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Conservation and forestry

Conservation Parasitology in Action 2023-2025

From 2023 to 2025, the Parasitology and Evolutionary Genomics Group at Stellenbosch University conducted a comprehensive survey of parasite biodiversity across...

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Agriculture and food sciences

Sand Fynbos Ecological Restoration, Cape Floristic Region, South Africa

The Sand Fynbos Ecological Restoration project (July 2024–July 2025), funded by the Anglo American Foundation, successfully rehabilitated five hectares within...

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Micro refugia could be key to survival of insect populations

Arts, languages and social sciences

Micro refugia could be key to survival of insect populations

Microclimates – as opposed to large-scale regional or even global scale macroclimate models – may hold the key to offsetting the negative impacts of extreme...

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Media release

South Africa’s Tiny Duo with Big Agricultural Promise

Hidden beneath the soils of South Africa’s grain fields, scientists from the Agricultural Research Council uncovered a remarkable insect-parasitic nematode that...

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Researchers have overturned a long-held theory that gigantic dragonfly-like insects could only have existed 300 million years ago because atmospheric oxygen levels were about 45% higher than they are today.

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Insect body size is not constrained by atmospheric oxygen

Two researchers from Stellenbosch University (SU) were part of the team, led by researchers from the University of Pretoria (UP) and Adelaide University, that...

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