Browsing Research Articles (Plant Science) by UP Author "Victor, Janine Elizabeth"

Browsing Research Articles (Plant Science) by UP Author "Victor, Janine Elizabeth"

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  • The conservation imperative and setting plant taxonomic research priorities in South Africa 
    Victor, Janine Elizabeth; Smith, G.F. (Gideon Francois), 1959- (Springer, 2011-06)
    For more than a decade it has been internationally recognised that efforts should be made to remedy the concern that taxonomy is an endangered discipline in the grips of rapid decline. In acknowledgement of the perceived ...
  • Creating an online world flora by 2020 : a perspective from South Africa 
    Victor, Janine Elizabeth; Smith, G.F. (Gideon Francois), 1959-; Turland, Nicholas J.; Le Roux, Mariaan; Paton, Alan; Figueiredo, Estrela; Crouch, Neil R.; Van Wyk, Abraham Erasmus (Braam); Filer, Denis; Van Wyk, Erich (Springer, 2014-01)
    At the 10th Conference of the Parties of the Convention on Biodiversity (CBD), which was held in Nagoya, Japan, in October 2010, an updated Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (GSPC) was adopted as part of the plan of ...
  • Global legume diversity assessment : concepts, key indicators, and strategies 
    Yahara, Tetsukazu; Javadi, Firouzeh; Onoda, Yusuke; de Queiroz, Luciano Paganucci; Faith, Daniel P.; Prado, Darien E.; Akasaka, Munemitsu; Kadoya, Taku; Ishihama, Fumiko; Davies, Stuart; Slik, J.W. Ferry; Yi, Tingshuang; Ma, Keping; Bin, Chen; Darnaedi, Dedi; Pennington, R. Toby; Tuda, Midori; Shimada, Masakazu; Ito, Motomi; Egan, Ashley N.; Buerki, Sven; Raes, Niels; Kajita, Tadashi; Vatanparast, Mohammad; Mimura, Makiko; Tachida, Hidenori; Iwasa, Yoh; Smith, G.F. (Gideon Francois), 1959-; Victor, Janine Elizabeth; Nkonki, Tandiwe (International Association for Plant Taxonomy, 2013-04)
    While many plant species are considered threatened under anthropogenic pressure, it remains uncertain how rapidly we are losing plant species diversity. To fill this gap, we propose a Global Legume Diversity Assessment ...
  • History and drivers of plant taxonomy in South Africa 
    Victor, Janine Elizabeth; Smith, G.F. (Gideon Francois), 1959-; Van Wyk, Abraham Erasmus (Braam) (Magnolia Press, 2016-08-06)
    The development of plant taxonomy in South Africa from about 1600 to 2015 is reviewed, with emphasis on the main driving factors that have influenced the research direction, techniques used, and choice of taxonomic research ...
  • A method for establishing taxonomic research priorities in a megadiverse country 
    Victor, Janine Elizabeth; Smith, G.F. (Gideon Francois), 1959-; Van Wyk, Abraham Erasmus (Braam) (Magnolia Press (Open Access), 2015-03)
    A coordinated strategy for biosystematics research that addresses the needs of end-users can improve the relevance and impact of research products. The basic types of information that taxonomists provide, common to all ...
  • Plant taxonomic capacity in South Africa 
    Victor, Janine Elizabeth; Smith, G.F. (Gideon Francois), 1959-; Ribeiro, Shanelle; Van Wyk, Abraham Erasmus (Braam) (Magnolia Press, 2015-12-11)
    South Africa’s exceptionally rich and diverse flora faces challenges in terms of utilisation, management and conservation; these actions are underpinned by taxonomic research. The principal purpose of this review is to ...
  • The taxonomic and conservation status of Agrostis eriantha var. planifolia 
    Victor, Janine Elizabeth; Mashau, A.C.; Ngobeni, V.J. (National Botanical Institute, 2012-01-13)
    Agrostis eriantha Hack. (1904) is a tufted, rhizomatous perennial that grows in wetlands of Swaziland, Lesotho, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, Gauteng, Free State, KwaZulu-Natal, and Eastern Cape. This relatively rare grass ...