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Richard M Cowling

Summary

Professor of Plant Palaeoscience. Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) and founding member of the Academy of Sciences of South Africa. Former President of the International Society of Mediterranean Ecologists and former Editor-in-Chief of Conservation Letters.

Biodiversity Biogeography Ecology Evolutionary Studies

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Distinguished Professor

Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University

Botany

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June 10, 2020

Fire severity effects on resprouting of subtropical dune thicket of the Cape Floristic Region

98 downloads

262 views

Tiaan Strydom, Tineke Kraaij, Mark Difford, Richard M. Cowling

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9240 PubMed 32566395

April 23, 2020

Site selection for subtropical thicket restoration: mapping cold-air pooling in the South African sub-escarpment lowlands

140 downloads

716 views

Robbert Duker, Richard M. Cowling, Marius L. van der Vyver, Alastair J. Potts

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8980 PubMed 32351786

July 31, 2019

Taxonomic, biological and geographical traits of species in a coastal dune flora in the southeastern Cape Floristic Region: regional and global comparisons

2 citations

483 downloads

1,443 views

Richard M. Cowling, Caryl Logie, Joan Brady, Margie Middleton, B. Adriaan Grobler

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7336 PubMed 31396438

June 20, 2018

Feeding ecology and sexual dimorphism in a speciose flower beetle clade (Hopliini: Scarabaeidae)

3 citations

328 downloads

1,572 views

Jonathan F. Colville, Mike D. Picker, Richard M. Cowling

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4632 PubMed 29942673

August 10, 2017

Vegetation responses to season of fire in an aseasonal, fire-prone fynbos shrubland

2 citations

374 downloads

1,615 views

Tineke Kraaij, Richard M. Cowling, Brian W. van Wilgen, Diba R. Rikhotso, Mark Difford

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3591 PubMed 28828239

February 18, 2016

Seasonal availability of edible underground and aboveground carbohydrate resources to human foragers on the Cape south coast, South Africa

12 citations

652 downloads

2,881 views

Jan C. De Vynck, Richard M. Cowling, Alastair J. Potts, Curtis W. Marean

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1679 PubMed 26925319

December 8, 2015 - Version: 1

Foraging potential of underground storage organ plants in the southern Cape, South Africa

388 downloads

533 views

Elzanne Singels, Alastair J Potts, Karen J Esler, Richard M Cowling, Curtis W Marean, Jan C De Vynck

https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.1573v1

September 18, 2015 - Version: 1

Seasonal availability of edible underground and aboveground carbohydrate resources to human foragers on the Cape south coast, South Africa

374 downloads

664 views

Jan C De Vynck, Richard M Cowling, Alastair J Potts, Curtis W Marean

https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.1379v1

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April 2, 2020

Capturing variation in floral shape: a virtual3D based morphospace for Pelargonium

112 downloads

363 views

Sara J. van de Kerke, Tiemen van Engelenhoven, Anne L. van Es, Laura Schat, Lisa M. van Son, Sverre Vink, Lia Hemerik, Robin van Velzen, M. Eric Schranz, Freek T. Bakker

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8823 PubMed 32274266

February 27, 2019

Phylogeny and circumscription of Dasyphyllum (Asteraceae: Barnadesioideae) based on molecular data with the recognition of a new genus, Archidasyphyllum

3 citations

522 downloads

1,518 views

Paola de Lima Ferreira, Mariana Machado Saavedra, Milton Groppo

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6475 PubMed 30834184

September 17, 2018

Phylogeography of Swertia perennis in Europe based on cpDNA markers

3 citations

276 downloads

891 views

Jacek Urbaniak, Paweł Kwiatkowski, Paweł Pawlikowski

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5512 PubMed 30245925

October 20, 2017

Influence of current climate, historical climate stability and topography on species richness and endemism in Mesoamerican geophyte plants

11 citations

535 downloads

2,177 views

Victoria Sosa, Israel Loera

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3932 PubMed 29062605

May 17, 2017

Characterisation of false-positive observations in botanical surveys

4 citations

439 downloads

2,810 views

Quentin J. Groom, Sarah J. Whild

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3324 PubMed 28533972

February 21, 2017

Counting complete? Finalising the plant inventory of a global biodiversity hotspot

7 citations

337 downloads

2,002 views

Martina Treurnicht, Jonathan F. Colville, Lucas N. Joppa, Onno Huyser, John Manning

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2984 PubMed 28243528

February 7, 2017

Vascular plant biodiversity of the lower Coppermine River valley and vicinity (Nunavut, Canada): an annotated checklist of an Arctic flora

5 citations

1,133 downloads

5,259 views

Jeffery M. Saarela, Paul C. Sokoloff, Roger D. Bull

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2835 PubMed 28194307

November 3, 2016

Phylogeography of Arenaria balearica L. (Caryophyllaceae): evolutionary history of a disjunct endemic from the Western Mediterranean continental islands

5 citations

497 downloads

2,128 views

Javier Bobo-Pinilla, Sara B. Barrios de León, Jaume Seguí Colomar, Giuseppe Fenu, Gianluigi Bacchetta, Julio Peñas de Giles, María Montserrat Martínez-Ortega

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2618 PubMed 27833802

October 27, 2016

The influence of socioeconomic factors on the densities of high-value cross-border species, the African elephant

10 citations

744 downloads

2,647 views

Sarah-Anne Jeanetta Selier, Rob Slotow, Enrico Di Minin

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2581 PubMed 27812404

October 19, 2016

Systematic review on the conservation genetics of African savannah elephants

2 citations

813 downloads