Post-docs
PhD
Masters
Post-docs

Dr Duduzile Ngwenya
Value-added bioeconomy development and biodiversity: Assessing environmental impacts of utilizing biomass from alien invasive species clearing.
Dr Ewunetu Tazebew Gonete
Biochar business models and socioeconomic impacts.
Dr Jawi Ramahlo
Limpopo otters as biological indicators of freshwater ecosystem health.
Dr Katie O’Shaughnessy
Understanding the drivers of biological invasions in Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) along the South African coast
Dr Lehlohonolo Donald Adams
Understanding invasion potential and risk of fleshy-fruited invasive shrubs and trees in South Africa.
Dr Luke Potgieter
Using citizen-science to understand drivers of urban biological invasions
Dr Refilwe Mofokeng
Examining the implications of heavy metal contamination under changing climate conditions.
PhD

Cathleen Deelie
Marine invasions in Namibia: past, present and future.
Daniel van Blerk
Marine invasions in the Knysna estuary.
Loyd Vukeya
Resilience of southern African grassland biome to biological invasions.
Mr Armand Engelbrecht
Development and application of integrated pest management principles for the control of invasive rodent species.
Perryn Richardson
Causes and consequences of developmental plasticity of melanisation in insects.
Sarah Ackland
Citizen science as a tool for monitoring threats in coastal marine areas
Tania Pogue
Quantifying sources of variation in the thermal performance curve framework: Trait variation, methodological artefacts, and stress recovery
Masters

Charity Sambo
Examining the role of invasive freshwater crayfish as bioindicator in the Crocodile River system.
Jessica Howard
Functional and evolutionary determinants of recruitment differentiation between Fynbos Protea individuals, population, and species.
Kemoratile Maseko
Of niches and genes: Understanding evolutionary relationships and niche dynamics in invasive and indigenous rodents from Southern Africa under climate change scenarios.
Rivoningo Mchavi
Mechanisms, efficiency and resilience of sediment and phosphorus retention in subtropical natural wetlands: the role of native and alien aquatic macrophytes.
Venerate Mdaka
Impacts of invasive alien plant clearing on freshwater biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in South African river systems.
Zeane Nel
Distribution, seasonality and impacts of the alien bryozoan Amathia verticillata.
