Feral mammals impact the recipient environments in various and often devastating ways. The finding was the result of a study by former C·I·B Hons student Bianca Hagen and C·I·B core team member Dr Sabrina Kumschick at Stellenbosch University. The study, which was published in NeoBiota, classified impacts using three scoring schemes.
A new study just published in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society has increased the diversity of southern African horseshoe bats by three species.
The helminth parasites harboured by invasive rodents in South Africa are closely related to geographically distant counterparts. This was revealed by research conducted on parasitic worms of the brown rat (Rattus norvegicus), the black rat (Rattus rattus) and the Asian house rat (Rattus tanezumi) in urban areas of Gauteng Province by C·I·B doctoral student, Rolanda Julius at the University of Pretoria.
The growth of our native Sugarbush (Protea repens) is not negatively affected by the legacy of altered soil chemistry after the clearing of invasive Port Jackson (Acacia saligna).
The Centre for Invasion Biology (C·I·B) hosted a workshop titled “Eucalyptus camaldulensis in South Africa: assessing its past, present and future” on 16 March 2018 at the Stellenbosch University’s Botanical Garden.
