Monday, 25 August 2025

Giraffes, drought, and the fragile balance of Albany Subtropical Thicket

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Giraffes are one of Africa’s most iconic animals. Towering above the bush with their long necks and gentle gait, they are a favourite among ...
Saturday, 19 September 2020

Where should science funding go?

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 by Alastair Potts I've just finished listening to a podcast by Malcom Gladwell entitled " My Little Hundred Million ". In it ...
Wednesday, 17 June 2020

Thirst, starve or susceptibility? Elucidating to physiological driver of canopy tree mortality in transformed arid Thicket.

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by Daniel Buttner  As we know Thicket has experienced considerable transformation shifting from a highly conserved resource sink ecosyste...
Monday, 6 April 2020

Frost synonymous with fire? The hydraulic death hypothesis in Thicket

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by Daniel Buttner Frost has been defined as a fundamental factor in dictating the biome boundary between Thicket and Nama-Karoo shrubland ...
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Tuesday, 18 February 2020

The loss of thirst-refugia and implications for thicket restoration

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by Alastair Potts In a previous post ( The flattening of the waterscape and unrecorded loss of thirst-refugia: how does this affect plant ...
Monday, 17 February 2020

The Spekboom Sponge hypothesis

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By Alastair Potts We know that Portulacaria afra, commonly known as "Spekboom" (and the focus of much misguided hype around c...
Friday, 27 September 2019

The flattening of the waterscape and unrecorded loss of thirst-refugia: how does this affect plant biodiversity?

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The Impala Lilies ( Adenium multiflorum ) in my parents' garden flowered this year. This little happening led me down a train of though...