Current members

Riyadh Casoojee

A look into the XYZ's of EIAs: Assessing the effectiveness of rehabilitation plans in the Eastern Cape

MSc (part-time)

Supervised by Alastair Potts* and Paul-Pierre Steyn

Past members

Nicholas Galuszynski

Applied phylogeography: mapping the genetic resource of  Honeybush across the Cape Floristic Region

PhD (2020)

Supervised by: Alastair Potts*

Dr Susan Botha

A gatherer’s paradise? Early humans and plant foraging on the Cape south coast, South Africa

PhD (2019) 

Supervised by: Alastair Potts*, Richard Cowling and Karen Esler

Rob Duker

Dr Robbert Duker

The effects of frost on Albany Subtropical Thicket and Nama-Karoo shrubland in South Africa

PhD (2018) 

Supervised by: Alastair Potts*, Richard Cowling and Derek du Preez

Timothy Macqueen

Finding Frankenflora: Investigating hybridisation between local and introduced Protea species at the Van Stadens Wildflower Reserve.

MSc (2019) 

Supervised by: Alastair Potts*

Wynand Calitz

Elucidating the heterogeneity of flammability in the Eastern Cape of South Africa.

MSc (2018)  

Supervised by: Alastair Potts* and Richard Cowling

Dr Dimitri Veldkornet

Estuarine species and habitats: distribution and connectivity.

PhD (2018) 

Supervised by: Janine Adams* and Alastair Potts

Sam Msweli

Flammability of indigenous and invasive alien woody plants in coastal fynbos and thicket 

MSc (2020) 

Supervised by: Tineke Kraaij* & Alastair Potts

Daniel Buttner

Exploring the ecological dynamics of Albany Subtropical Thicket: Portulacaria afra and community- and landscape-scale facilitation

MSc (2021)

Supervised by Alastair Potts*, Robbert Duker & Robert Skelton

Jongo Gcina

Post-fire ecology in the dune thicket-fynbos mosaic of the Eastern Cape

MSc (2021)

Supervised by Alastair Potts* and Adriaan Grobler

Abdul-Lateef Ismail

Seeing the Thicket for the Forest: Understanding the boundaries in closed-canopy vegetation

MSc (2023)

Supervised by Alastair Potts* & Coert Geldenhuys

MSc

Honours