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A Comparison of Techniques Employed in Detection of Avian Malaria Infection, South Africa

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A Review of Social Dilemmas and Social-Ecological Traps in Conservation and Natural Resource Management

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A Study of Moult-Site Fidelity in Egyptian Geese,Alopochen aegyptiaca, in South Africa

scientific article published in 2013

A Systems Model Approach to Determining Resilience Surrogates for Case Studies

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A framework for testing assumptions about foraging scales, body mass, and niche separation using telemetry data.

scientific article

A social–ecological approach to landscape epidemiology: geographic variation and avian influenza

scholarly article by Graeme S. Cumming et al published 13 March 2015 in Landscape Ecology

Aldo Leopold's land health from a resilience point of view: self-renewal capacity of social-ecological systems

scientific article

An Exploratory Framework for the Empirical Measurement of Resilience

Analysis of large new South African dataset using two host-specificity indices shows generalism in both adult and larval ticks of mammals.

scientific article published on 22 December 2015

Applied research for enhancing human well-being and environmental stewardship: using complexity thinking in Southern Africa

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Are Existing Global Scenarios Consistent with Ecological Feedbacks?

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Are scientific editors reliable gatekeepers of the publication process?

scholarly article

Artificial wetlands and surrounding habitats provide important foraging habitat for bats in agricultural landscapes in the Western Cape, South Africa

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Assessing the broad-scale impact of agriculturally transformed and protected area landscapes on avian taxonomic and functional richness

Australia's biodiversity crisis and the need for the Biodiversity Council

scientific article published in 2023

Avian haemosporidians in the cattle egret (Bubulcus ibis) from central-western and southern Africa: High diversity and prevalence

scientific article published on 22 February 2019

Avian malaria prevalence and mosquito abundance in the Western Cape, South Africa

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Birds as key vectors for the dispersal of some alien species: Further thoughts

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Body Mass and Pectoral Muscle Size Changes in African Waterfowl During Moult

Bridge hosts, a missing link for disease ecology in multi-host systems

scientific article (publication date: 2015)

Broad‐scale analysis of fish community data suggests critical need to support regional connectivity of coral reefs

scientific article published in 2023

Building blocks of polycentric governance

Can waterbirds with different movement, dietary and foraging functional traits occupy similar ecological niches?

scientific article published in 2016

Characterizing land tenure dynamics by comparing spatial and temporal variation at multiple scales

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Climate change may impact habitat complementation and cause disassociation for mobile species

scientific article published in 2024

Climate change, ecosystems and abrupt change: science priorities

scientific article published on 27 January 2020

Communities in context: the influences of multiscale environmental variation on local ant community structure

article published in 2007

Comparing Ecosystem Service Preferences between Urban and Rural Dwellers

scholarly article by Marie Lapointe et al published 16 January 2019 in BioScience

Contrasting spatial patterns of taxonomic and functional richness offer insights into potential loss of ecosystem services

scientific article

Conversion or conservation? Understanding wetland change in northwest Costa Rica

scientific article published on January 2008

Coral reef conservation in the Anthropocene: Confronting spatial mismatches and prioritizing functions

Coral reefs in the Anthropocene

scientific article

Correction: Host specificity and co-speciation in avian haemosporidia in the Western Cape, South Africa

scientific article published on 20 May 2015

Cross-scale and social-ecological changes constitute main threats to private land conservation in South Africa

scientific article published on 19 August 2020

Cross-scale feedbacks and scale mismatches as influences on cultural services and the resilience of protected areas

scientific article published on January 2015

Cultural Ecosystem Services in Protected Areas: Understanding Bundles, Trade-Offs, and Synergies

scholarly article by Judith M. Ament et al published 27 October 2016 in Conservation Letters

Current themes and recent advances in modelling species occurrences ⬇️

scientific article published on December 9, 2009

Defining functional groups using dietary data: Quantitative comparison suggests functional classification for seed-dispersing waterfowl

scientific article published in 2016

Determinants, outcomes, and feedbacks associated with microeconomic adaptation to climate change

scientific article published in 2022

Divergence and gene flow in the globally distributed blue-winged ducks

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Do the large termite mounds of Macrotermes concentrate micronutrients in addition to macronutrients in nutrient-poor African savannas?

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Domestic mammals facilitate tick-borne pathogen transmission networks in South African wildlife

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Effectiveness of Africa's tropical protected areas for maintaining forest cover

scientific article

Empirical analysis suggests continuous and homogeneous circulation of Newcastle disease virus in a wide range of wild bird species in Africa

scientific article published on 4 August 2014

Erratum to: A social–ecological approach to landscape epidemiology: geographic variation and avian influenza

scholarly article by Graeme S. Cumming et al published 7 May 2015 in Landscape Ecology

Escaping the flames: large termitaria as refugia from fire in miombo woodland

article published in 2013

Evolution, Ecology, and Multimodal Distributions of Body Size

article by Graeme S. Cumming & Tanya D. Havlicek published 1 November 2002 in Ecosystems

Exploring the environmental drivers of waterfowl movement in arid landscapes using first-passage time analysis

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Faculty of 1000 evaluation for A biogeographical perspective on ecological systems: some personal reflections

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Faculty of 1000 evaluation for A migratory northern ungulate in the pursuit of spring: jumping or surfing the green wave?

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Faculty of 1000 evaluation for A structured and dynamic framework to advance traits-based theory and prediction in ecology

article published in 2010

Faculty of 1000 evaluation for Agricultural modifications of hydrological flows create ecological surprises

Faculty of 1000 evaluation for Causal inference in disease ecology: investigating ecological drivers of disease emergence

Faculty of 1000 evaluation for Early warnings of regime shifts: a whole-ecosystem experiment

Faculty of 1000 evaluation for Ecosystem services provided by waterbirds

scholarly article published 25 July 2013

Faculty of 1000 evaluation for Effect of habitat area and isolation on fragmented animal populations

Faculty of 1000 evaluation for Impact of the experimental removal of lizards on Lyme disease risk

scholarly article published 26 October 2011

Faculty of 1000 evaluation for Lessons about parks and poverty from a decade of forest loss and economic growth around Kibale National Park, Uganda

scholarly article published 19 January 2012

Faculty of 1000 evaluation for Pangloss revisited: a critique of the dilution effect and the biodiversity-buffers-disease paradigm

Faculty of 1000 evaluation for Pathogenic landscapes: interactions between land, people, disease vectors, and their animal hosts

Faculty of 1000 evaluation for Rapid climate driven shifts in wintering distributions of three common waterbird species

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Faculty of 1000 evaluation for The global distribution of net primary production: resolving the paradox

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Faculty of 1000 evaluation for Unexpected patterns of fisheries collapse in the world's oceans

scholarly article published 5 May 2011

Faculty of 1000 evaluation for Woody cover in African savannas: the role of resources, fire and herbivory

Feedbacks as a bridging concept for advancing transdisciplinary sustainability research

Field work ethics in biological research

scientific article (publication date: November 2016)

Fifty years of biological conservation

scientific article published in 2019

First application of satellite telemetry to track African straw-coloured fruit bat migration

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Food Webs and Disease: Is Pathogen Diversity Limited by Vector Diversity?

Food availability and annual migration of the straw-colored fruit bat (Eidolon helvum)

Foraging guild membership explains variation in waterbird responses to the hydrological regime of an arid-region flood-pulse river in Namibia

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Genetic and paleomodelling evidence of the population expansion of the cattle egretBubulcus ibisin Africa during the climatic oscillations of the Late Pleistocene

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Geographic variation in factors that influence timing of moult and breeding in waterfowl

scientific article published on 23 April 2017

Getting the measure of ecosystem services: a social–ecological approach

scholarly article by Belinda Reyers et al published June 2013 in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Getting the most out of atlas data

article by M. P. Robertson et al published 13 April 2010 in Diversity and Distributions

Global biodiversity scenarios and landscape ecology

scientific article published in 2007

Global warming and recurrent mass bleaching of corals ⬇️

scientific article

Habitat Shape, Species Invasions, and Reserve Design: Insights from Simple Models

scientific article published on 04 November 2016

Habitat loss, trophic collapse, and the decline of ecosystem services

scientific article

Habitat use and life history as predictors of bird responses to habitat change

scientific article published in February 2008

Heterarchies: Reconciling Networks and Hierarchies

scientific article published on 24 May 2016

Historical influences dominate the composition of regenerating plant communities in abandoned citrus groves in north-central Florida

scientific article published in 2009

Host associations, biogeography, and phylogenetics of avian malaria in southern African waterfowl

scientific article published on 12 October 2012

Host community heterogeneity and the expression of host specificity in avian haemosporidia in the Western Cape, South Africa.

scientific article published on 16 May 2018

Host specificity and co-speciation in avian haemosporidia in the Western Cape, South Africa

scientific article published on 03 February 2014

Host use does not clarify the evolutionary history of African ticks (Acari: Ixodoidea)

journal article; published in African Zoology in 2000

How does habitat fragmentation affect biodiversity? A controversial question at the core of conservation biology

scientific article published in 2019

How flexible are habitat specialists? Short-term space use in obligate coral-dwelling damselfishes

Humanity’s distance to nature: time for environmental austerity?

scientific article published in 2016

Identification of a spatially efficient portfolio of priority conservation sites in marine and estuarine areas of Florida

scientific article published in 2008

Identifying predictors of international fisheries conflict

scientific article

Impacts of the coronavirus pandemic on biodiversity conservation

scientific article published on 08 April 2020

Implications of agricultural transitions and urbanization for ecosystem services

scientific article published on November 2014

Improving network approaches to the study of complex social–ecological interdependencies

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Influence of moult and location on patterns of daily movement by Egyptian Geese in South Africa

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Insights from twenty years of comparative research in Pacific Large Ocean States

scientific article published in 2022

Integration of private land conservation areas in a network of statutory protected areas: Implications for sustainability

Investigating avian influenza infection hotspots in old-world shorebirds.

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Key knowledge gaps to achieve global sustainability goals

scientific article

Landscape structure influences avian malaria ecology in the Western Cape, South Africa

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Large termitaria act as refugia for tall trees, deadwood and cavity-using birds in a miombo woodland

scientific article published in 2011

Linking Spatial and Temporal Variation at Multiple Scales in a Heterogeneous Landscape∗

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Linking avian communities and avian influenza ecology in southern Africa using epidemiological functional groups

scientific article

Linking economic growth pathways and environmental sustainability by understanding development as alternate social-ecological regimes

article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Manager strategies and user demands: Determinants of cultural ecosystem service bundles on private protected areas

scholarly article by Hayley S. Clements & Graeme S. Cumming published December 2017 in Ecosystem services

Managing cross-scale dynamics in marine conservation: Pest irruptions and lessons from culling of crown-of-thorns starfish (Acanthaster spp.)

scientific article published on 19 August 2019

Managing for resilience

scientific article

Marine fisheries and future ocean conflict

scholarly article by Jessica Spijkers published in May 2018

Microeconomic adaptation to severe climate disturbances on Australian coral reefs

Money and motives: an organizational ecology perspective on private land conservation

More than just a corridor: A suburban river catchment enhances bird functional diversity

Multi-scale network analysis shows scale-dependency of significance of individual protected areas for connectivity

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Multiple states in river and lake ecosystems

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Negative relationships between species richness and temporal variability are common but weak in natural systems

scientific article published on 12 October 2018

Network analysis in conservation biogeography: challenges and opportunities

scholarly article by Graeme S. Cumming et al published 13 April 2010 in Diversity and Distributions

Networks of wildlife translocations in developing countries: an emerging conservation issue?

scientific article published in 2013

New Directions for Understanding the Spatial Resilience of Social–Ecological Systems

article published in 2016

New and emerging directions in coral reef conservation ⬇️

scholarly article

Parasite biodiversity faces extinction and redistribution in a changing climate

scientific article published on 6 September 2017

Patchy delivery of functions undermines functional redundancy in a high diversity system

scientific article published in 2019

Pathogens, disease, and the social-ecological resilience of protected areas

scientific article published in 2016

Perceived availability and access limitations to ecosystem service well-being benefits increase in urban areas

scientific article published in 2020

Persistence of low pathogenic avian influenza virus in waterfowl in a Southern African ecosystem.

scientific article

Phylogenetic analysis of influenza A viruses (H6N8, H1N8, H4N2, H9N2, H10N7) isolated from wild birds, ducks, and ostriches in South Africa from 2007 to 2009.

scientific article published in March 2010

Point counts outperform line transects when sampling birds along routes in South African protected areas ⬇️

scholarly article

Positives and pathologies of natural resource management on private land-conservation areas

scientific article published on 9 November 2016

Predators on private land: broad-scale socioeconomic interactions influence large predator management

scientific article published in 2016

Privately protected areas provide key opportunities for the regional persistence of large- and medium-sized mammals

scientific article published in 2018

Protected areas as social-ecological systems: perspectives from resilience and social-ecological systems theory

scientific article

Quantifying network resilience: comparison before and after a major perturbation shows strengths and limitations of network metrics

scientific article published in 2015

Quantifying spatial resilience

scientific article published in 2016

Quantifying the effects of institutional shifts on water governance in the Yellow River Basin: A social-ecological system perspective

scholarly article published in February 2024

Rainfall, food abundance and timing of parturition in African bats

scientific article published in July 1997

Realizing resilience for decision-making ⬇️

scholarly article

Reconciling community ecology and ecosystem services: Cultural services and benefits from birds in South African National Parks

scholarly article by Graeme S. Cumming & Kristine Maciejewski published December 2017 in Ecosystem services

Reply to O'Sullivan: Wicked problems demand sophisticated understandings of complexity and feedbacks, not focus on a single variable

article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Research priorities for the sustainability of coral-rich western Pacific seascapes

Resilience Management in Social-ecological Systems: a Working Hypothesis for a Participatory Approach

scientific article published on 04 November 2016

Resilience, experimentation, and scale mismatches in social-ecological landscapes

scientific article published in 2012

Response to Kabisch and Colleagues

Roads as Drivers of Change: Trajectories across the Tri‑National Frontier in MAP, the Southwestern Amazon

article by Jane Southworth et al published 24 May 2011 in Remote Sensing

Satellite telemetry of Afrotropical ducks: methodological details and assessment of success rates

journal article; published in African Zoology in 2011

Scale Mismatches in Social-Ecological Systems: Causes, Consequences, and Solutions

scientific article published in 2006

Scale dependency in effectiveness, isolation, and social-ecological spillover of protected areas

scientific article published on 2 February 2016

Scale mismatches and reflexive law

scientific article published in 2013

Scenario Planning: a Tool for Conservation in an Uncertain World

Seed dispersal by waterbirds in southern Africa: comparing the roles of ectozoochory and endozoochory

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Seed traits and bird species influence the dispersal parameters of wetland plants

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Social adaptation can reduce the strength of social–ecological feedbacks from ecosystem degradation

Social-ecological change: insights from the Southern African Program on Ecosystem Change and Society

scientific article published in 2022

Soft systems thinking and social learning for adaptive management

scientific article published on 19 October 2011

Solving the challenges of monitoring mobile populations: insights from studies of waterbirds in southern Africa

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Spatial Resilience in Social-Ecological Systems

scientific article

Spatial and environmental processes show temporal variation in the structuring of waterbird metacommunities

scientific article published in 2016

Spatial complexity in fragmenting Amazonian rainforests: Do feedbacks from edge effects push forests towards an ecological threshold?

scholarly article by Graeme S. Cumming et al published September 2012 in Ecological Complexity

Spatial resilience: integrating landscape ecology, resilience, and sustainability

scientific article published in 2011

Susceptibility and Status of Avian Influenza in Ostriches

scientific article

THE IMPACT OF LOW-HEAD DAMS ON FISH SPECIES RICHNESS IN WISCONSIN, USA

scientific article published in 2004

Termite Mounds Increase Functional Diversity of Woody Plants in African Savannas

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Termite mounds as islands: woody plant assemblages relative to termitarium size and soil properties

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Termite mounds mitigate against 50 years of herbivore-induced reduction of functional diversity of savanna woody plants

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Testing epidemiological functional groups as predictors of avian haemosporidia patterns in southern Africa

scholarly article by Eléonore Hellard et al published April 2016 in Ecosphere

Testing the reliability of adaptive capacity as a proxy for adaptive and transformative responses to climate change

The Effects of Selective Logging Behaviors on Forest Fragmentation and Recovery

The Parasite Extinction Assessment & Red List: an open-source, online biodiversity database for neglected symbionts

The Southern African Program on Ecosystem Change and Society: an emergent community of practice

The confounding influence of homogenising invasive species in a globally endangered and largely urban biome: Does habitat quality dominate avian biodiversity?

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The dynamics of proclaimed privately protected areas in South Africa over 83 years

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The ecology of influenza A viruses in wild birds in southern Africa

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The programme on ecosystem change and society (PECS) – a decade of deepening social-ecological research through a place-based focus

scientific article published in 2022

The relevance and resilience of protected areas in the Anthropocene

The relevance of cross-scale connections and spatial interactions for ecosystem service delivery by protected areas: Insights from southern Africa

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The relevance of socioeconomic interactions for the resilience of protected area networks

scientific article published in 2015

The relevance of spatial variation in ecotourism attributes for the economic sustainability of protected areas

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The role of waterbirds in the dispersal of aquatic alien and invasive species

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The role of waterbirds in the dispersal of freshwater cladocera and bryozoa in southern Africa

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The utility of covariances: a response to Ranta et al

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Theoretical Frameworks for the Analysis of Social–Ecological Systems

Timing and location of reproduction in African waterfowl: an overview of >100 years of nest records

scientific article published on 18 January 2016

Toward a pluralistic conservation science

scientific article published in May 2023

Tracking socioeconomic vulnerability using network analysis: insights from an avian influenza outbreak in an ostrich production network

scientific article

Trade-offs across Space, Time, and Ecosystem Services

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Traps and transformations influencing the financial viability of tourism on private-land conservation areas

scientific article published on 17 August 2017

Twenty years of rest returns grazing potential, but not palatable plant diversity, to Karoo rangeland, South Africa

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Understanding Spatial Variation in the Drivers of Nature-based Tourism and Their Influence on the Sustainability of Private Land Conservation

scholarly article by Julia Baum et al published October 2017 in Ecological Economics

Understanding arid‐region waterbird community dynamics during lake dry‐downs

scientific article published in 2021

Understanding protected area resilience: a multi-scale, social-ecological approach

scientific article published on March 2015

Understanding regulatory frameworks for large marine protected areas: Permits of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park

scholarly article

Understanding the ecological drivers of avian influenza virus infection in wildfowl: a continental-scale study across Africa

scientific article published on 14 September 2011

Ungulate community structure and ecological processes: body size, hoof area and trampling in African savannas

scientific article

Unifying Research on Social-Ecological Resilience and Collapse

scientific article

Urban land use does not limit weaver bird movements between wetlands in Cape Town, South Africa

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Using a multi-isotope approach to understand waterfowl movement in southern Africa

scholarly article

When, Where, and How Nature Matters for Ecosystem Services: Challenges for the Next Generation of Ecosystem Service Models

scholarly article by Jesse T. Rieb published in August 2017

Why global scenarios need ecology

scientific article published in 2003

Will climate change affect ectoparasite species ranges?

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Woody species composition in an African savanna: determined by centuries of termite activity but modulated by 50 years of ungulate herbivory

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