Publications

Publications

Araya, Yoseph (2009): Ever thought of becoming Citizen Scientist? Araya YN, Schmiedel U, von Witt C (2009): Linking ‘citizen scientists’ to professionals in ecological research, examples from Namibia and South Africa. Conservation Evidence 6: 11-17. PDF (280 KB) Basset Y, Novotny V, Miller SE, Pyle R (2000): Quantifying biodiversity: Experience with parataxonomists and digital photography in Papua New Guinea and Guyana. BioScience 50, No. 10: 899-908. PDF Basset Y, Novotny V, Miller SE, Weiblen GD, Missa O, Stewart AJA (2004): Conservation and biological monitoring of tropical forests: the role of parataxonomists. Journal of Applied Ecology 41: 163-174. PDF Christiaan, R (2005): Spinnekop Navorsing Begin. Namakwa Nasionale Park Nuusbrief 4 (2), p 17. PDF Christiaan, R (2008): Nuwe navorsing onderweg in Matzikama. Ons Kontrei (4 April 2008), p. 2 PDF Christiaan, R (2012): Skerpioene van die mediese belang in Suid Afrika. Die VeePos, Maart 2012, p 5. PDF Christiaan R, Kotze D (2007): Para-ekoloe in jou omgewing.  Die Namakwalander, p 3. PDF Genis A (2008): Navorsing betrek plaaslike mense.  Landbouweekblad, pp 34-35. PDF (414 KB) Gewin V (2002): All living things, online. Can taxonomy shed its dusty image and reinvent itself as a vibrant discipline for the Internet age? Virginia Gewin talks to the pioneers who are trying to turn this vision into reality. Nature 418: 362-363. PDF Goldstein PZ (2004): Systematic collection data in North American invertebrate conservation and monitoring programmes. Journal of Applied Ecology 41: 175-180. PDF on request. Hajkova Z (2006): Lokales Wissen nutzen. Junge Afrikaner erforschen als "Para-Ecologists" die Biodiversität. Yousee. Das Magazin der Universität Hamburg 4_2006: 36-37. PDF (406 KB) === === Janzen DH (1991): How to Save Tropical Biodiversity: The National Biodiversity Institute of Costa Rica. American Entomologist 37: 159-171. PDF on request. Janzen DH (1999): Sobrevivencia de las areas silvestres de Costa Rica por medio de su jardinificacion. Ciencias Ambientales 16: 8-18. PDF Janzen D (2004): Setting up tropical biodiversity for conservation through non-damaging use: participation by parataxonomists. Journal of Applied Ecology 41: 181-187. PDF Janzen D (2010): Hope for Tropical Biodiversity through True Bioliteracy. Biotropica 42: 540-542. PDF Janzen DH, Hallwachs W (2011): Joining Inventory by Parataxonomists with DNA Barcoding of a Large Complex Tropical Conserved Wildland in Northwestern Costa Rica. PLoS ONE 6 (8): e18123. PDF Janzen DH, Hallwachs W, Jimenez J, Gamez R (1993): The role of the parataxonomists, inventory managers and taxonomists in Costa Rica’s national biodiversity inventory. In: Reid WV, Laird SA, Meyer CA, Gamez R, Sittenfeld A, Janzen DH, Gollin MA, Juma C, eds. Biodiversity Prospecting. Washington, D.C.: World Resources Institute. pp 223–254. Kürschner-Pelkmann F (2006): Armutsreduzierung unterstützt Kampf gegen Wüstenausbreitung; Brückenschlag zwischen Wissenschaftlern und Praktikern. eins 10: 10-11. PDF Pfeiffer J, Uril Y (2003): The role of indigenous parataxonomists in botanical inventory: from Herbarium Amboinense to Herbarium Floresense. Telopea 10: 61–72. PDF(457 KB) Schmiedel U (2011): Para-ecologists can support adaptation to climate change. In: Davis CL (ed) Climate Risk and Vulnerability: A Handbook for Southern Africa. Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, 92 pp, Pretoria, South Africa, p 74. PDF on request. Schmiedel U, Christiaan RA (2005): An assessment of spider diversity in Soebatsfontein (Northern Cape Province) - A contribution to the understanding of the distribution and ecology of spiders in South Africa. Newsletter of the African Arachnological society 18: 8-9. PDF on request. Schmiedel U, Mtuleni VS, Christiaan RA, Isaacks RS, Kotze D, Lot MJ, Mukuya RS, Pieters W, Swartbooi J, Swartbooi S (2010): The BIOTA para-ecologist programme towards capacity development and knowledge exchange. In: Schmiedel U, Jürgens, N. (ed) Biodiversity in southern Africa. Volume 2: Patterns and processes at regional scale. Klaus Hess Publishers, Göttingen & Windhoek, pp 319–325. [PDF (1.313 KB)] Simons C (2011): Uncertain future for tropical ecology. Three premier research outfits are scaling back ambitions - and struggling to maintain local staffs as funds go scarce. Science 332: 298-299. PDF on request. Thibault M, Blaney S (2001): Sustainable Human Resources in a Protected Area in Southwestern Gabon. Conservation Biology 15: 591-595. PDF on request

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