Three C·I·B researchers, Mark Robertson, Cang Hui and Vernon Visser developed a new R package that can be used for assessing and improving the quality of datasets consisting of occurrence records.
Soils are integral to agricultural productivity, biodiversity and the maintenance of ecosystem services. However, soil ecosystem research depends on foundational biological knowledge that is often missing.
Did you know that ants have hair on their bodies? Or that some species build underground cities which go as deep as 8 meters deep?
Genetic analyses of a population of invasive French platannas suggest they came from all over South Africa.
The first detection of the parasitic fungus Hesperomyces virescens on ladybirds (coccinellid beetles) in South Africa was made by a team of researchers from Harvard University and Stellenbosch University.
