PeerJ Editor & Author

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Richard M Cowling

PeerJ Editor & Author

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

Editorial Board Member

PeerJ - the Journal of Life & Environmental Sciences

Work details

Distinguished Professor

Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University

Botany

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PeerJ Contributions

December 12, 2023

The vegetation of Holocene coastal dunes of the Cape south coast, South Africa

Richard M. Cowling, Hayley Cawthra, Sean Privett, B. Adriaan Grobler

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16427 PubMed 38107568

November 8, 2022

Canopy plant composition and structure of Cape subtropical dune thicket are predicted by the levels of fire exposure

Tiaan Strydom, Tineke Kraaij, B. Adriaan Grobler, Richard M. Cowling

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14310 PubMed 36389405

May 3, 2022

The response of geophytes to continuous human foraging on the Cape south coast, South Africa and its implications for early hunter-gatherer mobility patterns

M. Susan Botha, Richard M. Cowling, Jan C. De Vynck, Karen J. Esler, Alastair J. Potts

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13066 PubMed 35529488

August 11, 2021

The composition, geography, biology and assembly of the coastal flora of the Cape Floristic Region

B. Adriaan Grobler, Richard M. Cowling

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11916 PubMed 34447627

August 11, 2021

Herbivory and misidentification of target habitat constrain region-wide restoration success of spekboom (Portulacaria afra) in South African subtropical succulent thicket

Marius L. van der Vyver, Anthony J. Mills, Mark Difford, Richard M. Cowling

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11944 PubMed 34447631

June 10, 2020

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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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February 26, 2024

Emergent trees in Colophospermum mopane woodland: influence of elephant density on persistence versus attrition

Timothy O’Connor, Angela Ferguson, Bruce W. Clegg, Nita Pallett, Jeremy J. Midgley, Julius Shimbani

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16961 PubMed 38426137

April 2, 2020

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

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

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

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

Victoria Sosa, Israel Loera

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

May 17, 2017

Characterisation of false-positive observations in botanical surveys

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

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

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

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

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

Daniel Zacarias, Luis Mauricio Bini, Rafael Loyola

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2567 PubMed 27781165

March 24, 2016

Evolution of Philodendron (Araceae) species in Neotropical biomes

Leticia Loss-Oliveira, Cassia Sakuragui, Maria de Lourdes Soares, Carlos G. Schrago