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Clements, H.S., et al. 2024. The bii4africa dataset of faunal and floral population intact. Scientific Data.
Schoombie, S., Jeantet, L., Chimienti, M., Sutton, G.J., Pistorius, P.A., Dufourq, E., Lowther, A.D. & Oosthuizen, W.C. 2024. Identifying prey capture events of a free-ranging marine predator. Royal Society Open Science.
Simpson, N.P., Mach, K.J., Tebboth, M.G.L., Gilmore, E.A., Siders, A.R., Holden, P., Anderson, B., Singh, C., Sabour, S., Stringer, L.C., Sterly, H., Williams, P.A., Meyer, A.L.S., Cundill, G., Rosengaertner, S., Nunow, A., Amakrane, K. & Trisos, C.H. 2024. Research priorities for climate mobility. One Earth.
McIntyre, T., Oosthuizen, W.C., Bester, M.N., Hindell, M.A., Reisinger, R.R., Tosh, C.A., van den Hoff, J. & de Bruyn, P.J.N. 2024. Tracking the foraging migrations of Marion Island Southern elephant seals. Marine Mammal Science.
Cusick, A., Fudala, K., Storożenko, P.P. & Świeżewski, J. 2024. Using machine learning to count Antarctic shag Leucocarbo bransfieldensis. Ecological Informatics.
Christian, M., Oosthuizen, W.C., Bester, M.N. and de Bruyn, P.N., 2024. Robustly estimating the demographic contribution of immigration: Simulation, sensitivity analysis and seals. Journal of Animal Ecology.
Van Dam-Bates, P., Papathomas, M., Stevenson, B.C., Fewster, R.M., Turek, D., Stewart, F.E.C. & Borchers, D.L. 2024. A flexible framework for spatial capture-recapture with unknown movements. Biometrics.
Kodi, A.R., Howard, J., Borchers, D.L., Worthington, H., Alexander, J.S., Lkhagvajav, P., Bayandonoi, G., Ochirjav, M., Erdenebaatar, S., Byambasuren, C., Battulga, N., Johansson, Ö. & Sharma, K. 2024. Ghostbusting: reducing bias due to identification errors in spatial capture-recapture. Methods in Ecology and Evolution.
Sharma, K., Alexander, J.S., Durbach, I., Kodi, A.R., Mishra, C., Nichols, J., MacKenzie, D., Ale, S., Lovari, S., Modaqqiq, A.W., Zhi, L., Sutherland, C., Khan, A.A., McCarthy, T. & Borchers, D.L. 2024. PAWS: Population assessment of the world’s snow leopards. Snow Leopards.
Durbach, I., Chopara, R., Borchers, D.L., Phillip, R., Sharma, K. & Stevenson, B.C. 2024. That’s not the Mona Lisa: how to interpret spatial capture-recapture data. Biometrics.
Woodgate, Z., Distiller, G., Bragg, C. & O'Riain, M.J. 2024. Using camera-trapping to estimate riverine rabbit Bunolagus monticularis populations. African Journal of Wildlife Research.
Serpa, N., Frainer, G., Dos Santos, B., Bortolotto, G.A. & Moreno, I.B. 2024. Behavioural repertoire of Lahille’s bottlenose dolphins. Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology.
Helble, T.A., Alongi, G.C., Guazzo, R.A., Allhusen, D.R., Martin, C.R., Martin, S.W., Durbach, I.N. & Henderson, E.E. 2024. Swimming and acoustic calling behaviour attributed to Bryde's whales. Frontiers in Marine Science.
Ebert, P.A., Durbach, I. & Field, C. 2024. Gratuitous risk, danger, and recklessness: Perception of adventurous sports. Journal of the Philosophy of Sport.
Del Toro, I., Case, M.F., Karp, A.T., Slingsby, J.A. & Staver, A.C. 2024. Carbon isotope trends across a century of herbarium specimens. New Phytologist.
Verboom, G.A., Slingsby, J.A. & Cramer, M.D. 2024. Fire-modulated fluctuations in nutrient availability stimulate plant growth. Annals of Botany.
White, P.A., Frye, H.A., Slingsby, J.A., Silander, J.A. Jr. & Gelfand, A.E. 2024. Generative spatial generalized dissimilarity mixed modelling. Methods in Ecology and Evolution.
Muasya, A.M., Slingsby, J.A. & Verboom, G.A. 2024. Preface to the special issue on African flora in a changing environment. Annals of Botany.
Singh, G., Moncrieff, G., Venter, Z., Cawse-Nicholson, K., Slingsby, J. & Robinson, T.B. 2024. Uncertainty quantification for probabilistic machine learning in biodiversity studies. Scientific Reports.
Vermeulen, L.M., Verbist, B., Van Meerbeek, K., Slingsby, J. & Bernardino, P.N. 2024. Wetness severity increases abrupt shifts in ecosystem functions. Global Change Biology.
Schmullius, C., Gessner, U., Otte, I., Urban, M., Chirima, G., Cho, M., Heckel, K., … 2024. A new era of earth observation for the environment: Spatio-temporal monitoring of African ecosystems under global change. Sustainability of Southern African Ecosystems under Global Change: Science.
Higgins, S.I., Conradi, T., Louw, M.A., Muhoko, E., Scheiter, S., Martens, C., … 2024. Biome change in southern Africa. Sustainability of Southern African Ecosystems under Global Change: Science.
Melin, A., Beale, C.M., Manning, J.C. & Colville, J.F. 2024. Fine-scale bee species distribution models: Hotspots of richness and endemism. Insect Conservation and Diversity.
Priyadarshani, D., Huynh, H.D., Altwegg, R. & Hwang, W.H. 2024. A unified framework for time-to-detection occupancy and abundance estimation. Methods in Ecology and Evolution.
Popovic, G., Mason, T.J., Marques, T.A., Potts, J., Drobniak, S.M., Joo, R., Altwegg, R., Burns, C.C., McCarthy, M.A., Johnston, A. and Nakagawa, S., 2023. Four principles for improved statistical ecology. arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.01528.
Kuiper, T., Macdonald, D., Sibanda, L., Mathe, L.J., Mahdlamoto, D. & Loveridge, A. 2024. The behaviours of different carnivore and livestock species in shared landscapes. People and Nature.
Hui, C., Macfadyen, S., Visser, V., Groom, Q. & Isaac, N.J.B. 2024. Editorial: Biodiversity informatics – Building a lifeboat for humanity. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution.
Lázaro-Lobo, A., Andrade, B.O., Canavan, K., Ervin, G.N., Essl, F., Fernández-Pascual, E., Follak, S., Richardson, D.M., Moles, A., Visser, V., Wyse, S.V. & Jiménez-Alfaro, B. 2024. Monographs on invasive plants in Europe: Cortaderia selloana. Botany Letters.
Foster, J., O'Connor, T., Visser, V. & Hoffman, T. 2024. Persistence of the African baobab Adansonia digitata L. in a changing environment. Conservation Science and Practice.
Fischer, K., Johnson, E., Visser, V. & Shackleton, S. 2024. Social drivers and differentiated effects of deagrarianisation. Journal of Rural Studies.
Higgins, Steven I., Timo Conradi, Laurence M. Kruger, Robert B. O’Hara, and Jasper A. Slingsby. 2023. Limited Climatic Space for Alternative Ecosystem States in Africa. Science 380 (6649): 1038–42.
Frainer, G., Dufourq, E., Fearey, J., Dines, S., Probert, R., Elwen, S. and Gridley, T., 2023. Automatic detection and taxonomic identification of dolphin vocalisations using convolutional neural networks for passive acoustic monitoring. Ecological Informatics, 78, p.102291.
Allen-Perkins, Alfonso, Ainhoa Magrach, Matteo Dainese, Lucas A. Garibaldi, David Kleijn, Romina Rader, James R. Reilly, et al. 2022. “CropPol: A Dynamic, Open and Global Database on Crop Pollination.” Ecology 103 (3): e3614. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3614.
Didarali, Z., T. Kuiper, C. W. Brink, R. Buij, M. Z. Virani, E. O. Reson, and A. Santangeli. 2022. “Awareness of Environmental Legislation as a Deterrent for Wildlife Crime: A Case with Masaai Pastoralists, Poison Use and the Kenya Wildlife Act.” Ambio. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-021-01695-8.
Dorchin, N., S. van Munster, C. Klak, R. C. K. Bowie, and J. F. Colville. 2022. “Hidden Diversity—a New Speciose Gall Midge Genus (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) Associated with Succulent Aizoaceae in South Africa.” Insects 13 (1). https://doi.org/10.3390/insects13010075.
Lamont, T. A. C., L. Chapuis, B. Williams, S. Dines, T. Gridley, G. Frainer, J. Fearey, et al. 2022. “HydroMoth: Testing a Prototype Low-Cost Acoustic Recorder for Aquatic Environments.” Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation. https://doi.org/10.1002/rse2.249.
Rebelo, A. D., R. Altwegg, E. M. Katz, and K. A. Tolley. 2022. “Out on a Limb: Female Chameleons (Bradypodion Pumilum) Position Themselves to Minimise Detection, Whereas Males Maximise Mating Opportunity.” African Journal of Herpetology. https://doi.org/10.1080/21564574.2021.1998233.
Sol, Daniel, Joan Garcia-Porta, Cesar González-Lagos, Alex L. Pigot, Christopher Trisos, and Joseph A. Tobias. 2022. “A Test of Darwin’s Naturalization Conundrum in Birds Reveals Enhanced Invasion Success in the Presence of Close Relatives.” Ecology Letters 25 (3): 661–72. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13899.
Vousdoukas, Michalis I, Joanne Clarke, Roshanka Ranasinghe, Lena Reimann, Nadia Khalaf, Trang Minh Duong, Birgitt Ouweneel, et al. 2022. “African Heritage Sites Threatened as Sea-Level Rise Accelerates.” Nature Climate Change, 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-022-01280-1.
Alexander, G. J., K. A. Tolley, B. Maritz, A. McKechnie, P. Manger, R. L. Thomson, C. Schradin, et al. 2021. Excessive Red Tape Is Strangling Biodiversity Research in South Africa. South African Journal of Science 117 (9-10). https://doi.org/10.17159/SAJS.2021/10787.
Barichievy, C., R. Altwegg, D. Balfour, R. Brett, C. Gordon, D. Henry, G. Jeffries, C. Khayale, H. Wanyama, and O. Withers. 2021. A Demographic Model to Support an Impact Financing Mechanism for Black Rhino Metapopulations. Biological Conservation 257. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2021.109073.
Barratclough, Ashley, Cynthia R Smith, Forrest M Gomez, Theoni Photopoulou, Ryan Takeshita, Enrico Pirotta, Len Thomas, et al. 2021. Accurate Epigenetic Aging in Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops Truncatus), an Essential Step in the Conservation of at-Risk Dolphins. Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens 2 (3): 416 20. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-022-01280-1.
Bayandonoi, G., K. Sharma, J. Shanti Alexander, P. Lkhagvajav, I. Durbach, C. Buyanaa, B. Munkhtsog, et al. 2021. Mapping the Ghost: Estimating Probabilistic Snow Leopard Distribution Across Mongolia. Diversity and Distributions 27 (12): 2441 53. https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.13412.
Becker, F. S., J. A. Slingsby, J. Measey, K. A. Tolley, and R. Altwegg. 2021. Finding Rare Species and Estimating the Probability That All Occupied Sites Have Been Found. Ecological Applications. https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.2502.
Bell, W. D., M. T. Hoffman, and V. Visser. 2021. Regional Land Degradation Assessment for Dryland Environments: The Namaqualand Hardeveld Bioregion of the Succulent Karoo Biome as a Case-Study. Land Degradation and Development 32 (7): 2287 2302. https://doi.org/10.1002/ldr.3900.
Birkmann, J., D. Feldmeyer, J. M. McMillan, W. Solecki, E. Totin, D. Roberts, C. Trisos, A. Jamshed, E. Boyd, and D. Wrathall. 2021. Regional Clusters of Vulnerability Show the Need for Transboundary Cooperation. Environmental Research Letters 16 (9). https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac1f43.
Blerk, J. J. van, A. G. West, R. Altwegg, and M. T. Hoffman. 2021a. Does a Trade-Off Between Growth Plasticity and Resource Conservatism Mediate Post-Fire Shrubland Responses to Rainfall Seasonality? New Phytologist 230 (4): 1407 20. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.17246.
. 2021b. Post-Fire Summer Rainfall Differentially Affects Reseeder and Resprouter Population Recovery in Fire-Prone Shrublands of South Africa. Science of the Total Environment 788. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.147699.
Clements, H., K. Esler, D. A. W. Henry, P. Mograbi, A. Norstr m, and C. Reynolds. 2021. Ecological Field Data Collection. The Routledge Handbook of Research Methods for Social-Ecological Systems. Taylor; Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003021339-8.
Cohen, C., W. R. Liltved, J. F. Colville, A. Shuttleworth, J. Weissflog, A. Svato , B. Bytebier, and S. D. Johnson. 2021. Sexual Deception of a Beetle Pollinator Through Floral Mimicry. Current Biology 31 (9): 1962 1969.e6. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2021.03.037.
Conway, A. M., I. N. Durbach, A. McInnes, and R. N. Harris. 2021. Frame-by-Frame Annotation of Video Recordings Using Deep Neural Networks. Ecosphere 12 (3). https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.3384.
Cowan, O. S., D. A. W. Henry, and I. T. Little. 2021. A Big Leap Forward for Afrotheria Conservation in South Africa: A New Environmental Screening Tool Ensures Cryptic Species of Conservation Concern Are Not Overlooked During the Environmental Impact Assessment Process. Journal for Nature Conservation 63. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnc.2021.126044.
Cumming, G. S., D. A. W. Henry, G. L. Mutumi, and M. Ndlovu. 2021. Understanding Arid-Region Waterbird Community Dynamics During Lake Dry-Downs. Ecosphere 12 (8). https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.3668.
Duckworth, G. D., and R. Altwegg. 2021. Why a Landscape View Is Important: Nearby Urban and Agricultural Land Affects Bird Abundances in Protected Areas. PeerJ 9. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10719.
Dufourq, E., I. Durbach, J. P. Hansford, A. Hoepfner, H. Ma, J. V. Bryant, C. S. Stender, et al. 2021. Automated Detection of Hainan Gibbon Calls for Passive Acoustic Monitoring. Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation 7 (3): 475 87. https://doi.org/10.1002/rse2.201.
Durbach, I., D. Borchers, C. Sutherland, and K. Sharma. 2021. Fast, Flexible Alternatives to Regular Grid Designs for Spatial Capture Recapture. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 12 (2): 298 310. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13517.
Durbach, I. N., C. M. Harris, C. Martin, T. A. Helble, E. E. Henderson, G. Ierley, L. Thomas, and S. W. Martin. 2021. Changes in the Movement and Calling Behavior of Minke Whales (Balaenoptera Acutorostrata) in Response to Navy Training. Frontiers in Marine Science 8. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.660122.
Frainer, G., F. R. Carvalho, V. A. Bertaco, and L. R. Malabarba. 2021. Museum Specimens Reveal a Rare New Characid Fish Genus, Helping to Refine the Interrelationships of the Probolodini (Characidae: Stethaprioninae). Systematics and Biodiversity 19 (8): 1135 48. https://doi.org/10.1080/14772000.2021.1986167.
Frye, H. A., M. E. Aiello-Lammens, D. Euston-Brown, C. S. Jones, H. Kilroy Mollmann, C. Merow, J. A. Slingsby, H. van der Merwe, A. M. Wilson, and Jr. Silander J. A. 2021. Plant Spectral Diversity as a Surrogate for Species, Functional and Phylogenetic Diversity Across a Hyper-Diverse Biogeographic Region. Global Ecology and Biogeography 30 (7): 1403 17. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13306.
Henry, D. A. W., W. J. Collinson-Jonker, H. T. Davies-Mostert, S. K. Nicholson, L. Roxburgh, and D. M. Parker. 2021. Optimising the Cost of Roadkill Surveys Based on an Analysis of Carcass Persistence. Journal of Environmental Management 291. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.112664.
Jebari, J., O. O. T w , T. M. Andrews, V. Aquila, B. Beckage, M. Belaia, M. Clifford, et al. 2021. From Moral Hazard to Risk-Response Feedback. Climate Risk Management 33. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crm.2021.100324.
Krenn, H. W., F. Karolyi, P. Lampert, A. Melin, and J. F. Colville. 2021. Nectar Uptake of a Long?proboscid Prosoeca Fly (Nemestrinidae) Proboscis Morphology and Flower Shape. Insects 12 (4). https://doi.org/10.3390/insects12040371.
Latombe, G., D. M. Richardson, M. A. McGeoch, R. Altwegg, J. A. Catford, J. M. Chase, F. Courchamp, et al. 2021. Mechanistic Reconciliation of Community and Invasion Ecology. Ecosphere 12 (2). https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.3359.
Loubota Panzou, G. J., A. Fayolle, T. Jucker, O. L. Phillips, S. Bohlman, L. F. Banin, S. L. Lewis, et al. 2021. Pantropical Variability in Tree Crown Allometry. Global Ecology and Biogeography 30 (2): 459 75. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13231.
Louw, M. A., N. S. Haussmann, and P. C. le Roux. 2021. Disentangling the Effects of Two Co-Occurring Biotic Modifiers on Vegetation Properties in a Semi-Arid Savannah Ecosystem. Journal of Arid Environments 189: 104504. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaridenv.2021.104504.
Lu s, A. R., L. J. May-Collado, N. Rako-Gospi?, T. Gridley, E. Papale, A. Azevedo, M. A. Silva, G. Buscaino, D. Herzing, and M. E. dos Santos. 2021. Vocal Universals and Geographic Variations in the Acoustic Repertoire of the Common Bottlenose Dolphin. Scientific Reports 11 (1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-90710-9.
Marais, AJ, K Lloyd, HA Smit-Robinson, and LR Brown. 2021. A Vegetation Classification and Description of White-Winged Flufftail (Sarothrura Ayresi) Habitat at Selected High-Altitude Peatlands in South Africa. Royal Society Open Science 8 (11): 211482. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.211482.
Mashau, A. C., G. P. Hempson, C. E. R. Lehmann, M. S. Vorontsova, V. Visser, and S. Archibald. 2021. Plant Height and Lifespan Predict Range Size in Southern African Grasses. Journal of Biogeography 48 (12): 3047 59. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14261.
McLeod, L., and J. F. Colville. 2021. Observations on Unusual Feeding and Mating Behaviour of a Monkey Beetle Genus Amblymelanoplia Dombrow (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Hopliini). African Entomology 29 (1): 301 6. https://doi.org/10.4001/003.029.0301.
Melin, A., R. Altwegg, J. C. Manning, and J. F. Colville. 2021. Allometric Relationships Shape Foreleg Evolution of Long-Legged Oil Bees (Melittidae: Rediviva). Evolution 75 (2): 437 49. https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.14144.
Moncrieff, G. R. 2021. Locating and Dating Land Cover Change Events in the Renosterveld, a Critically Endangered Shrubland Ecosystem. Remote Sensing 13 (5): 1 13. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13050834.
Moncrieff, G. R., J. A. Slingsby, and D. C. Le Maitre. 2021. Propagating Uncertainty from Catchment Experiments to Estimates of Streamflow Reduction by Invasive Alien Plants in Southwestern South Africa. Hydrological Processes 35 (4). https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.14161.
Ntshanga, N. K., S. Proche?, and J. A. Slingsby. 2021. Assessing the Threat of Landscape Transformation and Habitat Fragmentation in a Global Biodiversity Hotspot. Austral Ecology 46 (7): 1052 69. https://doi.org/10.1111/aec.13037.
Overland, I., H. Fossum Sagbakken, A. Isataeva, G. Kolodzinskaia, N. P. Simpson, C. Trisos, and R. Vakulchuk. 2021. Funding Flows for Climate Change Research on Africa: Where Do They Come from and Where Do They Go? Climate and Development. https://doi.org/10.1080/17565529.2021.1976609.
Pereira, L. M., D. R. Morrow, V. Aquila, B. Beckage, S. Beckbesinger, L. Beukes, H. J. Buck, et al. 2021. From fAIrplay to Climate Wars: Making Climate Change Scenarios More Dynamic, Creative, and Integrative. Ecology and Society 26 (4). https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12856-260430.
Pl n, S., S. Atkins, V. Cockcroft, D. Conry, S. Dines, S. Elwen, E. Gennari, et al. 2021. Science Alone Won t Do It! South Africa s Endangered Humpback Dolphins Sousa Plumbea Face Complex Conservation Challenges. Frontiers in Marine Science 8. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.642226.
Pretorius, M., G. B. Distiller, T. Photopoulou, C. P. Kelly, and M. J. O Riain. 2021. African Wild Dog Movement Ecology in a Small Protected Area in South Africa. African Journal of Wildlife Research 51 (1): 54 67. https://doi.org/10.3957/056.051.0054.
Probert, R., A. Bastian, S. H. Elwen, B. S. James, and T. Gridley. 2021. Vocal Correlates of Arousal in Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops Spp.) In Human Care. PLoS ONE 16 (9 September). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0250913.
Reynolds, C., D. A. W. Henry, D. R. C. Tye, and N. D. Tye. 2021. Defining Separation Zones for Coastal Birds at a Wetland of Global Importance. Wildlife Research 48 (2): 134 41. https://doi.org/10.1071/WR20098.
Ross-Marsh, E. C., S. H. Elwen, A. S. Prinsloo, B. S. James, and T. Gridley. 2021. Singing in South Africa: Monitoring the Occurrence of Humpback Whale (Megaptera Novaeangliae) Song Near the Western Cape. Bioacoustics 30 (2): 163 79. https://doi.org/10.1080/09524622.2019.1710254.
Simpson, N. P., T. M. Andrews, M. Kr nke, C. Lennard, R. C. Odoulami, B. Ouweneel, A. Steynor, and C. H. Trisos. 2021. Climate Change Literacy in Africa. Nature Climate Change 11 (11): 937 44. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-021-01171-x.
Simpson, N. P., K. J. Mach, A. Constable, J. Hess, R. Hogarth, M. Howden, J. Lawrence, et al. 2021. A Framework for Complex Climate Change Risk Assessment. One Earth 4 (4): 489 501. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2021.03.005.
Skowno, A. L., D. Jewitt, and J. A. Slingsby. 2021. Rates and Patterns of Habitat Loss Across South Africa s Vegetation Biomes. South African Journal of Science 117 (1-2). https://doi.org/10.17159/SAJS.2021/8182.
Slingsby, J. A., A. de Buys, A. D. A. Simmers, E. Prinsloo, G. G. Forsyth, J. Glenday, and N. Allsopp. 2021. Jonkershoek: Africa s Oldest Catchment Experiment - 80 Years and Counting. Hydrological Processes 35 (4). https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.14101.
Sutton, G., A. Bownes, V. Visser, A. Mapaura, and K. Canavan. 2021. Progress and Prospects for the Biological Control of Invasive Alien Grasses Poaceae) in South Africa. African Entomology 29 (3): 837 58. https://doi.org/10.4001/003.029.0837.
Treurnicht, M., F. M. Schurr, J. A. Slingsby, K. J. Esler, and J. Pagel. 2021. Range-Wide Population Viability Analyses Reveal High Sensitivity to Wildflower Harvesting in Extreme Environments. Journal of Applied Ecology 58 (7): 1399 1410. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.13882.
Trisos, C. H., J. Auerbach, and M. Katti. 2021. Decoloniality and Anti-Oppressive Practices for a More Ethical Ecology. Nature Ecology and Evolution 5 (9): 1205 12. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-021-01460-w.
Trisos, C. H., C. Merow, and A. L. Pigot. 2021. Reply to: Spatial Scale and the Synchrony of Ecological Disruption. Nature 599 (7886): E11 13. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03760-4.
Wessels, C., C. Merow, and C. H. Trisos. 2021. Climate Change Risk to Southern African Wild Food Plants. Regional Environmental Change 21 (2). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10113-021-01755-5.
Williams, P. A., N. P. Simpson, E. Totin, M. A. North, and C. H. Trisos. 2021. Feasibility Assessment of Climate Change Adaptation Options Across Africa: An Evidence-Based Review. Environmental Research Letters 16 (7). https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac092d.
Woodgate, Z., G. Distiller, and M. Justin O Riain. 2021. Hare Today, Gone Tomorrow: The Role of Interspecific Competition in Shaping Riverine Rabbit Occurrence. Endangered Species Research 44: 351 61. https://doi.org/10.3354/ESR01106.
Adams, L. A., G. W. Maneveldt, A. Green, N. Karenyi, D. Parker, T. Samaai, and S. Kerwath. 2020. “Rhodolith Bed Discovered Off the South African Coast.” Diversity 12 (4). https://doi.org/10.3390/
Carlson, Colin J., Rita Colwell, Mohammad Sharif Hossain, Mohammed Mofizur Rahman, Alan Robock, Sadie J. Ryan, Mohammad Shafiul Alam, and Christopher H. Trisos. 2020. “Solar Geoengineering Could Redistribute Malaria Risk in Developing Countries.” medRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.
Chamberlain, D., C. Reynolds, A. Amar, D. Henry, E. Caprio, and P. Batáry. 2020. “Wealth, Water and Wildlife: Landscape Aridity Intensifies the Urban Luxury Effect.” Global Ecology and Biogeography 29 (9): 1595–605. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.
Chang, Y.-J., H. Winker, M. Sculley, and J. Hsu. 2020. “Evaluation of the Status and Risk of Overexploitation of the Pacific Billfish Stocks Considering Non-Stationary Population Processes.” Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography 175. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.
Colville, J. F., C. M. Beale, F. Forest, R. Altwegg, B. Huntley, and R. M. Cowling. 2020. “Plant Richness, Turnover, and Evolutionary Diversity Track Gradients of Stability and Ecological Opportunity in a Megadiversity Center.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 117 (33): 20027–37. https://doi.org/10.1073/PNAS.
Colyn, Robin B, Catherine L Henderson, Res Altwegg, and Hanneline A Smit-Robinson. 2020. “Habitat transformation and climate change: Implications for the distribution, population status, and colony extinction of Southern Bald Ibis (Geronticus calvus) in southern Africa.” The Condor 122 (1): 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1093/
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Burman, M.S., Underhill, L.G., Altwegg, R., Erni, B., Remisiewicz, M. and MacLeod, J., 2018. Migratory connectivity of barn swallows in South Africa to their Palaearctic breeding grounds. Diversity and Distributions, 24(11):1699-1708. doi:10.1111/ddi.12810.
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