- Title
- Towards assessing impacts of alien plant infestations on river systems in the Southern Cape using cost-benefit analyses
- Creator
- Rivers-Moore, Nick A, Dallas, Helen F, Barendse, Jaco, de Moor, Ferdy C
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2015
- Type
- text
- Type
- report
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/438336
- Identifier
- vital:73452
- Identifier
- ISBN 978-1-4312-0661-2
- Identifier
- https://wrcwebsite.azurewebsites.net/wp-content/uploads/mdocs/2264.pdf
- Description
- Ecosystem resilience is key to the provision of dependable ecosystem goods and services, and it is generally accepted that ecosystem diversity helps to maintain sys-tem resilience. It is therefore reasonable to postulate that changes to the variables that drive species patterns will result in changes to ecosystem community structure and consequently negatively impact on system resilience. Alien vegetation in the riparian zone can impact on water temperatures, flow patterns, degree of shading, channel modification, and changes to natural sediment loads. Climate change is likely to exacerbate the problem both directly through its amplification of thermal extremes in aquatic systems, and indirectly through its impacts on dispersal patterns of alien invasive vegetation.
- Format
- 104 pages, pdf
- Publisher
- Water Research Commission
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Rivers-Moore, N.A., Dallas, H., Barendse, J. and de Moor, F., 2015. Towards assessing impacts of alien plant infestations on river systems in the Southern Cape using cost-benefit analyses. Water Research Commission, Pretoria. WRC Report, (2264/1), p.15
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