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ArticlePeerJ2022

The response of geophytes to continuous human foraging on the Cape south coast, South Africa and its implications for early hunter-gatherer mobility patterns.

M Susan Botha, Richard M Cowling, Jan C De Vynck, Karen J Esler, Alastair J Potts

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5 authors.

M Susan BothaBotany Department, African Centre for Coastal Palaeoscience, Gqeberha, Eastern Cape, South Africa.
Richard M CowlingBotany Department, African Centre for Coastal Palaeoscience, Gqeberha, Eastern Cape, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0003-3514-2685
Jan C De VynckBotany Department, African Centre for Coastal Palaeoscience, Gqeberha, Eastern Cape, South Africa.
Karen J EslerStellenbosch University, Conservation Ecology & Entomology, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0001-6510-727X
Alastair J PottsBotany Department, Nelson Mandela University, Gqeberha, Eastern Cape, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0003-0919-7279

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Current ecological understanding of plants with underground storage organs (USOs) suggests they have, in general, low rates of recruitment and thus as a resource it should be rapidly exhausted, which likely had implications for hunter-gatherer mobility patterns. We focus on the resilience (defined here as the ability of species to persist after being harvested) of USOs to human foraging. Human foragers harvested all visible USO material from 19 plots spread across six Cape south coast (South Africa) vegetation types for three consecutive years (2015-2017) during the period of peak USO apparency (September-October). We expected the plots to be depleted after the first year of harvesting since the entire storage organ of the USO is removed during foraging,

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PlantsAfrica, EasternAustraliaHumansSouth AfricaBet-hedgingGeophyte ecologyHarvestingHunter-gatherer mobility patternsUnderground storage organs

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PMID35529488
PMCPMC9074880

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