Open-access database - HERBFEEDS on nutritional quality of food plants for herbivores

Abstract

Climate change and adaptive land management in southern Africa-assessments, changes, challenges, and solutions. Biodiversity & Ecology, 6, Klaus Hess Publishers, Göttingen & Windhoek.

Rangeland monitoring and assessment: a review

“…More than 150 B E 6 2018 173 trees, bushes, and shrubs and more than 30 herbs and forbs in Namibia alone are reported to serve as food plants (Le Roux et al, 2009, and Stolter, unpublished data). Within SASSCAL, we aim to produce a database of nutritional values including these important but often neglected food plant species (Stolter 2018a). However, when viewed from the perspective of a herbivore, we would like to extend the concept of "plant diversity" to also include "plant chemical diversity".…”

“…For example, the Sentinel-2 satellite developed and launched by the European Space Agency (ESA) provides freely-available images that -like Landsat and MODIS -could be useful to improve the assessment of vegetation and crop productivity. In this study, the Sentinel-2 data (red edge based indices) were used to estimate leaf N concentrations, while a MODIS-based B E 6 2018 175 leaf area index model was used to estimate regional and time-series products for herbaceous vegetation (Task 229) (Stolter et al 2018a).…”