• CBA s

Land cover savanna biome

Land cover – transformed savanna biome

Gulley erosion savanna biome

CBA s in savanna biome

Protected and conservation areas savanna biome

Threatened ecosystems savanna biome