- Title
- Rehabilitation of grasslands after eradication of alien invasive trees
- Creator
- Palmer, Anthony R, Gwate, Onalenna, Gushaa, Bukho, Gibson, Lesley A, Münch, Zahn, Mantel, Sukhmani K, Murata, Chenai, de Wet, Chris, Zondani, Thantaswa, Perry, Adam
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2019
- Type
- text
- Type
- report
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/438195
- Identifier
- vital:73442
- Identifier
- ISBN 978-0-6392-0098-9
- Identifier
- https://wrcwebsite.azurewebsites.net/wp-content/uploads/mdocs/TT 786_final web.pdf
- Description
- Invasive alien plants (IAPs) remain a serious threat to the water supply and to stor-age reservoirs throughout South Africa. IAPs are known to use a large quantity of water through evapotranspiration, and the clearing and control of IAPs has been a major activity of the Working for Water (WfW) programme. Successful clearing of these often aggressive woody trees and shrubs requires careful regeneration of ef-fective indigenous vegetation cover after the physical clear-felling and removal of the IAPs. Application of effective post-clearing management regimes is required in order to improve the grass cover within catchments and this can ensure that there is controlled runoff and groundwater re-charge. South Africa's water catchment areas receive insufficient rainfall (Blignaut and De Wit 2004). In addition, limited options for the construction of new reservoirs and water schemes has stimulated the need to explore other options for increasing and conserving water supplies (Ashton and Seetal 2002) and improved demand management.
- Format
- 278 pages, pdf
- Publisher
- Water Research Commission
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Palmer, AR, Gwate, O, Gushaa, B, Gibson, L, Münch, Z, Mantel, Sukhmani K, Murata, C, de Wet, C, Zondani, T, and Perry, A. 2019. Rehabilitation of grasslands after eradication of alien invasive trees. Water Research Committee
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