The effect of climate change on the impacts of invasive species in South African protected areas
The effect of climate change on the impacts of invasive species in South African protected areas
The water-related economic consequences of failing to adequately halt the spread of invasive alien trees in the Western Cape
The project aims to quantify the economic impacts of changes to the Western Cape water supplies resulting from different invasive alien tree control scenarios.
Do urban areas provide thermal refugia to invasive species?
This project aims to explore potential climatic factors that favour but also confine alien species' distributions into urban areas. It will measure and assess differences in the mosaics of thermal microclimates available to alien species such as H. axyridis and L. capensis in urban and natural areas, and account for the diversity of stage-specific habitats.
Determining the potential of invasive insects to respond to climate change
Invasive insects are an increasing threat to native diversity but the question of how well they will perform in face of climate change remains unexplored. In particular, the knowledge of their adaptive evolutionary trait change in response to climate change is limited. This line of enquiry poses several known challenges...
Assessing the current and potential value of iNaturalist data for invasion science in South Africa
This project will aim to assess the extent to which iNaturalist observations already reflect the national-scale distribution of naturalized and invasive species in selected taxonomic groups, and to provide guidelines for how the platform could become more valuable for different purposes in the future.