Full Text Available
Note: Clicking the button above will open the full text document at the original institutional repository in a new window.
Effects of natural vegetation, fire and alien plant invasion on bird species assemblages in mountain fynbos of the southwestern Cape Province, South Africa
Bibliography: leaves 148-160.
Saved in:
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Other Authors: | |
| Format: | Thesis |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Department of Biological Sciences
2014
|
| Subjects: | |
| Tags: |
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
| _version_ | 1867613241694224384 |
|---|---|
| access_status_str | Open Access |
| author | Fraser, Michael, 1957- |
| author2 | Prys-Jones, Robert |
| author_browse | Fraser, Michael, 1957- Prys-Jones, Robert |
| author_facet | Prys-Jones, Robert Fraser, Michael, 1957- |
| author_sort | Fraser, Michael, 1957- |
| collection | Thesis |
| description | Bibliography: leaves 148-160. |
| format | Thesis |
| id | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/8423 |
| institution | University of Cape Town (South Africa) |
| language | eng |
| last_indexed | 2026-06-10T12:33:01.081Z |
| license_str | Not specified — see source repository |
| provenance_str_mv | Harvested via OAI-PMH from UCTD — University of Cape Town Open Access Repository |
| publishDate | 2014 |
| publishDateRange | 2014 |
| publishDateSort | 2014 |
| publisher | Department of Biological Sciences |
| publisherStr | Department of Biological Sciences |
| record_format | dspace |
| source_str | UCTD — University of Cape Town Open Access Repository |
| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/8423 Effects of natural vegetation, fire and alien plant invasion on bird species assemblages in mountain fynbos of the southwestern Cape Province, South Africa Fraser, Michael, 1957- Prys-Jones, Robert Zoology Bibliography: leaves 148-160. The effects on birds of fine-scale differences in plant species assemblage and vegetation structure, and of two major disturbance factors (woody alien plant infestation and fire), were investigated in Mountain Fynbos at two sites in the southwestern Cape Province, South Africa. Three associated processes were also studied. These were the relative importance of three animal taxa as seed predators following fire, the extent to which an indigenous bird species ate alien Acacia cyclops fruits, and potentially dispersed its seeds, and the number of nectarivorous birds which visited an isolated nectar resource. Avian responses to fire in Mountain Fynbos varied according to season, locality and burning regime. Recently and cleanly burnt fynbos at a flat, low altitude, coastal site supported a distinctly non-fynbos avifauna, characterized by relatively large-bodied, ground-feeding, opportunistic species. 2014-10-11T12:22:01Z 2014-10-11T12:22:01Z 1990 Master Thesis Masters MSc http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8423 eng application/pdf Department of Biological Sciences Faculty of Science University of Cape Town |
| spellingShingle | Zoology Fraser, Michael, 1957- Effects of natural vegetation, fire and alien plant invasion on bird species assemblages in mountain fynbos of the southwestern Cape Province, South Africa |
| thesis_degree_str | Master's |
| title | Effects of natural vegetation, fire and alien plant invasion on bird species assemblages in mountain fynbos of the southwestern Cape Province, South Africa |
| title_full | Effects of natural vegetation, fire and alien plant invasion on bird species assemblages in mountain fynbos of the southwestern Cape Province, South Africa |
| title_fullStr | Effects of natural vegetation, fire and alien plant invasion on bird species assemblages in mountain fynbos of the southwestern Cape Province, South Africa |
| title_full_unstemmed | Effects of natural vegetation, fire and alien plant invasion on bird species assemblages in mountain fynbos of the southwestern Cape Province, South Africa |
| title_short | Effects of natural vegetation, fire and alien plant invasion on bird species assemblages in mountain fynbos of the southwestern Cape Province, South Africa |
| title_sort | effects of natural vegetation fire and alien plant invasion on bird species assemblages in mountain fynbos of the southwestern cape province south africa |
| topic | Zoology |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8423 |
| work_keys_str_mv | AT frasermichael1957 effectsofnaturalvegetationfireandalienplantinvasiononbirdspeciesassemblagesinmountainfynbosofthesouthwesterncapeprovincesouthafrica |