Mills, A.J., Cowling, R.M., et al. (2013). “Restoring the fauna and flora of transformed renosterveld.” Conservation Letters.
The soil-carbon evidence base for renosterveld restoration in the Overberg. Mills and colleagues measured intact renosterveld at 84 Mg C/ha versus actively farmed fields at 69 Mg C/ha, with fallowing recovering stocks to approximately 82 Mg C/ha. The finding creates a co-financing pathway for BioHub economics: carbon credit revenues can be stacked on top of water-yield payments from the same restored hectare.