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Table of Contents Programme Theme: Survivor Fynbos 25th to 28th July 2016 Pine Lodge, Post Elizabeth Organised by the Fynbos Forum Committee 1 Table of Contents Acknowledgements 2 Fynbos Forum Committee 201-201 Fynbos Forum Mission, and Previous Fynbos Fora 3 - 4 Programme Overview 5 - 6 Programme 7 – 11 Poster Titles and Poster Numbers 12 Workshop Descriptions 13-16 Field Trips 17 Paper Abstracts 18 - 46 Poster Abstracts 47 - 51 Contact details of participants Annexure Blank Pages for notes 2 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS FYNBOS FORUM 25th to 28th July 2016 We wish to acknowledge with many thanks the following for their assistance this year! 1. The Kishugu Non Profit Company for administering the Fynbos Forum funding 2. The Table Mountain fund for sponsoring the Fynbos Forum Innovation Scholarships and the update to the Fynbos Forum Ecosystem Guidelines 3. The Plant Conservation Unit, UCT, for sponsoring The Theo Manual Award for Conservation Education 4. The Fynbos Forum committee for spending time and energy on making the forum happen 5. All keynote speakers, oral and poster presenters, workshop facilitators, and leaders of field trips for arranging such an interesting programme this year 6. The exhibitors for their displays and posters 7 Pieter Coetzee for donating the prizes 8 Charles Stuart and Liane Truter for organizing this year‟s forum 9 Pine Lodge, Port Elizabeth for hosting the 2016 forum 3 COMMITTEE MEMBERS 2015 - 2016 Chair: Ms Tessa Oliver (Chair) Committee: Dr Nicky Allsopp Ms Carly Cowell Prof Karen Esler Mr Vernon Gibbs-Halls Mr Rupert Koopman (Vice Chair) Mr Tony Marshall Ms Marilyn Martin-VermaakD Mr Donald Matjuda Dr Nicola van Wilgen Ms Natasha Wilson Ms Julia Wood Secretariat: Mrs Liane Truter Mr Charles Stuart FYNBOS FORUM MISSION The Fynbos Forum is an affiliation of researchers, planners, managers, landowners and a range of other stakeholders that meets annually to discuss management issues and research results, and to formulate priorities for future research and conservation management actions required to ensure the conservation and sustainability of Fynbos ecosystems. In order to achieve this goal, we undertake to assess biological resources, ensure institutional capacity and consider socio-economic issues. Contact details Fynbos Forum Secretariat Porter Building Porter Estate Tokai Road Tokai 7945 Tel.: 021 712 5223 Email: [email protected] PREVIOUS FYNBOS FORA 4 FYNBOS FORUM PROJECT 1977 Various dates at UCT & Stellenbosch University- founding of the Fynbos Biome Project 1978 Various dates and various venues 1979 Stellenbosch 29 January 1980 Stellenbosch 20 - 30 July 1981 UCT 29 - 30 June & 1 July 1982 UCT 11 June 1983 UCT 28 June 1984 Stellenbosch 26 June 1985 Stellenbosch 29 - 30 July 1986 UCT 26 - 27 June 1987 Saasveld, George 23 - 25 June 1988 Avalon Hotel, Montagu 27 - 29 July FYNBOS FORUM (name change) 1989 ClanWilliam 18 - 20 July 1990 Stellenbosch - University of Stellenbosch, Die Ark 01 – 02 October 1991 Bredasdorp- Potberg 11 - 13 August 1992 Cape Town 1993 Drosdy Museum, Swellendam 16 - 17 March 1994 Bien Donné, Stellenbosch 13 - 15 July 1995 Mispah Youth Centre, Grabouw 05 - 06 December 1996 The Nekkies Dist. Worcester 17 - 18 July 1997 Genadendal 16 - 18 July 1998 Die Herberg, Waenhuiskrans, Arniston 22 - 24 April 1999 Rein's Nature Reserve, Albertinia 22 - 23 September 2000 Ganzekraal Holiday Resort & Conference Centre 07 - 0 9 June 2001 Calitzdorp Spa 01 - 03 August 2002 Goudini, Rawsonville 14 - 16 August 2003 Hartenbos Resort, Hartenbos, Dist. Mossel Bay 05 - 08 August 2004 Club Mykonos, Langebaan 10 - 13 August 2005 Pine Lodge, Port Elizabeth 01 - 05 Au gust 2006 Goudini Spa, Rawsonville, Dist. Worcester 09 - 11August 2007 Club Mykonos, Langebaan 01 - 03 August 2008 Oudtshoorn – known as Interfaces, a joint forum with Arid Zones Ecology Forum, 3-7 August 2009 The Sports Centre, Bredasdorp 04 - 07 August 2010 NG Church Centre, Citrusdal 03 -0 6 August 2011 Community Hall, Still Bay 31 May - 03 June 2012 Cape St Francis 17-19 July 2013 Kirstenbosch Botanic Garden, Cape Town 07-10 October 2014 Premier Hotel, Knysna 04 - 08 August 2015 NG Church, Montagu 03 - 06 August 5 Fynbos Forum 2016 Programme Overview Time Monday 25th July 13h00 Registration 14h00 – Workshop 1 Workshop 2 Workshop 3 17h00 Workshop until 18h00 18h30 Opening of Fynbos Forum &Keynote address 19h00 DINNER Tuesday 26th July 07h30 Late registration and Tea 08h15 Welcome & Keynote address 08h30 Session 1: Paleoscapes 10h06 TEA 10h30 Session 1:Paleoscapes continued… 12h00 POSTER SESSION 1 & LUNCH 13h30 Session 2:People and Nature 15h30 TEA 16h00 Workshop 4: The Fynbos Forum of the Future – what does it need to deliver? 17h00 Fynbos Forum AGM 19h00 DINNER Wednesday 27th July 07h30 Late registration 08h00 Session 3: Conservation priorities, global change and future directions 09h57 Workshop 5:CapeNature discussion on research questions 10h30 TEA 10h45 Workshop 5: Continued… 11h15 Session 4:Ecological Interactions 13h15 Fieldtrips 6 19h00 DINNER & Disco Thursday 28th July 08h00 Late registration 08h00 Session5: Conservation Ecology 08h45 Session 6:Restoration 09h15 Workshop 6:Acacia saligna control in the context of ecosystem POSTER SESSION 2 restoration 10h15 TEA 10h30 Session 7:Invasive Species 13h00 Prize giving & Closing 13h15 LUNCH 7 Fynbos Forum 2016 Programme Overview Time Event Monday 25th July 2016 13h00 Registration 14h00- Workshop 1: Integrating the Workshop 2: Cape Action for People and Workshop 3: Developing a 17h00 management of fire and alien the Environment (CAPE): Charting the course framework for restoration and ex- vegetation - for the next phase – Marilyn Martin situ conservation in the fynbos Amanda Younge Hayes & Zane Workshop until 18h00 region with the aim of improving the Erasmus condition and conservation management effectiveness at priority sites. - Ismail Ebrahim, Tony Rebelo & Pat Holmes Tea during the workshop 18h25 Opening of Fynbos Forum: Tessa Oliver (Chairperson of the Fynbos Forum) 18h30 Keynote address: Caroline Gelderblom : History of the Fynbos Forum and the Book! 19h00 DINNER Tuesday 26th July 2016 07h30 Late registration and Tea 08h15 Welcome: Tessa Oliver (Chairperson of the Fynbos Forum Committee) Session 1: Paleoscapes Chair: Karen Esler 08h30 Keynote address: Richard Cowling: What environment conditions were associated with the emergence of modern humans on the Cape South Coast? 09h00 Karen Esler, Alastair Potts, Guy Midgley & Richard Cowling: Resource-scapes, what, why, when and how? 09h15 Alastair Potts: Reconstructing the vegetation of the Cape paleolandscape using correlative and mechanistic models 09h30 Elzanne Singels, Karen Esler & J Parkington: Underground storage organs in time and space 8 09h45 Susan Botha, Richard Cowling, Alastair Potts, Karen Esler & Jan de Vynck: The foraging potential of edible plants foods in the Southern Cape 10h00 Zintle Faltein: How might CO2 levels change the resource-scape picture? An assessment of geophyte growth at sub- atmospheric CO2 concentrations 10h06 TEA 10h30 Session 1: Paleoscapes continued… Chair: Karen Esler 10h30 Jan de Vynck, K Hill, R Anderson, Richard Cowling & Curtis Marean: Productive and resilient intertidal marine resources available to human foragers on the South Coast of South Africa 10h45 Leesha Richardson: Marine bird exploitation: A key factor in better understanding foraging and mobility patterns of Later Stone Age people on the Mossel Bay coast. 11h00 Discussion 12h00 POSTER SESSION 1 & LUNCH Session 2: People and Nature Chair: Bongani Mnisi 13h30 Yvette van Wijk, Renee Rust, Madelon Tusenius, Cynthia Larbey & Sarah Wurz: The relationship between place, plants and people in the Klasies River area on the Tsitsikamma Coast, South Africa 13h45 Roger Bailey, K O’Grady, B Botha & P Vermaak: Big Support for small fynbos suppliers – protecting fynbos and livelihoods through a new approach 13h51 Rhoda Malgas, D Comley, B Jilisen, M Rafferty & S Jacobs: The Honeybush Knowledge Partnership: co-creation of knowledge through farmer-led research 14h06 Nicolas Galuszynski, Alastair Potts & Richard Cowling: Honeybush cultivation, a potential ecological trap? 14h21 Leif Petersen & Neville van Schalkwyk: Making All Voices Count – Stories of wild herb collectors in Cape Town - 2 talks 14h51 Boitshekwane Kgantsi:: Cultural ecosystem services of the Diep River Corridor: Community perceptions of the ecosystem service 15h06 Ismail Ebrahim: CREW Programme – Looking at the future of citizen scientist’s contribution to the conservation of threatened plants and habitats 15h12 Discussion 15h30 TEA 16h00 Workshop 4: The Fynbos Forum of the future – what does it need to deliver? - The Fynbos Forum Committee 17h00 Fynbos Forum AGM 19h00 DINNER 9 Wednesday 27th July 2016 07h30 Late registration Session 3: Conservation priorities, global change and future directions Chair: Nicola van Wilgen 08h00 Brian van Wilgen: Ecological research and conservation management in the Cape Floristic Region between 1945 and 2015: History, current understanding and future challenges 08h30 Nicky Allsopp, Karen Esler & Jasper Slingsby: Towards 100 priority questions for biodiversity conservation in the fynbos region 08h45 Glenn R Moncrieff, Jasper Slingsby, Alastair J Potts & Adam M Wilson: Real-time identification of land transformation and degradation in the Fynbos and thicket biomes from remotely-sensed vegetation activity. 09h00 Nasiphi Ntshanga, Serban Proches & Jasper Slingsby: Are Cape lowland vegetation fragments doomed for climatic extinction? 09h15 Jeremy Shelton, Tumisho
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