Elands Forest Thicket (AT 26) Escarpment Arid Thicket (AT 27) Escarpment Mesic Thicket (AT 28) Escarpment Valley Thicket (AT 29) Fish Arid Thicket (AT 30) Fish...

greater distance separates the coast from the escarpment. Although much of the country is classified as semi-arid, it has considerable variation in climate...

900 ft) of which are known as the Highveld, starting at the Drakensberg escarpment, 220 km (140 mi) to the east of Johannesburg and sloping gradually downwards...

moths. The spiny thicket plant communities of southern Madagascar are threatened by human activity. The climate is arid, and mature thicket grows and regenerates...

it makes a zig-zag turn to Cookhouse, from where it meanders down the escarpment east of Grahamstown before its final near-straight run to its estuary...

bottom of the rift valley. Groundwater is predominantly recharged at the escarpments and highlands above 1900 m a.s.l., where annual rainfall is higher than...

across the island, which later contracted to what is today the sub-arid spiny thicket in the southwest. Humid forests probably established since the Oligocene...

and hot, dry summers, hosting the famous fynbos biome of shrubland and thicket. This area produces much of the wine in South Africa and is known for its...

Dutch, and refers to a significant portion of Southern Africa's Great Escarpment in the Cradock, Murraysburg, Richmond, Graaff-Reinet, Nieu-Bethesda and...

of habitats, such as the Springbok in arid shrublands, semidesert and grassland, and the Greater Kudu in thicket, open woodlands and riverine vegetation...