ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Hillslope hydrology represents a complex system with several interacting processes influencing the movement of water through the landscape. The Western Cape area of South Africa is expected to be impacted ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Soil texture, plant available water and fertilizer N would influence growth, biomass production and antimicrobial properties of locally used medicinal plants.This research was aimed at investigating how ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The effect of long-term tillage on basic soil properties with respect to sustainability was investigated in this dissertation. Over the last three decades soil conservation has become an important ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Biochar has been labelled to be a key factor in the global carbon mitigation act and has
been described as the modern day equivalent (terra nova) to the terra preta dark earth
soils of the Brazilian ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The Eksteen method of lime requirement determination, based on the ratio of Ca+Mg:H (R-value), is widely used in the Western Cape and has proven to be extremely accurate for most soils. However, the Eksteen ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Soils of semi-arid regions generally have low organic matter contents, primarily attributed to prevailing climatic conditions. Yet, the spekboom thicket, located in the semi-arid region of the Eastern ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The use of cowdung as an organic fertilizer in Asian and African agriculture is an
ancient practice. This explains its renewed interest, partly due to the financial inability
of most farmers to purchase ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Biochar is a carbon-rich solid material produced during pyrolysis, which is the thermal degradation of biomass under oxygen limited conditions. Biochar can be used as a soil amendment to increase the ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Biochar (charcoal) is lauded by many scientists as an effective way to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and storing it in a very stable form in the soil for hundreds to thousands of years, whilst ...
Stander, McLachlan Du Toit(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2011-12)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Increased pressure on groundwater sources due to increased population size and threats of climate change is driving research to better understand the process of aquifer recharge. Soil pattern is of interest ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Shiraz/110R grapevines, growing in a fine sandy loam soil in the Breede River Valley,
were subjected to ten different drip irrigation strategies during the 2006/07, 2007/08
and 2008/09 seasons. Grapevines ...
Mongwe, Hlamalani Godfrey(Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2004-12)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Storing soil organic carbon (SOC) is a possible way of reducing atmospheric
CO2 and potentially mitigating the effects of global warming. This study looks
at soil carbon stocks, the sampling methodology ...
Dowding, Catherine Elaine(Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2004-12)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In the humid Graskop region of Mpumalanga Province, South Africa, there is an
anomalous body of highly weathered black, manganiferous oxisols derived from dolomite.
With Mn contents as high as 17%, ...
Burgers, C. L. (Colleen Lucie)(Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2003-04)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Coal mining in South Africa is estimated to produce 200 Ml of acid mine drainage
(AMD) per day in the Pretoria-Witwatersrand-Vereeniging (PWV) area alone, while
electricity production resulted in ...
Bekker, Stefanus Johannes(Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2011-03)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The topic of landscape heterogeneity has captured the imagination of ecologists and agriculturists alike and has been extensively investigated in this dissertation. Heuweltjies are landscape features ...