All Stories

  1. Scenarios of Plant Diversity in South African Mountain Ranges in Relation to Climate Change

    Article • September 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Mr Leslie Ward Powrie

  2. Vegetation Map of South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland 2009 and 2012: A description of changes from 2006

    Article • Bothalia, June 2017, South African National Biodiversity Institute

    Mr Leslie Ward Powrie

  3. Where exactly? Historical and modern geo-referencing challenges and solutions

    Article • South African Journal of Botany, March 2017, Elsevier

    Mr Leslie Ward Powrie

  4. Impact of the Future Changing Climate on the Southern Africa Biomes, and the Importance of Geology

    Article • Journal of Geoscience and Environment Protection, January 2017, Scientific Research Publishing, Inc,

    Mr Leslie Ward Powrie

  5. Erratum: Corrigendum: Mapping tree density at a global scale

    Article • Nature, December 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mr Leslie Ward Powrie

  6. ‘High-co-occurrence genera’: weak but consistent relationships with global richness, niche partitioning, hybridization and decline

    Article • Global Ecology and Biogeography, October 2015, Wiley

    Dr Igor V Bartish, Mr Leslie Ward Powrie

  7. Mapping tree density at a global scale

    Article • Nature, September 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mr Leslie Ward Powrie

  8. The Vegetation Map of South Africa: Past changes and opportunity for future updates

    Article • South African Journal of Botany, May 2015, Elsevier

    Mr Leslie Ward Powrie

  9. Impacts of heavy grazing on plant species richness: A comparison across rangeland biomes of South Africa

    Article • South African Journal of Botany, July 2013, Elsevier

    Mr Leslie Ward Powrie

  10. Showcasing some of the technology developed in SANBI

    Article • South African Journal of Botany, May 2013, Elsevier

    Mr Leslie Ward Powrie

  11. National Vegetation Database of South Africa

    Article • Biodiversity & Ecology, September 2012, University of Hamburg, Biodiversitat, Evolution and Okologie der Pflanzen

    Mr Leslie Ward Powrie

  12. HERBIVORE-DRIVEN LAND DEGRADATION: CONSEQUENCES FOR PLANT DIVERSITY AND SOIL IN ARID SUBTROPICAL THICKET IN SOUTH-EASTERN AFRICA

    Article • Land Degradation and Development, July 2012, Wiley

    Mr Leslie Ward Powrie

  13. Impacts of high utilisation pressure on biodiversity components inColophospermum mopanesavanna

    Article • African Journal of Range and Forage Science, April 2012, Informa UK Limited

    Mr Leslie Ward Powrie

  14. The South African National Vegetation Database: History, development, applications, problems and future

    Article • South African Journal of Science, January 2012, Academy of Science of South Africa

    Mr Leslie Ward Powrie

  15. Plant diversity consequences of a herbivore-driven biome switch from Grassland to Nama-Karoo shrub steppe in South Africa

    Article • Applied Vegetation Science, September 2011, Wiley

    Mr Leslie Ward Powrie

  16. Early post-fire plant succession in Peninsula Sandstone Fynbos: The first three years after disturbance

    Article • South African Journal of Botany, August 2011, Elsevier

    Mr Leslie Ward Powrie

  17. Can heavy grazing on communal land elevate plant species richness levels in the Grassland Biome of South Africa?

    Article • Plant Ecology, April 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mr Leslie Ward Powrie

  18. Severely degraded dunes of the southern Kalahari: local extinction, persistence and natural re-establishment of plants

    Article • African Journal of Ecology, November 2010, Wiley

    Mr Leslie Ward Powrie

  19. Severely degraded rangeland: Implications for plant diversity from a case study in Succulent Karoo, South Africa

    Article • Journal of Arid Environments, June 2010, Elsevier

    Mr Leslie Ward Powrie

  20. The Vegetation of South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland. Wall Map, Book and CD. How was that done? Behind the scenes of the VEGMAP

    Article • South African Journal of Botany, April 2007, Elsevier

    Mr Leslie Ward Powrie

  21. SAFARI 2000 NBI VEGETATION MAP OF THE SAVANNAS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA

    Article • March 2005, ORNL Environmental Sciences Division

    Mr Leslie Ward Powrie

  22. ACKDAT: a digital spatial database of distributions of South African plant species and species assemblages

    Article • South African Journal of Botany, March 2003, Elsevier

    Mr Leslie Ward Powrie

  23. Nama-karoo veld types revisited: a numerical analysis of original Acocks’ field data

    Article • South African Journal of Botany, March 2003, Elsevier

    Mr Leslie Ward Powrie

  24. Assessing the vulnerability of species richness to anthropogenic climate change in a biodiversity hotspot

    Article • Global Ecology and Biogeography, November 2002, Wiley

    Mr Leslie Ward Powrie

  25. Climate change in conservation areas of South Africa and its potential impact on floristic composition: a first assessment

    Article • Diversity and Distributions, November 1999, Wiley

    Mr Leslie Ward Powrie

  26. Comparative field performance of three different gas exchange systems

    Article • Bothalia, October 1997, South African National Biodiversity Institute

    Mr Leslie Ward Powrie

  27. Predicting survival in new environments through analytical GIS application

    Article • Environmental Software, January 1996, Elsevier

    Mr Leslie Ward Powrie

  28. Realized Niche Spaces and Functional Types: A Framework for Prediction of Compositional Change

    Article • Journal of Biogeography, March 1995, JSTOR

    Mr Leslie Ward Powrie

  29. Allelochemic control of biomass allocation in interacting shrub species

    Article • Journal of Chemical Ecology, May 1993, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mr Leslie Ward Powrie

  30. Responses of Karoo plants to hail damage near Williston, Cape Province

    Article • South African Journal of Botany, February 1993, Elsevier

    Mr Leslie Ward Powrie