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Annual research Meeting 2025
19 & 20.11.2025
Seminar
Title: Dissolved gasses in tree sap as new eco-hydrogeological tracers
2nd Stellenbosch University Undergraduate Research Conference (SUURCon 2025)
The benefits of undergraduate research experiences are well documented. Students gain more confidence in their work when involved in "real" research.
Department of Botany and Zoology
Stories
Discover stories of our pursuit of impactful solutions, building learning communities that leverage the latest technologies, and our exceptional people in the Department of Botany and Zoology.
Department of Botany and Zoology
Stellenbosch University's Botanical Garden, bucking the global trend
As Autumn approaches, the Haemanthus pumilio, a critically endangered species and one of the “paintbrush lilies", will flower in the Stellenbosch University Botanical Garden (SUBG). It is one of several vulnerable plant species...
Department of Botany and Zoology
New review on the legacy of the “botanist from Belvidere”
The living legacy of Dr Augusta Vera Duthie (1881–1963), founder of the Department of Botany at Victoria College in 1902 (renamed Stellenbosch University in 1918), has been captured in a review article published in a special edition of the...
Department of Botany and Zoology
New velvet worm species a first for the Little Karoo
In March 2022, Stellenbosch University (SU) student Rohan Barnard was out and about on a farm in the Swartberg Mountains between Calitzdorp and Oudtshoorn, flipping over rocks looking for ants, reptiles and other critters, when he stumbled...
Department of Botany and Zoology
New dataset will support global scale analysis of climate trends in river flow
With one of the largest streamflow networks globally, administered by South Africa's Department of Water Affairs (DWA) and the South African Environmental Observation Network (SAEON), South Africa is one of 30 countries worldwide to have...
Department of Botany and Zoology
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