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First day of fieldwork went smooth although it was raining bit. #BelowgroundBudBank #BelowgroundPlantEcology #PhDLife

Second day was more about soil sampling for the soil seed bank project (Yani's project). From tomorrow we will try and do belowground bud bank and soil seed bank sampling simultaneously #BelowgroundPlantEcology #SeedBank #BudBank #ForbEcology

Got soaked in the Kruger rain this past few days but it was worth it, had a great time looking at belowground organs of dominant forbs and grasses of the Satara Experimental Burn Plots. #BelowgroundPlantEcology #BudBank #phdlife #ForbEcology

Seedbanks enhance resilience in ecosystems restored after mining. By applying smoke to soil seedbanks, we found that regeneration following fire is possible in sites restored three to 26 years ago. Behind the paper blog by Ebony Cowan vegsciblog.org/2023/02/14/res… IAVS Applied Vegetation Science

Appreciation Post: Congratulations to Frances Cibert and Greg Kiker for having attended the most of the Savannah Science Network Meetings since they started 20 years ago. #ssnm2023 Left to right: Greg Kiker, Judith Botha and Frances Cibert.

#SSNM20

At it again...this time it's the 20th edition of the Savanna Science Network Meeting. #SSNM20

last speaker for the day closing off the session Tsumbedzo L. Ramalevha and talking about his work on below ground herbaceous regeneration in central Kruger National Park #SSNM20

A fantastic first meeting of the newly established FERG NWU Postgraduate Community of Practice. These discussions are aimed at improving students relationship and their understanding of what other students are researching. #FERG_PCP

Forbs 🌿 are also often overlooked, despite their incredible ecological importance. Listen to Dr Helga van Coller (FERG NWU Postdoc) explaining the importance of forbs in semi-arid savanna conservation, management and research: #ForbEcology sharescreenafrica.org/video-presenta…

🔥 from the press. Excellent work from Lois and Patricia Mmapule Padi on yet another medicinal forb - Enicostema axillare. Well done on this publication. #ForbEcology researchgate.net/publication/37…

ENVIRA Winter Edition 2023 has been released! natural-sciences.nwu.ac.za/sites/natural-… Dr Cormac Price Nico J Smit NWU - North-West University FERG NWU NWU Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences NWU Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management GreenMatterZA NWU_WRG iNaturalist @citnatchallenge South Africa-Sweden University Forum (SASUF) #Microplastics #SASUF #GreenMatter #SETAC #Forbs #Lichens #Pollinatormargins

Join us for the NRF SAEON seminar by registering using this link forms.gle/FnjgU6osi8G1HM… to gain insights on the importance of forbs National Research Foundation of South Africa SAEON-GSN

58th Annual Congress of the GSSA is in session! Excited to learn, excited to present 🌾GrasslandSocSA #GSSACongress58 FutureEcoAfrica FERG NWU

I call this stance my 'let me tell you about #grassland, #forbs and #carbon power stance!' I presented my total plant carbon data I found in old growth grasslands vs previously ploughed fields. GrasslandSocSA #GSSACongress58 #studentspeaker FutureEcoAfrica FERG NWU

Dr Helga van Coller, our postdoc presented a poster on megafauna carcass and forb composition in KrugerNationalPark at the GrasslandSocSA conference. #ForbEcology Helga Knoetze (van Coller) NWU Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management NWU - North-West University

Proud of Eulalia indeed for winning the best young scientist presentation.👏👏👏 #ForbEcology

Workshop with all the partners and researchers FutureEcoAfrica about the theories of change. I am representing the carbon in our grasslands! It will be exciting to link my work with other researchers that form part of this program. Oppenheimer Generations Research & Conservation FERG NWU

Is the amount of parenchyma in storage organs a good predictor of non-structural carbohydrate storage in herbs? link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Our group did exceptionally well at the 51st Annual Parasitological Society of Southern Africa Conference. - Prof Louis du Preez: Elsdon-Dew Medal for merit to contributions to parasitology in Africa....