43^rd Annual Research Symposium on the Management of Biological Invasions

My first time to attend the “Weeds Workshop”, and this one is a special one to gather information together for the Status Report on invasive species in South Africa being compiled by the CIB and SANBI. The meeting took place at Goudini Spa - a great place to keep warm and wet on a cold night.

The talks presented will be published as papers in a special issue of Bothalia.

Measey, J., Davies, S., Vimercati, G., Rebelo, A., Schmidt, W. 2016 Invasive amphibians of southern Africa. 43rd Annual Research Symposium on the Management of Biological Invasions, Worcester, South Africa, May 2016

Nunes AL, TA Zengeya, J Measey, OLF Weyl 2016. Freshwater crayfish invasions in South Africa. 43rd Annual Research Symposium on the Management of Biological Invasions, Worcester, South Africa, May 2016

We'd like to welcome our new lab member: 

Marike Louw, flies the new drone. Special shout out to Debra Stark on her 'flying' visit from UQ in Oz.

Mac & Ana in the top 5

Congratulations to Mac & Ana who have their articles in the top 5 for contributions from Stellenbosch University to The Conversation - Africa: and it only seems like a few weeks ago they were published!

Congratulations too to The Conversation - a stunning effort in your first year.

Read Mac's article here

Read Ana's article here

Gio & John give talks at the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences during a week long meeting on mathematics in invasion biology and disease.

Gio in the dark talking about his toad Individual Based Model

John explains what's cool about aSECR

Ana's crayfish make a splash...

There are no freshwater crayfish indigenous to South Africa, but failed aquaculture schemes have resulted in the escape of crayfish into several catchments in South Africa's northeastern provinces. Now some of these have been introduced to Zambia and are threatening the Okavango Delta. Read more about this in an article recently published in The Conversation