SAEON uLwazi Node

Data and Information Management

2025

  • Bopape, M.M., Keebine, G., Ndarana, T. et al., 2025. Weather related disasters in South Africa from 1980 to 2023.

    Environmental Development, 56, art. 101254. doi:10.1016/j.envdev.2025.101254.

  • Purdon, J., Shabangu, F.W., Pienaar, M. et al., 2025. Determining sound exposure levels for marine fauna during a past seismic survey to inform effective mitigation measures in South African waters.

    Ocean and Coastal Management, 270, art. 107893, pp. 1-12. doi:10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2025.107893.

2022

  • Purdon, J., Shabangu, F.W., Pienaar, M., Somers, M.J. and Findlay, K.P., 2022. Cetacean species richness in relation to anthropogenic impacts and areas that provide protection in South African Oceans.

    24th Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals, Palm Beach, Florida, USA, 1–5 August 2022. (poster presentation).

  • Purdon, J., Somers, M., Shabangu, F.W., Findlay, K. and Pienaar, M., 2022. Cetacean species richness in relation to anthropogenic impacts and areas that provide protection in South African Oceans.

    17th Southern African Marine Science Symposium (SAMSS), Durban, South Africa, 20–24 June 2022. (oral presentation).

  • 2021

    • Davis-Reddy, C. and Hilgart, A., 2021. Toward an Interoperable National Hazards Events Database for South Africa.

      Frontiers in Climate, 3. doi:10.3389/fclim.2021.591020.

    2020

    • Lin, D., Crabtree, J., Dilla, I., Downs, R., Edmunds, R., Giaretta, D., De Giusti, M., L’Hours, H., Hugo, W., Jenkyns, R., Khodiyar, V., Martone, M.E., Mckrane, M., Navale, V., Petters, J., Sierman, B., Sokolova, D.V., Stockhause, M. and Westbrook, J., 2020. The TRUST Principles for digital repositories.

      Scientific Data, 7(1), p.144. doi:10.1038/s41597-020-0486-7.

    • Martens, C., Hickler, T., Davis Reddy, C., Engelbrecht, F., Higgins, S.I., Malbitz, G.P. von, Midgley, G.F., Pfeiffer, M. and Scheiter, S., 2020. Large uncertainties in future biome changes in Africa call for flexible climate adaptation strategies.

      Global Change Biology. doi:10.1111/gcb.15390.

    • Purdon, J., Shabangu, F., W., Pienaar, M., Somers, M. and Findlay, K., 2020. Species distribution modelling of Bryde’s whales, humpback whales, southern right whales, and sperm whales in the southern African region to inform their conservation in expanding eco-nomies.

      PeerJ, 8, p.e9997. doi:10.7717/peerj.9997.

    • Purdon, J., Shabangu, F.W., Pienaar, M., Somers, M. and Findlay, K., 2020. Cetacean species richness in relation to anthropogenic impacts and areas of protection in South Africa’s mainland Exclusive Economic Zone.

      Ocean & Coastal Management, 197, p.105292. doi:10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2020.105292.

    • Purdon, J., Shabangu, F., Pienaar, M., Somers, M. and Findlay, K., 2020. South Africa’s newly approved marine protected areas have increased the protected modelled habitat of nine odontocete species.

      Marine Ecology Progress Series, 633, pp.1–21. doi:10.3354/meps13190.

    2019

    • Harcourt, R., Sequeira, A.M.M., Zhang, X., Roquet, F., Komatsu, K., Heupel, M., McMahon, C., Whiskey, F., Meekan, M., Carroll, G., Brodie, S., Simpfendorfer, C., Hindell, M., Jonsen, I., Costa, D.P., Block, B., Muehlbert, M., Woodward, B., Weise, M., … and Fedak, M.A., 2019. Animal-Borne Telemetry: An Integral Component of the Ocean Observing Toolkit.

      Frontiers in Marine Science, 6, p.326. doi:10.3389/fmars.2019.00326.

    • Treasure, A.M. and Chown, S.L., 2019. Phenotypic plasticity in locomotor performance of a monophyletic group of weevils accords with the ‘warmer is better’ hypothesis.

      The Journal of Experimental Biology, 222(9), p.jeb195255. doi:10.1242/jeb.195255.

    • Treasure, A.M., le Roux, P.C., Mashau, M.H. and Chown, S.L., 2019. Species-energy relationships of indigenous and invasive species may arise in different ways - a demonstration using springtails.

      Scientific Reports, 9(1), p.13799. doi:10.1038/s41598-019-48871-1.

    • Treasure, A.M., Ruzika, J., Pakhomov, E.A. and Ansorge, I.J., 2019. Physical Transport Mechanisms Driving Sub-Antarctic Island Marine Ecosystems.

      Ecosystems, 22(5), pp.1069–1087. doi:10.1007/s10021-018-0326-1.

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