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Richard M. Cowling

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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 20, 2018

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

69 downloads

380 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

172 downloads

1,019 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

4 citations

416 downloads

2,008 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

208 downloads

400 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

247 downloads

552 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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September 17, 2018

Phylogeography of Swertia perennis in Europe based on cpDNA markers

14 downloads

99 views

Jacek Urbaniak, Paweł Kwiatkowski, Paweł Pawlikowski

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

October 20, 2017

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

2 citations

257 downloads

1,144 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

253 downloads

2,132 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

1 citation

204 downloads

1,272 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

1 citation

450 downloads

3,432 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

2 citations

325 downloads

1,513 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

6 citations

475 downloads

1,944 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

1 citation

506 downloads