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Rainfall and streamflow from the catchments that feed Cape Town's major dams

A map of existing meteorological, hydrological and ecological datasets and infrastructure to assist with EFTEON proposals.

One of the biggest challenges of working on global change issues in South Africa is not having easy access to the country’s long-term weather records.

This tutorial relies on data provided as supplementary material for the paper Slingsby et al. 2017. Intensifying postfire weather and biological invasion drive species loss in a Mediterranean-type biodiversity hotspot. PNAS.

Exploring drought impacts on the demography of serotinous Proteaceae

A South Africa - Germany collaboration to understand the impacts of land-use and climate change on South African terrestrial ecosystems

[Access the paper here.](https://dx.doi.org/10.1073%2Fpnas.1619014114) Prolonged periods of extreme heat or drought in the first year after fire affect the resilience and diversity of fire-dependent ecosystems by inhibiting seed germination or …

[Access the paper here](https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.4377) Air temperatures have increased globally over the past decades, while rainfall changes have been more variable, but are taking place. In South Africa, substantial climate‐related impacts are …

[Access the paper here.](https://doi.org/10.1145/2792745.2792747) To better understand the origins of modern humans, we are developing a paleoscape model that simulates the climatic conditions and distribution of natural resources available to humans …

[More on the book here.](https://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199679584.001.0001/acprof-9780199679584) The world's mediterranean-climate regions all have mild, winter-rain climates that have developed over the past several …