Students
Past students
Kelly Bernard
Honours 2020"Seed removal by vertebrates and invertebrates in intact and degraded Albany Thicket."
Yenziwe Mbuyisa
Honours 2020"Paleoenvironment insights for the thicket using the Baviaans Cedar, Widdringtonia schwarzii.
Bronwyn Trafford
Masters"Rewilding in the thicket biome."
Bronwyn is based in the Department of Zoology and Entomology, RU.
Neha Kooverjee
Masters "Landscape-scale carbon stocks in the thicket biome."
Neha is based at the Global Change Institute, Wits University.
Yondela Norman
Masters "Modifying the current planting protocol to improve survivorship of Portulacaria afra in Albany thicket of the Baviaanskloof, Eastern Cape."
Putuma Balintulo
Honours 2019"Differences in the woody vegetation cover of the transformed and intact thicket, Greater Addo Elephant National Park, Eastern Cape."
Kamva Zenani
Honours 2019My research is about testing the soil properties in intact and transformed thicket in Addo elephant park.
Georgia-Ann St Quintin
Honours 2019"The use of smartphone technology to provide veterinary services to smallholder farmers, in Machubeni, South Africa.”
Chelsea Botha
Honours 2019"Carbon partitioning and growth behaviour in spekboom-rich thicket, in the Albany Thicket"
James Marriner
Honours 2019"A review of methods for economic evaluation of seagrass Zostera capensis"
Bronwyn Trafford
Honours 2019"The use of remote sensing and field sampling to analyse the effects of land transformation in the thicket biome in Addo Elephant National Park."
Refentshe Ledwaba
Honours 2018"2 Time-series analyses of the Lower Kowie River Valley Thicket Transformation"
Kyra Lunderstedt
Masters 2016"Quantifying degraded subtropical thicket structure and composition: a multi-scale approach in the Eastern Cape, South Africa"
Kyle Johnstone
Honours 2018"Measuring above ground biomass accumulation for woody and succulent trees and shrubs on a naturally restoring old field in Bathurst, Eastern Cape, South Africa."
Kyra Lunderstedt
Honours 2011"Quantifying the rate of natural vegetation recovery and changes in species composition on old lands, for a small private nature reserve, Bathurst, Eastern Cape."