Characteristics of South African Biomes

摘要: The development of integrated cooperative ecological research programmes on a national scale demands the use major biotic divisions rather than political or administrative units as basis to organizational framework. Such framework should bring together those ecosystems which share floristic, faunistic, climo-edaphic and dynamic characteristics are consequently subject same kinds environmental problems. For this reason National Programme for Environmental Sciences has followed tradition initiated in International Biological developing its activities within biomes South Africa.