Montane Palustrine Wetlands of Lesotho: Vegetation, Ecosystem Services, Current Status, Threats and Conservation

Chatanga, Peter; Seleteng‐Kose, Lerato

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“…Hitchcock et al (2011, 22, 16). See also Lewis et al (2015); Hirst (1995); Makara (2013); Turpie et al (2021); Chatanga and Seleteng-Kose (2021); Bega (2021);Zunckel (2003). 16.…”

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Placing Islam: Geographies of Connection in Twentieth-Century Istanbul

Hammond

2023

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Luminos is the Open Access monograph publishing program from UC Press. Luminos provides a framework for preserving and reinvigorating monograph publishing for the future and increases the reach and visibility of important scholarly work. Titles published in the UC Press Luminos model are published with the same high standards for selection, peer review, production, and marketing as those in our traditional program. www.luminosoa.orgThe Fluvial Imagination CRITICAL ENVIRONMESERNTS: NATURE, SCIENCE, AND POLITICS Edited by Julie Guthman and Rebecca LaveThe Critical Environments series publishes books that explore the political forms of life and the ecologies that emerge from histories of capitalism, militarism, racism, colonialism, and more.Map 3. Map of the Union of South Africa circa 1975, showing the Bantustans. Note that not all Bantustans had been granted "independence" at that time. Dotted line shows the "conquered territories" of Lesotho. Cartography by Jon Caris and Tracy Tien, Spatial Analysis Lab at Smith College. Bantustan boundaries adapted by author from https://commons.wikimedia.org/w /index.php?curid=25392438 by Htonl. Conquered territories boundary digitized by author based on map in Lelimo (1998). Ocean bathymetry made with Natural Earth. All other administrative boundaries and city locations from ESRI Living Atlas. social activity: of imagination, of production, of reproduction. 40Above all, engineering storage requires regular reckoning with contradiction, namely the contradiction between storage and extraction. During apartheid, South Africa sought to store up workers it could tap at any moment. Industry then wanted laborers but not rights-bearing citizens. It needed them close, but wanted them far away. Industry today wants Lesotho's water, but without having to worry about the landscapes from which it issues. It demands minimal impact by livestock, but as I'll show it provides almost no long-term employment, leaving livestock production as one of the few options for rural people living in upstream catchments. South Africa's labor reserves required "upstream" mechanisms to manage their contradictions. 41 Some of these mechanisms were material in nature, while others were symbolic or social. Borders and passbooks, for example, helped regulate the flow of people, while ethnic or national identities helped to justify that regulation. The disciplining of kinship relations, too, for example by prohibiting spouses and children to accompany mineworkers, reinforced miners' status as "temporary sojourners" in white areas. 42 South Africa's water reserve requires similar upstream mechanisms. As during its labor-reserve era, the demands of storage and extraction in this reimagined apartheid infrastructure come into conflict. The contradictions generated by Lesotho's structural position as water reservoir must be managed. Over my sixteen months of ethnographic and ecological field research between 2011 and 2019, 43 I found that such management is in large part an exercise in theorizing environmental proce...

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“…Hitchcock et al (2011, 22, 16). See also Lewis et al (2015); Hirst (1995); Makara (2013); Turpie et al (2021); Chatanga and Seleteng-Kose (2021); Bega (2021);Zunckel (2003). 16.…”

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“…65. Preez and Brown (2011); van Zinderen- Bakker and Werger (1974); Jacot-Guillarmod (1962); Chatanga and Sieben (2019); Chatanga and Seleteng-Kose (2021).…”

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Placing Islam: Geographies of Connection in Twentieth-Century Istanbul

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2023

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“…The baseline report and related research provides some quantitative assessment of ES in part of the study area. Other research has also classified or described other ecosystem services, environments or related processes, namely hydrological modelling in the Upper uThukela catchment [23] and montane wetland vegetation across the MD [50,51]. Since the proposed PES scheme, and in step with a general increase in ES research globally, research output addressing ES issues in the MD has increased but remains mostly qualitative or theoretical.…”

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Scrutinising Multidimensional Challenges in the Maloti-Drakensberg (Lesotho/South Africa)

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The Maloti-Drakensberg (MD) is the largest and highest-elevation mountain system in southern Africa. Covering 40,000 km2 and reaching 3500 m, the MD provides a range of ecosystem services (ES) to the entire southern African region—benefitting diverse users and extending well beyond the mountains. Rapid socioecological change threatens the provision of ES and presents multidimensional challenges to sustainable development. However, the continued land degradation and persisting socioeconomic problems indicate that development policy has not been effective in tackling these issues. In this paper, a multidisciplinary literature review forms the basis of a discussion which takes an ES framing to scrutinise the multidimensional social, political, economic and cultural issues in the study area. Three critical management systems are presented, and their associated ES are discussed, namely, water transfer, rangelands and conservation and tourism. In particular, the diversity of ES uses and values in the MD is considered. The results reveal the main drivers of continued unsustainable development and highlight important information gaps.

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“…In the case of freshwater species conservation in the Lesotho Highlands, knowing if there is indeed high relative species richness and cold-evolved species is paramount given growing anthropogenic activity (e.g., waste pollution and agriculture; see Pullanikkatil and Urama, 2011;Chatanga and Seleteng-Kose, 2021;Turpie et al, 2021) and global warming-this is particularly relevant for southern Africa and cold-evolved species, where climatic change is likely to increase substantially over the next century (Dallas and Rivers-Moore, 2014;Serdeczny et al, 2016;Archer et al, 2018;Bentley et al, 2018;Weber et al, 2018). However, conservation relies on accurately being able to quantify relative biodiversity richness in the Highlands as compared with the surroundings and, in this case, decipher cold-evolved species from not (i.e., through determining the evolutionary and spatial origins of species).…”

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Against the Flow: The Colonisation of the Lesotho Highlands by Freshwater Limpets

Sands

Riedel

Gummersbach

et al. 2022

Front. Environ. Sci.

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To date, limited research has taken place on the evolutionary history of biodiversity in the high-altitude zones of southern Africa, particularly the Lesotho Highlands. The few studies that do exist point to similar high-altitude zones being either prolific museums (i.e., refugia and cradles) for cold-evolved species or sinks for temperate species post the Last Glacial Maximum, yet the role this zone has played for freshwater biodiversity is unknown for almost all freshwater taxa. In this study, we address this lack of knowledge by looking at the phylogeography of the freshwater limpet genus, Burnupia, across its southern and eastern African range, but particularly focusing on the Lesotho Highlands. We used COI data to reconstruct the evolutionary history of the genus, quantify phylogenetic species diversity, test both isolation by distance (IBD) and by elevation (IBE) and model ancestral area estimation “in” and “out” of the Highlands to determine: 1) The diversity and endemicity of Burnupia spp. in the Highlands in comparison to the broader southern African region and 2) when did the colonisation of the Highlands happen. Our results showed that at least two of the nine southern African phylogenetic species delimited occur in the Highlands (which appears average for the geographical extent of this area in comparison to the broader southern African region) and that the genus has been present in the Lesotho Highlands for somewhere between 1.38–0.23 million years. However, we found the endemicity of at least one of the two Highland species, supported by weak but significant IBD and IBE in Burnupia. Therefore we favour the notion that the Highlands are likely an important haven for cold-evolved species. As our results also generated a lot of data useful for Burnupia systematics, we discuss some taxonomic implications of our findings.

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Montane Palustrine Wetlands of Lesotho: Vegetation, Ecosystem Services, Current Status, Threats and Conservation

Cited by 14 publications

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Placing Islam: Geographies of Connection in Twentieth-Century Istanbul

Placing Islam: Geographies of Connection in Twentieth-Century Istanbul

Scrutinising Multidimensional Challenges in the Maloti-Drakensberg (Lesotho/South Africa)

Against the Flow: The Colonisation of the Lesotho Highlands by Freshwater Limpets

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