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Richard M. Cowling
Researcher at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
Publications - 400
Citations - 32117
Richard M. Cowling is an academic researcher from Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Thicket & Biodiversity. The author has an hindex of 96, co-authored 392 publications receiving 30042 citations. Previous affiliations of Richard M. Cowling include University of Zimbabwe & University of Cape Town.
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Post-Fire Recruitment of Four Co-Occurring Banksia Species
TL;DR: Significantly fewer seedlings died inside enclosures after the autumn burn than in the unburnt site, indicating the importance of drought-induced mortality in maintaining even-aged populations in mature scrub-heath.
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Predicting patterns of plant species richness in megadiverse South Africa
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used boosted regression trees (RBT) to predict South African plant species richness patterns, and found that topographic heterogeneity was the most powerful single explanatory variable for indigenous South African species richness.
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Resprouters vs reseeders in South African forest trees; a model based on forest canopy height
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors surveyed a number of plots in a range of South African forests and thicket communities and determined a mean for each site and noted the numbers of seedlings and resprouts for each species.
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The role of private conservation areas in biodiversity representation and target achievement within the Little Karoo region, South Africa
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the extent to which privately owned conservation areas contribute to biodiversity representation and found that private conservation areas were especially important in conserving lower elevation habitat, and by association, endangered vegetation.
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Phytochorology and Vegetation History in the South-Eastern Cape, South Africa
TL;DR: Using the results of a descriptive and an historical approach, hypotheses are presented on vegetation history during a glacial-interglacial sequence in the chorologically complex south-eastern Cape.