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Species diversity of the Okavango Delta, Botswana
(Springer link, http://link.springer.com, 2006)
In the Okavango Delta (about 28,000 km2) the number of identified species is 1,300 for plants, 71 for fish, 33 for amphibians, 64 for reptiles, 444 for birds, and 122 for mammals. The local occurrence of different species ...
The Okavango; a river supporting its people, environment and economic development
(Elsevier; www.elsevier.com/locate/jhydrol, 2006)
The Okavango basin comprises the Cuito and Cubango active catchment areas in Angola, in addition to the Kavango's Okavango non-active catchment in northern Namibia and Botswana. The Okavango River water and its ecosystem ...
Indicators of desiccation-driven change in the distal Okavango Delta, Botswana
(Elsevier Ltd; www.elsevier.com/locate/jaridenv, 2007-01)
This work seeks to determine whether riparian woody plant variables respond to drying and salinity regimes in the semi-arid distal Okavango Delta, northern Botswana. Structural and compositional variables were obtained ...
Use of the geochemical and biological sedimentary record in establishing palaeo-environments and climate change in the Lake Ngami basin, NW Botswana
(Elsevier; http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/865/description#description, 2007-02-07)
[Please note chemical formulae do not display correctly in this abstract]. Sediment samples from a continuous 4.6m profile in the dry bed of Lake Ngami in NW Botswana were analysed for geochemistry and dated using both 14C ...
More woody plants? the status of bush encroachment in Botswana's grazing areas
(ScienceDirect, www.sciencedirect.com, 2002)
the cattle-dominated grazing areas of Botswana. Bush encroachment species – for instance Acacia tortilis, A. erubescens,
A. mellifera, Dichrostachys cinerea, Grewia flava, and Terminalia sericea –are increasing in cover ...