Publications

2024

Baard, J.A., Grobler, B.A. and Kraaij, T. 2024. Passive restoration of fynbos after afforestation with exotic pines, South Africa. Restoration Ecology 32: e14037. https://doi.org/10.1111/rec.14037

2023

Cowling, R.M., Cawthra, H.C., Privett, S. and Grobler, B.A. 2023. The vegetation of Holocene coastal dunes of the Cape south coast, South Africa. PeerJ 11: e16427. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16427

Grobler, B.A., Franklin, J. Marean, C.W., Gravel-Miguel, C. and Cowling, R.M. 2023. The importance of C3 and C4 grasses and CAM shrubs in the Greater Cape Floristic Region under contemporary and Last Glacial Maximum climates. Quaternary Science Reviews 318: 108294. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.108294

Turner, R.C., Midgley, J.J. and Grobler, B.A. 2023. Sympatric speciation in Erica mammosa (Ericaceae): Resprouters versus seeders and the roles of pollinators, moisture availability and fire. South African Journal of Botany 161: 333-346. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sajb.2023.08.012

Strydom, T., Kraaij, T., Grobler, B.A. and Cowling, R.M. 2023. Effects of simulated fire and browsing on the resprouting of subtropical dune thicket shrubs in the southeastern Cape Floristic Region. Plant Ecology 224: 549–562. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11258-023-01321-5

Kraaij, T., Baard, J. Grobler, B.A. and Miles, B. 2023. Effects of Acacia melanoxylon, an alien tree species to South Africa, on Afrotemperate forest tree sapling composition. Southern Forests 85: 74–83. https://doi.org/10.2989/20702620.2023.2198093

2022

Strydom, T., Kraaij, T., Grobler, B.A. and Cowling, R.M. 2022. Canopy plant composition and structure of Cape subtropical dune thicket are predicted by the levels of fire exposure. PeerJ 10: e14310. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14310

Grobler, B.A. and Cowling, R.M. 2022. Which is the richest of them all? Comparing area-adjusted plant diversities of Mediterranean- and tropical-climate regions. Frontiers of Biogeography 14: e56241. https://doi.org/10.21425/F5FBG56241

Grobler, B.A. and Campbell, E.E. 2022. Road and landscape-context impacts on bird pollination in fynbos of the southeastern Cape Floristic Region. South African Journal of Botany 146: 676684. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sajb.2021.11.056

Quick, L., Chase, B., Carr, A., Chevalier, M., Grobler, B.A. and Meadows, M. 2022. A 25,000 year record of climate and vegetation change from the southwestern Cape coast, South Africa. Quaternary Research 105: 8299. https://doi.org/10.1017/qua.2021.31

2021

Strydom, T., Grobler, B.A., Kraaij, T. and Cowling, R.M. 2021. Pre-and post-fire architectural guilds of subtropical dune thicket species in the southeastern Cape Floristic Region. Journal of Vegetation Science 32: e13079. https://doi.org/10.1111/jvs.13079

Grobler, B.A. and Cowling, R.M. 2021. The composition, geography, biology and assembly of the coastal flora of the Cape Floristic Region. PeerJ 9: e11916. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11916

2020

Grobler, B.A. and Campbell, E.E. 2020. Pollinator activity and the fecundity of a rare and highly threatened honeybush species along a highway in the Cape Floristic Region. International Journal of Plant Sciences 181: 581593. https://doi.org/10.1086/708385

Grobler, B.A., Cawthra, H.C., Potts, A.J. and Cowling, R.M. 2020. Plant diversity of Holocene dune landscapes in the Cape Floristic Region: The legacy of Pleistocene sea-level dynamics. Quaternary Science Reviews 235: 106058. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.106058

2019

Dayaram, A., Harris, L.R., Grobler, B.A., Van der Merwe, S., Rebelo, A.G., Powrie, L.W., Vlok, J.H.J, Desmet, P.G., Qabaqaba, M., Hlahane, K.M. and Skowno, A.L. 2019. Vegetation Map of South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland 2018: A description of changes since 2006. Bothalia—African Biodiversity & Conservation 49: 1–11. https://dx.doi.org/10.4102/abc.v49i1.2452

Cowling, R.M., Logie, C., Brady, J., Middleton, M. and Grobler, B.A. 2019. Taxonomic, biological and geographical traits of species in a coastal dune flora in the southeastern Cape Floristic Region: regional and global comparisons. PeerJ 7: e7336. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7336

2012

Adams, J.B., Grobler, B.A., Rowe, C., Riddin, T., Bornman, T.G. and Ayres, D.R. 2012. Plant traits and spread of the invasive salt marsh grass, Spartina alterniflora Loisel., in the Great Brak Estuary, South Africa. African Journal of Marine Science 34: 313–322. https://doi.org/10.2989/1814232X.2012.725279