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Publications 2010

 

M. Struwig, CMS Mienie, J van den Berg, L Mucina and MH Buys. 2009. AFLPs are incompatible with RAPD and morphological data in Pennisetum purpureum (Napier grass). Biochemical Systematics and Ecology 37:645-652.

 

Siebert S.J., Retief E., Van Wyk A.E., Struwig M. 2010. A new species of Polygala (Polygalaceae) from ultramafic soils in Sekhukhuneland, South Africa, with notes on its ecology. South African Journal of Botany 76(2): 345-353.

 

Mahlomola E. Daemane, Sarel S. Cilliers, Hugo Bezuidenhout. An ecological study of the plant communities in the proposed Highveld National Park, in the peri-urban area of Potchefstroom, South Africa. Koedoe vol 52 (1):1-8.

 

M. Struwig and S Siebert. 2010. An introduction to the Four-O’Clocks of Southern Africa. Plant life (39&40)p 65

 

CILLIERS, S.S. 2010. Social aspects of urban biodiversity – an overview. In: Müller, N., Werner, P., Kelcey, J. (eds.) Urban Biodiversity & Design - Implementing the Convention on Biological Diversity in Towns and Cities,pp. 81-100. - Conservation Science and Practice -Blackwell Publishing.

 

Victor JE, Siebert SJ. 2009. Zantedeschia pentlandii (R.Whyte ex W.Watson) Wittm. In: D Raimondo, L von Staden, W Foden, JE Victor, NA Helme, RC Turner, DA Kamundi, PA Manyama (eds). Red List of South African plants 2009. Strelitzia 25: 78. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria.

 

Siebert SJ, Burrows JE, Lotter M, Victor JE. 2009. Aloe reitzii Reynolds var. reitzii. In: D Raimondo, L von Staden, W Foden, JE Victor, NA Helme, RC Turner, DA Kamundi, PA Manyama (eds). Red List of South African plants 2009. Strelitzia 25: 83. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria.

 

Victor JE, Siebert SJ. 2009. Plinthus rehmannii G.Schellenb. In: D Raimondo, L von Staden, W Foden, JE Victor, NA Helme, RC Turner, DA Kamundi, PA Manyama (eds). Red List of South African plants 2009. Strelitzia 25: 218. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria.

 

Siebert SJ, Van der Merwe IJ, Stehle T, Victor JE. 2009. Lydenburgia cassinoides N.Robson. In: D Raimondo, L von Staden, W Foden, JE Victor, NA Helme, RC Turner, DA Kamundi, PA Manyama (eds). Red List of South African plants 2009. Strelitzia 25: 299. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria.

 

Winter PJD, Siebert SJ, Archer RH, Victor JE, Von Staden L. 2009. Euphorbia barnardii A.C.White, R.A.Dyer & B.Sloane. In: D Raimondo, L von Staden, W Foden, JE Victor, NA Helme, RC Turner, DA Kamundi, PA Manyama (eds). Red List of South African plants 2009. Strelitzia 25: 343. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria.

 

Victor JE, Winter PJD, Siebert SJ. 2009. Plectranthus venteri Van Jaarsv. & Hankey. In: D Raimondo, L von Staden, W Foden, JE Victor, NA Helme, RC Turner, DA Kamundi, PA Manyama (eds). Red List of South African plants 2009. Strelitzia 25: 398. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria.

 

Siebert SJ, Zobolo AM & Dowe JL. 2010. Livistona chinensis, a first record of a naturalised palm in South Africa. Bothalia 40(1): 55-57.

 

Siebert F, Eckhardt HC, Siebert SJ. 2010. The vegetation and floristics of the Letaba exclosures, Kruger National Park, South Africa. Koedoe 52(1): 1-12.

 

 

Publications 2009

 

Van der Linden JP, Siebert F, Siebert SJ & Bredenkamp GJ. 2009. Characterisation of the woody assemblages of Zululand coastal thornveld along the Nseleni river. Koedoe 50(1):113-125.

 

Siebert F, Holger E. 2009. The vegetation and floristics of the Nkhuhlu exclosures, Kruger national park. Koedoe 50(1):126-144

 

Edge DA, Cilliers SS & Terblanche RF. 2008. Vegetation associated with the occurence of the Brenton blue butterfly. South African Journal of Science 104:1

 

Götze AR, Cilliers SS, Bezuidenhout H, Kellner K. 2009. Analysis of the vegetation of Sandstone ridges (IB land type) of the North-eastern parts of the Mapungubwe National Park, Limpopo province, South Africa. Koedoe 50(1):72-81.

 

Cilliers SS, Williams NSG, Barnard FJ. 2008. Landscape Ecology 23:1243-1256

 

Izidine SA, Siebert SJ, Van Wyk AE, Zobolo AM. 2008. Taboo and political authority in conservation policy: a case study of the Licuàti forest in Maputaland, Mozambique. JSRNC 2.3:373-390

 

Dallas H, Dickens C, Hill L, Kleynhans N, Louw D, Taylor J, Thirion C. 2008. National Aquatic Ecosystem Health Monitoring Programme: River Health Program implementation manual. Report no N/0000/00/REQ/0308. ISBN 978 0 621 383343 0

 

Martin F. Smit , Philippus D. R. van Heerden, Jakobus J. Pienaar , Ludwig Weissflog, Reto J. Strasser, Gert H. J. Krüger (2009) Effect of trifluoroacetate, a persistent degradation product of fluorinated hydrocarbons, on Phaseolus vulgaris and Zea mays accepted in Plant Physiology and Biochemistry (In Press).

 

IZIDINE SA, SIEBERT SJ, VAN WYK AE & ZOBOLO AM. 2008. Threats to Ronga custodianship of a sacred grove in southern Mozambique. African Journal of Indigenous Knowledge Systems 7(2): 218-238.

 

BEZUIDENHOUT,J.; DU PLESSIS,S.; VAN GINKEL C.E. and VAN RENSBURG, L. Applicability of ANN models as a possible early warning tool for algal bloom prediction. Proceedings Environmetal Science and Technology. Volume1, pp 418-434.

 

A Venter, S du Plessis, PDR van Heerden, AJ Strauss and J Bezuidenhout. 2009. Photosynthetic differences between Microcystis aeruginosa and Oscillatoria simplicissima in relation to species succession in the Vaal River, South Africa. African Journal of Aquatic Science 34: 159-168.

 

Siebert S, Vosa C, Van Wyk AE en Muller H (2008) Prototulbaghia (Alliaceae) a new monotypic genus from Sekhukhuneland, South Africa. Herbertia 62: 76-84.

 

Emberson, L.D., Büker, P., Enghardt, M. van Tienhoven, A.M., Agrawal, M., Zunckel, M., Hicks, K., Pleijel, H., Oanh, N.T., Perera, G.A.D., Krüger, G.H.J., Smit, P.R. 2009. The RAPIDC Crops Project: Assessing ozone (O3) impacts to crops in parts of Asia and southern Africa. In: Air pollution: Health and Environmental Impacts. CRC Press-Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. (In press).

 

Siebert SJ. 2009. Livistona chinensis, a semi-naturalized palm of swap forest in subtropical South Africa. Palms 53(4) 193-196

 

 

Publications 2008

 

Conradie KR, Du Plessis, S. & Venter, A. 2008. Re-identification of ‘Oscillatoria simplicissima’ isolated from the Vaal River, South Africa, as Planktothrix pseudoagardhii. South African Journal of Botany, 74:101-110.

 

Swanepoel, A., Du Preez, H., Schoeman, C., Janse van Vuuren, S. & Sundram, A.  (2008). Condensed laboratory methods for monitoring phytoplankton, including Cyanobacteria, in South African freshwaters.  WRC Commission Report TT323/08.  Water Research Commission, Pretoria, South Africa.

 

 Prins, A., Van Heerden, P.D.R., Olmos, E., Kunert, K.J. & Foyer, C.H. 2008. Cysteine proteinase regulate chloroplast protein content and composition in tobacco leaves: a model for dynamic interactions with ribulose 1,5 biphosphate carboxylase/ oxygenase (Rubisco) vesicular bodies. Journal of Experimental Botany 59(7):1935-1950.

 

Janse van Vuuren, S. & Kriel, GP. 2008. Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii, a toxic invasive cyanobacterium in South African fresh waters. African Journal of Aquatic Science 33(1): 17–26.

 

Retief E, Siebert, SJ & Van Wyk AE. 2008. A new species of Euclea (Ebenaceae) from ultramafic soils in Sekhukhuneland, South Africa, with notes on its ecology. Bothalia 38,1:31-37.

 

Jordaan, A. (in press) Ultrastructure and histochemistry of seeds of Colophospermum mopane during imbibition. South African Journal of Botany.

 

Van Heerden, PDR., Kiddle, G., Pellney, T.K., Mokwala, P.W., Jordaan, A., Strauss, A.J., De Beer, M., Schluter, U., Kunert, K.J. & Foyer, C.H. 2008. Roles for the regulation of respiration and the oxygen diffusion barrier in soybean in the protection of symbiotic nitrogen fixation from chilling –induced inhibition and shoots from premature senescence. Plant Physiology 148:1-13.

 

CILLIERS, S.S., BOUWMAN, H. & DREWES, J.E. 2008. Comparative research in developing countries. In: McDonnell, M.J., Breuste, J. & Hahs, A.K. (eds.) Ecology of Cities and Towns: A Comparative Approach. Cambridge University Press.pp. 195-233.

 

CILLIERS, S.S., WILLIAMS, N.S.G & BARNARD F.J. 2008. Patterns of exotic plant invasions in fragmented urban and rural grasslands across continents. Landscape Ecology in press.

 

 

 

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