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