tree veld Quick reference
A Dictionary of Plant Sciences (4 ed.)
... veld In South Africa, grassland with an open or light cover of trees which gives it a parkland aspect. It is thought that in the absence of fire much, if not all, of the veld would develop into forest or scrub...
tree veld Quick reference
A Dictionary of Ecology (5 ed.)
... veld In South Africa, grassland with an open or light cover of trees which gives it a parkland aspect. It is thought that in the absence of fire much, if not all, of the veld would develop into forest or scrub...
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veld Quick reference
A Dictionary of Plant Sciences (4 ed.)
... Extensive grasslands in the east of the interior of South Africa, often with a scattering of trees or bushes. In these instances the names tree veld and bush veld respectively are applied. True grass veld is confined to the high...
veld Quick reference
A Dictionary of Ecology (5 ed.)
... Extensive grasslands in the east of the interior of South Africa, often with a scattering of trees or bushes. In these instances the names tree veld and bush veld respectively are applied. True grass veld is confined to the high...
temperate grassland Quick reference
A Dictionary of Ecology (5 ed.)
...northern hemisphere the North American prairies and the Eurasian steppe , and in the southern hemisphere the veld of South Africa, the pampas of Argentina, and the Canterbury Plains of New Zealand. Much of this grassland has been ploughed up or converted into pasture for domesticated animals. Although most of this grassland occurs in parts of the temperate zone where there is a seasonal deficit of moisture, there is often enough to permit tree growth. Presumably fires, both natural and anthropogenic, have been important in the development of this...
prairie Quick reference
A Dictionary of Geography (6 ed.)
...A large area, found outside the tropics, with grassland and occasional trees as natural vegetation, as in the prairies of North America, the South American pampas, the Russian steppes , and the South African veld. A prairie soil is a soil of the wetter prairies, resembling chernozem in its high humus content and its development under grassland. Prairie soils are leached of calcium, and are slightly acid. See Barrett and Randall (1998) Soil Sci. 163, 6...
temperate grassland Quick reference
A Dictionary of Plant Sciences (4 ed.)
...the North American prairies and the Eurasian steppe , and in the southern hemisphere the veld of South Africa, the pampas of Argentina, the Canterbury Plains of New Zealand, as well as extensive areas in Australia. Much of this grassland has been ploughed up or converted into pasture for domesticated animals. Although most of this grassland occurs in parts of the temperate zone where there is a seasonal deficit of moisture, there is often enough to permit tree growth. Presumably fires, both natural and anthropogenic, have been important in the...
Kirstenbosch National Botanic Garden Reference library
Donal McCracken
The Oxford Companion to the Garden
...famous Compton Herbarium, a Visitors' Centre complex, an open-air amphitheatre for the ever-popular concerts as well as a much-frequented tea garden and a restaurant. Kirstenbosch is also the home of the Botanical Society of Southern Africa, which publishes the popular magazine Veld and Flora . Professor Donal...
Aesthetics of Nature and the Sacred Reference library
The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature
...is so wide-spread, persistent, and diverse, spontaneously appearing almost wherever moisture and climatic conditions permit, that forests cannot be accidents or anomalies but rather must be a characteristic expression of the creative process. There is also the steppe and the veldt, the tundra and the sea, and these too have their power to arouse a sense of antiquity and of ongoing life. Aesthetic experience of nature moves beholders with how the central goods of the biosphere – hydrologic cycles, photosynthesis, soil fertility, food chains, genetic codes,...
Art Reference library
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Maritime History
...mentions several in the exhibition catalog, The Art of the Van de Veldes: Paintings and Drawings by the Great Dutch Marine Artists and Their English Followers ( 1982 ). One of the most pressing was the invasion of the Netherlands by the French. It seems probable that domestic pressures also encouraged the van de Veldes to move. The elder van de Velde had a turbulent marriage, while that of his son was noted for its brevity. There were also maritime reasons for the van de Veldes to choose England as their new home. England was a major maritime...
South African English Quick reference
The Oxford Companion to the English Language (2 ed.)
...best known internationally, such as Afrikaner, boer, trek , and veld , are of Dutch/Afrikaans origin. An exception is concentration camp , coined by the British during the second Anglo-Boer War. In most domains, such as landscape and topography, there is likely to be: (1) A high proportion of ‘common words’ borrowed directly from Dutch/Afrikaans, such as drift ford ( 1795 ), kloof deep valley or ravine ( 1731 ), land a cultivated stretch, usually fenced (from Cape Dutch), and veld open country ( 1835 ). (2) A number of ‘English’ items translated...
Secretarybird Reference library
The New Encyclopedia of Birds
...are kicked into submission with its stubby toes and stout feet. Small items such as insects may be simply picked up in the bill; large ones, such as rodents, hares, and snakes, may be torn apart, but most are just swallowed whole. The bird hunts while striding rapidly across the veld, normally at a rate of about 120 paces a minute, which equates to a speed of about 3 km/hr (1.9mph); alternatively, it may adopt a slow shuffle, with the crest raised like a spiky halo. Confined to sub-Saharan Africa, the secretarybird 1 is unique among falconiform birds of prey...
Grasslands Reference library
Encyclopedia of Global Change
...grasslands are represented in the Southern Hemisphere by the pampas of Argentina, Uruguay, and southeastern Brazil (70 million hectares); smaller areas are found in the drier parts of New Zealand (0.6 million hectares) with occasional patches in southeastern Australia. The veld of the high plains of southern Africa is also included in this biome. Vegetation cover in the temperate grasslands is relatively homogeneous, but important floristic and structural differences occur in response to regional and local conditions. Tall, perennial, sod-forming grasses...
Larks Reference library
The New Encyclopedia of Birds
...pinkish buff plumage on the body, and looks very like the bird after which it is named. Clearly, the larks' normal plumage is cryptic, serving to conceal the birds when they are on the ground and, particularly, when they are incubating. The larks that inhabit the southern African veld divide into two groups: those that mainly eat insects and those that are primarily seed-eaters. Insect-eaters like 1 the Spike-heeled lark (Chersomanes albofasciata) and 2 Fawn-colored (Mirafra africanoides) larks have longish bills; seed-eating 3 Stark's (Calandrella...
Metacognition and Epistemic Cognition Reference library
David Moshman
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Educational Psychology
...“personal epistemologies” ( Bendixen & Feucht, 2010 ; Brownlee, Schraw, & Berthelsen, 2011 ; Chinn et al., 2011 ; Hofer & Bendixen, 2012 ; Hofer & Pintrich, 1997 , 2002 ; Muis, Bendixen, & Haerle, 2006 ; Schommer-Aikins, 2004 ; Schraw, Brownlee, Olafson, & Vander Veldt Brye, 2017 ). Educational psychologists have commonly construed epistemological beliefs broadly as beliefs about knowledge and related matters such as intelligence and learning. As a result, measures of epistemological belief often assess a variety of metacognitive beliefs, broadly...
poetry Reference library
Oxford Reader's Companion to Hardy
...significantly develop the war insights only played with in the Napoleonic poems of the novel-writing years. A major achievement is ‘Drummer Hodge’, where the world of the Wessex worker becomes implicated in international themes: His landmark is a kopje-crest That breaks the veldt around; And foreign constellations west Each night above his mound. In this group, ‘The Souls of the Slain’ is Hardy's most impressively orchestrated meditative poem of the 19th century: a great war poem in which an extended meditation about the ghosts of the dead takes place in...
War Literature Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature (2 ed.)
...lead the speaker to reject the traditional heroic view of war and to assert that ‘If the Empire ask for me later on/ It'll ask for me in vain’. The poem, like those by O'Hara and Walch , appeared in The Coo-ee Reciter ( 1904 ). Of the personal narratives of the war, On the Veldt ( 1902 ) is a plain, factual account by R. C. Lewis , the officer commanding the Tasmanian Imperial Bushmen, W. T. Reay 's Australians in War ( 1900 ) and Frank Wilkinson 's Australia at the Front ( 1901 ) are works by Australian war correspondents, while James Green 's ...
