{"id":164,"date":"2018-05-11T11:01:59","date_gmt":"2018-05-11T11:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/siyabonga-reginald-mathebula\/?p=164"},"modified":"2018-05-18T09:11:11","modified_gmt":"2018-05-18T09:11:11","slug":"description-of-the-study-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/siyabonga-reginald-mathebula\/2018\/05\/11\/description-of-the-study-area\/","title":{"rendered":"DESCRIPTION OF THE STUDY AREA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-165 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/siyabonga-reginald-mathebula\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2018\/05\/Screen-Shot-2018-05-11-at-11.50.46-1024x716.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/siyabonga-reginald-mathebula\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2018\/05\/Screen-Shot-2018-05-11-at-11.50.46-1024x716.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/siyabonga-reginald-mathebula\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2018\/05\/Screen-Shot-2018-05-11-at-11.50.46-300x210.png 300w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/siyabonga-reginald-mathebula\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2018\/05\/Screen-Shot-2018-05-11-at-11.50.46-768x537.png 768w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/siyabonga-reginald-mathebula\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2018\/05\/Screen-Shot-2018-05-11-at-11.50.46.png 1482w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 2\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><strong>Atlantis<\/strong> is located approximately 50 km north of Cape Town along the west coast of South Africa . It was developed from 1976 as a growth point\u201d with tax incentives for industry,\u00a0and originally planned for 500 000 inhabitants\u00a0<strong>(Bugan et al., 2016)<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left\">Estimates of the impacts of alien plant invasions on surface water runoff in South Africa were, and continue to be, a key factor in motivating for the establishment and continuation of the Working for Water programme <strong>(Van Wilgen et al., 1998).<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left\">Water resources in arid and semi-arid regions are under great pressure from among others; (1) increased demand by growing populations,\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">(2) climate change,<\/span>(3) invasive alien plants that consume large quantities of water <strong>(Le Maitre, 1999)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atlantis is located approximately 50 km north of Cape Town along the west coast of South Africa . It was developed from 1976 as a growth point\u201d with tax incentives for industry,\u00a0and originally planned for 500 000 inhabitants\u00a0(Bugan et al., 2016) Estimates of the impacts of alien plant invasions on surface water runoff in South &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/siyabonga-reginald-mathebula\/2018\/05\/11\/description-of-the-study-area\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;DESCRIPTION OF THE STUDY AREA&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/siyabonga-reginald-mathebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/siyabonga-reginald-mathebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/siyabonga-reginald-mathebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/siyabonga-reginald-mathebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/siyabonga-reginald-mathebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/siyabonga-reginald-mathebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/siyabonga-reginald-mathebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions\/224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/siyabonga-reginald-mathebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/siyabonga-reginald-mathebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/siyabonga-reginald-mathebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}