Publications
Publications
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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, 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 (2.038 KB)
Janzen DH (1999): Sobrevivencia de las areas silvestres de Costa Rica por medio de su jardinificacion. Ciencias Ambientales 16: 8-18. Text
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 (1992): Training parataxonomists for Costa Rica’s national biodiversity inventory: the experiences of the first predominantly female course (1992). Unpublished Report. 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
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. PDF
Kürschner-Pelkmann F (2006): Armutsreduzierung unterstützt Kampf gegen Wüstenausbreitung; Brückenschlag zwischen Wissenschaftlern und Praktikern. eins 10: 10-11. PDF
Novotny V, Basset Y, Miller SE, Allison A, Samuelson GA, Orsak L (1997): The diversity of tropical insect herbivores: an approach to collaborative international research in Papua New Guinea. Proceeding of the International Conference on Taxonomy and Biodiversity Conservation in the East Asia (B. H. Lee, J. C. Choe and H. Y. Han, eds), pp. 112-125. Korean Institute for Biodiversity Research of Chonbuk National University, Chonju. Text
Orsak L (1993): Killing butterflies to save butterflies: A tool for tropical forest conservation in Papua New Guniea. News of the Lepidopterists Society 35: 71-80. 1) 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
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
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
Takeuchi W, Golman M (2001) Floristic documentation imperatives: Some conclusions from contemporary surveys in Papua New Guinea. Sida 19, 445-468. PDF
Thibault M, Blaney S (2001): Sustainable Human Resources in a Protected Area in Southwestern Gabon. Conservation Biology 15: 591-595. PDF on request
Walters G (2006): Conserving plant diversity in the Massif du Chaillu of Gabon: Linking conservation and parataxonomy - report on parataxonomy training in Waka National Park June 2005-August 2006. PDF
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