2025

  1. Abeyrama, D.K., Risi, M.M., Connan, M., Ryan, P.G., Jones, C.W., Glass, T., Osborne, A.M., Steinfurth, A., Schofield, A., Pistorius, P. and Keys, D., 2025. Cryptic variation in the sooty albatross Phoebetria fusca: genetic and morphological differences between Atlantic and Indian Ocean birds. Conservation Genetics, 26(1), pp.117-128.
  2. Adams, J.B., Buttner, D., Hawkes, S., Human, L.R., Machite, A., Mfikili, A.N., Ndhlovu, A., Smit, L.A., Rajkaran, A., Riddin, T., Rishworth, G.M., van Deventer, H., Van Niekerk, L., von der Heydon, S., Whitfield, E.C., and Raw, J.L., 2025. Blue Carbon at the southern tip of Africa: current knowledge and future perspectives for dynamic estuarine environments. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, p.109360.
  3. Adams, J.B., Penaluna, J., Lakane, C.P., Riddin, T., Rishworth, G.M., Turner, D., Van Niekerk, L. and Lemley, D.A., 2025. First record of acid sulfate soils in a southern African Ramsar estuarine lake. Wetlands Ecology and Management, 33(6), p.85.
  4. Adams, J.B., Tsipa, V., Van Niekerk, L., James, N.C., Lambert, S.J., Madikizela, B., Riddin, T., Rishworth, G.M., Snow, G.C., Strydom, N.A. and Taljaard, S., 2025. Health assessment and restoration options for the degraded Swartkops Estuary, South Africa. Water SA, 51(2), pp.90-106.
  5. Adams, J. and Van Niekerk, L., 2025. From science to action: environmental flows for estuary restoration (No. OOS2025-1130). Copernicus Meetings.
  6. Ansah, J.W., Oduro, G.Y. and Boswell, R., 2024. Integrating Asafo Companies for Sustainable Ocean and Coastal Heritage Management in Ghana. Modern Africa: Politics, History and Society, 12(2), pp.31-55.
  7. Arafeh-Dalmau, N., Villaseñor-Derbez, J.C., Schoeman, D.S., Mora-Soto, A., Bell, T.W., Butler, C.L., Costa, M., Dunga, L.V., Houskeeper, H.F., Lagger, C., Pantano, C., del Pozo, D.L., Sink, K.J., Sletten, J., Vincent, T., Micheli, F. and Cavanaugh, K.C., 2025. Global floating kelp forests have limited protection despite intensifying marine heatwave threats. Nature Communications, 16(1), p.3173.
  8. Armitage, A.R., Dittmann, S., Jones, A.R., Kelleway, J.J., Madikizela, B., O’Connor, J., Porri, F., Rogers, K., Waycott, M., Whitcraft, C. and Adams, J.B., 2025. Global complexities and challenges in the restoration of hypersaline coastal wetlands. Cambridge Prisms: Coastal Futures, 3, p.e5.
  9. Bandeira, S. O., Américo, M. J., Amone-Mabuto, M., Santos, R. P., & Dias, V. (2025). Filling the gaps: new seaweed distribution records from the coast of Mozambique, Western Indian Ocean. Western Indian Ocean Journal of Marine Science, 24(1), 43–61. https://doi.org/10.4314/wiojms.v24i1.6
  10. Barnes, R.S.K., Verster, M., Whittle, J. and Rishworth, G.M., 2025. Cinderella Effects in Assessment of Conservation Management Merit: The Richness of an Estuarine System Transformed by Increased Attention. Available at SSRN 5352806.
  11. Benjamin, S., Adams, J.B., Human, L.R. and Rishworth, G.M., 2026. Integrated indicators of estuarine watershed pollution: Seagrass, epiphytes, sediment and benthic macrofauna. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 222, p.118740.
  12. Bennett, N.J., Relano, V., Roumbedakis, K., Blythe, J., Andrachuk, M., Claudet, J., Dawson, N., Gill, D., Lazzari, N., Mahajan, S.L., Muhl, E.K., Riechers M., Strand, M. and Villasante, S., 2025. Ocean equity: from assessment to action to improve social equity in ocean governance. Frontiers in Marine Science, 12, p.1473382.
  13. Boswell, R., 2025. Negotiating Human Cultural Relations with the Sea in South Africa and Namibia. In Threats to Our Ocean Heritage: Deep Sea Mining (pp. 143-152). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.[book]
  14. Brito-Morales, I., Dewitte, B., Sudre, F., Rohner, C.A., Hazen, E.L., Scales, K.L., Le Corre, M., Jaeger, A., Laran, S., Bousquet, O. and Sequeira, A.M., Davies, T.E, Dunn, D.C., Nel, R., Hannah, L., and Rossie, V. 2025. Megafauna show pervasive yet distinct affinity to ocean fronts: the urgent need for adaptive conservation in a warming world. bioRxiv, pp.2025-06.
  15. Brown E, du Plessis N, Bornman T and Hermes J. 2025. Ocean Accounts: Holding Ourselves Responsible for a Brighter Ocean Future. Front. Young Minds 13:1439291. doi: 10.3389/frym.2025.1439291
  16. Burger, M.M., Grundlingh, P.L. and Strydom, N.A., Tidal Dynamics Shape Early-Stage Fish Assemblages in the Mouth Region of a Temperate Estuary, South Africa. South Africa.
  17. Campbell, A., Adam, E., Adams, J.B., Barrenblitt, A., Fatoyinbo, T., Jensen, D., Naidoo, L., Riddin, T., Simard, M., Smith, K. and Thakali, P., 2025. Monitoring coastal estuarine habitats for biodiversity along the temperate bioregion of South Africa. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 130(10), p.e2025JG008833.
  18. Campbell, P.S., Adams, J.B., Thwala, M., Oyedele, O. and Melariri, P.E., 2025. Influence of water physico-chemical properties and vegetation type on the distribution of schistosomiasis intermediate host snails in Nelson Mandela Bay, South Africa. African Journal of Aquatic Science, 50(2), pp.154-165.
  19. Campbell, P.S., ten Ham-Baloyi, W., Adams, J.B., Thwala, M., Vere, M. and Melariri, P.E., 2025. The Effect of Physicochemical Properties of Water Bodies on Schistosomiasis Intermediate Host Snails’ Distribution in Sub‐Saharan Africa: A Systematic Review. Advances in Public Health, 2025(1), p.7477359.
  20. Carrasco, N. K., Nunes, M., Omarjee, A., Teixeira Sampaio, L., & Adams, J. B. (2025). Planktonic and benthic invertebrate composition of the uMdlotane Estuary (South Africa) during contrasting seasonal flow states. Marine Biology Research, 21(4–5), 221–238. https://doi.org/10.1080/17451000.2025.2527570
  21. Carpenter-Kling, T., Truter, H., Lemahieu, A., Snow, B., Strand, M., Rivers, N., Nupnau, L. and Lombard, A.T., 2025. Scenario planning from the bottom up: supporting inclusive and ecosystem-based approaches to marine spatial planning. npj Ocean Sustainability, 4(1), p.45.
  22. Champion, G. and Strand, M., 2025. “Other (ed)” ocean knowledges: unlearning integration in ocean governance for recognitional justice. Ocean and Society, 2.
  23. Church, S.H., Abedon, R.B., Ahuja, N., Anthony, C.J., Destanović, D., Ramirez, D.A., Rojas, L.M., Albinsson, M.E., Trasobares, I.Á., Bergemann, R.E. and Bogdanovic, O., Burdick, D.R., Cunha, T.J., Serrano, A.D., D’Elia, G., Dion, K.B., Doyle, T.K., Goncalves, J.M., Gonzalez-Rajal, A., Haddock, S.H.D., Helm, R.R., Le Gouvello, D., Moura, J., Munro, C., Nel, R., Oguchi, K., Perelman, N., Prieto, L., Pitt, K.A., Roughan, M., Schaeffer, A., Schmidt, A.L., Sellanes, J., Wilson, N.G., Yamamoto, G., Lazo-Wasem, E.A., Simon, C., Decker, M.B., Coughlan, J.M., Dunn, C.W., 2025. Population genomics of a sailing siphonophore reveals genetic structure in the open ocean. Current Biology.
  24. Collet, J., Thiebault, A., Bonnet-Lebrun, A.S., Tremblay, Y., Carpenter-Kling, T., Keys, D. and Pistorius, P., 2025. A marine predator relies on both social cues and frequently updated memory to search for prey. Proceedings B, 292(2041), p.20242327.
  25. Dajka, J.C., Eilrich, A.K., Franke, A., Halpern, B.S., Snow, B., Lombard, A.T., Jacob, U., Laakmann, S., Luhede, A. and Hillebrand, H., 2025. From science to policy: evolving marine biodiversity targets. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, p.e70000.
  26. Dajka, J.C., Levi, S., Verstraeten, A.M., Menendez, V.A., Smith, M., Snow, B., Vargas-Fonseca, O.A. and Hillebrand, H., 2025. Marine biodiversity change impacts relational values: expert survey shows policy mismatch. npj Ocean Sustainability, 4(1), p.42.
  27. Daly, R., Murray, T.S., Roberts, M.J., Schoeman, D.S., Lubitz, N., Barnett, A., Cedras, R., Bolaji, D.A., Brokensha, G.M., Le Noury, P.M. and Forget, F., 2025. Breaking barriers: Transoceanic movement by a bull shark. Ecology, 106(5), p.e70096.
  28. Defeo, O., Corte, G., Barboza, C.A., Debiasi, P., Costa, L.L., Elliott, M., Fanini, L., Harris, L.R., Rangel-Buitrago, N., Baxter, J. and Basset, A., 2025. Sandy beaches within meta-social-ecological systems: An integrated framework for ecology, management, and conservation. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, p.109350.
  29. Deshpande, K., Hagen, C., Bornman, T.G., Chiloane, L., Feig, G., Girola, E., Guru, S., Laney, C., Loescher, H., Mirtl, M., Morris, B., Mabee, P., Salmon, E., San Clements, M., Ruddell, B.L., Sullivan, P.L., Smith, M.D., Kutsch, W.L., Yu, X., and Zacharias, Z. 2025, June. Towards Globally Harmonized Environmental Data: A Proof of Concept Using Ecological Drought and the GERI Framework. In ARPHA Conference Abstracts (Vol. 8, p. e159037). Pensoft Publishers.
  30. Di Clemente, J., Briefer, E.F., Nabe-Nielsen, J., Segre, P.S., Penry, G.S. and Garagouni, M., 2025. “Why keep your mouth shut?” Inshore South African Bryde’s whales abort lunges within feeding dives. Ethology Ecology & Evolution, pp.1-21.
  31. Di Clemente, J., Segre, P., Garagouni, M., Wisniewska, D., Kahane-Rapport, S., Gough, W., Wahlberg, M., Goldbogen, J., Penry, G., Nabe-Nielsen, J. and Briefer, E., 2025. How deep is their lunch: Inshore South African Bryde’s whales shift attack mode at different depths. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 761, pp.115-128.
  32. Dicken, M.L., Towner, A.V., Mauz, B. and Mauz, R., 2025. Assessing the socio-economic value of shark diving in the Protea Banks Marine Protected Area, South Africa. African Journal of Marine Science, 47(1), pp.19-29.
  33. Dunga, L.V., Sink, K.J., Van der Bank, M.G., Harris, L.R., Van Niekerk, L., Perschke, M., Brand, R., Mann-Lang, J., Bruton, M., Strand, M., Rivers, N., Lamberth, S., Clift, H. Snow, B., Knotti, E. and Gee, K., 2025. Piloting a culturally significant areas framework for spatial planning and management in the coastal environment of South Africa. Marine Policy, 180, p.106807.
  34. Eddy, T. D., Heneghan, R. F., Bryndum-Buchholz, A., Fulton, E. A., Harrison, C. S., Tittensor, D. P., Lotze, H. K., Ortega-Cisneros, K., Novaglio, C., Bianchi, D., Büchner, M., Bulman, C., L. Cheung, W. W., Christensen, V., Coll, M., Everett, J. D., Fierro-Arcos, D., Galbraith, E. D., Gascuel, D., . . .  Blanchard, J. L. (2025). Global and Regional Marine Ecosystem Models Reveal Key Uncertainties in Climate Change Projections. Earth's Future, 13(3), e2024EF005537. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024EF005537
  35. Emami-Khoyi, A., Schnelle, C.M., Clark, D.R., Laakmann, S., Teske, P.R. and Rishworth, G.M., 2025. Eukaryote biodiversity in supratidal microbialite pools: A foundational environmental DNA assessment. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 319, p.109284.
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  37. Field, L.C., Wright, K., Sullivan-Stack, J., Harris, J.M., Kirkman, S.P., Fielding, P.J., Oosthuizen, A., Dlulisa, S., Laznya, A., Gonçalves, E.J. and Grorud-Colvert, K., 2025. Assessing South Africa’s marine protected area quality and progress towards conservation goals: An application of The MPA Guide framework. Marine Policy, 173, p.106513.
  38. Fikunawa, B. and Mishi, S., 2025. Financial Sector Development, Institutional Quality and Environmental Degradation in Namibia. F1000Research, 14, p.781.
  39. Fonseca, V.F., Bertucci, F., Solé, M., Human, L.R.D., Le Pape, O. and Brown, E.J., 2025. Habitat degradation impacts on marine fish. In Ecology of Marine Fish (pp. 325-342). Academic Press.
  40. Gattuso, J.P., Houllier, F., Adams, J., Amon, D., Bambridge, T., Cheung, W., Chiba, S., Cortés, J., Duarte, C.M., Frölicher, T., Gelcich, S., Gjerde, K., Greaves, D., Haugan, P.M., Li, D., and Tuda, A., 2025. US federal cuts threaten international ocean science and diplomacy. Nat Ecol Evol 9, 1079–1080 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-025-02750-3
  41. Gattuso, J.P., Houllier, F., Adams, J., Amon, D., Bambridge, T., Cheung, W., Chiba, S., Cortés, J., Duarte, C.M., Frölicher, T., Gelcich, S., Gjerde, K., Greaves, D., Haugan, P.M., Li, D., and Tuda, A., 2025. Recommendations to Heads of State and Government from the One Ocean Science Congress. One Ocean Science Congress. 2025, pp.14. ffhal-05121298f
  42. Gattuso J.-P., Houllier F., Adams J., Amon D., Bambridge T., Cheung W., Chiba S., Cortes J., Duarte C., Frölicher T., Gelcich S., Gephart J., Gjerde K., Greaves D., Haugan P., Li D., Takoko M., Tuda A., 2025. Urgent call to action to conserve and restore shallow-water coral reefs. International Scientific Committee of the One Ocean Science Congress, Nice, 3-6 June 2025. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14649769
  43. Gibson, R.L., Cooper, T., Vonopartis, L.C., Dodd, C., Hers, P., Ashwal, L.D. and Symons, R., 2025. A first report on the Nqweba bolide and meteorite fall event in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa, on 25 August 2024. South African Journal of Science, 121(5-6), pp.1-6.
  44. Giesler, J.K., Lemley, D.A., Adams, J.B. and Moorthi, S.D., 2025. Corrigendum: Interactive effects of salinity, temperature and food web configuration on performance and harmfulness of the raphidophyte Heterosigma akashiwo. Frontiers in Marine Science, 12, p.1583268.
  45. Gordon, N., Noyon, M., Kaullysing, D., Bhagooli, R., Ramah, S., Ternon, J.F., Marzocchi, B. and Marsac, F., 2025. Distribution and drivers of phytoplankton biomass along the Saya de Malha Bank in the Western Indian Ocean. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 221, p.105480.
  46. Halpern, B.S., Frazier, M., O’Hara, C.C., Vargas-Fonseca, O.A. and Lombard, A.T., 2025. Cumulative impacts to global marine ecosystems projected to more than double by midcentury. Science, 10.1126/science.adv2906.
  47. Harris, L.R., Adams, J.B., Dayaram, A., Dunga, L.V., Job, N., Kirkman, S.P., Lamberth, S.J., Pfaff, M.C., Raw, J.L., Rishworth, G.M. and Robbins, A., 2025. Cross-realm biodiversity profile of the South African coastal zone. African Journal of Marine Science 47(1), 1-18.
  48. Harris, L.R., Raimondo, D., Sink, K.J., Holness, S.D. and Skowno, A.L., 2025. Sandy beach ecosystem and species red listing highlight priorities for beach conservation and restoration. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, p.109447.
  49. Harris, L.R., Van Niekerk, L., Holness, S.D., Sink, K.J., Skowno, A.L., Dayaram, A., Van Deventer, H., Job, N., Lamberth, S.J., Adams, J.B. Raw, J.L., Ridden, T., MacKay, C.F and Perschke, M.J., 2025. Conserving cross-realm coastal biodiversity when real-world planning and implementation processes split the land and sea. Ocean & Coastal Management, 263, p.107586.
  50. Hartmann, Z. and Thornton, J.L., 2025. Sustainability, well-being and health: towards a cultural metric approach in ocean accounting. Journal of the Indian Ocean Region, pp.1-13.
  51. He, Q., Li, Z.A., Daleo, P., Lefcheck, J.S., Thomsen, M.S., Adams, J.B. and Bouma, T.J., 2025. Coastal wetland resilience through local, regional and global conservation. Nature Reviews Biodiversity, 1(1), pp.50-67.
  52. Holmes, M., Campbell, E.E., de Wit, M. and Taylor, J.C., 2025. Preliminary checklist for freshwater diatom species of the Karoo, South Africa. African Biodiversity & Conservation, 55(1), pp.1-19.
  53. Ikegwuoha, N.P.P., Hanekom, T., Booysen, E., Jason, C., Parker‐Nance, S., Davies‐Coleman, M.T., van Zyl, L.J. and Trindade, M., 2025. Fimsbactin Siderophores From a South African Marine Sponge Symbiont, Marinomonas sp. PE 14‐40. Microbial Biotechnology, 18(5), p.e70155.
  54. Johnson, L., Connan, M., Bustamante, P., Parsons, N., Rutgers, S. and Ryan, P.G., 2025. Wear influences mercury concentrations and stable isotope values in penguin feathers. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, p.vgaf188.
  55. Josefina Jorquera, Lucila Morales, Elize Y X Ng, Daly Noll, Luis R Pertierra, Patricio Pliscoff, Ulises Balza, Thierry Boulinier, Amandine Gamble, Tatiana Kasinsky, Julie C McInnes, Juan Carlos Marín, Silvia Olmastroni, Pierre Pistorius, Richard A Phillips, Jacob González-Solís, Louise Emmerson, Elie Poulin, Rauri C K Bowie, Christopher P Burridge, Juliana A Vianna, Genomic Introgression and Adaptation of Southern Seabird Species Facilitate Recent Polar Colonization, Molecular Biology and Evolution, Volume 42, Issue 3, March 2025, msaf053, https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf053
  56. Kaikkonen, L., Strand, M., Singh, P., Shellock, R., Roman, R., Smith, A.J., Joshi, S., Baker, C.A., Bigham, K.T., Dias, B.S., Erinosho, B.T., Fernandes, J.F., Ferraro, M., Garcia-Garin, O., Gianelli, I., Ilosvay, X.E.E., Kostianaia, E., Leyba, I.M., Li, S., Marshall, T., Oliveira, R.R., Outinen, O., Rouyer, M.-M., Scopetani, C., and Singh, D., 2025. Guidelines for ensuring meaningful engagement of early career researchers in scientific collaborations: recommendations from and for marine and polar scientists. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 82(8), p.fsaf143.
  57. Kadhila, T., Boswell, R., Siyengwa-Muchila, M.R. and Kanyimba, A., 2024. Cultural Blues and the ‘Blue Economy’in Namibia. Africa Insight, 54(1), pp.27-44.
  58. Khojasteh, D., Rao, S., McSweeney, S., Ibaceta, R., Nicholls, R.J., French, J., Glamore, W., Largier, J.L., Adams, J., Hughes, M.G. and Barry, M., 2025. Intermittent estuaries deserve global attention as vulnerable and vital ecosystems. Communications Earth & Environment, 6(1), p.443.
  59. Kelleway, J., Noe, G.B., Krauss, K.W., Brophy, L., Connor, W.H., Duberstein, J.A., Friess, D.A., Gedan, K., White Jr, E., Adame, M.F. and Adams, J., 2025. Beyond the mangroves: a global synthesis of tidal forested wetland types, drivers and future information needs.
  60. Keum, J., Sayol, F., Orgeret, F. and Horswill, C., 2025. Does brain size matter? Linking cognitive and ecological traits to climate change vulnerability in seabirds. Functional Ecology, 39(4), pp.1061-1070.
  61. Lakane, C.P., Adams, J.B. and Lemley, D.A., 2025. Phytoplankton responses to reduced freshwater inflow and acid conditions in a Ramsar estuarine lake. Marine Environmental Research, 206, p.107043.
  62. Lakane, C., Lemley, D. and Adams, J., 2025. Invasive alien aquatic plants in estuaries: From science to management (No. OOS2025-89). Copernicus Meetings.
  63. Lawrence, C.M., 2025. Trait Plasticity and Warming Vulnerability in a Structurally Diverse Seagrass Ecosystem. Ecology and Evolution, 15(8), p.e72011.
  64. Lawrence, C.M., Barnes, R.S.K. and Arendse, C.J., Estuary Mouth Dynamics Shape Benthic Macrofaunal Diversity Associated with Zostera Capensis Seagrass Beds. Available at SSRN 5370195.
  65. Li, S., Addey, C.I., Roman, R., Hayashida, H., Jiang, C., Hu, C., Coronado-Álvarez, L.D.L.A., Lim, H.G., Akmal, S.G., Orji, C.M. and Arora, P.,… Vargas-Fonseca, O.A….. 2025. Early career ocean professionals’ declaration on ocean negative carbon emissions for our ocean and future. The Innovation, 6(9).
  66. Loescher, H., SanClements, M., Laney, C., Deshpande, K., Ruddell, B., Hagen, C., Morris, B., Mirtl, M., Porter-Bolland, L., Huber-Sannwald, E., Barrientos, S.A., Pogosyan, L., Rodrigo Vargas, R., Sullivan, P.L., Villarreal, S., Cervantes-Jiménez, M., Ballesteros, M.D.B., CerónGonzález, A., Prado Pano, P.L., Torres, E.B., Lopez Portillo, M., Avilés Junco, C., Yepez, E.A., Ceron, I., Girola, E., Guru, S., Mabee, P., Zacharias, S., Bäck, J., D’Onofrio, C., Bornman T.G., Feig, G., Swetnam, T., Merchant, N., and Specht A., 2025, June. A Use Case Approach to Integrate Ecological Research Networks and Infrastructures to Advance Macrosystem Science. In ARPHA Conference Abstracts (Vol. 8, p. e158965). Pensoft Publishers.
  67. Machite, A. and Adams, J., 2025. Historical changes in anthropogenic pressures, distribution and population structure of mangrove forests at a distributional range limit.
  68. Machite, A. and Adams, J.B., 2025. Carbon stocks in vegetated and disturbed mangrove stands. Regional Studies in Marine Science, p.104359.
  69. Matekenya, W. and Ncwadi, R., 2025. The macroeconomic impact of ocean economy financing in South Africa. Australian Journal of Maritime & Ocean Affairs, 17(3), pp.347-364.
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  72. Maxwell, T. L., Spalding, M. D., Friess, D. A., Murray, N. J., Rogers, K., Rovai, A. S., Smart, L. S., Weilguny, L., Adame, M. F., Adams, J. B., Austin, W. E., Copertino, M. S., Cott, G. M., Holmquist, J. R., Ladd, C. J., Lovelock, C. E., Ludwig, M., Moritsch, M. M., Navarro, A., .Raw, JL. . Worthington, T. A. (2024). Soil carbon in the world’s tidal marshes. Nature Communications, 15(1), 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-54572-9
  73. Mazwane, S.L., Poulton, A.J., Noyon, M., Rocke, E. and Roberts, M.J., Nanophytoplankton Dominate Autumn Carbon Biomass on the Agulhas Bank, South Africa. South Africa.
  74. Mishi, S., Mushonga, F.B., Nomonde, T., Anakpo, G. and Mutyavaviri, T., 2025. Social Capital in Co-operative Financial Institutions: Situational Analysis of South Africa. AfricaGrowth Agenda, 22(1), pp.4-9.
  75. Mkhize, T., Adams, J., Parker-Nance, S. and James, N., 2025. Habitat use by juvenile fish in macroalgae and seagrass beds in a temperate South African seascape. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 319, p.109258.
  76. Muhl, E.K., Strand, M., Mbatha, P., Woiso, J.F., Shalli, M., McGarry, D., Dopolo, M., Elkharousy, Z.K. and Dunga, L., 2025. Access, Rights and Equity for Blue Tenure Transitions in Small-Scale Fisheries (No. OOS2025-1282). Copernicus Meetings.
  77. Murray, T.S., Elston, C., Smale, M.J., Childs, A.R., Dicken, M.L. and Cowley, P.D., 2025. Marine predators segregate interspecifically by space and time in a sheltered coastal bay. Journal of Fish Biology, 106(5), pp.1452-1466.
  78. Mxo, R.V., Porri, F., Riddin, T. and Adams, J.B., Cultivation of Cyperus Textilis: Eco-Engineering for Sustainable Coastal Solutions. Available at SSRN 5184925.
  79. Ndaba, J., Cotiyane-Pondo, P., Human, L.R.D., Puccinelli, E., Pieterse, P., Pattrick, P. and Porri, F., 2025. Diatom colonisation and biofilm metal bioaccumulation: Can Indigenous Knowledge Systems aid the ecological engineering of urban coastlines?. Ecological Engineering, 219, p.107696.
  80. Ndaleni, P.M., South, J., Nagelkerke, L.A., Weyl, O.L., Nodo, P. and James, N.C., 2025. Spatial habitat partitioning enables coexistence of three species of Gobiidae in South African estuaries. Journal of Fish Biology.
  81. Nunes, M., Adams, J.B. and Lemley, D.A., 2025. Characterising benthic diatom community responses to abiotic variability in a tropical Ramsar estuarine lake. Wetlands Ecology and Management, 33(3), p.37.
  82. Nyangoko, B.P., Chauka, L.J., Meysick, L., Rohde, S., Adams, J. and Schupp, P.J., 2025. Stakeholders' perspectives on seagrass ecosystem services and their threats vary across Zanzibar archipelago, Tanzania. Regional Studies in Marine Science, 89, p.104271.
  83. Omarjee, A., Taljaard, S., Adams, J.B. and Chetty, A., 2025. The influence of macrophytes on diurnal pH variability in subtropical estuaries: A mesocosm study. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 312, p.109047.
  84. Oosthuizen, W.C., Schoombie, S., Chimienti, M., Pistorius, P.A. and Lowther, A.D., 2025. Dive wiggles as a proxy of prey consumption in krill-feeding penguins. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 590, p.152115.
  85. Palacios‐Abrantes, J., Dias, B.S., Gianelli, I., Strand, M., Li, S. and Yeboah, G.A., 2025. The Role of the Interdisciplinary Marine Early Career Network (IMECaN) in Supporting Capacity Building, Ocean Literacy, and Collaborative Leadership of Early Career Researchers.
  86. Penven, P., Ternon, J.F., Noyon, M., Herbette, S., Cambon, G., Comby, C., L’Hégaret, P., Malauene, B.S., Ménesguen, C., Nehama, F. and Rauntenbach, G., 2025. Characterizing the central structure of a mesoscale eddy‐ring dipole in the Mozambique Channel from in situ observations. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 130(3), p.e2024JC021913.
  87. Perez-Alvaro, E. and Boswell, R., 2025. Integral oceans heritage of indigenous communities: Its value for good health and well-being. Social Sciences & Humanities Open, 11, p.101245.
  88. Pétillon, J., Noël, C., Brescovit, A., Marusik, Y.M., Rheims, C.A., Xu, X., Fontaneto, D. and Mammola, S., 2025. The use of eponyms can also promote gender equity in modern taxonomy. BioScience, p.biaf083.
  89. Pichegru, L., Makoala, M., Barham, B.J., Barham, P.J., Dalton, D., Ludynia, K., Freeman, M., Geldenhuys, D., Hagen, C., Harris, G. and Kock, A., Lawrence, C., McGeorge, C., McInnes, A.M., Makhado, A.B., Malan, T., Masotla, M.J., Milne, R. Muller, H., Purves, A., Sherley, R.B., Stander, N., de Villiers, P., Visagie, J., Wilke, C. and Waller, L.J., 2025. A decade of implementing the Biodiversity management plan for African penguins–successes, failures and lessons learnt. Journal for Nature Conservation, p.126919.
  90. Plön, S., Oosthuizen, H.W., Best, P.B., Cockcroft, V.G., Kemper, C. and Bernard, R.T., 2025. Historical data on age, growth and reproduction of pygmy (Kogia breviceps) and dwarf (Kogia sima) sperm whales stranded along the Southern African coastline, with additional information from Australian specimens. Advances in Marine Biology, 100, pp.1-102.
  91. Plumptre, A., Hayes, J., Baisero, D., Rose, R., Holness, S., von Staden, L. and Smith, R.J., 2025. Strengths and complementarity of systematic conservation planning and Key Biodiversity Area approaches for spatial planning. Conservation Biology, 39(2), p.e14400.
  92. Reusch, K., Connan, M., Ryan, P.G., Butler, M. and Pichegru, L., 2025. Spatio‐temporal differences in the diet and trophic ecology of Kelp Gulls (Larus dominicanus) in South Africa. Ibis, 167(1), pp.124-144.
  93. Risi, M.M., Jones, C.W., Connan, M., Gill, R., Stephen, V., Cunningham, S.J. and Ryan, P.G., 2025. Escalating threats: house mouse attacks on adult wandering albatrosses spread across Marion Island. Biological Invasions, 27(6), p.149.
  94. Robbertse, M., Hofmeyr, G.J.G., de Bruyn, P.J.N., Dalton, D. and Mwale, M., 2025. Mitochondrial DNA diversity and phylogeographic patterns among South African Cape fur seals, Arctocephalus pusillus pusillus. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, 35(8), p.e70210.
  95. Roberts, M., 2025. The (hidden) Western Indian Ocean Climate Crisis—A need for urgent action (No. OOS2025-1162). Copernicus Meetings.
  96. Rulashe, S., Mishi, S., Khumalo, S. and Hunter, D., 2025. An empirical assessment of financial prudence among South African individuals: investigating savings and investment behaviour. International Journal of Research in Business & Social Science, 14(3).
  97. Sanders, Y.L., Connan, M., Jaquemet, S., van der Vyver, J.F. and Hofmeyr, G.G., 2025. Spatial and temporal patterns of Cape fur seal strandings along the south-eastern South African coast suggest anthropogenic and environmental interactions. Marine Biology, 172(8), p.119.
  98. Shabangu, F.W., Hlati, K., van den Berg, M.A., Lamont, T. and Kirkman, S.P., 2025. Monthly and diel acoustic occurrence of four baleen whale species in South African waters. Ecology and Evolution, 15(8), p.e72004.
  99. Smith-Godfrey, S., 2025. South Africa: The Great Deception: How a nation wakes up, and remembers its power (Book 1, South Africa: The Great Correction). Available at: https://www.amazon.com/Great-Deception-nation-remembers-Correction-ebook/dp/B0G1KYPTLM?ref_=saga_dp_bnx_dsk_dp
  100. Smith-Godfrey, S., 2025. South Africa: The Great Renaissance: How a nation reclaims its power, and owns its wealth (Book 2, South Africa: The Great Correction). Available at: https://www.amazon.com/South-Africa-Renaissance-reclaims-Correction-ebook/dp/B0G498RMB1?ref_=saga_dp_bnx_dsk_dp
  101. Smith-Godfrey, S., 2025. South Africa: The Great Trek Reloaded: How a nation frames its future, and walks in its destiny (Book 3, South Africa: The Great Correction).. Available at: https://www.amazon.com/South-Africa-Reloaded-destiny-Correction-ebook/dp/B0G3Y9H9RR?ref_=saga_dp_bnx_dsk_dp
  102. Smith, M.E., Lemley, D.A., Whitfield, E. and Adams, J.B., 2025. Evaluation of Sentinel-2 for water quality monitoring in a eutrophic estuary in South Africa. Water SA, 51(3), pp.181-190.
  103. Smit, L.A., Adams, J. and Rishworth, G., 2025. Reviews and syntheses: Bioturbation impacts on sediment accretion and erosion in tidal marshes, with implications for carbon burial and sequestration. EGUsphere, 2025, pp.1-35.
  104. Strand, M., 2025. Advancing transdisciplinarity as an epistemology for more ethical engagements with fishing communities. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 82(6), p.fsae148.
  105. Strand, M., 2025. Ocean equity as an ocean in which many oceans can coexist. South African Journal of Science, 121(5-6), pp.1-4.
  106. Tembo, D.J., 2025. Small-scale Fishers and Their Role in Ocean Governance in South Africa. The Emerald Handbook of Sustainable Energy Transition and Social Justice: Contemporary Issues and Debates in the Global South, p.181.
  107. Thornton, J.L. and Hartmann, Z., 2024. The Living Sea: Conceptualising Narratives of Cultural Seascapes in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. Journal of Indian Ocean World Studies, 8(2), pp.127-152.
  108. Van Deventer, H., Apleni, P., Adams, J.B., Riddin, T., Whitfield, E., Machite, A., Van Niekerk, L. and Madasa, A., 2025. Assessing the feasibility of mapping changes of ecosystem functional groups in South African estuaries using Landsat and Sentinel images of 1990, 2014, 2018 and 2020. Wetlands Ecology and Management, 33(1), p.12.
  109. van Staden, L., Holness, S.D. and Lombard, A.T., 2025. Can strategic protected area expansion solve the insufficient representation of biodiversity in protected area networks? A case study from South Africa. Biological Conservation, 302, p.110903.
  110. Veldkornet, D.A. and Adams, J.B., 2025. Environmental heterogeneity as a driver of species and phylogenetic diversity in coastal salt marshes. South African Journal of Botany, 178, pp.372-381.
  111. Viel, N., Gajski, D., Perera‐Fernández, L.G., Pétillon, J. and Pekár, S., 2025. What Is on the Menu When You Move Far Away? Realised Diet Niche in a Geographic‐Range‐Expanding Ant‐Eating Spider. Journal of Biogeography, p.e70036.
  112. Vosloo, L. and Minguzzi, M., 2025. Building Techniques and Environmental Stewardship of the First Indigenous Peoples of South Africa.
  113. Welch, R.J., Childs, A.R., Murray, T.S., Darnaude, A.M. and James, N.C., 2025. The role of acoustic telemetry in assessing fish connectivity within marine seascapes: A global review. Journal of Fish Biology, 106(5), pp.1285-1304.
  114. Whitfield, E.C., Adams, J.B. and Lemley, D.A., 2025. Documenting phytoplankton community responses to hydrological resetting events in eutrophic low-inflow estuaries. Marine Environmental Research, p.107399.
  115. Whitfield, E., Lemley, D., and Adams, J.: Informing the management of harmful algal blooms in estuaries, One Ocean Science Congress 2025, Nice, France, 3–6 Jun 2025, OOS2025-78, https://doi.org/10.5194/oos2025-78, 2025.