Addo Elephant National Park

Vegetation

The park encompasses five of South Africa’s nine biomes:

Albany Thicket in the original Addo section (also in the Kabouga, Colchester, Nyathi section), Fynbos in the Zuurberg section, Forest in the Woody Cape area and Zuurberg section, Nama Karoo in the Darlington section and Kuzuko Contractual Area of the Park and the Indian Ocean Coastal Belt on the seaward side containing remarkable display of coastal dunes and coastal grassy plains.

Albany Thicket Biome

• AT3 Groot Thicket
• AT5 Sundays Noorsveld
• AT6 Sundays Thicket
• AT7 Coega Bonteveld
• AT8 Kowie Thicket

Fynbos Biome

• Quartzite & Shale Fynbos

Forest Biome

• Zonal & Interzonal Forest

Nama-Karoo Biome

• Lower Karoo Bioregion

Indian Ocean Coastal Belt

• Seashore Vegetation & Eastern Strandveld

References

• Low, A.B. & Rebelo, A.G. (eds.) 1996. Vegetation of South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland. Department of Environmental Affairs & Tourism, Pretoria.
• Mucina, L. & Rutherford, M.C. (eds.) 2006. The vegetation of South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland. Strelitzia 19. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria.
• Vlok, J.H.J & Euston-Brown, D.I.W. 2002. Subtropical Thicket Ecosystem Planning Project (STEP). Biological Survey Report (plants and birds). Report, Terrestrial Ecology Research Unit, Univ. of Port Elizabeth.
• Von Maltitz, G., Mucina, L., Geldenhuys, C.J., Lawes, M., Eeley, H., Adie, H., Vink, D., Fleming, G. & Bailey, C. 2003. Classification system for South African indigenous forests: An objective classification for the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry. Report ENV-P-C 2003-017, Environmentek, CSIR, Pretoria.
  

Information above compiled by: ME Daemane & H Bezuidenhout, CSD, Kimberley, May 2009

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