Estimating Thresholds of Natural Vegetation for the Protection of Water Quality in South African Catchments
Kent Anson Locke,
Kevin Winter
Abstract:Many of South Africa’s current water quality problems have been attributed to diffuse pollution derived from poorly regulated land use/land cover (LULC) transformations. To mitigate these impacts, the preservation of an adequate amount of natural vegetation within catchment areas is an important management strategy. However, it is not clear how much natural vegetation cover is required to provide adequate levels of protection, nor at which scale(s) this strategy would be most effective. To investigate the poss… Show more
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