Publications

Henry A Frye, Matthew E Aiello-Lammens, Douglas Euston-Brown, Cynthia S Jones, Hayley Kilroy Mollmann, Cory Merow, Jasper A Slingsby, Helga van der Merwe, Adam M Wilson, Jr, John A Silander (2021). Plant spectral diversity as a surrogate for species, functional and phylogenetic diversity across a hyper-diverse biogeographic region. Global ecology and biogeography: a journal of macroecology.

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Martina Treurnicht, Frank M Schurr, Jasper A Slingsby, Karen J Esler, Jörn Pagel (2021). Range‐wide population viability analyses reveal high sensitivity to wildflower harvesting in extreme environments. The Journal of applied ecology.

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Glenn R Moncrieff, Jasper A Slingsby, David C Le Maitre (2021). Propagating uncertainty from catchment experiments to estimates of streamflow reduction by invasive alien plants in southwestern South Africa. Hydrological processes.

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Nasiphi K Ntshanga, Serban Procheş, Jasper A Slingsby (2021). Assessing the threat of landscape transformation and habitat fragmentation in a global biodiversity hotspot. Austral ecology.

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M I Samuels, N Allsopp, M T Hoffman (2021). Changes in pastoral mobility in a semi-arid montane region of South Africa: The role of policy and legislation. Afr. J. Range Forage Sci..

RP Skelton, L Anderegg, J Diaz, MM Kling, P Papper, L Lamarque, S Delzon, T Dawson, DD Ackerly (2021). Evolutionary relationships between drought-related traits and climate shape large hydraulic safety margins in western North American oaks. PNAS.

G R Moncrieff (2021). Locating and Dating Land Cover Change Events in the Renosterveld, a Critically Endangered Shrubland Ecosystem. Remote Sensing.

Grace Jopaul Loubota Panzou, Adeline Fayolle, Tommaso Jucker, Oliver L Phillips, Stephanie Bohlman, Lindsay F Banin, Simon L Lewis, Kofi Affum‐Baffoe, Luciana F Alves, Cécile Antin, Eric Arets, Luzmila Arroyo, Timothy R Baker, Nicolas Barbier, Hans Beeckman, Uta Berger, Yannick Enock Bocko, Frans Bongers, Sam Bowers, Thom Brade, Eduardo S Brondizio, Arthur Chantrain, Jérôme Chave, Halidou Compaore, David Coomes, Adama Diallo, Arildo S Dias, Kangbéni Dimobe, Gloria Djaney Djagbletey, Tomas Domingues, Jean‐louis Doucet, Thomas Drouet, Eric Forni, John L Godlee, Rosa C Goodman, Sylvie Gourlet‐Fleury, Fidele Hien, Yoshiko Iida, Bhely Angoboy Ilondea, Jonathan Ilunga Muledi, Pierre Jacques, Shem Kuyah, Jorge López‐Portillo, Jean Joël Loumeto, Ben Hur Marimon‐Junior, Beatriz Schwantes Marimon, Sylvanus Mensah, Edward T A Mitchard, Glenn R Moncrieff, Ayyappan Narayanan, Sean T O'Brien, Korotimi Ouedraogo, Michael W Palace, Raphael Pelissier, Pierre Ploton, Lourens Poorter, Casey M Ryan, Gustavo Saiz, Karin Santos, Michael Schlund, Giacomo Sellan, Bonaventure Sonké, Frank Sterck, Quentin Thibaut, Yorick Van Hoef, Elmar Veenendaal, Alejandra G Vovides, Yaozhan Xu, Tze Leong Yao, Ted R Feldpausch (2021). Pantropical variability in tree crown allometry. Global ecology and biogeography: a journal of macroecology.

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Jasper A Slingsby, Abri Buys, Adrian D A Simmers, Eric Prinsloo, Greg G Forsyth, Julia Glenday, Nicky Allsopp (2021). Jonkershoek: Africa's oldest catchment experiment ‐ 80 years and counting. Hydrological processes.

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A Skowno, D Jewitt, JA Slingsby (2021). Rates and patterns of habitat loss across South Africa's vegetation biomes. S Afr J Sci.

L Gillson, CL Seymour, JA Slingsby, DW Inouye (2020). What Are the Grand Challenges for Plant Conservation in the 21st Century?. Frontiers in Conservation Science.

Jasper A Slingsby, Glenn R Moncrieff, Adam M Wilson (2020). Near-real time forecasting and change detection for an open ecosystem with complex natural dynamics. ISPRS journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing.

Jasper A Slingsby (2020). Forest restoration or propaganda? The need for Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) scores to uphold research integrity. SAJ Science.

Retang A. Mokua, Julia Glenday, Jacobus Nel, Mike Butler (2020). Combined use of stable isotopes and hydrochemical characteristics to determine streamflow sources in the Jonkershoek catchment, South Africa. Isotopes in Environmental and Health Studies.

Chris M. Smith-Martin, Robert Paul Skelton, Kate M. Johnson, Christopher Lucani, Timothy J. Brodribb (2020). Lack of vulnerability segmentation among woody species in a diverse dry sclerophyll woodland community. Functional Ecology.

Timo Conradi, Jasper A Slingsby, Guy F Midgley, Henning Nottebrock, Andreas H Schweiger, Steven I Higgins (2020). An operational definition of the biome for global change research. New Phytologist.

Robert Skelton, Jessica Diaz (2020). Quantifying losses of plant hydraulic function: seeing the forest, the trees and the xylem. Tree physiology.

Martina Treurnicht, Jörn Pagel, Jeanne Tonnabel, Karen J Esler, Jasper A Slingsby, Frank M Schurr (2020). Functional traits explain the Hutchinsonian niches of plant species. Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr..

Jörn Pagel, Martina Treurnicht, William J Bond, Tineke Kraaij, Henning Nottebrock, Annelise Schutte-Vlok, Jeanne Tonnabel, Karen J Esler, Frank M Schurr (2020). Mismatches between demographic niches and geographic distributions are strongest in poorly dispersed and highly persistent plant species. PNAS.

Jasper A Slingsby, Glenn R Moncrieff, Annabelle J Rogers, Edmund C February (2020). Altered ignition catchments threaten a hyperdiverse fire-dependent ecosystem. Glob. Chang. Biol..

Simon Scheiter, Glenn R Moncrieff, Mirjam Pfeiffer, Steven I Higgins (2020). African biomes are most sensitive to changes in CO2 under recent and near-future CO2 conditions. Biogeosciences.

Jens Kattge, et al. (including Martina Treurnicht) (2020). TRY plant trait database - enhanced coverage and open access. Glob. Chang. Biol..

Eleanor A Weideman, Jasper A Slingsby, Robert L Thomson, Bernard T W Coetzee (2020). Land cover change homogenizes functional and phylogenetic diversity within and among African savanna bird assemblages. Landscape Ecology.

Nicky Allsopp, Jasper A Slingsby, Karen J Esler (2019). Identifying research questions for the conservation of the Cape Floristic Region. S. Afr. J. Sci..

Francisco Moreira, Nicky Allsopp, Karen J Esler, Grant Wardell‐Johnson, Leonardo Ancillotto, Margarita Arianoutsou, Jeffrey Clary, Lluis Brotons, Miguel Clavero, Panayiotis G Dimitrakopoulos, Raquel Fagoaga, Peggy Fiedler, Ana F Filipe, Eliezer Frankenberg, Milena Holmgren, Pablo A Marquet, Maria J Martinez‐Harms, Adriano Martinoli, Ben P Miller, Linda Olsvig‐Whittaker, Patricio Pliscoff, Phil Rundel, Danilo Russo, Jasper A Slingsby, John Thompson, Angela Wardell‐Johnson, Pedro Beja (2019). Priority questions for biodiversity conservation in the Mediterranean biome: Heterogeneous perspectives across continents and stakeholders. Conservat Sci and Prac.

Jasper A Slingsby, Peter W O Slingsby (2019). Monitoring the critically endangered Clanwilliam cedar with freely available Google Earth imagery. PeerJ.

M I Samuels, N Allsopp, M T Hoffman (2019). Traditional Mobile Pastoralism in a Contemporary Semiarid Rangeland in Namaqualand, South Africa. Rangeland Ecol. Manage..

Nyasha Magadzire, Helen M de Klerk, Karen J Esler, Jasper A Slingsby (2019). Fire and life history affect the distribution of plant species in a biodiversity hotspot. Diversity and Distributions.

Helen M Poulos, Andrew M Barton, Jasper A Slingsby, David M J S Bowman (2018). Do Mixed Fire Regimes Shape Plant Flammability and Post-Fire Recovery Strategies?. Fire.

Maria Dornelas, et al. (including Jasper Slingsby) (2018). BioTIME: A database of biodiversity time series for the Anthropocene. Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr..

B L Melly, G McGregor, G J G Hofmeyr, others (2018). Spatio-temporal distribution and habitat preferences of cetaceans in Algoa Bay, South Africa. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.

B L Melly, P T Gama, D M Schael (2018). Spatial patterns in small wetland systems: identifying and prioritising wetlands most at risk from environmental and anthropogenic impacts. Wetlands Ecol. Manage..

Jasper A Slingsby, Cory Merow, Matthew Aiello-Lammens, Nicky Allsopp, Stuart Hall, Hayley Kilroy Mollmann, Ross Turner, Adam M Wilson, Jr, John A Silander (2017). Intensifying postfire weather and biological invasion drive species loss in a Mediterranean-type biodiversity hotspot. PNAS.

M Marianne le Roux, Paul Wilkin, Kevin Balkwill, J Stephen Boatwright, Benny Bytebier, Denis Filer, Cornelia Klak, Ronell R Klopper, Marinda Koekemoer, Laurence Livermore, Roy Lubke, Anthony R Magee, John C Manning, Alan Paton, Tim Pearce, Jasper Slingsby, Ben-Erik van Wyk, Janine E Victor, Lize von Staden (2017). Producing a plant diversity portal for South Africa. Taxon.

Matthew E Aiello-Lammens, Jasper A Slingsby, Cory Merow, Hayley Kilroy Mollmann, Douglas Euston-Brown, Cynthia S Jones, Jr, John A Silander (2017). Processes of community assembly in an environmentally heterogeneous, high biodiversity region. Ecography.

L E Chambers, P Barnard, E S Poloczanska, others including Nicky Allsopp (2017). Southern hemisphere biodiversity and global change: data gaps and strategies. Austral Ecology.

Nicola Stevens, Caroline E R Lehmann, Brett P Murphy, Giselda Durigan (2017). Savanna woody encroachment is widespread across three continents. Glob. Chang. Biol..

E T Miller, D R Farine, C H Trisos (2017). Phylogenetic community structure metrics and null models: a review with new methods and software. Ecography.

B L Melly, D M Schael, P T Gama (2017). Perched wetlands: an explanation to wetland formation in semi-arid areas. J. Arid Environ..

M Mander, G Jewitt, J Dini, J Glenday, J Blignaut, others (2017). Modelling potential hydrological returns from investing in ecological infrastructure: Case studies from the Baviaanskloof-Tsitsikamma and uMngeni catchments, South Africa. Ecosystem Services.

Tommaso Jucker, John Caspersen, Jérôme Chave, Cécile Antin, Nicolas Barbier, Frans Bongers, Michele Dalponte, Karin Y van Ewijk, David I Forrester, Matthias Haeni, Steven I Higgins, Robert J Holdaway, Yoshiko Iida, Craig Lorimer, Peter L Marshall, Stéphane Momo, Glenn R Moncrieff, Pierre Ploton, Lourens Poorter, Kassim Abd Rahman, Michael Schlund, Bonaventure Sonké, Frank J Sterck, Anna T Trugman, Vladimir A Usoltsev, Mark C Vanderwel, Peter Waldner, Beatrice M M Wedeux, Christian Wirth, Hannsjörg Wöll, Murray Woods, Wenhua Xiang, Niklaus E Zimmermann, David A Coomes (2017). Allometric equations for integrating remote sensing imagery into forest monitoring programmes. Glob. Chang. Biol..

Steven I Higgins, Robert Buitenwerf, Glenn R Moncrieff (2016). Defining functional biomes and monitoring their change globally. Glob. Chang. Biol..

Glenn R Moncrieff, Simon Scheiter, Liam Langan, Antonio Trabucco, Steven I Higgins (2016). The future distribution of the savannah biome: model-based and biogeographic contingency. Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B Biol. Sci..

R N Sandberg, N Allsopp, K J Esler (2016). The use of fynbos fragments by birds: Stepping-stone habitats and resource refugia. Koedoe.

P A Waller, P M L Anderson, P M Holmes, others including Nicky Allsopp (2016). Seedling recruitment responses to interventions in seed-based ecological restoration of Peninsula Shale Renosterveld, Cape Town. South African Journal of Botany.

Nicola J Van Wilgen, Victoria Goodall, Stephen Holness, Steven L Chown, Melodie A McGeoch (2016). Rising temperatures and changing rainfall patterns in South Africa's national parks. Int. J. Climatol..

G R Moncrieff, W J Bond, S I Higgins (2016). Revising the biome concept for understanding and predicting global change impacts. J. Biogeogr..

G A Verboom, M L Herron, G R Moncrieff, others (2016). Maintenance of species integrity in the context of a recent radiation: the case of Jamesbrittenia (Scrophulariaceae: Limoselleae) in southern Africa. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society.

Benjamin J Wigley, Jasper A Slingsby, Sandra Dı́az, William J Bond, Hervé Fritz, Corli Coetsee (2016). Leaf traits of African woody savanna species across climate and soil fertility gradients: evidence for conservative versus acquisitive resource-use strategies. Journal of Ecology.

N Stevens, S A Archibald, A Nickless, others (2016). Evidence for facultative deciduousness in Colophospermum mopane in semi‐arid African savannas. Austral.

Margaret M Koopman, Karin De Jager (2016). Archiving South African digital research data: How ready are we?. S. Afr. J. Sci..

Barnabas H Daru, Michelle van der Bank, Olivier Maurin, Kowiyou Yessoufou, Hanno Schaefer, Jasper A Slingsby, T Jonathan Davies (2016). A novel phylogenetic regionalization of phytogeographical zones of southern Africa reveals their hidden evolutionary affinities. J. Biogeogr..

G R Moncrieff, S Scheiter, J A Slingsby, S I Higgins (2015). Understanding global change impacts on South African biomes using Dynamic Vegetation Models. S. Afr. J. Bot..

Rafael Molina‐Venegas, Abelardo Aparicio, Jasper A Slingsby, Sébastien Lavergne, Juan Arroyo (2015). Investigating the evolutionary assembly of a Mediterranean biodiversity hotspot: deep phylogenetic signal in the distribution of eudicots across elevational belts. J. Biogeogr..

E Shook, C Wren, C W Marean, A J Potts, others including Glenn Moncrieff (2015). Paleoscape model of coastal South Africa during modern human origins: progress in scaling and coupling climate, vegetation, and agent-based models on XSEDE. ACM International Conference Proceeding Series.

Colleen L Seymour, Robert E Simmons, Grant S Joseph, Jasper A Slingsby (2015). On bird functional diversity: species richness and functional differentiation show contrasting responses to rainfall and vegetation structure in an arid landscape. Ecosystems.

G R Moncrieff, T Hickler, others (2015). Intercontinental divergence in the climate envelope of major plant biomes. Global Ecology and Biogeography.

A J Potts, G R Moncrieff, W J Bond, others (2015). An operational framework for biome boundary research with examples from South Africa. South African Journal of Botany.

Christopher H Trisos, Owen L Petchey, Joseph A Tobias (2014). Unraveling the interplay of community assembly processes acting on multiple niche axes across spatial scales. Am. Nat..

Jasper A Slingsby, Matthew N Britton, G Anthony Verboom (2014). Ecology limits the diversity of the Cape flora: phylogenetics and diversification of the genus Tetraria. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol..

Roland Langrock, J Grant C Hopcraft, Paul G Blackwell, Victoria Goodall, Ruth King, Mu Niu, Toby A Patterson, Martin W Pedersen, Anna Skarin, Robert S Schick (2014). Modelling group dynamic animal movement. Methods Ecol. Evol..

Yanis Bouchenak-Khelladi, Jasper A Slingsby, G Anthony Verboom, William J Bond (2014). Diversification of C(4) grasses (Poaceae) does not coincide with their ecological dominance. Am. J. Bot..

Christine Moore, Graeme S Cumming, Jasper Slingsby, John Grewar (2014). Tracking socioeconomic vulnerability using network analysis: insights from an avian influenza outbreak in an ostrich production network. PLoS One.

Jasper A Slingsby, David D Ackerly, Andrew M Latimer, H Peter Linder, Anton Pauw, Nicky Allsopp, Jonathan F Colville, G Anthony Verboom (2014). The assembly and function of Cape plant communities in a changing world. Fynbos: Ecology, Evolution and Conservation in a Megadiverse Region..

N Allsopp, P M L Anderson, P M Holmes, A Melin, others (2014). People, the Cape floristic region, and sustainability. Fynbos: ecology, evolution, and conservation of a megadiverse region.

David Ackerly, William D Stock, Jasper Slingsby (2014). Geography, climate, and biodiversity: the history and future of Mediterranean-type ecosystems. Fynbos: Ecology, Evolution and Conservation in a Megadiverse Region..

N Allsopp, J F Colville, G A Verboom (2014). Fynbos: ecology, evolution, and conservation of a megadiverse region. Oxford University Press.

N N Shiponeni, P J Carrick, N Allsopp, others (2014). Effects of root competition and soils on seedling establishment at the ecotone between an arid grassland and succulent shrubland in South Africa. J. Veg. Sci..

N Owen-Smith, V Goodall (2014). Coping with savanna seasonality: comparative daily activity patterns of a frican ungulates as revealed by gps telemetry. J. Zool..

B Anderson, N Allsopp, A G Ellis, others (2014). Biotic interactions. Fynbos: ecology, evolution, and conservation of a megadiverse region.

Jan-Adriaan Viljoen, A Muthama Muasya, Russell L Barrett, Jeremy J Bruhl, Adele K Gibbs, Jasper A Slingsby, Karen L Wilson, G Anthony Verboom (2013). Radiation and repeated transoceanic dispersal of Schoeneae (Cyperaceae) through the southern hemisphere. Am. J. Bot..

Verushka Valsecchi, Brian M Chase, Jasper A Slingsby, Andrew S Carr, Lynne J Quick, Michael E Meadows, Rachid Cheddadi, Paula J Reimer (2013). A high resolution 15,600-year pollen and microcharcoal record from the Cederberg Mountains, South Africa. Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimatol. Palaeoecol..

B R Paxton, G C O'Brien, J A Slingsby, R Copin (2013). Validation of the periodicity of growth increment deposition in otoliths from the larval and early juvenile stages of two cyprinids from the Orange--Vaal river system, South Africa. Afr. J. Aquat. Sci..

I Samuels, N Allsopp, M T Hoffman (2013). How could herd mobility be used to manage resources and livestock grazing in semi-arid rangeland commons?. Afr. J. Range Forage Sci..

N Allsopp (2013). Adaptive management for complex communal rangelands in South Africa. Afr. J. Range Forage Sci..

Norman Owen-Smith, Victoria Goodall, Paul Fatti (2012). Applying mixture models to derive activity states of large herbivores from movement rates obtained using GPS telemetry. Wildl. Res..

Frank M Schurr, Karen J Esler, Jasper A Slingsby, Nicky Allsopp (2012). Fynbos Proteaceae as model organisms for biodiversity research and conservation. S. Afr. J. Sci..

N Shiponeni, N Allsopp, P J Carrick, M T Hoffman (2011). Competitive interactions between grass and succulent shrubs at the ecotone between an arid grassland and succulent shrubland in the Karoo. Plant Ecol..

E C February, N Allsopp, T Shabane, D Hattas (2011). Coexistence of a C4 grass and a leaf succulent shrub in an arid ecosystem. The relationship between rooting depth, water and nitrogen. Plant Soil.

C Laurent, J Baudry, M Berriet-Solliec, M Kirsch, others including Nicky Allsopp (2009). Pourquoi s' intéresser à la notion d'«evidence-based policy»?. Tiers Monde.

M I Samuels, N Allsopp, T Hoffman (2008). Mobility patterns of livestock keepers in semi-arid communal rangelands of Namaqualand, South Africa. Nomad. People..

M S Botha, P J Carrick, N Allsopp (2008). Capturing lessons from land-users to aid the development of ecological restoration guidelines for lowland Namaqualand. Biol. Conserv..