Using wet and dry plants to understand riverbank flooding
A group, including C∙I∙B researchers, have developed a method that uses plant communities to determine the position of the 1:2 year flood line on Fynbos rivers that lack hydrological records.
A group, including C∙I∙B researchers, have developed a method that uses plant communities to determine the position of the 1:2 year flood line on Fynbos rivers that lack hydrological records.
A study by C∙I∙B Research Associate Josie South and scientists from SAIAB quantified the ecological damage and potential economic losses caused by two invasive crayfish in southern Africa.
Tracking the Tree of Heaven
A review by C·I·B Core Team member, Prof Brian van Wilgen, on the effectiveness of fire management in the Kruger National Park has revealed that fire can simultaneously produce positive and negative conservation outcomes.
Is there a way to predict which imported agricultural products are most likely to carry a pest? This question was tackled by former C∙I∙B student, Davina Saccaggi, in a recent paper in Ecological Applications.