South Africa's succulents—small, fleshy, ... The Succulent Karoo Biome in South Africa is the world's only hot arid biodiversity hotspot. An area of 116,000km², ...

Biome boundary maintained by intense belowground resource competition in world’s thinnest-rooted plant community. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 2022; 119 (9): e2117514119 DOI ...

The grasslands biome is one of the most threatened biomes in South Africa, with 30 percent irreversibly transformed and only 1.9 percent of the biodiversity target for the biome formally conserved.

The researchers conducted a four-year manipulated experiment to explore the stark divide between the Fynbos and Afrotemperate Forest biomes in South Africa’s western cape.

Without this harmony, the habitats, or biomes, ... a senior research scientist at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research in South Africa.

Water biomes make up over 75 percent of the Earth's surface. They consist of freshwater ecosystems such as ponds and lakes, streams and rivers, and wetlands, as well as marine regions such as ...

South Africans should be quivering at evidence that desert trees are "marching" south to escape the heat, a scientist told a landmark national conference on climate change recently.