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	Fynbos - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The fynbos in the Western regions is more rich and varied than in the Eastern regions.
		Contrast it in size with the Holarctic kingdom, which incorporates the whole of the northern hemisphere apart from the tropical regions.
		In many areas with Mediterranean climates, fynbos species are popular garden plants, in particular aloes and geraniums, and in cooler regions are used as window plants.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fynbos (660 words)

	Cape floristic region - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Cape floristic region is a floristic province of South Africa.
		The Cape floristic region covers the Mediterranean climate region of South Africa Western Cape Province in the southwestern corner of the country, and extends eastward into the Eastern Cape Province, a transitional zone between the winter-rainfall region to the west and the summer-rainfall region to the east in Kwazulu-Natal Province.
		Most of the region is covered with fynbos, a sclerophyll shrubland that is home to an amazing diversity of plant species, including many members of the Protea family (Proteaceae), Heath family (Ericaceae), and restios (Restionaceae).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cape_floristic_region (272 words)

	Biodiversity Hotspots - Cape Floristic Province - Overview
		Home to the greatest non-tropical concentration of higher plant species in the world, the region is the only hotspot that encompasses an entire floral kingdom, and holds five of South Africa’s 12 endemic plant families and 160 endemic genera.
		The vegetation on the Cape is dominated by fynbos (an Afrikaans word for “fine bush”), a shrubland comprising hard-leafed, evergreen, and fire-prone shrubs that thrives on the region's rocky or sandy nutrient-poor soils.
		Although the region was once covered by lush rain forest, climate changes around 15 million years ago resulted in the retreat of the forests.
	www.biodiversityhotspots.org /xp/Hotspots/cape_floristic (355 words)

	Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Lowland fynbos and renosterveld (AT1202)
		Floristically and structurally, the distinction between lowland and montane forms of fynbos and renosterveld is weak.
		The Southeastern Coast Forelands extend from the Tsitisikamma region in the west, to Port Elizabeth at the eastern boundary of this ecoregion, coincident with the eastern boundary of the CFR.
		This region is relatively complex topographically, comprising shale- and conglomerate-derived (Cretaceous) valleys and plains, extensive sandstone mountain footslopes, sandplains and calcareous coastal dunes.
	www.worldwildlife.org /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/at/at1202_full.html (4588 words)

	Biodiversity Hotspots - California Floristic Province - Overview
		The California Floristic Province is a zone of Mediterranean-type climate and has the high levels of plant endemism characteristic of these regions.
		This region also holds a number of threatened endemic species such as the giant kangaroo rat and the desert slender salamander, and some of the last individuals of the Critically Endangered California condor can still be found here.
		The region contains a wide variety of ecosystems, including sagebrush steppe, prickly pear shrubland, coastal sage scrub, chaparral, juniper-pine woodland, upper montane-subalpine forest, alpine forest, riparian forest, cypress forests, mixed evergreen forests, Douglas fir forests, sequoia forests, redwood forests, coastal dunes, and salt marshes.
	www.biodiversityhotspots.org /xp/Hotspots/california_floristic (260 words)

	Floristic Projects at the Rocky Mountain Herbarium
		Floristic efforts at the RM aim at not only adding to our knowledge in terms of presence or absence (the what), but also in terms of the distribution of a taxon within a project area (the where does it occur?
		These data are entered into the RM plant specimen database and can be used in a geographical information system (GIS) to plot distribution maps and to analyze patterns of distribution among species and relative to other geographic data (surficial geology, soils, slope and aspect, topography, community types, etc.).
		Floristic studies are frequently undertaken by graduate students with assistance from RM staff (curator Ron Hartman and herbarium manager Ernie Nelson) and consist of two summers of fieldwork.
	www.rmh.uwyo.edu /research/projects/projects.htm (318 words)

	UCSB Biogeography Lab
		As reported for the Sonoran Desert region in Appendix SON, the wilderness designations and expansions of National Parks in the California deserts legislated in the CDPA were incorporated into the final stewardship for CA-GAP.
		Due to the floristic dissimilarity between the eastern and western subregions, the 18 remaining cover types were subdivided by the two floristic regions into two subtypes each, an eastern and western subtype.
		In the western floristic region it occurs in mosaics with Semi-Desert Chaparral or Non-native Grassland.
	www.biogeog.ucsb.edu /projects/gap/report/moj_rep.html (3977 words)

	Calumet Ecological Park Feasibility Study: Part II
		The floristic quality index provides a measure of the ecological integrity of an area based on native vs. non-native species and is described by Swink and Wilhelm (1994) in "Plants of the Chicago Region".
		Historically, the industry developed due to the region's symbiotic relationship with the rich hinterland—a crossroads where raw materials were received at the constructed harbors, processed in the plants, and distributed via the railroad.
		The Calumet region’s greatest strength -- a diversity of interested and committed organizations -- is closely related to a critical weakness -- organizational fragmentation and an array of single purpose or geographically focused groups actively pursuing individual goals with little coordination.
	www.lincolnnet.net /environment/feasibility/calumet3.html (7418 words)

	Diversity Of Species Faces 'Ctastrophe' From Climate Change By Steve Connor
		The wildlife havens that could be worst affected include the Cape floristic region of South Africa, the natural landscape of southwest Australia, the tropical Andes and the Atlantic forests of Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina.
		In the worst-case assessment, a doubling of carbon dioxide concentrations led to the extinction of 40 per cent of species in some of the hotspots - a potential loss of some 56,000 endemic plants and 3,700 endemic vertebrate species.
		Sited at the southern-most tip of the African continent, the region is unique in terms of Mediterranean-type vegetation and its plants would find it difficult to escape rising temperatures.
	www.countercurrents.org /cc-connor110406.htm (1345 words)

	Biodiversity of the Hengduan Mountains
		This region is in the vicinity of the bend of the Yaluzangbu Jiang (Brahmaputra River) within the large triangle formed by the towns of Bomi, Yiong and Mainling-Nyingch (Map 2).
		The prevailing climate on the southern slope of the mountain range in the Motuo region is subtropical.
		Takhtajan, A. Floristic Regions of the World; translated by Theodore J. Crovello with the assistance and collaboration of the author and under the editorship of Arthur Cronquist.
	maen.huh.harvard.edu:8080 /china/project_description (11391 words)

	The Rocky Mountain Herbarium, Associated Floristic Inventory, and the Flora of the Rocky Mountains Project
		The intensive and systematic floristic inventories carried out in recent years by the RM in Wyoming and adjacent states are discussed, as are plans to complete the survey of the vascular plants of the region.
		In mountainous regions (due to greater diversity, to being on foot with backpack, and to the significant elevational relief), the interval for repeating the collecting cycle is about five miles and often there are many more stops along the way.
		Following the publication of the Flora, an atlas of the region is planned using specimen databases established at herbaria throughout the region and the latest technologies in GIS and computer cartography.
	www.rmh.uwyo.edu /research/FloristicInventoryRMFloraproject.htm (8597 words)

	CPD: South America, Site SA2, Pantwpui Region, Venezuela
		The phytogeographic province of Pantepui forms part of the floristic region of Guayana (Huber 1994) and includes all upper slopes and summits of the characteristically flat-topped table mountains ("tepuis") (picture) of the Guayana Highlands.
		The Pantepui region (Endemic Bird Area B02) is home to 36 bird species totally restricted to the vicinity of the tepui mountains.
		Regional development agencies sometimes act in an ambivalent manner, sponsoring tourism, mining, logging and other exploitive activities, but also strongly supporting river-basin protection for hydroelectric schemes.
	www.nmnh.si.edu /botany/projects/cpd/sa/sa2.htm (1990 words)

	NPWRC :: Floristic Quality Assessment of One Natural and Three Restored Wetland Complexes in North Dakota, USA
		Floristic quality assessments rely on coefficients assigned to each plant species of a region's flora based on the conservatism of each species relative to others in the region.
		To evaluate the effect of this subjectivity on floristic quality assessments, we performed separate evaluations of the native plant communities in a natural wetland complex and three restored wetland complexes.
		Floristic quality indices (FQI) for the restored wetlands rarely exceeded 22 and usually reached maximums closer to 19, with higher values occurring again in the oldest restored complex; only two wetlands in the natural complex had an FQI less than 22.
	www.npwrc.usgs.gov /resource/wetlands/ndwetlnd (790 words)

	Great Basin--Mojave Desert Region
		Anthropologists define the region by cultural attributes of the aboriginal inhabitants (d'Azavedo 1986), botanists by species composition of the vegetation (Billings 1951; Holmgren 1972; Vasek and Barbour 1990), and geologists by the structure of the land (Hunt 1967).
		The sagebrush-grass zone is contracting because of the downward expansion of the pinyon-juniper zone in the central portion of the region (Blackburn and Tueller 1970) and by western juniper woodlands in the north (Burkhardt and Tisdale 1976; Miller and Wigand 1994; Miller and Rose 1995).
		The aquatic invertebrate fauna in the region shares species with the adjacent regions, especially the Rocky Mountains; species that also occur in the Sierra Nevada are not as widely distributed in the Great Basin (Nelson 1994).
	biology.usgs.gov /s+t/SNT/noframe/gb150.htm (14767 words)

	C.A.P.E. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Cape Floristic Region (CFR) is located at the southern tip of the African continent and is uniquely the only floral kingdom to be located entirely within the geographical confines of one country.
		Due to its concentration of endemic taxa, its large number of species, and its vulnerability to processes that threaten its unique biodiversity, the CFR is recognized globally as a biodiversity hotspot.
		The rich biodiversity of the CFR is due to an extensive and complex array of habitat types derived from topographical and climatic diversity in the region's rugged mountains, fertile lowlands, simi-arid shrublands, and coastal dunes.
	www.capeaction.org.za /template.php?intDynamicPageID=23 (304 words)

	Cape Floral Heritage Site
		The Cape Floral Region is one of the richest areas for plants in the world.
		The Cape Floral Region is considered of outstanding universal value for representing ongoing ecological and biological processes associated with the evolution of the unique Fynbos biome.
		The number of species per genus within the region (9:1) and per family (52) are among the highest given for various species-rich regions in the world.
	www.encounter.co.za /article/147.html (314 words)

	Biodiversity Hotspots - California Floristic Province - Unique and Threated Biodiversity
		The number of vascular plant species found in the California Floristic Province is greater than the total number of species from the central and northeastern United States and adjacent parts of Canada, an area ten times larger than the California hotspot.
		The Klamath-Siskiyou region bridges the coastal mountain ranges of California and Oregon, and is home to the most diverse temperate coniferous tree community in the world.
		The California Floristic Province has a relatively small number of inland fishes (just over 70 species), because of its isolation from the large eastern North American fish fauna by the western mountains and deserts.
	www.conservation.org /xp/Hotspots/california_floristic/biodiversity.xml (1022 words)

	Conservation International - Regions - Africa - Southern Africa
		The Cape Floristic Region hugs the southwestern coast of South Africa with an eye-bulging array of native plants.
		Among the region’s nearly 2,000 endemic plant species are botterbooms (Tylecodon paniculatus), a stem succulent that sheds its glossy leaves for red flowers in summer.
		The situation is not the same in South Africa where a variety of pressures, from the presence of invasive species to mining and illegal harvesting of succulents and bulbs, threaten the Cape Floristic Region and Succulent Karoo hotspots.
	www.biodiversityscience.org /xp/CIWEB/regions/africa/safrica.xml (1090 words)

	Flora of Oklahoma (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		It is a complex assemblage of plants representing several floristic regions.
		Species characteristic of the Appalachian, Prairie, and Coastal Plain provinces of the North American Atlantic floristic region are most common; however, plants from the Rocky Mountain region and the Sonoran province of the Madrean region also are found in the state.
		This diversity of floristic and vegetation types is related to the state's unique position in North America, its ecological and geological diversity, and its environmental gradients in precipitation, temperature, elevation, topographic relief, and soils.
	www.biosurvey.ou.edu /floraok/about.html (381 words)

	Flora of the Western Cape
		The Cape Floral Kingdom or Floristic Region is the smallest of the six such natural areas in the world, and is the only one contained within the borders of a single country.
		The region's peak blooming season is in the spring months of September and October, but there are numerous species in bloom throughout the year.
		Temperatures range from 50°-60° in the coolest months in lower-lying coastal regions to 60°-70° in the hottest months, and are both cooler in the winter and hotter in the summer in higher elevations and farther from the coast.
	www.calflora.net /southafrica/capeflora.html (2789 words)

	Namibiana Buchdepot: Buch, Bücher, Karten, Video, CD, DVD, Reiseführer, Geschichte, Antiquariat, Flora, Fauna, Kunst, ...
		For a country of its size South Africa's floristic and vegetational diversity is without equal in the world; over 22 000 plant species are native to the region.
		South Africa has two distinct floristic kingdoms and is one of only a few countries in the world where one can drive overland from one kingdom to another; it certainly is the one where the change in species composition is most noticeable and the transition between two kingdoms most striking.
		Groups that contribute extensively to the floristic diversity of the Cape are the ericas (730 species) and especially the families Proteaceae (proteas), Restionaceae (reeds), Iridaceae (irises), Asteraceae (daisies), Rutaceae (buchus), Fabaceae (legumes) and Mesembryanthemaccae (vygies).
	www.namibiana.de /index.cfm?action=ViewDetails&itemid=526 (575 words)

	On the other hand, many species and their genes are endangered to be extinct by the elemination of genes other than ...
		Factors affecting the flora of the region are the grazing, opening new farm fields, and excessive use of pastures.
		This region is under the effects of disturbing factors such as illegal collection of the material in nature, the landslides due to opening new field areas, flood and erosion.
		This region harboring genetic resources of plant species resistance to drought and salinity may have special importance as the global warming and the northward movement of temperate zone are on the global agenda of discussion.
	www.metu.edu.tr /~kayaz/genkay.html (16403 words)

	Biodiversity Hotspots - California Floristic Province - Conservation Action
		A little under 110,000 km², or 37 percent of the total land area of the California Floristic Province, is under official protection, although less than one-third of this is in IUCN categories I to IV.
		Among the mechanisms for protection in this region are several national parks (including two in northern Baja California); nearly 50 wilderness areas (managed by the U.S. Forest Service); 16 national wildlife refuges (managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service); 107 state parks; six U.S. military installations; and more than 50 areas managed by NGOs.
		The creation of many of these protected areas was the result of the dedicated efforts of national conservation organizations, including the Sierra Club, The Nature Conservancy, and the Wilderness Society.
	www.conservation.org /xp/Hotspots/california_floristic/conservation.xml (255 words)

	Rainforest Biogeography
		Some of the closest floristic similarities between rainforest regions are probably due to the exceptional dispersal abilities of certain plants that may have had their seeds carried across great distances by birds or ocean currents within the last few million years.
		Consequently the region evolved its own very distinctive rainforest flora from the plant groups that happened to be present, including an important role for certain ancient conifer groups that had dominated the Gondwanaland forests before flowering plants existed.
		Both floristically and geographically, it is very close to the Amazonian forests that lie to the east, but it has probably been completely separated from them for millions of years after the Andes grew up from beneath.
	www.esd.ornl.gov /projects/qen/rainfo.html (10206 words)

	CELB - Places - South Africa
		The Cape Floristic Region, located at the bottom of the southern tip of Africa, encompasses an entire floral kingdom.
		The Cape Floristic Region is also home to endangered species found nowhere else on Earth, including the geometric tortoise, one of the rarest tortoise species in world; the cape sugar-bird; and several species of small antelopes, including the bontebok.
		One of the largest threats to the biodiversity of the Cape Floristic Region is the expansion of certain sectors of agriculture.
	www.celb.org /xp/CELB/places/south_africa.xml (428 words)

	Cape Floristic Region
		The Cape Floristic Region Hotspot is home to the highest density of plant species in the world.
		The CEPF strategy for this region focuses on catalyzing action by nongovernmental organizations, community groups and other civil society partners on the most urgent C.A.P.E. priorities.
		The partnership supports civil-society led efforts in the three reserve areas of Cederberg, Gouritz and Baviaanskloof and the last remaining areas of natural vegetation in the lowlands beyond the Agulhas Plain.
	www.cepf.net /xp/cepf/where_we_work/cape_floristic/cape_floristic_info.xml (313 words)

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