Peer-reviewed publications by SAIAB Scientists, Honorary Research Associates and Postgraduate Students using SAIAB’s address – 2025.
Open Access
Ackland, S., Andersen, M., Kock, A., Van Blerk, D., Ariefdien, R., & Robinson, T. (2025). First record of the marine alien bryozoan Amathia verticillata (delle Chiaje, 1822) in South Africa. BioInvasions Records, 14(1), 183–196.
https://doi.org/10.3391/bir.2025.14.1.15
Adams, N. J., Tsipa, N. V., Van Niekerk, N. L., James, N. N., Lamberth, N. S., Madikizela, N. B., Riddin, N. T., Rishworth, N. G., Snow, N. G., Strydom, N. N., Taljaard, N. S., & Da Lemley, N. (2025). Health assessment and restoration options for the degraded Swartkops Estuary, South Africa. Water SA, 51(2 April).
https://doi.org/10.17159/wsa/2025.v51.i2.4142
Ahmed, D. A., Vilizzi, L., Tarkan, A. S., Błońska, D., Everts, T., Kutschera, U., Pergl, J., Sousa, R., Mammola, S., García-Berthou, E., Cano-Barbacil, C., Soto, I., Cuthbert, R. N., Dick, J. T. A., Olden, J. D., Aldemir, C., Uysal, T. U., Nuñez, M. A., Dimarco, R. D., . . . Haubrock, P. J. (2025). Scholarly discourse in polarizing interdisciplinary contexts. BioScience, 75(12), 1009–1012.
https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biaf122
Ahmed, D. A., Sousa, R., Bortolus, A., Aldemir, C., Angeli, N. F., Błońska, D., Briski, E., Britton, J. R., Cano‐Barbacil, C., Clark‐Ginsberg, A., Culic, I., Cuthbert, R. N., Dick, J., Dimarco, R. D., Essl, F., Everts, T., García‐Berthou, E., Hauer, M., Kouba, A., . . . Haubrock, P. J. (2025). Parallels and discrepancies between non‐native species introductions and human migration. Biological Reviews/Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society.
https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.70004
Aluwihare, Y. C., Fernando, S., Gunasinghe, M. S., Ranasinghe, C., S, R. M. A., Weerakoon, T., Haputhantri, S. S. K., Jayasinghe, P. K., Lisher, M. W., & Psomadakis, P. N. (2025). First confirmed record of adult Pacific squaretail, Tetragonurus pacificus (Teleostei: Perciformes: Stromateoidei) from the Indian Ocean, with an expanded description. Zootaxa, 5604(1), 41–51.
https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5604.1.4
Armitage, A. R., Dittmann, S., Jones, A., Kelleway, J. J., Madikizela, B., O’Connor, J., Porri, F., Rogers, K., Waycott, M., Whitcraft, C., & Adams, J. B. (2025). Global complexities and challenges in the restoration of hypersaline coastal wetlands. Cambridge Prisms Coastal Futures, 1–24.
https://doi.org/10.1017/cft.2025.1
Atkins, S., Mann-Lang, J., Cliff, G., Olbers, J., Kock, A., Lucrezi, S., Griffiths, M., Jordaan, T., Plön, S., Matthee, C., Pillay, N., & Cantor, M. (2025). Navigating transdisciplinary waters to protect both sharks and bathers in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: diverse stakeholders propose potential actions. Ecology and Society, 30(3).
https://doi.org/10.5751/es-16288-300318
Bacher, S., Ryan-Colton, E., Coiro, M., Cassey, P., Galil, B. S., Nuñez, M. A., Ansong, M., Dehnen-Schmutz, K., Fayvush, G., Fernandez, R. D., Hiremath, A. J., Ikegami, M., Martinou, A. F., McDermott, S. M., Preda, C., Vilà, M., Weyl, O. L. F., Aravind, N. A., Angelidou, I., . . . Zengeya, T. A. (2025b). Global Impacts Dataset of Invasive Alien Species (GIDIAS). Scientific Data, 12(1).
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-025-05184-5
Bailey, L. A., Childs, A. R., James, N. C., Duncan, M. I., Pringle, B. A., & Potts, W. M. (2025). Assessing individual physiological variability and future performance phenotypes is essential for predicting the resilience of fish populations to anthropogenic climate change. Conservation Physiology, 13(1).
https://doi.org/10.1093/conphys/coaf043
Baso, N. C., Bownes, A., Hill, M., & Coetzee, J. A. (2025). Modelling the distribution of a submerged invasive macrophyte and its potential biological control agent in invaded ranges. Hydrobiologia. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-025-05835-z
Baso, N. C., Hill, M. P., Bownes, A., & Coetzee, J. A. (2025). Systematic review and meta-analysis of the Enemy Release Hypothesis as applied to aquatic plants. Aquatic Botany, 103866. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquabot.2025.103866
Bilton, D. T., Mlambo, M. C., & Balke, M. (2025). A new species of Anacaena Thomson, 1859 from the Cederberg Range, South Africa (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae). Zootaxa, 5613(1), 165–170. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5613.1.8
Bogorodsky, S. V., Muto, N., Hata, H., Motomura, H., & Alpermann, T. J. (2025). Review of the Mackerel Genus Rastrelliger (Teleostei: Scombridae) with Redescription of R. chrysozonus (Rüppell, 1836) and R. kanagurta (Cuvier, 1816). Diversity, 17(1), 72.
https://doi.org/10.3390/d17010072
Botha, H., Smit, N. J., Erasmus, A., & Hadfield, K. A. (2025). A redescription and two new descriptions of gnathiid isopods (Isopoda, Gnathiidae) from South African museum collections (1898–1976). ZooKeys, 1256, 115–140.
https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1256.162445
Boulêtreau, S., Vagnon, C., Comte, L., Sagouis, A., Pool, T., Stiling, R. R., Harrod, C., South, J., McIntosh, A. R., Perga, M., Sánchez-Hernández, J., Roussel, J., Tunney, T. D., Jackson, M., Olden, J. D., & Cucherousset, J. (2025). IsoFresh: A global stable isotope database of freshwater food webs. Knowledge and Management of Aquatic Ecosystems, 426, 15.
https://doi.org/10.1051/kmae/2025010
Bragança, P. H. N., & Skelton, P. H. (2025). On the validity and distribution of Hemichromis angolensis (Cichliformes: Cichlidae). Hydrobiologia, 853(5), 1585–1596.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-025-06015-9
Cajiao-Mora, K., Dutton, H. R., Jacobs, F. J., Beytell, P. C., Netherlands, E. C., DuPreez, L. H., & Bullard, S. A. (2025b). Supplemental description of Stephanoprora ornata Odhner, 1902 (Digenea: Echinochasmidae) infecting the Nile crocodile, Crocodylus niloticus (Crocodylidae) from Namibia with emendation of Mesorchis Dietz, 1909 and a phylogenetic analysis. Journal of Helminthology, 99. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022149x25000100
Carneiro, L., Leroy, B., Capinha, C., Bradshaw, C. J. A., Bertolino, S., Catford, J. A., Camacho-Cervantes, M., Bojko, J., Klippel, G., Kumschick, S., Pincheira-Donoso, D., Tonkin, J. D., Fath, B. D., South, J., Manfrini, E., Dallas, T., & Courchamp, F. (2025). Typology of the ecological impacts of biological invasions. Trends in Ecology & Evolution.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2025.03.010
Carpenter, M., Cullain, N., Daly, R., Smith, G., Dicken, M., Dames, V., Griffiths, C. L., & Marshall, A. D. (2025). Preliminary insights into manta ray (Mobula alfredi and M. birostris) population demographics and distribution in South Africa. Environmental Biology of Fishes.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10641-024-01639-7
Cawood, R. A., Seymour, C. L., & Pryke, J. S. (2025). Trait‐based recovery of insect functional diversity following pine removal in a shrubland biodiversity hotspot. Restoration Ecology.
https://doi.org/10.1111/rec.70267
Cawood, R. A., Seymour, C. L., & Pryke, J. S. (2025a). Passive recovery of insects after pine removal in a biodiversity rich shrubland is taxon dependent. Biological Conservation, 313, 111583. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2025.111583
Chikodza, T., Cuthbert, R. N., Schrama, M., Coetzee, J., Wasserman, R., Veldhuis, M. P., & Strange, E. F. (2025). Double trouble: aquatic invasive plants can promote mosquitoes. Ecology Letters, 28(10), e70199. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.70199
Conradie, W., Keates, C., Greenbaum, E., Lobón-Rovira, J., Tolley, K. A., Benito, M., Pinto, P. V., Reuben, V. B., V., & Verburgt, L. (2025). Systematics of African rough-scaled lizards, with description of two new species from eastern Angola (Squamata: Lacertidae: Ichnotropis Peters, 1854) [Dataset]. In Open MIND.
https://doi.org/10.15468/4qqgur
Conradie, W., Hundermark, C., Kemp, L., & Keates, C. (2025). New Pygmy Gecko (Goggia: Gekkonidae) from the arid Northern Cape Province of South Africa. Zootaxa, 5618(4), 552–570. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5618.4.5
Da Luz, A. N., Correia, S. M., Lopes, E. P., Jimenez, J. G., Traore, D., & Psomadakis, P. N. (2025). A new species of the genus Mystriophis (Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae) from Cabo Verde (Eastern Central Atlantic), with notes on two Mystriophis specimens documented on the R/V Dr. Fridtjof Nansen. Zootaxa, 5632(2), 293–308.
https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5632.2.4
Daly, R., Letori, J., Hector, A., McNeely, W., Levorato, E., & Berke, G. (2025). Giant trevally (Caranx ignobilis) use novel breaching strategy to prey on seabirds in flight. Ecology, 106(9), e70211. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.70211
Daly, R., Murray, T. S., Roberts, M. J., Schoeman, D. S., Lubitz, N., Barnett, A., Cedras, R., Bolaji, D. A., Brokensha, G. M., Noury, P. M. L., Forget, F., & Venables, S. K. (2025). Breaking barriers: Transoceanic movement by a bull shark. Ecology, 106(5).
https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.70096
De Bragança, P. H. N., Iyaba, R. M., & Stiassny, M. L. J. (2025). Description of a new miniature and paedomorphic gonorynchiform ( Kneriidae : Grasseichthys ) from the Cuvette Centrale, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Journal of Fish Biology.
https://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.70300
Debaere, S. F., Weideli, O. C., Daly, R., Milanesi, E. M. C., Trujillo, J. E., Bouyoucos, I. A., Mourier, J., Chin, A., Planes, S., De Boeck, G., & Rummer, J. L. (2025). The costs and healing rates of minor injuries in neonatal reef sharks. Journal of Fish Biology.
https://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.16059
De Necker, L., Brendonck, L., De Swardt, J., Vlok, W., Malherbe, W., Fouché, P., Smit, N. J., & Wepener, V. (2025). Fish diversity and community structures of the Lower Phongolo River following four decades of human impacts. African Journal of Wildlife Research, 55(sp1).
https://doi.org/10.3957/056.055.0112
De Queiroz, V., Silva, P. C., Machado, V. N., De Assis, C. E., Barros, L. C., Dergam, J. A., & Henschel, E. (2025). A new endemic species of Psalidodon Eigenmann (Characiformes: Acestrorhamphidae) from the upper rio Doce basin, Brazil. Zootaxa, 5725(2), 231–254.
https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5725.2.3
Dixon, R., Mann, B., Murray, T., Cowley, P., & Daly, R. (2025). Unravelling the mystery of a unique giant trevally Caranx ignobilis aggregation in the Mtentu Estuary, Pondoland Marine Protected Area, South Africa. Figshare.
https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.30936633.v1
Donough, N. S., Truter, M., Wepener, V., Brendonck, L., Thoré, E. S., & Smit, N. J. (2025). Integrating morphology and genetics to resolve the first reptilian liolopid life cycle in Africa, Paraharmotrema karinganiense (Digenea: Liolopidae). Parasitology, 1–15.
https://doi.org/10.1017/s003118202510125x
Du Preez, L., Netherlands, E., & Minter, L. (2025). A new Rain Frog (Anura: Brevicipitidae; Breviceps ) from the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands, South Africa. African Journal of Herpetology, 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1080/21564574.2025.2478896
Dunga, L. V., Sink, K. J., Van Der Bank, M. G., Harris, L. R., Van Niekerk, L., Perschke, M., Brand, R., Mann-Lang, J., Bruton, M., Strand, M., Rivers, N., Lamberth, S., Clift, H., Snow, B., Knott, E., & Gee, K. (2025). Piloting a culturally significant areas framework for spatial planning and management in the coastal environment of South Africa. Marine Policy, 180, 106807.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2025.106807
Elliott, M., & Whitfield, A. K. (2025). Science and management achieving connectivity, coherence and equivalence to ensure the health of estuarine fish communities. Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science, 109133. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2025.109133
Englmaier, G. K., Collins, R. A., Skelton, P. H., & Scheepers, M. (2025). Redescription of Enteromius eutaenia ( Boulenger , 1904) ( Cyprinidae, Smiliogastrinae ) and the description of two new species of Enteromius from the Cunene River , southern Africa. Journal of Fish Biology.
https://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.70271
Esmaeili, H. R., Zarei, F., Sadeghi, R., Sholeh, V., Sadeghi, Y., & Hashemi, S. H. (2025). Hidden in plain sight: new morpho-molecular data on the cryptic tropical sand goby, Favonigobius reichei (Bleeker, 1854) (Teleostei: Gobiidae: Gobiinae) from the northwestern Indian Ocean. Marine Biodiversity, 55(1).
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12526-024-01498-6
Ferreira, M. W. M., Pontes, J. K. P. N., Ferreira, M. P. P., Santos, J. P., Guimarães, E. C., De Brito, P. S., Da Costa, G. C., Ottoni, F. P., Oliveira, R. F., Da Silva Dias, L. J. B., Gonsioroski, G., Pinheiro, L. V. S., Lopes, D. F. C., & Ândrade, M. (2025). Fishes of the Tibiri River basin: an urban insular hydrographic system located in São Luís, Northeastern Brazil. Biota Neotropica, 25(3).
https://doi.org/10.1590/1676-0611-bn-2025-1784
Frachet, J., Childs, A., Winkler, A., Farthing, M., Hempel, C., & Potts, W. (2025). Individual variability in the thermal limits of juvenile dusky kob Argyrosomus japonicus from a permanently open estuary. African Journal of Marine Science, 47(4), 413–423.
https://doi.org/10.2989/1814232x.2025.2573474
https://doi.org/10.3354/esr01465
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0326497
Gon, O., Maclaine, J., & Delling, B. (2025). Finding of two missing syntypes of the Antarctic fish species Trematomus loennbergii (Perciformes, Nototheniidae) with designation of a lectotype. Antarctic Science, 1–4. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0954102025100473
Green, A., Cooper, J., Draycott, H., & Loureiro, C. (2025). Stratigraphy, evolution and morphology of a sand-rich shoreface. Geomorphology, 109884.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2025.109884
Green, A., Heeralal, T., Cooper, J., Labuschagne, H., & Meltzer, L. (2025). Genesis and preservation of composite (Miocene to Holocene) gravel deposits on the accommodation-limited continental shelf of south-central Namibia. Marine Geology, 107517.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2025.107517
Gumede, X., Masikane, N. F., Jonnalagadda, S., Hendricks, N., Mpungose, P., & Gumbi, B. P. (2025). Algoa Bay sediment metal distribution and potential ecological risk assessment. Environmental Pollutants and Bioavailability, 37(1).
https://doi.org/10.1080/26395940.2025.2557996
Gusha, N. M., & McQuaid, C. D. (2024). Traits without boundaries: The environmental influence on biological traits across an intertidal region. Journal of Sea Research, 102559. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seares.2024.102559
Gusha, N., Veii, A., Nghipangelwa, N., Shikongo, A., Bova, C., Kanyimba, A., Engelhard, G., Hyder, K., Snow, B., Potts, W., & Wilhelm. (2025). Listening to the voices of Namibia’s recreational anglers to improve shore-based fishery resource use and management. African Journal of Marine Science, 47(4), 373–386.
https://doi.org/10.2989/1814232x.2025.2519155
Harrison, T. D., & Whitfield, A. K. (2025). A global trophic analysis of estuary-associated fishes. Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11160-024-09916-5
Hasan, V., Oliveira, R. F., Filgueira, C. T. S., Syarif, A. F., Valen, F. S., Kamarudin, A. S., Ahmad, A. B., Samitra, D., South, J., & Ottoni, F. P. (2025). First records of Osteochilus flavicauda Kottelat & Tan, 2009 (Cypriniformes, Cyprinidae, Labeoninae) from Indonesia. Check List, 21(6), 1092–1098.
https://doi.org/10.15560/21.6.1092
Hata, H., Lavoué, S., Psomadakis, P. N., Osmany, H. B., & Motomura, H. (2025). Thrissina mystica sp. nov., a new thryssa (Teleostei: Clupeiformes: Engraulidae: Coiliinae) from the northern Indian Ocean. Ichthyological Research.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10228-025-01023-0
Holmes, M., Campbell, E., & Taylor, J. (2025). The spatial distribution patterns of freshwater diatom species in the southern Karoo related to their associated environmental conditions. South African Journal of Botany, 184, 154–166.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sajb.2025.05.008
Holmes, M., Campbell, E., De Wit, M., & Taylor, J. (2025). Preliminary checklist for freshwater diatom species of the Karoo, South Africa. Bothalia, 55(1).
https://doi.org/10.38201/abc.v55.3
Ikegwuoha, N. P. P., Hanekom, T., Booysen, E., Jason, C., Parker‐Nance, S., Davies‐Coleman, M. T., Van Zyl, L. J., & Trindade, M. (2025). Fimsbactin Siderophores From a South African Marine Sponge Symbiont, Marinomonas sp. PE14‐40. Microbial Biotechnology, 18(5).
https://doi.org/10.1111/1751-7915.70155
Irion, D. T., Jewell, O. J. D., Towner, A. V., Fahmi, Fischer, G. C., Gennari, E., Stewart, M., Tyminski, J. P., & Kock, A. A. (2025). Transoceanic dispersal and connectivity of a white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) between southern Africa and Southeast Asia. Wildlife Research, 52(6).
https://doi.org/10.1071/wr24145
Jagger, C. E., Potts, W. M., Pringle, B. A., Bordbar, M. H., Henriques, R., McKeown, N. J., & Wilhelm, M. R. (2025). Growth rate extremes of a Sciaenid in an ocean-warming hotspot. Fisheries Research, 285, 107366. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fishres.2025.107366
James, N. C., Edworthy, C., Van Niekerk, L., Lamberth, S. J., Adams, J. B., Whitfield, A. K., & Deyzel, S. H. P. (2025). Healthy estuaries enhance climate change resilience for fish within South African coastal seascapes. Landscape Ecology, 41(2).
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-025-02273-z
Jimenez, P. J., Vorsatz, L. D., Satyanarayana, B., & Cannicci, S. (2025). Phylogeny of respiratory adaptations and local temperature extremes shape the thermal vulnerability of intertidal crabs. Functional Ecology, 39(10), 2637–2655.
https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.70135
Johnson, J. W., Jacobson, M. G., Cole, S. M., Syapwaya, M., Kaminski, A., Karsten, H., Stauffer, J. R., Jensen, L., & Lundeba, M. (2025). An assessment of social and ecological factors influencing the management and productivity of smallholder aquacultural systems in northern Province, Zambia. Aquaculture Research, 2025(1).
https://doi.org/10.1155/are/9635984
Justo, M. C. N., Silva, M. L., Ottoni, F. P., De França Mendonça, G. C., De Nigris, G. O., & Cohen, S. C. (2025). New species of Diaphorocleidus and Urocleidoides with a redescription of Curvianchoratus hexacleidus (Monopisthocotyla: Dactylogyridae) parasitizing characiform fishes from the Munim River Basin, northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa, 5729(1), 135–150.
https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5729.1.5
Kaiser-Reichel, A., O’Brien, G., Petersen, R., Khoza, T., Van Der Merwe, A., Riddell, E., Smit, N., & Dalu, T. (2025). Fish community dynamics of seasonal rivers of the Incomati Basin, Kruger National Park, South Africa. African Journal of Aquatic Science, 1–11.
https://doi.org/10.2989/16085914.2025.2528799
Keneni, D. A., Njanje, I., Kalinski, J. J., Isaacs, M., Swart, T., Davison, C., De La Mare, J., & Dorrington, R. A. (2025). Dual Biological Potential: Anticancer and Antibacterial Activities of Bis‐ α, ω‐Bifunctional Sphingolipids from the Marine Sponge Oceanapia ramsayi. ChemMedChem, 20(22), e202500392.
https://doi.org/10.1002/cmdc.202500392
Kilian, W., Murray, T., Filmalter, J., Cowley, P., Næsje, T., & Wasserman, R. (2025). The movements of adult leerfish Lichia amia in the Breede Estuary, Western Cape, South Africa: insights from acoustic telemetry. African Journal of Marine Science, 47(4), 321–329.
https://doi.org/10.2989/1814232x.2025.2531955
Kisekelwa, T., Alimasi, W., Joyeuse, M., Kubota, M., Muzungu, H., Mulega, A. M., Lemmens, P., Vreven, E., Snoeks, J., Masilya, M., Bouillon, S., & Lejeune, B. (2025). Insight into trophic niche differentiation in Labeobarbus (Cyprinidae) in the Luhoho Basin (Upper Congo Basin). Ecology and Evolution, 15(4).
https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.71171
Kraft, D. W., Conklin, E. E., Freel, E. B., Hutchinson, M., Spaet, J. L., Toonen, R. J., Forsman, Z. H., Grant, M. I., Filmalter, J. D., Hyde, J. R., Gulak, S. J., & Bowen, B. W. (2025). Global stock structure of the Silky shark (Carcharhinus falciformis, Carcharhinidae) assessed with high-throughput DNA sequencing. PeerJ, 13, e19493.
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19493
Langlois, T., Spencer, C., Gibbons, B. A., Griffin, K. J., Adams, K., Aston, C., Barrett, N., Bastiaansen, A., Beach, D., Bernard, A., Bond, T., Carey, G. R., Caselle, J. E., Cieri, K., Cummins, G. H., Cure, K., De Lestang, S., Fitzhardinge, J., Giraldo‐Ospina, A., . . . Monk, J. (2025). Benthic Observation Survey System (BOSS) for surveys of marine benthic habitats. Methods in Ecology and Evolution.
https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210x.70010
Le, A. H., Nguyen, H. V., Van Hoang, H., Tran, T. A., Nguyen, C. N., Nguyen, B. N., Nguyen, H. T., Greiman, S. E., Stauffer, J. R., Madsen, H., & Nguyen, M. H. (2025). Hydropower reservoirs – their potential association with transmission of trematodes in Vietnam. Journal of Helminthology, 99.
https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022149x2400097x
Roux, C. L., Cook, C. A., Netherlands, E. C., Truter, M., & Smit, N. J. (2025). Molecular and morphological characterization of one known and three new species of fish parasitic Trypanosoma Gruby, 1972 from the south coast of South Africa. Parasitology, 152(5), 531–550.
https://doi.org/10.1017/s0031182025000496
Roux, M. H. L., Malherbe, W., Brendonck, L., Smit, N. J., & De Necker, L. (2025). Tracking freshwater snail diversity: a historical and environmental study in sub-tropical South Africa. Hydrobiologia, 853(2), 443–456. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-025-05940-z
Liu, G., Lin, Z., Soininen, J., Dalu, T., Juvigny-Khenafou, N. P. D., Khan, S., Mu, H., Oduro, C., Qi, X., Qu, X., Riis, T., Wijewardene, L., Zhang, M., Li, J., Wu, Y., & Wu, N. (2025). Standardized diversity estimation uncovers global distribution patterns and drivers of stream insects. Npj Biodiversity, 4(1), 27.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s44185-025-00098-2
Ma, K., Reddy, S., Froneman, W., Porri, F., & McQuaid, C. (2025). Locality-based community science facilitates early detection and monitoring: the case of an extralimital population of a brachyuran crab. Management of Biological Invasions, 16(2), 531–544.
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