1: Nicola G. Bergh, G. Anthony Verboom, Mathieu Rouget, and Richard
M. Cowling: Vegetation types of the Greater Cape Floristic
Region
2: Peter L. Bradshaw and Richard M. Cowling: Landscapes, rock types
and climate of the Greater Cape Floristic Region
3: Tineke Kraaij and Brian W. van Wilgen: Drivers, ecology and
management of fire in fynbos
4: Jonathan F. Colville, Alastair J. Potts, Peter L. Bradshaw, G.
John Measey, Dee Snijman, Mike D. Picker, ?erban Proche?, Rauri C.
K. Bowie, and John C. Manning: Floristic and faunal Cape biochoria:
do they exist?
5: G. Anthony Verboom, H. Peter Linder, Félix Forest, Vera
Hoffmann, Nicola G. Bergh, Richard M. Cowling: Cenozoic assembly of
the Greater Cape flora
6: Allan G. Ellis, G. Anthony Verboom, Timo van der Niet, Steven D.
Johnson, H. Peter Linder: Speciation and extinction in the Greater
Cape Floristic Region
7: Krystal A. Tolley, Rauri C.K. Bowie, G. John Measey, Benjamin W.
Price and Félix Forest: The shifting landscape of genes since the
Pliocene: terrestrial phylogeography in the Greater Cape Floristic
Region
8: Curtis W. Marean, Hayley C. Cawthra, Richard M. Cowling, Karen
J. Esler, Erich Fisher, Antoni Milewski, Alastair J. Potts, Elzanne
Singels, and Jan De Vynck: Stone age people in a changing South
African Greater Cape Floristic Region
9: Jasper A. Slingsby, David D. Ackerly, Andrew M. Latimer, H.
Peter Linder and Anton Pauw: The assembly and function of Cape
plant communities in a changing world
10: Bruce Anderson, Nicky Allsopp, Allan G. Ellis, Steven D.
Johnson, Jeremy J. Midgley, Anton Pauw, James G. Rodger: Biotic
interactions
11: Michael D. Cramer, Adam G. West, Simon C. Power, Robert Skelton
and William D. Stock: Plant ecophysiological diversity
12: John R. Wilson, Mirijam Gaertner, Charles L. Griffiths, Ian
Kotzé, David C. Le Maitre, Sean M. Marr, Mike D. Picker, Dian
Spear, Louise Stafford, David M. Richardson, Brian W. van Wilgen,
Andrew Wannenburgh: Biological invasions in the Cape Floristic
Region: history, current patterns, impacts, and management
challenges
13: Res Altwegg, Adam West, Lindsey Gillson, Guy F. Midgley:
Impacts of climate change in the Greater Cape Floristic Region
14: Mathieu Rouget, Mandy Barnett, Richard M. Cowling, Tracey
Cumming, Fahiema Daniels, M. Timm Hoffman, Andrew Knight, Jeff
Manuel, Azisa Parker, Domitilla Raimondo, Tony Rebelo: Conserving
the Cape Floristic Region
15: Nicky Allsopp, Pippin M.L. Anderson, Patricia M. Holmes,
Annalie Melin, Patrick J. O'Farrell: People, the Cape Floristic
Region and Sustainability
16: David D. Ackerly, William D. Stock, Jasper A. Slingsby:
Geography, climate and biodiversity: the history and future of
mediterranean-type ecosystems
Dr Nicky Allsopp manages the Fynbos Node of the South African
Environmental Observation Network. She started her research career
investigating nutrient uptake specializations of fynbos vegetation
and followed this with studies of nutrient patterns and processes
associated with vegetation degradation in most of the major biomes
in South Africa. While working in communal rangelands, she became
interested in the social dimensions of environmental management.
Recently
she served as an editor and author on the South African Department
of Science and Technology's Global Change Research Plan. She is
also involved with the Fynbos Forum which promotes
science-management-decision making communication and action. Dr
Tony Verboom holds an associate professorship in the Department of
Biological Sciences at the University of Cape Town, teaching topics
in systematics, evolutionary ecology and land plant diversity.
Research-wise he is interested in questions relating to speciation,
adaptation and the processes that underpin the spatial organization
of biodiversity. Much of his research has involved the use of
systematic tools to understand better
the assembly of the modern Cape flora. To date, Dr Verboom has
published 39 papers in international peer-reviewed journals. He
regularly reviews for international journals and currently serves
as an
associate editor for Austral Ecology. He also co-edited a special
issue of Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution entitled 'Origins
and evolution of a biodiversity hotspot, the biota of the African
Cape Floristic Region'. Dr Jonathan Colville holds a NRF-Research
Career Advancement Fellowship and is currently based at the South
African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI) within the
Kirstenbosch Research Centre, where he conducts research on the
ecology and evolution of South Africa's
insects, as well as their conservation and value as ecosystem
service providers. Most of his research focuses on investigating
the patterns and processes of insect diversity, with a particular
interest on the
insect faunas of the Greater Cape Floristic Region, in which
several insect groups show clear signatures of adaptive radiation.
Dr Colville serves as an associate editor for African Entomology
and is a member of the Entomological Society and Lepidopterists'
Society of Southern Africa. He is an avid natural historian of
insects and plants: in 2002 he was involved in the scientific
discovery of the World's most recent insect order, and in 2011, he
was involved in the discovery of the World's
first jumping cockroach.
[It] forms an affordable compendium of our current state of
knowledge regarding this extraordinary ecoregion.
*Markus Eichhorn, Frontiers of Biogeography*
... this book will be the primary go-to reference ...
*Ryan Chisholm, Ecology*
[T]he rich science and compelling natural history offered in
Fynbos. Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation of a Megadiverse
Region command the global conservation community to pay equal
attention to this extratropical, megadiverse landscape.
*Peggy L. Fiedler, Conservation Biology*
A wealth of knowledge and expertise has made Fynbos a rich resource
not only for those interested in the GCFR but also for the
practicing ecologist in any community.
*Suzanne M. Schibeci, Austral Ecology*
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