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Hoffman, M. T., Carrick, P. J., Cramer, M. D., Swart, E., Van Blerk, J. J., & Van Der Merwe, H. (2026). The long-term decline of a succulent tree, Aloidendron pillansii, in the hyper-arid Richtersveld region of southern Africa. Journal of Arid Environments, 234, 105571. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaridenv.2026.105571 Cite
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Van Staden, N., Van Der Merwe, H., & Siebert, S. (2026). Edaphic and climatic drivers of herbaceous plant diversity in geologically distinct mountain floras of Griqualand West, South Africa. South African Journal of Botany, 190, 111–123. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sajb.2025.12.018 Cite
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Kirkman, K., Morris, C., & Van Der Merwe, H. (2025). The GSSA at 60: charting the past, shaping the future of rangeland ecology. African Journal of Range & Forage Science, 42(1), 1–3. https://doi.org/10.2989/10220119.2025.2474524 Cite
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Slater, A. C., Saayman, N., Van Der Merwe, H., Vorster, L., Hartley, I. R., & Bush, A. (2025). Predicting plant community change using satellite remote sensing in the Greater Cape Floristic Region. South African Journal of Botany, 186, 238–250. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sajb.2025.09.005 Cite
Milton, S. J., & Dean, W. R. J. (2025). Village aliens: Self-seeding of indigenous and non-indigenous woody garden plants in a small desert village. Journal of Arid Environments, 227, 105295. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaridenv.2024.105295 Cite
Arena, G., & Milton, S. J. (2025). Impact of drought-induced herbivory by Cape porcupine on Aloe claviflora on th Wolwekraal Nature Reserve, Prince Albert. Journal of Arid Environments, 227. Cite
Roberts, C. S., McClain, E. L., Seely, M. K., Mitchell, D., Goodall, V., & Henschel, J. R. (2025). Beetling the heat - the diurnal Namib Desert beetle Onymacris plana cools by running. Journal of Experimental Biology, 228. Cite
Dean, W. R. J., & Milton, S. J. (2025). Inferring regional, habitat and phylogenetic patterns in caliochory from bird nests in a museum collection. Ostrich, 270–283. Cite
Dangare, P., Mashimbye, Z., Cronje, P., Masanganise, J., Gokool, S., Ntshidi, Z., Naiken, V., Sawunyama, T., & Dzikiti, S. (2025). Evapotranspiration Partitioning in Selected Subtropical Fruit Tree Orchards Based on Sentinel 2 Data Using a Light Gradient-Boosting Machine (LightGBM) Learning Model in Malelane, South Africa. Hydrology, 12(189). https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.3390/hydrology12070189 Cite
Milton, S. J. (2024). African Journal of Range and Forage Science : paving the way to restoration in African rangelands. African Journal of Range & Forage Science, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.2989/10220119.2024.2403686 Cite
Dabrowski, J., Meyer-Milne, E., Mantshi, H. T., Majingo, Z., Bills, D., & Mlambo, M. C. (2024). Diversity, occurrence, and conservation status of large branchiopods (Crustacea: Anostraca, Notostraca, Laevicaudata and Spinicaudata) in Northern Cape province, South Africa. Journal of Crustacean Biology, 44(4), ruae063. https://doi.org/10.1093/jcbiol/ruae063 Cite
Clements, H. S., Do Linh San, E., Hempson, G., Linden, B., Maritz, B., Monadjem, A., Reynolds, C., Siebert, F., Stevens, N., Biggs, R., De Vos, A., Blanchard, R., Child, M., Esler, K. J., Hamann, M., Loft, T., Reyers, B., Selomane, O., Skowno, A. L., … Woodhouse, G. M. (2024). The bii4africa dataset of faunal and floral population intactness estimates across Africa's major land uses. Scientific Data, 11(1), 191. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02832-6 Cite
Milton, S. J., Clark, C., Hundermark, C. R., Hurt, C., & Van der Merwe, H. (2024). Population trends in an endemic dwarf succulent over two decades: rainfall, elevation, microsite and landuse effects. Journal of Arid Environments, 223, 105181. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaridenv.2024.105181 Cite
Mogonong, B. P., Twine, W., Feig, G. T., van der Merwe, H., & Fisher, J. T. (2024). Influences of Climate Variability on Land Use and Land Cover Change in Rural South Africa. Remote Sensing, 16. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.3390/rs16071200 Cite
Dean, W. R. J., & Milton, S. J. (2024). Avian species assemblages in African mangrove forests. Ostrich, 95, 71–82. Cite
Neethling, C. D., Milton, S. J., Buschke, F. T., Henschel, J. R., van Deventer, P. W., & Esterhuyse, S. (2023). A bioassay of mine-affected soils and ameliorants in semi-arid rehabilitation. South African Journal of Plant and Soil, 40(4–5), 227–239. https://doi.org/10.1080/02571862.2023.2259863 Cite
Mogonong, B. P., Fisher, J. T., Furniss, D., & Jewitt, D. (2023). Land cover change in marginalised landscapes of South Africa (1984–2014): Insights into the influence of socio-economic and political factors. South African Journal of Science, 119(7/8). https://doi.org/10.17159/sajs.2023/10709 Cite
Samuels, M. I., Saaed, M., Jacobs, S., Masubelele, M. L., Van der Merwe, H., & Khomo, L. (2023). Vegetation structure and composition at different elevational intervals in the arid Tankwa Karoo National Park, South Africa. Vegetation Classification and Survey, 4, 115–126. https://doi.org/10.3897/VCS.86310 Cite
Arena, G., Hoffman, M., van der Merwe, H., & O'Connor, T. (2023). Expansion of the Grassland Biome in the eastern Karoo corresponds with changes in rainfall and livestock numbers. African Journal of Range & Forage Science, 40(1), 1–19. https://doi.org/10.2989/10220119.2023.2175035 Cite
Henschel, J. R., Milton, S. J., & Seymour, C. L. (2023). Where birds are rare or fill the air: Documenting Karoo complexity: Richard Dean (10 August 1940—3 August 2022). Journal of Arid Environments, 214, 105000. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaridenv.2023.105000 Cite
Gunter, F., Oldeland, J., Picker, M. D., Henschel, J. R., & Jürgens, N. (2023). Cryptic subterranean diversity: regional phylogeography of the sand termite Psammotermes allocerus Silvestri, 1908 in the wider Namib region. Organisms Diversity & Evolution, 23(1), 139–150. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13127-022-00580-w Cite
Geldenhuys, C., van der Merwe, H., & Van Rooyen, M. W. (2023). Vegetation response to grazing and drought (13 yr) in a conservation area in the Succulent Karoo, South Africa. Journal of Arid Environments. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaridenv.2023.105093 Cite
Gunther, F., Jürgens, N., & Henschel, J. R. (2023). Observations on the diversity of termites in ANgola and Namibia. Namibian Journal of Envirnment, 8, 187–192. Cite
Henschel, J. R., Dean, W. R. J., Milton, S. J., & Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S. (2023). Coexistence of Ammoxenus (Gnaphosidae) spider species on and between termitaria of Microhodotermes viator (Hodotermitidae) at a Karoo site. African Entomology. https://doi.org/10.17159/2254-8854/2023/a16110 Cite
Mogonong, B. (2023). Vegetation description around the savanna flux measurement site at Benfontein Nature Reserve, South Africa. South African Journal of Botany. Cite
Gunter, F., Oldeland, J., Henschel, J. R., Picker, M. D., & Jürgens, N. (2022). Reproduction of sand termites and local genetic patterns. In Fairy Circles of the Namib Desert - Ecosystem engineering by subterranean social insects (pp. 54–55). https://doi.org/10.7809/b-e.00365 Cite
Gunter, F., Oldeland, J., Henschel, J. R., Picker, M. D., & Jürgens, N. (2022). Not one but several: Morphological diversity within the sand termite. In Fairy Circles of the Namib Desert - Ecosystem engineering by subterranean social insects (pp. 46–51). https://doi.org/10.7809/b-e.00363 Cite
Gunter, F., Henschel, J. R., Picker, M. D., Oldeland, J., & Jürgens, N. (2022). Phylogeny of sand termites. In Fairy Circles of the Namib Desert - Ecosystem engineering by subterranean social insects (pp. 51–54). https://doi.org/10.7809/b-e.00364 Cite
Henschel, J. R., & Jürgens, N. (2022). Organisms and their interactions found on, underneath and around fairy circles. In Fairy Circles of the Namib Desert - Ecosystem engineering by subterranean social insects (pp. 229–249). https://doi.org/10.7809/b-e.00369 Cite
Vernon, C. J., & Dean, W. R. J. (2022). The introduction of the Chukar Partridge Alectoris chukar to southern Africa. Ostrich, 93(3), 157–159. https://doi.org/10.2989/00306525.2022.2063428 Cite
Dean, W. R. J., Åhlander, E., & Johansson, U. S. (2022). Avian type localities and the type specimens collected by Johan August Wahlberg in southern Africa. Zootaxa, 5134(4), 521–560. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5134.4.3 Cite
Rogers, D. C., & Meyer-Milne, E. (2022). Review of the Limnadiidae (Crustacea: Branchiopoda: Spinicaudata) of southern Africa. Journal of Crustacean Biology, 42(1), ruac019. https://doi.org/10.1093/jcbiol/ruac019 Cite
Gula, J., Clay Green, M., Fritts, S., Dean, W. R. J., & Gopi Sundar, K. (2022). Assessments of range-wide distribution of six African storks and their relationships with protected areas. Ostrich, 93(1), 34–52. https://doi.org/10.2989/00306525.2022.2045642 Cite
Milton, S. J., Short, S., & Dean, W. R. J. (2022). Decline in whistling rat ( Parotomys brantsii ) density: Possible response to climate change in the Karoo, South Africa. African Journal of Ecology, 60(4), 969–979. https://doi.org/10.1111/aje.13063 Cite
Seymour, C. L., Joseph, G. S., Calitz, W., Henschel, J. R., Ramaswiela, T., & van der Merwe, H. (2022). Mean height increase in saplings of a keystone woody savanna species over 15 years similar to that over a single season. Ecosphere, 13(9). https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.4173 Cite
Meyer-Milne, E., Brendonck, L., & Pinceel, T. (2022). Egg banks in dryland wetlands provide information on the diversity and vulnerability of branchiopod communities along a longitudinal aridity gradient. Wetlands Ecology and Management, 30(4), 813–826. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11273-021-09852-2 Cite
Henschel, J. R., & Maggs-Kölling, G. (2022). Namibia Scientific Society and Gobabeb: Science in Transition. Journal of the Namibia Scientific Society, 69, 9–17. Cite
Henschel, J. R., & Wassenaar, T. D. (2022). Tenebrionid Beetle Diversity Increases with Aridity across the Namib Desert. Journal of the Namibia Scientific Society, 69, 63–86. Cite
Dippenaar, A. S., Dean, W. R. J., & Milton, S. J. (2022). A checklist of the spiders (Arachnida, Araneae) of Tierberg Long Term Ecological Research site, Prince Albert, Western Cape, South Africa. Cite
Musengi, K., & Van der Merwe, H. (2022). Long-term monitoring of Aloidendron dichotomum populations: Does tracking individuals make a difference to general demographic findings? South African Journal of Botany, 152, 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sajb.2022.12.002 Cite
Dean, W. R. J. (2021). A review of the conservation status of birds in the Guineo‐Congolian forest of Africa. Journal of Field Ornithology, jofo.12388. https://doi.org/10.1111/jofo.12388 Cite
Rogers, D. C., & Meyer-Milne, E. (2021). Review of the southern African Leptestheriidae (Branchiopoda: Spinicaudata), II: Diagnoses and key. Journal of Crustacean Biology, 41(4), ruab072. https://doi.org/10.1093/jcbiol/ruab072 Cite
Van der Merwe, H., Milton, S. J., Dean, W. R. J., O'Connor, T. G., & Henschel, J. R. (2021). Developing an environmental research platform in the Karoo at the Square Kilometre Array. South African Journal of Science, 117(11/12). https://doi.org/10.17159/sajs.2021/10511 Cite