Below is a list of the transdisciplinary (SI, IBSS & DoE) journal articles published by CMR members during 2023:


Adams JB, Taljaard S, Van Niekerk L. 2023. Water releases from dams improve ecological health and societal benefits in downstream estuaries. Estuaries and Coasts. Estuaries and Coasts 46: 2244–2258.


Adams LA, Karenyi N, Parker D, Sink K. 2023. Patterns and potential drivers of mesophotic communities of the warm-temperate Amathole shelf of South Africa. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 295: 108562.


Adeniran AA, Mngomezulu SK, Mbanga S, Shakantu W. 2023. The study of waste composition in Joe Slovo Township, Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality, South Africa. Waste Technology 11(1): 33-41.


Agbakoba VC, Webb N, Jegede E, Phillips R, Hlangothi SP, John MJ. 2023. Mechanical Recycling of Waste PLA Generated From 3D Printing Activities: Filament Production and Thermomechanical Analysis. Macromolecular Materials and Engineering 2300276.


Amiar D, Leandro C, Courtial C, Pétillon J. 2023. A comparison of two widely-used methods for estimating taxonomic and functional diversities of epigeal arthropods in some temperate grasslands. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 171: 867-877.


Amone-Mabuto M, Mubai M, Bandeira S, Shalli MS, Adams JB, Lugendo BR, Hollander J. 2023. Coastal community’s perceptions on the role of seagrass ecosystems for coastal protection and implications for management. Ocean & Coastal Management 244:106811.


Bailey G, Cawthra HC. 2023. The significance of sea-level change and ancient submerged landscapes in human dispersal: A geoarchaeological perspective. Oceanologia 65(1): 50-70.


Ball IA, Marneweck DG, Elliot NB, Gopalaswamy AM, Fritz H, Venter JA. 2023. Considerations on effort, precision and accuracy for long‐term monitoring of African lions (Panthera leo), when using Bayesian spatial explicit capture–recapture models, in fenced protected areas. Ecology and Evolution 13(7): e10291.


Banda B, Pistorius P, Collet J, Corbeau A, Weimerskirch H, Pajot A, Keys DZ, Orgeret F. 2023. Gauging the threat: exposure and attraction of sooty albatrosses and white-chinned petrels to fisheries activities in the Southern Indian Ocean. ICES Journal of Marine Science 81(1): 75–85.


Bate GC, Lemley DA, Nunes M, Adams JB. 2023. The water quality status of estuarine micro-system types along the coast of KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa. Water SA 49:260-272.


Bayode AA, Olisah C, Emmanuel SS, Adesina MO, Koko DT. 2023. Sequestration of steroidal estrogen in aqueous samples using an adsorption mechanism: a systemic scientometric review. RSC advances 13(33): 22675-22697.


Bazirake JB, Hamukuaya H, Chauke T, Mngadi A, De Raedt A. 2023. Beckoning a new post-Covid higher education engagement agenda: Lessons from Nelson Mandela University Covid-19 responses. Perspectives in Education 41(1): 3-17.


Bernard A, Moolman L, de Morney MA, Guerbois C, Venter JA, Fritz H. 2023. Height-related detection bias in camera trap surveys: Insights for combining data sets. KOEDOE-African Protected Area Conservation and Science 65(1): 1734.


Biggs R, Reyers B, Blanchard R, Clements H, Cockburn J, Cumming GS, Cundill G, de Vos A, Dziba L, Esler KJ, Fabricius C. 2023. The Southern African Program on Ecosystem Change and Society: an emergent community of practice. Ecosystems and People 19(1): 2150317.


Bird MS, Bilton DT,  Mlambo MC,  Perissinotto R. 2023.  Water beetles (Coleoptera) associated with Afrotemperate Forest patches in the Garden Route National Park, South Africa. ZooKeys 1182: 237.


Bizani M, Bornman TG, Campbell EE, Perissinotto R, Deyzel SHP. 2023. Mesozooplankton community responses to a large-scale harmful algal bloom induced by the non-indigenous dinoflagellate Lingulodinium polyedra. Science of The Total Environment 860: 161030.


Blanluet A, Game ET, Dunn DC, Everett JD, Lombard AT, Richardson AJ. 2023. Evaluating ecological benefits of oceanic protected areas. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 39(2):175-187.


Boinot S, Alignier A, Pétillon J, Ridel A, Aviron S. 2023. Hedgerows are more multifunctional in preserved bocage landscapes. Ecological Indicators 154: 110689.


Bornman E, Adams JB, Strydom NA. 2023. Estuarine zooplankton communities shift but are not depleted during recurrent harmful algal blooms of Heterosigma akashiwo in the Sundays Estuary, South Africa. Marine Ecology Progress Series 723: 19-36.


Boswell R. 2023. Sensory Ecofeminism for Heritage, Tourism, and Sustainability in Mauritius. Sustainability 15(13): 10426.


Boswell R. 2023. Prioritizing the culture metric for transformative ocean management in South Africa. Ecosystems and People 19(1): 2260492.


Boswell R. 2023. Legislating marine intangible cultural heritage in South Africa. Law, Democracy and Development 27: 491-515.


Botha JA, Trueman CN, Kirkman SP, Arnould JPY, Lombard AT, Connan M, Hofmeyr GJ, Seakamela SM, Pistorius PA. 2023. Geographical, temporal and individual-based differences in the trophic ecology of female Cape fur seals. Ecology & Evolution 13: e9790.


Bowlby HD, Dicken ML, Towner AV, Waries S, Rogers T, Kock A. 2023. Decline or shifting distribution? A first regional trend assessment for white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) in South Africa. Ecological Indicators 154: 110720.


Braun K, Cowling RM, Bar‐Matthews M, Matthews A, Ayalon A, Zilberman T, Difford M, Edwards RL, Li X, Marean CW. 2023. Climatic stability recorded in speleothems may contribute to higher biodiversity in the Cape Floristic Region. Journal of Biogeography 50(6): 1077-89.


Cabon V, Pincebourde S, Colinet H, Dubreuil V, Georges R, Launoy M, Pétillon J, Quénol H, Bergerot B. 2023. Preferred temperature in the warmth of cities: body size, sex and development stage matter more than urban climate in a ground-dwelling spider. Journal of Thermal Biology 117: 103706. 


Carvalho SL, Campbell EE. 2023. Biodiversity-based evaluation of thicket thresholds at different levels of elephant impact–Towards assessment and monitoring of thicket vegetation. Ecological Informatics 77: 102197.


Carvalho SL, Campbell EE. 2023. Using elephant impacts to gauge the biodiversity integrity of Valley Thicket in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. South African Journal of Botany 153: 53-61.


Carvalho SL, Campbell EE. 2023. Using piospheres to identify, assess and monitor gradients of elephant impact on thicket. African Journal of Ecology 61(3): 573-82.


Celliers L, Rölfer L, Rivers N, Rosendo S, Fernandes M, Snow B, Costa MM. 2023. Stratification of stakeholders for participation in the governance of coastal social-ecological systems. Ambio 52: 1418–1430. 


Clark BL, Carneiro APB, Pearmain EJ, Pistorius PA.  2023. Global assessment of marine plastic exposure risk for oceanic birds. Nature Communications 14: 3665.


Come J, Peer N, Nhamussua JL, Miranda NA, Macamo CC, Cabral AS, Madivadua H, Zacarias D, Narciso J, Snow B. 2023. A socio-ecological survey in Inhambane Bay mangrove ecosystems: Biodiversity, livelihoods, and conservation. Ocean & Coastal Management 244: 106813.


Conradie J, Ohoro CR, Amaku JF, Oyedotun KO, Maxakato NW, Akpomie KG, Okeke ES, Olisah C, Malloum A, Adegoke KA, Ighalo JO. 2023. Review of the structure of tris (β-diketonato) manganese complexes. Journal of Molecular Structure 1293: 136251.


Courtial C, Privet K, Aubriot X, Picard L, Pétillon J. 2023. Description of a new species of Hypaeus (Araneae: Salticidae: Salticinae: Amycini) based on integrative taxonomy. Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment 58: 439-447.


Couthouis E. Aviron S., Pétillon J. & Alignier A. 2023. Ecosystem multifunctionality is promoted by organic farming and hedgerows at the local scale but not at the landscape scale. Journal of Applied Ecology, 60: 17-28.


Cowling RM, Cawthra HC, Privett SDJ, Grobler AB. 2023. The vegetation of Holocene coastal dunes of the Cape south coast, South Africa. PeerJ 16427.


Currie JC, Harris LR, Atkinson LJ, Fairweather TP, Sink KJ. 2023. Mapping fine-scale demersal trawl effort for application in ecosystem assessment and spatial planning. African Journal of Marine Science 45: 165-179.


Dahirel M, Wullschleger M, Berry T, Croci S, Pétillon J. 2023. Dispersal syndrome and landscape fragmentation in the salt-marsh specialist spider Erigone longipalpis. Current Zoology 69: 21-31.


de Oliveira da Rocha Franco A, Ashworth MP, Du Preez D, Campbell E, Maggioni R, Manning SR, Odebrecht C. 2023. Surf-diatoms from sandy beaches on the Eastern Coast of South America (Brazil): the identification of Anaulus Ehrenberg and Asterionellopsis Round. Botanica Marina 66(5):405-21.


De Vos M, Vichi M, Rautenbach C. A wave-driven surface circulation feature in Table Bay. 2023. Journal of Southern Hemisphere Earth Systems Science 73(1): 60-76.


Dodd C, Rishworth GM. Coastal urban reliance on groundwater during drought cycles: Opportunities, threats and state of knowledge. Cambridge Prisms: Coastal Futures 1: 1-13.


Dugenne M, Corrales-Ugalde M, Luo J, Kiko R, O'Brien T, Irisson JO, Lombard F, Stemmann L, Stock C, Anderson CR, Babin M. 2023. First release of the Pelagic Size Structure database: Global datasets of marine size spectra obtained from plankton imaging devices. Earth System Science Data Discussions 2023: 1-41.


Edworthy C, Steyn P-P, James NC. 2023. The role of macroalgal habitats as ocean acidification refugia within coastal seascapes. Cambridge Prisms Coastal Futures 1: e22.


Etusim PE, Ihemanma CA, Victor CN, Ogbuka CE, Arunsi UO, Melariri PE. 2023. Urinalysis, Malaria Random Diagnostic Methods and Clinical Symptoms in the Prediction of Malaria Parasitaemia among Pregnant Women in Umuahia and Ikwuano, Abia State, Nigeria. Nigerian Journal of Parasitology 44(2).


Faller F, Burton S, Kaniki A, Leitch A, Ntshoe I. 2023. Achieving doctorateness: is south african higher education succeeding with graduate attributes?. South African Journal of Higher Education 37(2): 93-108. A Leitch


Faure-Beaulieu N, Lombard AT, Olbers JM, Goodall V, Da Silva C, Daly R, Jordaan G, Kerwath SE, Kock A, Mann BM, Murray T. Albano P, Cliff G, Dos Santos NA, van der Merwe AE, Gennari E, Hammerschlag N, Watson R, Andreotti S, Bernard ATF, Cowley PD, De Vos L, Drobniewska N, Elston C, Fallows C, Rogers TD, Smith G, Van Staden M, De Villiers P, Paulet TG, Harris JM. 2023. A systematic conservation plan to identify critical areas for improved chondrichthyan protection in South Africa. Biological Conservation 284: 110163.


Feist F, Terranova F, Petersen GS, Tourtigues E, Friard O, Gamba M, Ludynia K, Gridley T, Pichegru L, Mathevon N. 2023. Effect of Environmental Variables on African Penguin Vocal Activity: Implications for Acoustic Censusing.  Biology 12: 1191.


Feist F, Terranova F, Petersen GS, Tourtigues E, Friard O, Gamba M, Ludynia K, Gridley T, Pichegru L, Mathevon N, Reby D, Favaro L. 2023. Acoustic Censusing of African Penguins based on Vocal Activity. Biodiversity & Conservation 12(9): 119.


Fuentes MMPB, Santos AJB, Abreu‐Grobois A, Briseño‐Dueñas R, Al‐Khayat J, Hamza S, Saliba S, Anderson D, Rusenko KW, Mitchell NJ, Gammon M. et al. 2023. Adaptation of sea turtles to climate warming: Will phenological responses be sufficient to counteract changes in reproductive output?. Global Change Biology 30(1): 16991.


Gallo JA, Lombard AT, Cowling RM, Greene R, Davis FW. 2023. Meeting Human and Biodiversity Needs for 30×30 and Beyond with an Iterative Land Allocation Framework and Tool. Land 12: 254.


Gallo JA, Lombard AT, Cowling RM. 2023. Conservation Planning for Action: End-User Engagement in the development and Dual-Centric Weighting of a Spatial Decision Support System. Land 12: 67.


Galuszynski NC, Forbes RE, Rishworth GM, Potts AJ. 2023. Restoring South African subtropical succulent thicket using Portulacaria afra: exploring the rooting window hypothesis. PeerJ 11: e15538.


Giesler JK, Lemley DA, Adams JB, Moorthi SD. 2023. Interactive effects of salinity, temperature and food web configuration on performance and harmfulness of the raphidophyte Heterosigma akashiwo. Frontiers in Marine Science 10: 1244639.


Gifford T, Lombard AT, Snow B, Goodall V, Pichegru L. 2023. Local purse-seine fishers’ economic losses owing to endangered seabird conservation measures–perceptions and reality. Journal of Coastal Conservation 27(5): 41.  


Glaser M, Selim SA, De la Cruz-Modino R, van Putten I, Canela SA, Paytan A, Snow B. 2023. Analysis across case-based global sustainability projects: An emerging challenge for ocean conflict research in the Anthropocene. Maritime Studies 22(4): 48. 


Grobler BA, Franklin J, Marean CW, Gravel-Miguel C, Cowling RM. 2023. The importance of C3 and C4 grasses and CAM shrubs in the Greater Cape Floristic Region under contemporary and Last Glacial Maximum climates. Quaternary Science Reviews 318: 108294.


Grundlingh PL, Rishworth GM, Strydom NA. 2023. Could extremophilia be a life history strategy in late-stage larvae of Sparodon durbanensis (Family Sparidae)? Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 294: 108505.


Gu X, Qiao P, Krauss KW, Lovelock CE, Adams JB, Chapman SK, Jennerjahn TC, Lin Q, Chen L. 2023. Changes in Mangrove Blue Carbon under Elevated Atmospheric CO2. Ecosystem Health and Sustainability 9: 33.


Hancke L, Roberts MJ, Smeed D, Jebri F. 2023. Cold ridge formation mechanisms on the Agulhas Bank (South Africa) as revealed by satellite-tracked drifters. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography 208: 105245.


Hancke L, Smeed D, Roberts M, Russo C, Rayner D, Jebri F. 2023. Atmospheric and advective forcing of upwelling on South Africa's central Agulhas Bank. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography 209: 105293.


Harris LR, Holness SD. 2023. A practical approach to setting heuristic marine biodiversity targets for systematic conservation planning. Biological Conservation 285: 110218.


Helm CW, Bamford MK, Carr AS, Cawthra HC, De Vynck JC, Dixon MG, Quick LJ, Steer W. 2023. Coprolites in Cemented Pleistocene Deposits on the Cape South Coast of South Africa. Journal of Coastal Research 39: 221-233.


Helm CW, Carr AS, Cawthra HC, De Vynck JC, Dixon MG, Gräbe P-J, Thesen GHH, Venter J. 2023. Tracking the extinct giant Cape zebra (Equus capensis) on the Cape south coast of South Africa. Quaternary Research 114: 178-190.


Helm CW, Carr AS, Cawthra HC, de Vynck JC, Dixon MG, Lockley MG, Stear W, Venter JA. 2023. Large Pleistocene tortoise tracks on the Cape south coast of South Africa. Quaternary Research 112: 93-110.


Helm CW, Carr AS, Lockley MG, Cawthra HC, De Vynck JC, Dixon M. 2023.  Dating the Pleistocene hominin ichnosites on South Africa’s Cape south coast. Ichnos 30(1): 49-68.


Helm CW, Cawthra HC, de Vynck J et al. 2023. Possible shod-hominin tracks on South Africa’s Cape coast. Ichnos 30(2): 79-97


Helm CW, Cawthra HC. 2023. Pleistocene fossil snake traces on South Africa’s Cape south coast. Ichnos 30(2): 98-114.


Helm CW, Lockley MG, Carr AS, Cawthra HC, De Vynck JC, Dixon MG, Gräbe P-J, Rust R. 2023. New Pleistocene avian ichnosites on South Africa’s Cape south coast. Ostrich 94(2): 100-116.


Helm CW, Stear W, Cawthra HC, De Vynck JC, Rust R. 2023. Ichnology in rock art science: examples from southern Africa. Rock Art Research 40(1): 19-31.


Holbach HM, Bousquet O, Bucci L, Chang P, Cione J, Ditchek S, Doyle J, Duvel JP, Elston J, Goni G, Hon KK. 2023. Recent Advancements in Aircraft and In Situ Observations of Tropical Cyclones. Tropical Cyclone Research and Review 12(2): 81-99.


Holmes M, Campbell EE, de Wit M, Taylor JC. 2023. Analysis of freshwater diatom deformities in the Karoo, South Africa. African Journal of Aquatic Science 48(4): 374-92.


Holmes M, Campbell EE, de Wit M, Taylor JC. 2023. Can diatoms be used as a biomonitoring tool for surface and groundwater? Towards a baseline for Karoo water. South African Journal of Botany 161: 211-21.


Huggett JA, Noyon M, Carstensen J, Walker DR. 2023. Patterns in the plankton–spatial distribution and long-term variability of copepods on the Agulhas Bank. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography 208: 105265.


Hurst A, Manona L. 2023. The Complex Ethical Concept of “Otherness” as a Heuristic for Thinking through Cultural Adoption. Critical Arts 37(1): 54-71.


Hurst A. 2023. Self-Transcendence and the Pursuit of Happiness. Philosophies 8(5): 98.


Ighalo JO, Conradie J, Ohoro CR, Amaku JF, Oyedotun KO, Maxakato NW, Akpomie KG, Okeke ES, Olisah C, Malloum A, Adegoke KA. 2023. Biochar from coconut residues: an overview of production, properties, and applications. Industrial Crops and Products 204: 117300.


Ivanov V, Blagoev G, Danflous S, Gajdoš P, Høye TT, Lee KM, Marusik Y, Mielec CL, Muster C, Pétillon J, Spelda J, Mutanen M. 2023. Across mountains and ocean: species delimitation and historical connectivity in Holarctic and Arctic-Alpine wolf spiders (Lycosidae, Pardosa). Insect Systematics and Diversity 7: 1-14.


Jacob C, Diederichsen SD, Fullbrook L, Lombard AT, Rees SE, Rivers N, Snow B, Strand M, Zuercher R, Niner HJ. 2023. A two way process–Social capacity as a driver and outcome of equitable marine spatial planning. Marine Policy 149: 105507.


James NC, Childs AR, Pattrick P, Lemley DA, James NC. 2023. Response of demersal fishes to low dissolved oxygen events in two eutrophic estuaries. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 293: 108514.


Karomo A, Plön S, Vrancken P. 2023. Get with the beat! the regulation of underwater noise in South Africa. Obiter 44(2): 383-411.


Keys DZ, Pistorius PA, Tremblay Y, Thiebault A. 2023. Both wind and flying with conspecifics influence the flight dynamics of a seabird. Marine Ecological Progress Series 723: 135-149.


Kiko R, Picheral M, Antoine D, Babin M, Berline L, Biard T, Boss E, Brandt P, Carlotti F, Christiansen S, Coppola L. 2023. A global marine particle size distribution dataset obtained with the Underwater Vision Profiler 5. Earth System Science Data Discussions 2022: 1-37.


Kirkman SP, Kowalski P, Mann BQ, Branch GM, van der Bank MG, Sink KJ, Fielding P, Mann-Lang JB, Pfaff MC, Kotsedi D, Adams R. 2023. The road towards effective governance and management of marine protected areas in South Africa: evolving policies, paradigms and processes. African Journal of Marine Science 45(2): 63-86.


Kisten Y, Strydom NA. 2023. Olfactory cueing responses in the early stages of a marine estuarine-dependent fish species in South Africa. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 284: 108287.


Klein JD, Maduna SN, Dicken ML, da Silva C, Soekoe M, McCord ME, Potts WM, Hagen SB, Bester‐van der Merwe AE. 2023. Local adaptation with gene flow in a highly dispersive shark. Evolutionary Applications 17(1): e13628.


La Bianca G, Rees S, Attrill MJ, Lombard AT, McQuaid KA, Niner HJ, van Rein H, Sink KJ, Howell KL. 2023. A standardised ecosystem services framework for the deep sea. Frontiers in Marine Science 10:1176230.


Lacomme L, Guerbois C, Fritz H, Ganswindt A, Rey B. 2023. Validation of a field-friendly faeces drying and storage method for quantifying faecal glucocorticoid metabolites in African elephants (Loxodonta africana) opens up new perspectives for conservationists. Conservation Physiology 11(1): coad053.


Laforge A, Gaspar P, Barat A, Boyer JT, Candela T, Bourjea J, Ciccione S, Dalleau M, Ballorain K, Monsinjon JR, Bousquet O. 2023. Uncovering loggerhead (Caretta caretta) navigation strategy in the open ocean through the consideration of their diving behaviour. Journal of The Royal Society Interface 20(209): 20230383.


Lalagüe H, Pétillon J. 2023. Light attraction hypothesis in Arachnids: a new test in neotropical forests. Journal of Arachnology 51: 111-113.


Lalagüe H, Vedel V, Pétillon J. 2023. Small scale changes in spider diversity and composition between two close elevations in a Neotropical Forest. Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment 1-10.


Lamont BB, He T, Cowling RM. 2023. Fossil pollen resolves origin of the South African Proteaceae as transcontinental not transoceanic. Annals of botany 20: mcad055.


Lemley DA, Human LRD, Rishworth GM, Whitfield E, Adams JB. 2023. Managing the seemingly unmanageable: Water quality and phytoplankton dynamics in a heavily urbanised low-inflow estuary. Estuaries and Coasts 46: 2007-2022.


Lett C, Malauene B, Hoareau T, Kaplan DM, Porri F. 2023. Corridors and barriers to marine connectivity around southern Africa. Marine Ecology Progress Series MFCav6.


Lohmann R, Vrana B, Muir D, Smedes F, Sobotka EY, Bao L-J, Allan IJ, Astrahan P, Barra RO, Bidleman T, Dykyi E, Estoppey N, Fillmann G, Greenwood N, Helm PA, Jantunen L, Kaserzon S, Macías JV, Maruya KA, Molina F, Newman B, Prats RM, Tsapakis M, Tysklind M, van Drooge BL, Veal CJ, Wong CS. 2023. Passive-Sampler-derived PCB and OCP concentrations in the waters of the world-First results from the AQUA-GAPS/MONET Network. Environmental Science and Technology 57: 9342-9352.


Lombard AT, Clifford-Holmes J, Goodall V, Snow B, Truter H, Vrancken P, Jones PJ, Cochrane K, Flannery W, Hicks C, Gipperth L. 2023. Principles for transformative ocean governance. Nature Sustainability 6: 1587–1599. 


Magoqwana B, Maseko P. 2023. On maternal legacies of knowledge, ukwambathisa, and rethinking of the sociology of Eastern Cape, South Africa. Social Dynamics 49(3): 393-404.


Malloum A, Adegoke KA, Ighalo JO, Conradie J, Ohoro CR, Amaku JF, Oyedotun KO, Maxakato NW, Akpomie KG, Okeke ES, Olisah C. 2023. Computational Methods for Adsorption Study in Wastewater Treatment. Journal of Molecular Liquids 390: 123008.


Malongweni NV, Rocke E, Roberts MJ, Giering SL. 2023. Spatial distribution of vertical carbon fluxes on the Agulhas Bank and its possible implication for the benthic nepheloid layer. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography 212: 105334.


Mammola S, Viel V, Amiar D, Mani A, Hervé C, Heard SB, Fontaneto D, Pétillon J. 2023. Taxonomic practice, creativity, and fashion: What's in a spider name? Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 198: 494–508.


Maxwell TL, Rovai AS, Adame MF, Adams JB, Álvarez-Rogel J, Austin WE, Beasy K. 2023. Global dataset of soil organic carbon in tidal marshes. Scientific data 10: 797.


Mazué F, Guerbois C, Fritz H, Rebout N, Petit O. 2023. Less bins, less baboons: reducing access to anthropogenic food effectively decreases the urban foraging behavior of a troop of chacma baboons (Papio hamadryas ursinus) in a peri-urban area. Primates 64(1): 91-103.


McLachlan A, Defeo O. 2023. Where will the children play? A personal perspective on sandy beaches. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 280: 108186.


McQuaid K, Bridges AEH, Howell KL, Gandra TBR, de Souza V, Currie JC, Hogg OT, Pearman TRR, Bell JB, Atkinson LJ, Baum D, Bonetti J, Carranza A, Defeo O, Furey T, Gasalla MA, Golding N, Hampton SL, Horta S, Jones DOB, Lombard AT, Manca E, Marin Y, Martin S, Mortensen P, Passdore C, Piechaud N, Sink KJ, Yool A. 2023. Broad-scale benthic habitat classification of the South Atlantic. Progress in Oceanography 103016.


Melariri H, Els T, Oyedele O, Suttle TK, Bermosky KT, De Freitas A, Murtaza A, Moosajee M, Melariri PE. 2023. Prevalence of locoregional recurrence and survival post-treatment of head and neck cancers in Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis. EClinicalMedicine 59.


Meynard CN, Piou C, Kaplan DM. 2023. A theoretical framework for upscaling species distribution models. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 14(11): 2888-2899.


Mhaka S, Ncwadi R, Phiri A. 2023. Industry-Level Evidence of J-Curve Effects in the sacu Region. Managing Global Transitions 21(1).


Mills AJ, Duker R, Lechmere-Oertel RG, van Mazijk R, Potts AJ. 2023. Science is the fuel required for lifting ecosystem restoration into the orbit of hundreds of millions of hectares. Frontiers in Conservation Science 4:1283262.


Mmachaka T, Nel MA, Snow B, Adams JB. 2023. Reduction in pollution load to an urban estuary using a sustainable drainage system treatment train. Marine Pollution Bulletin 194: 115378.  


Mokumo MF, Adams JB, von Der Heyden S. 2023. Investigating transplantation as a mechanism for seagrass restoration in South Africa. Restoration Ecology 32:e13941.


Monsinjon JR, Laforge A, Gaspar P, Barat A, Bousquet O, Ciccione S, Jean C, Ballorain K, Dalleau M, Coelho R, Bonhommeau S. 2023. Loggerhead turtle oceanic-neritic habitat shift reveals key foraging areas in the Western Indian Ocean. Frontiers in Marine Science 10:1204664.


Morgera E, Lennan M, Kulovesi K, La Bianca G, Niner HJ, Harrould-Kolieb E, Piva ER, Hills J, Ntona M, Lancaster AMSN, Strand M, Snow B, Erwin K, Shannon L, Rees S, Hyder K, Engelhard G and Howell K. 2023. Ocean-based Climate Action and Human Rights Implications under the International Climate Change Regime. The International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law 1: 1-36.  


Morgera E, McQuaid K, La Bianca G, Niner H, Shannon L, Strand M, Rees S, Howell K, Snow B, Lancaster AMS, Sauer W. 2023. Addressing the ocean-climate nexus in the BBNJ agreement: strategic environmental assessments, human rights and equity in ocean science. The International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law 38(3): 447-479.


Mpinga MS,  Kisten Y,  Bornman E,  Perissinotto R, Strydom NA. 2023. Ichthyofaunal Community of the Anthropogenically Altered Seekoei Estuary in Warm Temperate, South Africa. Estuaries and Coasts 46: 2159–2174.


Muller C, Lett C, Porri F, Pattrick P, Bailey D, Denis H, Barrier N, Potts W, Kaplan DM. 2023. Coastal connectivity of an abundant inshore fish species: model-data comparison along the southern coast of South Africa. Marine Ecology Progress Series MFCav4.


Mwaala DN, Wilhelm MR, Kirkman SP, Roux JP. 2023. Geographical and seasonal patterns in the diet of Cape fur seals Arctocephalus pusillus pusillus in Namibia, based on extensive scat analyses. African Journal of Marine Science 45(4): 285-294.


Mxhego Z, Pottas D. 2023. Do Baby Monitors Serve the Needs of Profoundly Deaf Parents With Infants?. The Hearing Journal 76(12): 24-5.


Nashima FP, Strydom NA, Lamberth SJ. 2023. Assessing the application of the revised Remane Model to fish species in a fluvially dominated cool-temperate southern African coastal system. Scientific Reports 13(1): 7465.


Ndhlovu A, Human LRD, Adams JB, Rishworth GM, Olisah C, Bornman TG. 2023. Ecological risk assessment of metal pollutants in two agriculturally impacted estuaries. Marine Pollution Bulletin 195: 115572.


Neboh ND, Nkeleme EI, Shakantu W. 2023. Skills for the post-COVID era of supply chain management education in South Africa: A review. Journal of Contemporary Management 20(1): 136-52.


Nel M, Adams JB, Human LRD, Nunes M, Van Niekerk L, Lemley DA. 2023.  Ineffective artificial mouth breaching practices and altered hydrology confound eutrophic symptoms in a temporarily closed estuary. Marine and Freshwater Research. Marine and Freshwater Research 74(18): 1519–1535.


Nel MA, Adams JB, Rubidge G, Human LR. 2023. Heavy metal compartmentalisation in salt marsh and seagrass of the urbanised Swartkops estuary, South Africa. Marine Pollution Bulletin 192: 115007.


Nodo P, Childs AR, Pattrick P, James NC. 2023. The nursery function of shallow nearshore and estuarine benthic habitats for demersal fishes. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 280: 108168.


Nourani E, Safi K, de Grissac S, Anderson DJ, Cole NC, Fell A, Grémillet D, Lerma M, McKee JL, Pichegru L, Provost P, Rattenborg NC, Ryan PG, Santos CD, Schoombie S, Tatayah V, Weimerskirch H, Wikelski M, Shepard ELC. 2023. Seabird morphology determines operational wind speeds, tolerable maxima, and responses to extremes. Current Biology 33(6): 1179-1184.


Okeke ES, Olisah C, Malloum A, Adegoke KA, Ighalo JO, Conradie J, Ohoro CR, Amaku JF, Oyedotun KO, Maxakato NW, Akpomie KG. 2023. Ecotoxicological impact of dinotefuran insecticide and its metabolites on non-targets in agroecosystem: Harnessing nanotechnology-and bio-based management strategies to reduce its impact on non-target ecosystems. Environmental Research 243: 117870.


Olisah C, Rubidge G, Human LR, Adams JB. 2023. Tissue distribution, dietary intake and human health risk assessment of organophosphate pesticides in common fish species from South African estuaries. Marine Pollution Bulletin 186: 114466.


Oosthuizen WC, Pistorius PA, Bester MN, Altwegg R, de Bruyn PJN. 2023. Reproductive phenology is a repeatable, heritable trait linked to the timing of other life-history events in a migratory marine predator. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 290: 20231170.


Ossai CJ, Iwegbue CM, Tesi GO, Olisah C, Egobueze FE, Nwajei GE, Martincigh BS. 2023. Spatial characteristics, sources and exposure risk of polychlorinated biphenyls in dusts and soils from an urban environment in the Niger Delta of Nigeria. Science of The Total Environment 883: 163513.


Peer N, Gouws G, Maliwa L, Barker N, Juby P, Perissinotto R.  2023. Description of a new montane freshwater crab (Arthropoda, Malacostraca, Decapoda, Potamonautidae) from the Eastern Cape, South Africa. ZooKeys 1160: 89.


Perissinotto R, Lo YFP, Pun SFH. 2023. New records of the Fluffy Tit butterfly, Hypolycaena amasa Hewitson, [1865] (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae: Theclinae), from Macau and Hong Kong. Oriental Insects 57(1): 25-35.


Perissinotto R, Lu YY. 2023.  Shining leaf chafers (Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae) and rhino beetles (Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae) of the Macau SAR, China. Oriental Insects 57(2): 671-706.


Perissinotto R. 2023. New taxa of Leucocelis Burmeister, 1842 from Namibia, and revision of L.(L.) adspersa sl (Fabricius, 1801)(Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae, Cetoniinae). Fragmenta entomologica 55(2): 195-214.


Perschke MJ, Harris LR, Sink KJ, Lombard AT. 2023. Using ecological infrastructure to comprehensively map ecosystem service demand, flow and capacity for spatial assessment and planning. Ecosystem Services 62: 101536.


Perschke MJ, Harris LR, Sink KJ, Lombard AT. 2023a. Ecological Infrastructure as a framework for mapping ecosystem services for place-based conservation and management. Journal for Nature Conservation 73: 126389.


Petersen RM, Nel JM, Strydom T, Riddell E, Coetsee C, February E. 2023. The use of stable isotopes to identify surface water–groundwater interaction in the Kruger National Park, South Africa. Water SA 49(2): 96-102.


Pétillon J, McKinley E, Alexander M, Adams JB, Angelini C, Balke T, Griffin JN, Bouma T, Hacker S, He Q, Hensel MJS, Ibáñez C, Macreadie PI, Martino S, Sharps E, Ballinger R, de Battisti D, Beaumont N, Burdon D, Daleo P, D’Alpaos A, Duggan-Edwards M, Garbutt A, Jenkins S, Ladd CJT, Lewis H, Mariotti G, McDermott O, Mills R, Möller I, Nolte S, Pagès JF, Silliman B, Zhang L, Skov MW. 2023. Top ten priorities for global saltmarsh restoration, conservation and ecosystem service research. Science of the Total Environment 898: 165544.


Phiri A, Tembo D. 2023. Ecological based environmental Kuznets curve for Africa: Evidence from the fishery sector at continental, regional and country-specific levels. Cogent Economics & Finance 11(1): 2225917.


Plön S, Norman S, Adam PA, Andrianarivelo N, Bachoo S, Braulik G, Collins T, Estrade V, Griffiths O, Inteca G, Khan N, Marinesque S, Mederic E, Mwang’ombe M, Olbers J, Ramoelintsalama L, Reeve-arnold K, Rocha D, Gullan AD, Saloma A, Vermeulen E, Vitry H, Wilkinson C, Dulau V. 2023. Spatio-temporal trends in cetacean strandings and response in the south-western Indian Ocean: 2000-2020. Journal of Cetacean Research and Management 24(1): 95-119.


Poole CJ, Skowno AL, Currie JC, Sink KJ, Daly B, von Staden L. 2023. Taking state of biodiversity reporting into the information age–a south African perspective. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 11: 1107956.


Procheş Ş, Watkeys MK, Ramsay LF, Cowling RM. 2023. Why we should be looking for longitudinal patterns in biodiversity. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 11:1032827.


Raw JL, Van der Stocken T, Carroll D, Harris LR, Rajkaran A, Van Niekerk L, Adams JB. 2023. Dispersal and coastal geomorphology limit potential for mangrove range expansion under climate change. Journal of Ecology 111: 139–155.


Raw JL, Van Niekerk L, Chauke O, Mbatha H, Riddin T, Adams JB. 2023. Blue carbon sinks in South Africa and the need for restoration to enhance carbon sequestration. Science of the Total Environment 859: 160142.


Rivers N, Strand M, Fernandes M, Metuge D, Lemahieu A, Nonyane CL, Benkenstein A, Snow B. 2023. Pathways to integrate Indigenous and local knowledge in ocean governance processes: Lessons from the Algoa Bay Project, South Africa. Frontiers in Marine Science 9: 1084674.  


Sanchez C, Bunbury N, Mortimer JA, A'Bear L, Betts M, von Brandis R, Burt AJ, Cooke L, van de Crommenacker J, Currie JC, Doak N, Fleischer-Dogley F, Mederic E, Mels B, Pistorius P, Richards H, Casale P. 2023. Growth rate and projected age at sexual maturity for immature hawksbill turtles and green turtles foraging in the remote marine protected area of Aldabra Atoll. Marine Biology 170: 49.


Santos Frazão C, Agardy T, Aheto D, Allison EH, Bennett NJ, Blythe JL, Calado H, Crowder LB, Day JC, de Vos A, Flannery W, Galparsoro I, Gissi E, Gjerde KM, Gobin JF, Green S, Isaacs M, Karuaihe ST, Lombard AT et al. 2023. Advancing interdisciplinary knowledge for ocean sustainability. Ocean Sustainability 2(1): 18.


Say-Sallaz E, Chamaillé-Jammes S, Périquet S, Loveridge AJ, Macdonald DW, Antonio A, Fritz H, Valeix M. 2023. Large carnivore dangerousness affects the reactive spatial response of prey. Animal Behaviour 202: 149-62.


Scholtz BM, Yakobi K. 2023. The Technology, Organization, and Environment Framework for Social Media Analytics in Government: The Cases of South Africa and Germany. The African Journal of Information Systems 15(4): 3.


Schoombie J, Schoombie S, Connan M, Jones CW, Risi M, Craig K, Smith L, Ryan PG, Shepard E. 2023. Wind‐induced collision mortality in grey‐headed albatrosses (Thalassarche chrysostoma) breeding on Marion Island. Marine Ecology Progress Series 723: 213-225.


Serite CP, Emani-Khoyi A, Ntshudisane OK, James NC, Jansen van Vuuren B, Bodill T, Cowley P, Teske PR. 2023. eDNA metabarcoding vs metagenomics: an assessment of dietary competition in two estuarine pipefishes. Frontiers in Marine Science 10:1116741.


Shabangu FW, Hofmeyr GG, Probert R, Connan M, Buhrmann CA, Gridley T. 2023. In-air acoustic repertoire and associated behaviour of wild juvenile crabeater seals during rehabilitation. Bioacoustics 32(3): 261-83.


Shields S, Longo A, Strand M, Morgera E. 2023. Children’s Human Right to be Heard at the Ocean-Climate Nexus. The International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law 1: 1-36.


Sink KJ, Adams LA, Franken M, Harris LR, Currie JC, Karenyi N, Dayaram A, Porter SN, Kirkman SP, Pfaff M, van Niekerk L, Atkinson L, Bernard A, Bessinger M, Cawthra H, de Wet W, Dunga LV, Filander Z, Green A, Herbert D, Holness SD, Lamberth S, Livingstone T, Lück-Vogel M, Mackay F, Makwela M, Palmer R, van Zyl W, Skowno AL. 2023. Iterative mapping of marine ecosystems for spatial status assessment, prioritisation and decision support. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 11: 1108118.


Sink KJ, Adams LA, Franken M-L, Harris LR, Karenyi N, Dayaram A, Porter S, Kirkman S, Pfaff M, van Niekerk L, Atkinson LJ, Bernard A, Bessinger M, Cawthra HC, De Wet W, Dunga L, Filander Z, Green A, Herbert D, Holness S, Lamberth S, Livingstone T, Luck-Vogel M, MacKay F, Makwela M, Palmer R, van Zyl FW, Skowno A. 2023. Leveraging and integrating data to map marine ecosystems for spatial biodiversity assessment, prioritisation and decision support in South Africa. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 11: 1108118.


Sink KJ, Lombard AT, Attwood CG, Livingstone T-C, Grantham H, Holness SD. 2023. Integrated systematic planning and adaptive stakeholder process support a 10-fold increase in South Africa’s Marine Protected Area estate. Conservation Letters e12954.


Smit KP, Bernard AT, Sink KJ, Dyer A, Lombard AT, Heyns-Veale E. 2023. Identifying suitable indicators to measure ecological condition of rocky reef ecosystems in South Africa. Ecological Indicators 154: 110696.


Smit T, Clemmesen C, Lemley DA, Adams JB, Bornman E, Strydom NA. 2023. Body condition of larval roundherring, Gilchristella aestuaria (family Clupeidae), in relation to harmful algal blooms in a warm-temperate estuary. Journal of Plankton Research 45: 523-539.


Smit T, Lemley DA, Bornman E, Adams JB, Strydom NA. 2023. Variation in larval fish assemblage dynamics associated with harmful algal blooms in a Temperate Estuary, South Africa. Estuaries and Coasts 46:2045-2063.


Speckman TH, Gerber M, Pottas D. 2023. Internet of things governance frameworks: A literature review. Issues in Social and Environmental Accounting 1: 64-80.


Spencer T, Adams J, Le Tissier M, Murray AB, Splinter K. 2023. Coastal futures: New framings, many questions, some ways forward. Cambridge Prisms: Coastal Futures 1: 1-5.


Strand M, Rivers N, Snow B. 2023. The complexity of evaluating, categorising and quantifying marine cultural heritage. Marine Policy 148: 105449. 


Strand M, Shields S, Morgera E, McGarry D, SN AM, Brown L, Snow B. 2023. Protecting Children’s Rights to Development and Culture by Re-Imagining “Ocean Literacies”. The International Journal of Children's Rights 31(4): 941-975.


Struwig M, Van den Berg A, Hadi N. 2023. Challenges in the ocean economy of South Africa. Development Southern Africa 41(1): 1-5.


Strydom NA, Kisten Y, Montoya-Maya PH. 2023. Spatio-temporal relationships between larval fishes and zooplankton in cool-temperate estuaries of South Africa emphasizing the importance of mesohaline zone interactions. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 284: 108298.


Strydom T, Cowling RM, Grobler BA, Kraaij T. 2023. Effects of simulated fire and browsing on the resprouting of subtropical dune thicket shrubs in the southeastern Cape Floristic Region. Plant Ecology 224(6): 549-62.


Strydom Z, Grémillet D, Fritz H, Venter J, Collet J, Kato A, Pichegru L. 2023. Age and sex-specific foraging movements and energetics in an endangered monomorphic seabird. Marine Biology 170: 138.


Taljaard S, Van Niekerk, L, Adams JB, Riddin T. 2023. Advancing ecosystem accounting in estuaries: Swartkops Estuary case study. South African Journal of Science 119(3/4): 14303.


van As HJ. 2023. Do municipalities have the power to regulate the keeping of" dangerous" dogs?. Obiter 44(4): 858-78.


Van Audenhaege L, Mahamadaly V, Price D, Sneesens A, Cawthra HC, Delamare C, Danet V, Delsol S, Devillers R, Gazis I-Z, Urbina-Barreto, I. 2023. Workshop on 3D mapping of habitats and biological communities with underwater photogrammetry. Research Ideas and Outcomes 9: 115796.


van Zyl C, Lombard H, Hattingh D. 2023. Theoretical aspects and design of a numerical model for friction tapered hydro-pillar processing of AISI4140 steel. The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology 127(9): 4291-306.


Vanstreels R, Chagas C, Valkiūnas G, Dos Anjos C, Parsons N, Roberts D, Pistorius P. 2023. Haemoproteus jenniae (Haemoproteidae, Haemosporida) infects gulls (Larus spp.) in South Africa, with redescription of Haemoproteus skuae. Parasitology 150(14): 1286-1295.


Vermeulen-Miltz E, Clifford-Holmes JK, Lombard AT, Snow B. 2023. Coastal tourism recovery amid COVID-19: insights from a participatory system dynamics approach. Tourism and Hospitality 4(3): 435-450.  


Vermeulen-Miltz E, Clifford-Holmes JK, Scharler UM, Lombard AT. 2023. A system dynamics model to support marine spatial planning in Algoa Bay, South Africa. Environmental Modelling & Software 160: 105601.


Vlasukova L, Komarov F, Makhavikou M, van Vuuren A, Skuratov V, Dauletbekova A, Neethling J, Wendler E, Zuk J, Parkhomenko I, Milchanin O. 2023. Effects of swift heavy ion irradiation on the InAs and Zn-based nanoparticles ion-beam synthesized in silica. Vacuum 208: 111697.


Wallace BP, Posnik ZA, Hurley BJ, DiMatteo AD, Bandimere A, Rodriguez I, Maxwell SM, Meyer L, Brenner H, Jensen MP, LaCasella E. 2023. Marine turtle regional management units 2.0: an updated framework for conservation and research of wide-ranging megafauna species. Endangered Species Research 52: 209-23.


Wanda TF, Wiles EA, Cawthra HC, de Wit A. 2023. The value of multibeam bathymetry in marine spatial planning in South Africa: A review. South African Journal of Science 119(9/10): 57-63. HC Cawthra


Wasserman J, Human LRD, Adams JB. 2023. Blue carbon stocks in southern Africa’s Endangered seagrass Zostera capensis. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 284: 108296.


Welman S, Pichegru L. 2023. Nest micro-climate and heat stress in African penguins breeding on Bird Island, South Africa. Bird Conservation International e34: 1-9.


Wilkinson C, Seyboth E, Olbers J, Vermeulen E, Kramer R, Findlay K. 2023. Estimating population changes in humpback whales Megaptera novaeangliae migrating past Cape Vidal, South Africa. African Journal of Marine Science 45(1): 1–12.


Woodborne S, Miller D, Evans M, Cawthra HC, Winkler S. 2023. New radiocarbon dates for Holocene coastal deposits at Yzerfontein, Western Cape Province, South Africa. South African Journal of Science 119: 11-12.  HC Cawthra