| Day 1: Keynote addresses |
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| The 2019 Science, Technology and Innovation White Paper |
Urszula Rust |
1.04 MB |
| The IPBES Global Assessment is overwhelming! Can we have too much Information and not enough data to spark action? |
Kiruben Naicker |
4.6 MB |
| Open data for open science |
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| The Global Biodiversity Information Facility: A mega-science initiative coordinating biodiversity informatics through an open resource infrastructure |
Fatima Parker-Allie |
3.31 MB |
| Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL): A source of big data and analysis. |
Lawrence Monda, Anne-Lise Fourie |
21.6 MB |
| Open data for the public good |
Peter Lukey |
11.27 MB |
| Building a database of Lepidoptera–host–parasitoid associations recorded for the Afrotropical region |
Hermann Staude |
22.31 MB |
| Is South Africa ready for metabarcoding? |
Sandi-Willows Munro |
6.66 MB |
| Foundational Biodiversity Information Programme (FBIP) – linking funding priorities with national projects and initiatives. |
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| FBIP: an overview of the programme funding approach, update of grants awarded and capacity development strategies. |
Lita Pauw |
36.23 MB |
| An update on Foundational Biodiversity Information Programme (FBIP) generated data |
Mahlatse Kgatla |
10.07 MB |
| Informal forest product harvesting and avian diversity in the Eastern Cape |
Michael Cherry |
13.0 MB |
| BioGaps: filling biodiversity information gaps to support development decision making in the Karoo |
Domitilla Raimondo |
20.68 MB |
| Snapshot Safari: progress to date and future directions |
Lain Pardo Vargas |
164.61 MB |
| Soil Fusarium survey in the Great Karoo biome of South Africa |
Riana Jacobs |
6.32 MB |
| Developing an operational framework for unlocking coastal plankton biodiversity information: progress, challenges and the ambitious march towards an informed future |
Shaun Deyzel |
7.78 MB |
| Regional Biodiversity Information Efforts – opportunities and challenges |
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| Strengthening biodiversity informatics and data mobilisation efforts nationally and regionally through SANBI-GBIF and the African Coordinating Mechanism |
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| The African Open Science Platform (AOSP): fostering a culture of open data within African National Systems of Innovation |
Susan Veldsman |
2.38 MB |
| Lessons learned from stimulating biodiversity informatics networks through the African Biodiversity Challenge |
Matthew Child |
30.31 MB |
| Enhancing the accessibility of biodiversity data in Malawi through partnerships and biodiversity information management tools |
Donald Mpalika |
5.22 MB |
| Enhancing biodiversity data mobilisation, management and utilisation in off reserve areas in Ghana: using CREMAs as a model |
Raymond Owusu-Achiaw |
6.73 MB |
| Exploring the Science, Technology and Innovation White Paper 2019 |
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Day 2:
Plenary Sessions |
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Keynote Address 3:Trends and innovations in biodiversity data capture and data management.
Supporting video |
Saarenmaa Hannu |
10.19 MB
104.27 MB |
| SANBI-GBIF, data sharing and growing institutional partnerships |
Fatima Parker-Allie |
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| Information systems and architecture (SANBI update session) |
Brenda Daly |
8.7 MB |
| Natural Science Collections Facility: data initiatives and progress |
Ian Engelbrecht |
10.04 MB |
| Parallel Session 1 |
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| Community engagement to contribute to collection data management services of the National Biodiversity Information System (NBIS) |
Brenda Daly |
1.35 MB |
| Developing our biodiversity informatics science and human capital |
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| Developing our biodiversity informatics science through curriculum and other initiatives |
Fatima Parker-Allie |
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| Youth Environmental Service (YES) Programme: empowering today’s youth in the Northwest Province |
Wentzel Pretorius, Maano Tshimang |
404.17 MB |
| Parallel Session 2: Microbial diversity |
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| Updating the taxonomy of Aspergillus, Penicillium and Talaromyces in South Africa |
Cobus Visagie |
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| Fungal biogeography and the use of publicly available data for answering biogeographic questions |
Mathew Haris |
20.71 MB |
| Mycorrhizal diversity associated with endemic and endangered South African orchids of the genus, Habenaria |
Modjadji Makwela |
28.58 MB |
| Genome-informed Bradyrhizobium taxonomy: where to from here? |
Juanita Avontuur |
7.5 MB |
| Both alpha- and beta-rhizobia occupy the root nodules of Vachellia karroo in South Africa |
Chrizelle Beukes |
2.49 MB |
| Isolation and identification of Penicillium species with potential phosphate solubilization activity from agricultural environments |
Aiden Visage |
6.98 MB |
| Characterization of bacterial species in Steinkopf a communal farming area in South Africa: a closer look at pathogenesis |
Jodene Foster |
11.15 MB |
| Speed presentations -Taxonomy, systematics and DNA Barcoding |
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| An assessment of the anatomical and genetic diversity of Themeda triandra Forssk |
Sinethemba Ntshangase |
0.68 MB |
| Predator–prey networks: using DNA barcodes to check what was for dinner |
Vimbai Siziba |
1.29 MB |
| A taxonomic review of Englerodaphne Gilg. (Thymelaeaceae:Thymelaeiodeae). |
Dorcas Olaniyan |
10.94 MB |
| A systematic study of the southern African endemic genus Sisyranthus |
Khanyisile Shabangu |
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| Systematics of southern African Anthemideae (Asteraceae): generic and subtribal relationships of Athanasiinae and Phymasperminae, and the placement of Inulanthera |
Solange Akimana |
6.95 MB |
| Evaluation of the nomenclatural status of the synonyms of Enteromius anoplus (Weber, 1987) (Teleostei, Cyprinidae) |
Manda Kambikambi |
28.72 MB |
| Contributing towards resolving taxonomic issues on South African Arachnida fauna. |
Thembile Khoza |
7.97 MB |
| Parallel Session 3: Innovative tools and applications to support research and development |
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Conveyor-driven mass digitisation of herbarium sheets and pinned insects – properties and performance
Supporting video |
Saarenmaa Hanna |
6.95 MB
347.17 MB |
| The e-Flora of South Africa – restructuring data to comply with Darwin Core standards for inclusion into the World Flora Online |
Fhatani Ranwashe, Marianne Le Roux |
3.32 MB |
| Historical and repeat photographs as a source of qualitative and quantitative biodiversity information |
Hana Petersen |
21.17 MB |
| Developing fixed-point photography methodologies for assessing post-fire mountain fynbos vegetation succession as a tool for biodiversity management |
Kalei Alkalei |
75.77 MB |
| The utilization of passive acoustic monitoring as a tool to determine anuran diversity in north-eastern Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa |
Wentzel Pretorius |
12.42 MB |
| Parallel Session 4: Changes in the diversity and composition of arthropods and ants |
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| Diversity and composition of ants and spiders along an increasing gradient of invasion by Chromolaena odorata at Buffelsdraai Landfill Conservancy, KwaZulu-Natal |
Sinenhlahla Mntambo |
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| What structures ant communities along the Udzungwa mountains: species turnover or richness differences |
Caroline Kunene |
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| Trade-offs: mechanisms that facilitate coexistence in the grassland ant communities |
Nokubonga Thabete |
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| Does soil acidity play a role in determining ant species diversity and composition in a mistbelt grassland of KwaZulu-Natal? |
Lindiwe Khoza |
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| Are arthropod communities changing with changing land-use patterns in communal areas? |
Concilia Mukanga |
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| Parallel Session 5: Using foundational biodiversity information for addressing global change challenges |
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| DNA barcoding of freshwater fishes from southern Africa: assembling a reference library for topotypes to expedite species inventory |
Albert Chakona |
227.54 MB |
| The branchiopod crustaceans of ephemeral wetlands in the Northern Cape |
Betsie Milne |
44.86 MB |
| The distribution of the biodiversity-threatening alien invasive commensal species of Rattus and the environmental and socioeconomic factors that may influence their presence in urban Gauteng Province, South Africa |
Lindelani Makuya |
4.17 MB |
| Alien plant survey of the Haenertsburg village, Limpopo province, South Africa |
Moleseng Moshobane |
23.47 MB |
| Biodiversity co-benefits through reforestation for carbon sequestration |
Sbo Xolo |
8.33 MB |
| Parallel Session 6: Monitoring and assessment of diversity in different habitats |
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| Diatoms associated with two South African kelp species: Ecklonia maxima and Laminaria pallida |
Serge Mayombo |
29.36 MB |
| Assessing mammal diversity and the effectiveness of different methods for monitoring mammal diversity in diverse land tenures in a South African arid ecosystem |
Chloe Burt |
72.83 MB |
| Approaches to data generation for monitoring and assessment of biodiversity |
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| Taxonomic bias in foundational biodiversity data, research interests, extinction risk and cultural salience: A South African herpetofaunal perspective |
Fortunate Phaka |
5.1 MB |
| Roads and users as a threat to wildlife conservation: modelling amphibian roadkill in Vhembe biosphere reserve (Soutpansberg conservancy), South Africa |
Thabo Hlatshwayo |
5.58 MB |
| Creating a model for the prediction of roadkill Kruger National Park, South Africa |
Brilliant Mashao |
11.04 MB |
| Dispersal of invasive Lantana camara by native bird species in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa |
Nasiphi Bitani |
1.65 MB |
| Dune fynbos–thicket vegetation of the Cape coast: proposing an updated and unified treatment |
Adriaan Grobler |
70.99 MB |
| The influence of flow and temperature on mayfly (Ephemeroptera, Insecta) community structures in the Luvuvhu River catchment |
Pfani Ramulifho |
48.8 MB |
| Highlights from the Global Environmental Change Programme of the Durban Research Action Partnership |
Preshnee Singh |
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| Parallel Session 7: Working Session |
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| Africa Biodiversity Challenge Project |
Matthew Child |
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| Parallel Session 8: Working Session |
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| The South African node of the International Barcode of Life (SAIBOL). Discussion on activities and structures for the node. |
Theresa Sethusa, Monica Mwale |
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| Training Sessions and Workshops |
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| SANBI-GBIF Data Management / Fitness for use of data training |
North West University & SANBI team. Including: Fhatani Ranwashe, Mahlatse Kgatla |
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| FBIP Proposal Writing Workshop |
Michelle Hamer |
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| BOLD Training Workshop |
Michelle Van der Bank, Ronny Kabongo |
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