Sustainability of Southern African Ecosystems under Global Change

Contributors: von Maltitz, Graham P., Midgley, Guy F., Veitch, Jennifer, Brümmer, Christian, Rötter, Reimund P., Viehberg, Finn A., Veste, Maik

Subject Terms: Climate Change, Climate Change Impacts, Climate-Driven Changes, Climate Extremes, Ecosystems, Management Options, Management Strategies, SPACES II, Sustainability, Ecological science, the Biosphere, Conservation of the environment, Environmental management

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Relation: Ecological Studies

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Potential tipping points for climate change adaptation costs

Authors: Midgley, Guy F., Chapman, R. Arthur, Araujo, Julio

Source: Climate and development. 15(8):717-722

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If self‐shading is so bad, why is there so much? Short shoots reconcile costs and benefits

Authors: Haldat du Lys, Alexandre, Millan, Mathieu, Barczi, Jean‐François, Caraglio, Yves, Midgley, Guy F., Charles‐Dominique, Tristan

Source: New phytologist. 237(5):1684-1695

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Assemblage reorganization of South African dragonflies due to climate change

Authors: Basel, Ashleigh M., Simaika, John P., Samways, Michael J., Midgley, Guy F., MacFadyen, Sandra, Hui, Cang

Source: Diversity and Distributions, 2021 Dec 01. 27(12), 2542-2558.

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Drowning in data, thirsty for information and starved for understanding: A biodiversity information hub for cooperative environmental monitoring in South Africa

Authors: MacFadyen, Sandra, Allsopp, Nicky, Altwegg, Res, Archibald, Sally, Botha, Judith, Bradshaw, Karen, Carruthers, Jane, De Klerk, Helen, de Vos, Alta, Distiller, Greg, Foord, Stefan, Freitag-Ronaldson, Stefanie, Gibbs, Richard, Hamer, Michelle, Landi, Pietro, MacFadyen, Duncan, Manuel, Jeffrey, Midgley, Guy, Moncrieff, Glenn, Munch, Zahn, Mutanga, Onisimo, Sershen, Nenguda, Rendani, Ngwenya, Mzabalazo, Parker, Daniel, Peel, Mike, Power, John, Pretorius, Joachim, Ramdhani, Syd, Robertson, Mark, Rushworth, Ian, Skowno, Andrew, Slingsby, Jasper, Turner, Andrew, Visser, Vernon, Van Wageningen, Gerhard, Hui, Cang

Source: In Biological Conservation October 2022 274

Actions to halt biodiversity loss generally benefit the climate

Authors: Shin, Yunne‐Jai, Midgley, Guy F., Archer, Emma R. M., Arneth, Almut, Barnes, David K. A., Chan, Lena, Hashimoto, Shizuka, Hoegh‐Guldberg, Ove, Insarov, Gregory, Leadley, Paul, Levin, Lisa A., Ngo, Hien T., Pandit, Ram, Pires, Aliny P. F., Pörtner, Hans‐Otto, Rogers, Alex D., Scholes, Robert J., Settele, Josef, Smith, Pete

Source: Global change biology. 28(9):2846-2874

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Plant specialisation may limit climate‐induced vegetation change to within topographic and edaphic niches on a sub‐Antarctic island

Authors: Cramer, Michael D., Hedding, David W., Greve, Michelle, Midgley, Guy F., Ripley, Brad S.

Source: Functional ecology. 36(10):2636-2648

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CO2‐fertilisation enhances resilience to browsing in the recruitment phase of an encroaching savanna tree

Authors: Ripley, Brad S., Raubenheimer, Sarah L., Perumal, Lavinia, Anderson, Maurice, Mostert, Emma, Kgope, Barney S., Midgley, Guy F., Simpson, Kimberley J.

Source: Functional ecology. 36(12):3223-3233

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The eco-evolutionary significance of rainfall constancy for facultative CAM photosynthesis

Authors: Schweiger, Andreas H., Nürk, Nicolai M., Beckett, Heath, Liede-Schumann, Sigrid, Midgley, Guy F., Higgins, Steven I.

Source: The New Phytologist, 2021 May 01. 230(4), 1653-1664.

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Post-2020 biodiversity targets need to embrace climate change

Authors: Arneth, Almut, Shin, Yunne-Jai, Leadley, Paul, Rondinini, Carlo, Bukvareva, Elena, Eлена, Буlварева, Kolb, Melanie, Midgley, Guy F., Oberdorff, Thierry, Palomo, Ignacio, Saito, Osamu

Source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2020 Dec 01. 117(49), 30882-30891.

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An operational definition of the biome for global change research

Authors: Conradi, Timo, Slingsby, Jasper A., Midgley, Guy F., Nottebrock, Henning, Schweiger, Andreas H., Higgins, Steven I.

Source: The New Phytologist, 2020 Sep 01. 227(5), 1294-1306.

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Endemism increases species' climate change risk in areas of global biodiversity importance

Authors: Manes, Stella, Costello, Mark J., Beckett, Heath, Debnath, Anindita, Devenish-Nelson, Eleanor, Grey, Kerry-Anne, Jenkins, Rhosanna, Khan, Tasnuva Ming, Kiessling, Wolfgang, Krause, Cristina, Maharaj, Shobha S., Midgley, Guy F., Price, Jeff, Talukdar, Gautam, Vale, Mariana M.

Source: In Biological Conservation May 2021 257

Large uncertainties in future biome changes in Africa call for flexible climate adaptation strategies

Authors: Martens, Carola, Hickler, Thomas, Davis‐Reddy, Claire, Engelbrecht, Francois, Higgins, Steven I., Maltitz, Graham P., Midgley, Guy F., Pfeiffer, Mirjam, Scheiter, Simon

Source: Global change biology. 27(2):340-358

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Describing a drowned Pleistocene ecosystem: Last Glacial Maximum vegetation reconstruction of the Palaeo-Agulhas Plain

Authors: Cowling, Richard M., Potts, Alastair J., Franklin, Janet, Midgley, Guy F., Engelbrecht, Francois, Marean, Curtis W.

Source: In Quaternary Science Reviews 1 May 2020 235

Steal the rain: Interception loses and rainfall partitioning by a broad‐leaf and a fine‐leaf woody encroaching species in a southern African semi‐arid savanna

Authors: Skhosana, Felix V., Thenga, Humbelani F., Mateyisi, Mohau J., Maltitz, Graham, Midgley, Guy F., Stevens, Nicola

Source: Ecology and evolution. 13(3)

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Pervasive human-driven decline of life on Earth points to the need for transformative change

Authors: Díaz, Sandra, Settele, Josef, Brondízio, Eduardo S., Ngo, Hien T., Agard, John, Arneth, Almut, Balvanera, Patricia, Brauman, Kate A., Butchart, Stuart H. M., Chan, Kai M. A., Garibaldi, Lucas A., Ichii, Kazuhito, Liu, Jianguo, Subramanian, Suneetha M., Midgley, Guy F., Miloslavich, Patricia, Molnár, Zsolt, Obura, David, Pfaff, Alexander, Polasky, Stephen, Purvis, Andy, Razzaque, Jona, Reyers, Belinda, Chowdhury, Rinku Roy, Shin, Yunne-Jai, Visseren-Hamakers, Ingrid, Willis, Katherine J., Zayas, Cynthia N.

Source: Science, 2019 Dec . 366(6471), 1327-1327.

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Oxalis seeds from the Cape Flora have a spectrum of germination strategies

Authors: Jooste, Michelle, Midgley, Guy F., Oberlander, Kenneth C., Dreyer, Léanne L.

Source: American Journal of Botany, 2019 Jun 01. 106(6), 879-893.

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The Trouble with Trees: Afforestation Plans for Africa

Authors: Bond, William J., Stevens, Nicola, Midgley, Guy F., Lehmann, Caroline E.R.

Source: In Trends in Ecology & Evolution November 2019 34(11):963-965

Future Spatial Pattern of South African Acacia Trees

Authors: Guo, Danni, Guo, Renkuan, Midgley, Guy F., Wakeling, Julia, Bond, William J., Cui, Yanhong

Source: 2008 International Workshop on Education Technology and Training & 2008 International Workshop on Geoscience and Remote Sensing Education Technology and Training, 2008. and 2008 International Workshop on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. ETT and GRS 2008. International Workshop on. 2:513-516 Dec, 2008

Relation: 2008 International Workshop on Education Technology and Training & 2008 International Workshop on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (ETT and GRS)

30% land conservation and climate action reduces tropical extinction risk by more than 50%

Authors: Hannah, Lee, Roehrdanz, Patrick R., Marquet, Pablo A., Enquist, Brian J., Midgley, Guy, Foden, Wendy, Lovett, Jon C., Corlett, Richard T., Corcoran, Derek, Butchart, Stuart H. M., Boyle, Brad, Feng, Xiao, Maitner, Brian, Fajardo, Javier, McGill, Brian J., Merow, Cory, Morueta‐Holme, Naia, Newman, Erica A., Park, Daniel S., Raes, Niels, Svenning, Jens‐Christian

Source: Ecography. 43(7):943-953

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