Jasper Slingsby

Publications

• Range‐wide population viability analyses reveal high sensitivity to wildflower harvesting in extreme environments
• Biome boundary maintained by intense belowground resource competition in world’s thinnest-rooted plant community
• Tracking Socioeconomic Vulnerability Using Network Analysis: Insights from an Avian Influenza Outbreak in an Ostrich Production Network
• Processes of community assembly in an environmentally heterogeneous, high biodiversity region
• Land cover change homogenizes functional and phylogenetic diversity within and among African savanna bird assemblages
• Rates and patterns of habitat loss across South Africa’s vegetation biomes
• Identifying research questions for the conservation of the Cape Floristic Region
• Regional ecological forecasting across scales: A manifesto for a biodiversity hotspot
• Forest restoration or propaganda? The need for Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) scores to uphold research integrity
• Jonkershoek: Africa's oldest catchment experiment ‐ 80 years and counting
• Forecasting vegetation dynamics in an open ecosystem by integrating deep learning and environmental variables
• South African National Biodiversity Assessment 2018 Technical Report Volume 1: Terrestrial Realm
• Terrestrial and Freshwater Ecosystems and Their Services
• What Are the Grand Challenges for Plant Conservation in the 21st Century?
• Social-ecological change: insights from the Southern African Program on Ecosystem Change and Society
• Fire and life history affect the distribution of plant species in a biodiversity hotspot
• Assessing the threat of landscape transformation and habitat fragmentation in a global biodiversity hotspot
• Priority questions for biodiversity conservation in the Mediterranean biome: Heterogeneous perspectives across continents and stakeholders
• BioTIME: A database of biodiversity time series for the Anthropocene
• Understanding global change impacts on South African biomes using Dynamic Vegetation Models
• Near-real time forecasting and change detection for an open ecosystem with complex natural dynamics
• Validation of the periodicity of growth increment deposition in otoliths from the larval and early juvenile stages of two cyprinids from the Orange-Vaal river system, South Africa
• Drowning in data, thirsty for information and starved for understanding: A biodiversity information hub for cooperative environmental monitoring in South Africa
• Finding rare species and estimating the probability that all occupied sites have been found
• Intensifying postfire weather and biological invasion drive species loss in a Mediterranean-type biodiversity hotspot
• Stochastic Species Turnover and Stable Coexistence in a Species-Rich, Fire-Prone Plant Community
• Fynbos Proteaceae as model organisms for biodiversity research and conservation
• Geography, climate, and biodiversity: the history and future of mediterranean-type ecosystems
• The assembly and function of Cape plant communities in a changing world
• Ecology limits the diversity of the Cape flora: Phylogenetics and diversification of the genus Tetraria
• Producing a plant diversity portal for South Africa
• On Bird Functional Diversity: Species Richness and Functional Differentiation Show Contrasting Responses to Rainfall and Vegetation Structure in an Arid Landscape
• Leaf traits of African woody savanna species across climate and soil fertility gradients: evidence for conservative versus acquisitive resource-use strategies
• Maintenance of species integrity in the context of a recent radiation: the case ofJamesbrittenia(Scrophulariaceae: Limoselleae) in southern Africa
• Investigating the evolutionary assembly of a Mediterranean biodiversity hotspot: deep phylogenetic signal in the distribution of eudicots across elevational belts
• A novel phylogenetic regionalization of phytogeographical zones of southern Africa reveals their hidden evolutionary affinities
• A high resolution 15,600-year pollen and microcharcoal record from the Cederberg Mountains, South Africa
• Diversification of C4 grasses (Poaceae) does not coincide with their ecological dominance
• Radiation and repeated transoceanic dispersal of Schoeneae (Cyperaceae) through the southern hemisphere.
• Phylogenetic relatedness limits co-occurrence at fine spatial scales: evidence from the schoenoid sedges (Cyperaceae: Schoeneae) of the Cape Floristic Region, South Africa.
• Do Mixed Fire Regimes Shape Plant Flammability and Post-Fire Recovery Strategies?
• Monitoring the critically endangered Clanwilliam cedar with freely available Google Earth imagery
• Altered ignition catchments threaten a hyperdiverse fire‐dependent ecosystem
• Functional traits explain the Hutchinsonian niches of plant species
• An operational definition of the biome for global change research
• Propagating uncertainty from catchment experiments to estimates of streamflow reduction by invasive alien plants in southwestern South Africa
• Plant spectral diversity as a surrogate for species, functional and phylogenetic diversity across a hyper‐diverse biogeographic region
• The Southern African Program on Ecosystem Change and Society: an emergent community of practice
• Limited climatic space for alternative ecosystem states in Africa
• Biodiversity across the Greater Cape Floristic Region
• Generative spatial generalized dissimilarity mixed modelling (spGDMM): An enhanced approach to modelling beta diversity
• Fire-modulated fluctuations in nutrient availability stimulate biome-scale floristic turnover in time, and elevated species richness, in low-nutrient fynbos heathland
• Changes in How Climate Forces the Vegetation of Southern Africa
• Combined HMM post-processing analyses of river plots and bar plots of the gross (grey) and net (colour) change in each land cover class (i.e. NVF, Aliens, Indigenous Forest, Grassland, and Mixed Woody Grassland) under their respective management classes (i.e. Barloworld/Commercial, Communal, Forestry/Conservation, and Plantations) between 1990 and 2020
• Grid panel display of line graphs illustrating Sentinel-2 single-date composite image surface reflectance spectra of all 11-land cover classes arranged as alien vegetation, native vegetation, and the rest of the land cover classes for 2019.
• Grid display of line graphs representing Sentinel-2 multi-temporal imagery for mean surface reflectance spectra of land cover classes for 2019, with 95% confidence interval
• Confusion matrix for land cover classification of 2019 training data using Landsat imagery.
• Grid panel display of line graphs illustrating Sentinel-2 single-date composite image surface reflectance spectra of all 11-land cover classes arranged as alien vegetation, native vegetation, and the rest of the land cover classes for 2019.
• Confusion matrix for land cover classification of a single-date composite Sentinel-2 image.
• Grid display of line graphs representing Sentinel-2 multi-temporal imagery for mean surface reflectance spectra of land cover classes for 2019, with 95% confidence interval
• Google Earth Engine (GEE) Sentinel-2 land cover classification and Landsat harmonised time series analyses from 1990 until 2020
• Combined HMM post-processing analyses of river plots and bar plots of the gross (grey) and net (colour) change in each land cover class (i.e. NVF, Aliens, Indigenous Forest, Grassland, and Mixed Woody Grassland) under their respective management classes (i.e. Barloworld/Commercial, Communal, Forestry/Conservation, and Plantations) between 1990 and 2020
• Confusion matrix for land cover classification of a single-date composite Sentinel-2 image.
• A classified map illustrating alien and native vegetation in the Mpumalanga/Limpopo region (a). Multi-temporal imagery was used to illustrate examples of areas where there is a high concentration of the three woody alien species of main interest: wattles (b), pines (c), and eucalypts (d)
• Google Earth Engine (GEE) Sentinel-2 land cover classification and Landsat harmonised time series analyses from 1990 until 2020
• A classified map illustrating alien and native vegetation in the Mpumalanga/Limpopo region (a). Multi-temporal imagery was used to illustrate examples of areas where there is a high concentration of the three woody alien species of main interest: wattles (b), pines (c), and eucalypts (d)
• Land cover change maps for land cover classes native vegetation, alien vegetation, and non-vegetated features for 1990 and 2020, respectively.
• Confusion matrix for land cover classification of 2019 training data using Landsat imagery.
• Confusion matrix for land cover classification of a multi-temporal Sentinel-2 imagery.
• Bioscape: Combining Airborne Hyperspectral and Laser Altimeter with Field Data to Advance Remote Sensing of Biodiversity
• Carbon isotope trends across a century of herbarium specimens suggest CO2 fertilization of C4 grasses
• The Biodiversity Survey of the Cape (BioSCape): Integrating Remote Sensing with Biodiversity Science
• The Biodiversity Survey of the Cape (BioSCape): Integrating Remote Sensing with Biodiversity Science
• Unpacking satellite pixels: UAVs reveal fine-scale drivers of land surface phenology in a winter rainfall shrubland
• Enhancing Applications of the Biodiversity Survey of the Cape (BioSCape)
• Enhancing Applications of the Biodiversity Survey of the Cape (BioSCape)
• Wetness severity increases abrupt shifts in ecosystem functioning in arid savannas
• Guidelines for the application of IUCN Red List of Ecosystems Categories and Criteria: version 2.0
• Biome Change in Southern Africa
• A New Era of Earth Observation for the Environment: Spatio-Temporal Monitoring Capabilities for Land Degradation