• Contaminant organisms recorded on plant product imports to South Africa 1994–2019 

  Saccaggi, D.L.; Arendse, M.; Wilson, J.R.U. (2021)

  Biosecurity interception records are crucial data underlying efforts to predict and manage pest and pathogen introductions. Here we present a dataset containing information on imported plant products inspected by the South ...

• Propagule pressure helps overcome adverse environmental conditions during population establishment 

  Saccaggi, D.L.; Wilson, J.R.U.; Terblanche, J.S. (2021)

  The establishment success of a population is a function of abiotic and biotic factors and introduction dynamics. Understanding how these factors interact has direct consequences for understanding and managing biological ...

• The use of barriers to limit the spread of aquatic invasive animal species: a global review 

  Jones, P.E.; Tummers, J.S.; Galib, S.M.; Woodford, D.J.; Hume, J.B.; Silva, L.G.M.; Braga, R.R.; de Leaniz, C.G.; Vitule, J.R.S.; Herder, J.E.; Lucas, M.C. (2021)

  Aquatic invasive species (AIS) are one of the principal threats to freshwater biodiversity. Exclusion barriers are increasingly being used as a management strategy to control the spread of AIS. However, exclusion barriers ...

• Introduced species shape insular mutualistic networks 

  Hui, C. (2021)

• Palearctic passerine migrant declines in African wintering grounds in the Anthropocene (1970–1990 and near future): a conservation assessment using publicly available GIS predictors and machine learning 

  Walther, B.A.; Huettmann, F. (2021)

  The Anthropocene causes many massive and novel impacts, e.g., on migratory birds and their habitats. Many species of migratory birds have been declining on the Palearctic-African flyway in recent decades. To investigate ...

• A review of fire management practices in African savanna-protected areas 

  Nieman, W.A.; van Wilgen, B.W.; Leslie, A.J. (2021)

• The evolution of critical thermal limits of life on Earth 

  Bennett, J.M.; Sunday, J.; Calosi, P.; Villalobos, F.; Martínez, B.; Molina-Venegas, R.; Araújo, M.B.; Algar, A.C.; Clusella-Trullas, S.; Hawkins, B.A.; Keith, S.A.; Kühn, I.; Rahbek, C.; Rodríguez, L.; Singer, A.; Morales-Castilla, I.; Olalla-Tárraga, M.Á. (2021)

  Understanding how species’ thermal limits have evolved across the tree of life is central to predicting species’ responses to climate change. Here, using experimentally-derived estimates of thermal tolerance limits for ...

• Genetic insights into the globally invasive and taxonomically problematic tree genus Prosopis 

  Castillo, M.L.; Schaffner, U.; van Wilgen, B.W.; Montaño, N.M.; Bustamante, R.O.; Cosacov, A.; Mathese, M.J.; Le Roux, J.J. (2020)

  Accurate taxonomic identification of alien species is crucial to detect new incursions, prevent or reduce the arrival of new invaders and implement management options such as biological control. Globally, the taxonomy of ...

• Mechanistic reconciliation of community and invasion ecology 

  Latombe, G.; Richardson, D.M.; McGeoch, M.A.; Altwegg, R.; Catford, J.A.; Chase, J.M.; Courchamp, F.; Esler, K.J.; Jeschke, J.M.; Landi, P.; Measey, J.; Midgley, G.F.; Minoarivelo, H.O.; Rodger, J.G.; Hui, C. (2021)

  Community and invasion ecology have mostly grown independently. There is substantial overlap in the processes captured by different models in the two fields, and various frameworks have been developed to reduce this ...

• After the fire: assessing the microhabitat of Capensibufo rosei (Hewitt, 1926) 

  Measey, J.; Becker, F.; Tolley, K.A. (2021)

  Rose’s dwarf mountain toadlet, Capensibufo rosei (Hewitt, 1926), is endemic to fire-dependent, montane fynbos vegetation on South Africa’s Cape Peninsula. The area undergoes natural fire cycles that are disrupted due to ...

• Opening the floor for discussion: A perspective on how scholars perceive attitudes to science in policymaking in South Africa 

  Czachur, M.V.; Todd, M.; Gonçalves Loureiro, T.; Azam, J.M.; Nyeleka, S.; Alblas, A.; Davies, S.J. (2021)

• Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on mobility in ten countries and associated perceived risk for all transport modes 

  Barbieri, D.M.; Lou, B.; Passavanti, M.; Hui, C.; Hoff, I.; Lessa, D.A.; Sikka, G.; Chang, K.; Gupta, A.; Fang, K.; Banerjee, A.; Maharaj, B.; Lam, L.; Ghasemi, N.; Naik, B.; Wang, F.; Mirhosseini, A.F.; Naseri, S.; Liu, Z.; Qiao, Y.; Tucker, A.; Wijayaratna, K.; Peprah, P.; Adomako, S.; Yu, L.; Goswami, S.; Chen, H.; Shu, B.; Hessami, A.; Abbas, M.; Agarwal, N.; Rashidi, T.H. (2021)

  The restrictive measures implemented in response to the COVID-19 pandemic have triggered sudden massive changes to travel behaviors of people all around the world. This study examines the individual mobility patterns for ...

• A reconstruction of the recent fire regimes of Majete Wildlife Reserve, Malawi, using remote sensing 

  Nieman, W.A.; van Wilgen, B.W.; Leslie, A.J. (2021)

  Background Fire is an important process that shapes the structure and functioning of African savanna ecosystems, and managers of savanna protected areas use fire to achieve ecosystem goals. Developing appropriate fire ...

• Exponential damping: the key to successful containment of COVID-19 

  Zhang, F.; Zhang, J.M.; Cao, M.L.; Zhang, Y.; Hui, C. (2021)

  Due to its excessive capacity for human-to-human transmission, the 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has now been declared a global public health emergency. Here we propose a simple model based on exponential infectious ...

• Active seed sowing can overcome constraints to passive restoration of a critically endangered vegetation type 

  Hall, S.A.; Holmes, P.M.; Gaertner, M.; Esler, K.J. (2021)

  Invasive alien plants negatively impact ecosystems, but recovery of native vegetation may fail following standard methods of alien species removal alone. Alternative management actions may thus be required. Cape Flats Sand ...

• The status of alien bamboos in South Africa 

  Canavan, S.; Richardson, D.M.; Le Roux, J.J.; Kelchner, S.A.; Wilson, J.R.U. (2021)

  The growing interest in commercial cultivation of bamboos (Poaceae subfamily Bambusoideae) has led to the introduction of new alien species into South Africa. The rate at which bamboos are being planted in South Africa is ...

• Low-temperature physiology of climatically distinct south African populations of the biological control agent Neochetina eichhorniae 

  Rogers, D.J.; Terblanche, J.S.; Owen, C.A. (2021)

  1. Neochetina eichhorniae is the most widely established biocontrol agent on water hyacinth populations around South Africa. However, some N. eichhorniae populations have failed to adequately control their host population, ...

• Metabolic responses to starvation and feeding contribute to the invasiveness of an emerging pest insect 

  Smit, C.; Javal, M.; Lehmann, P.; Terblanche, J.S. (2021)

  Metabolic rate, and the flexibility thereof, is a complex trait involving several inter-linked variables that can influence animal energetics, behavior, and ultimately fitness. Metabolic traits respond readily to ambient ...

• Non-native populations and global invasion potential of the Indian bullfrog Hoplobatrachus tigerinus: a synthesis for risk-analysis 

  Mohanty, N.P.; Crottini, A.; Garcia, R.A.; Measey, J. (2021)

  Invasive amphibians have considerable ecological and socio-economic impact. However, strong taxonomic biases in the existing literature necessitate synthesizing knowledge on emerging invaders. The Indian bullfrog, ...

• Source pools and disharmony of the world's island floras 

  König, C.; Weigelt, P.; Taylor, A.; Stein, A.; Dawson, W.; Essl, F.; Pergl, J.; Pyšek, P.; van Kleunen, M.; Winter, M.; Chatelain, C.; Wieringa, J.J.; Krestov, P.; Kreft, H. (2021)

  Island disharmony refers to the biased representation of higher taxa on islands compared to their mainland source regions and represents a central concept in island biology. Here, we develop a generalizable framework for ...

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