{"id":2,"date":"2009-10-19T13:16:48","date_gmt":"2009-10-19T11:16:48","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2021-08-17T10:54:01","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T08:54:01","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/daverichardson\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Education<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>PhD (Botany), University of Cape Town &#8211; 1989<\/li>\n<li>MSc (Botany) with distinction, University of Cape Town &#8211; 1985<\/li>\n<li>BSc (Forestry) (Majors: Forest Science, Nature Conservation), University of Stellenbosch &#8211; 1981<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Professional Expierence<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>2005 &#8211; present: Centre for Invasion Biology, University of Stellenbosch , South Africa [current position: Professor of Ecology and Director]<\/li>\n<li>1992 &#8211; 2004: Leslie Hill Institute for Plant Conservation, University of Cape Town , South Africa [Associate Professor and Deputy Director]<\/li>\n<li>1990 &#8211; 1992: CSIR Division of Forest Science and Technology, Stellenbosch , South Africa<\/li>\n<li>1981 &#8211; 1989: South African Forestry Research Institute, Stellenbosch , South Africa<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Other professional activities (editorial, working groups, etc)<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Editor-in-Chief<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackwellpublishing.com\/journal.asp?ref=1366-9516\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Diversity and Distributions<\/em><\/a> (A journal of conservation biogeography)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Editorial boards<\/strong>: (recent &amp; current)\n<ul>\n<li><em>Biological Invasions<\/em> (Associate Editor: 1998-present)<\/li>\n<li><em>Ecologia Mediterranea<\/em> (International Journal of Mediterranean Ecology, France; 1998-present)<\/li>\n<li><em>Journal of Biogeography<\/em> (Deputy Editor: 1997-2004)<\/li>\n<li><em>Global Ecology and Biogeography<\/em> (Deputy Editor: 1997-1999; Editorial Board: 2000-2005)<\/li>\n<li><em>Journal of Mediterranean Ecology<\/em> (2000-2004)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Visiting Professor, Department of Organismic Biology, Ecology and Evolution, University of California , Los Angeles (UCLA)(2001-2002)<\/li>\n<li>Member, IUCN Species Survival Specialist Groups on Invasive Organisms (1996-) and Conifers (1999-)<\/li>\n<li>Member, Advisory Committee, Invasive Plant Atlas for New England (IPANE; 2002-)<\/li>\n<li>Member, Ecology Review Panel, Working for Water programme (1998 &#8211; 2004)<\/li>\n<li>Member, Task Team responsible for formulation of regulations and risk assessment framework relating to invasive species for the National Environmental Management: Biodiversity Act (NEMBA) (2005-2006)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Education PhD (Botany), University of Cape Town &#8211; 1989 MSc (Botany) with distinction, University of Cape Town &#8211; 1985 BSc (Forestry) (Majors: Forest Science, Nature Conservation), University of Stellenbosch &#8211; 1981 Professional Expierence 2005 &#8211; present: Centre for Invasion Biology, University of Stellenbosch , South Africa [current position: Professor of Ecology and Director] 1992 &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":234,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","post","post-with-thumbnail","post-with-thumbnail-icon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/daverichardson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/daverichardson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/daverichardson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/daverichardson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/daverichardson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/daverichardson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":389,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/daverichardson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/389"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/daverichardson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/daverichardson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}