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Project articles where I was involved in

· Redi BH, van Aarde RJ & Wassenaar TD (2005) Coastal dune forest development and the regeneration of millipede communities. Restoration Ecology 3: 284–291

· Wassenaar TD, van Aarde RJ, Pimm SL, & Ferreira SM (2005) Community convergence in disturbed subtropical dune forests. Ecology 86: 655–666

 

Selected other project articles

· Kummssa DB, Van Aarde RJ & Wassenaar TD (2004) The regeneration of soil micro-arthropod assemblages in a rehabilitating coastal dune forest at Richards Bay, South Africa. African Journal of Ecology 42: 346-354

· Van Aarde RJ, Wassenaar TD, Niemand L, Knowles T & Fereirra SM (2004) Coastal dune forest rehabilitation: a case study on rodent and bird assemblages in northern Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa. In: Coastal Dunes: Ecology and Conservation. Martinez, M.L., Psuty, N. & Lubke, R. (eds), Ecological Studies Series 171: Springer-Verlag. pp 103–117

· Davis ALV, Van Aarde RJ, Scholtz CH & Delport JH (2003). Convergence between dung beetle assemblages of a post-mining vegetational chronosequence  and unmined dune forest. Restoration Ecology 11: 29-42

· Weiermans J & Van Aarde RJ (2003) Roads as ecological edges in rehabilitation coastal dune assemblages  in Richards Bay, Kwa-Zulu – Natal, South Africa. Restoration Ecology 11: 43–49

· Wassenaar TD & Van Aarde RJ (2001) Short-term responses of rehabilitating coastal dune forest  ground vegetation to livestock grazing. African Journal of  Ecology. 39: 329–339

· Fereirra SM & Van Aarde RJ (2000) Maintaining diversity through intermediate disturbances: evidence from rodents colonising rehabilitating dunes. African Journal of Ecology. 38: 286–294

 

 

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