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The Antarctic Floristic Kingdom (also Holantarctic Kingdom) is a floristic region first identified by botanist Ronald Good (and later by Armen Takhtajan),
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It is the only floristic region of the Cape (South African) Floristic Kingdom, and includes only one floristic province, known as the Cape Floristic...
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More effective conservation management in the Overstrand through co-ordinated partnerships., Overstrand Conservation Foundation Thursday, 26 November 2009 Conservation Events Calendar...
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floristic kingdom (noun, biogeography term, pl. floristic kingdoms) – a geographic area with a relatively uniform composition of plants (or plant-like...
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Encyclopædia Britannica. ecological areaalso called floristic kingdom or floral kingdom. Fynbos in the Cape floristic region, Western Cape, South Africa.
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Essentially, Renosterveld used to contain the large animals in the Cape Floristic Kingdom, but these are now extinct or else have been reintroduced into conservation areas. By contrast, Fynbos is much richer in plant species, but has such poor soils that it cannot support even low densities of big game.
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The Cape Floral Kingdom or Floristic Region is the smallest of the six such natural areas in the world, and is the only one contained within the borders of a single country. The others are the Boreal or Paleoarctic, Australasian, Neotropic, Paleotropic, and Antarctic.
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Encyclopedia: Phytochorion
A Phytochorion, in phytogeography, is a geographic area with a relatively uniform composition of plant species. Adjacent phtyochoria do not usually have a sharp boundary, but rather a soft one, a tran...
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CAPE FLORISTIC KINGDOM. Goldblatt, P. & Manning, J. (2000) Cape plants: Goldblatt, P. (1997) Floristic diversity in the Cape flora of South Africa.
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The protea occurs abundantly in South Africa's Cape Floristic Region, also known as the Cape Floral Kingdom. The Cape Floristic Region is one of only two that encompass an entire floral kingdom - the other is New Caledonia in Canada. It has the greatest extratropical (outside of the tropics) concentration of plant...
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