Recent Publications

Davis-Reddy, C., & Hilgart, A. (2021). Toward an Interoperable National Hazards Events Database for South Africa. Frontiers in Climate, 3. https://doi.org/10.3389/fclim.2021.591020 Cite
Martens, C., Hickler, T., Davis‐Reddy, C., Engelbrecht, F., Higgins, S. I., Maltitz, G. P. von, Midgley, G. F., Pfeiffer, M., & Scheiter, S. (2020). Large uncertainties in future biome changes in Africa call for flexible climate adaptation strategies. Global Change Biology, n/a(n/a). https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15390 Cite
Purdon, J., Shabangu, F. W., Yemane, D., Pienaar, M., Somers, M. J., & 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 economies. PeerJ, 8, e9997. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9997 Cite
Lin, D., Crabtree, J., Dillo, I., Downs, R. R., Edmunds, R., Giaretta, D., De Giusti, M., L'Hours, H., Hugo, W., Jenkyns, R., Khodiyar, V., Martone, M. E., Mokrane, M., Navale, V., Petters, J., Sierman, B., Sokolova, D. V., Stockhause, M., & Westbrook, J. (2020). The TRUST Principles for digital repositories. Scientific Data, 7(1), 144. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-020-0486-7 Cite
Purdon, J., Shabangu, F., Pienaar, M., Somers, M., & 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, 1–21. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps13190 Cite
Purdon, J., Shabangu, F. W., Pienaar, M., Somers, M. J., & 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, 105292. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2020.105292 Cite
Treasure, A. M., Ruzicka, J. J., Pakhomov, E. A., & Ansorge, I. J. (2019). Physical Transport Mechanisms Driving Sub-Antarctic Island Marine Ecosystems. Ecosystems, 22(5), 1069–1087. Cite
Harcourt, R., Sequeira, A. M. M., Zhang, X., Roquet, F., Komatsu, K., Heupel, M., McMahon, C., Whoriskey, F., Meekan, M., Carroll, G., Brodie, S., Simpfendorfer, C., Hindell, M., Jonsen, I., Costa, D. P., Block, B., Muelbert, M., Woodward, B., Weise, M., … Fedak, M. A. (2019). Animal-Borne Telemetry: An Integral Component of the Ocean Observing Toolkit. Frontiers in Marine Science, 6, 326. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2019.00326 Cite
Treasure, A. M., & 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), jeb195255. https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.195255 Cite
Treasure, A. M., le Roux, P. C., Mashau, M. H., & 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), 13799. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-48871-1 Cite