Biogeography of South Africa’s Birds - Research Page

 

My articles

· Wilson JW, van Rensburg BJ, Ferguson JWH & Keith M. (2008) The relative importance of the environment, human activity and space in explaining species richness patterns of South African bird orders. Journal of Biogeography 35: 342-352

· Wilson JW, van Rensburg BJ, Ferguson JWH & Keith M (2007) Considering explanatory factors simultaneously when explaining species richness patterns. Oral presentation by JW Wilson at the annual meeting of the Society for Conservation Biology, Port Elisabeth, South Africa, July 2007

· Wilson JW, van Rensburg BJ, Ferguson JWH & Keith M (2005) Species, environment, humans and space: partitioning spatial variation between these variables in South Africa. Oral presentation by JW Wilson at the conference of the Zoological Society of South Africa, Grahamstown, South Africa, July 2005

 

Selected other project articles

· Evans KL, van Rensburg BJ, Gaston, KJ & Chown SL (2006) People, species richness and human population growth. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 15: 625-636

· Bonn A, Storch D & Gaston KJ (2004) Structure of the species-energy relationship. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 271: 1685-1691

· Van Rensburg BJ, Erasmus BFN, van Jaarsveld AS, Gaston KJ & Chown SL (2004) Conservation during times of change: correlations between birds, climate and people in South Africa. South African Journal of Science 100: 266-273

· Chown SL, van Rensburg BJ, Gaston KJ, Rodrigues ASL & van Jaarsveld AS (2003) Energy, species richness, and human population size: conservation implications at a national scale. Ecological Applications 13: 1233-1241

· Van Rensburg BJ, Chown SL & Gaston KJ (2002) Species richness, environmental correlates, and spatial scale: a test using South African birds. American Naturalist 159: 566-577

 

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