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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...
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...
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...
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...
Media release
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...