Barend erasmus
DIRECTOR & RESEARCH CHAIR PROFESSOR
Global Change and Sustainability Research Institute
University of the Witwatersrand
South Africa
Biography
Barend Erasmus is the director and Research chair in Global Change and Sustainability Research Institute in Wits University, Johannesburg, South Africa. His research interests revolve around the Biodiversity-climate change interactions, climate change impacts and adaptation, spatial ecology.
Research Interest
He particularly focuses on Biodiversity-climate change interactions, climate change impacts and adaptation, spatial ecology, Macroecology, Biogeography.
Publications
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Coetzer KL, Witkowski ETF, Erasmus BFN, Reyers B. The race for space: tracking land-cover transformation in a socio-ecological landscape, South Africa. Environmental Management.
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Newete SW, Erasmus BFN, Weiersbye IM, Cho MA, Byrne MJ. Hyperspectral reflectance features of water hyacinth growing under feeding stresses of Neochetina spp and different heavy metal pollutants. International Journal of Remote Sensing.
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Stevens N, Swemmer AM, Ezzy L, Erasmus BFN. Investigating potential controls on the distribution limits controls on of an arid savanna shrub Colophospermum mopane. Journal of Vegetation Science
