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- W2023562290 abstract "Remote sensing, together with geographic information systems (GISs), provide a powerful tool for monitoring environmental processes. Aerial and satellite photographs enable the analysis of an entire landscape and, using multi-temporal sets of photographs, one is able to follow processes over time. In our study, we used multi-temporal sets of aerial photographs, taken between 1944 and 2005, to observe the phenomenon of woody plant encroachment in four neighbouring study sites in northern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. We also analysed rainfall and temperature trends. Woody plant encroachment was evident in all sites. We suggest possible drivers behind the bush encroachment; in particular, climatic trends. However, encroachment did not relate directly to rainfall and temperature trends. We also speculate on the effects of herbivory and fire, as well as rising atmospheric CO2 concentrations and its effect on C3 and C4 plants. We suggest that increasing atmospheric CO2 concentrations could be the overriding driver of woody plant encroachment in our study area, with other drivers, such as rainfall, temperature, fire, herbivory, and land use, playing a modifying role." @default.
- W2023562290 created "2016-06-24" @default.
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- W2023562290 date "2014-01-28" @default.
- W2023562290 modified "2023-10-16" @default.
- W2023562290 title "Remote sensing provides a progressive record of vegetation change in northern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, from 1944 to 2005" @default.
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