2023/24

Adetunji, A.I., Oberholster, P.J. & Erasmus, M. (2023) Bioleaching of Metals from E-Waste Using Microorganisms: A Review. Minerals. 13:828. https://doi.org/10.3390/min13060828.

Adetunji, A.I., Olaitan, M.O., Erasmus, M. & Olaniran, A.O. (2023) Microbial Proteases: A Next Generation Green Catalyst for Industrial, Environmental and Biomedical Sustainability. Food Materials Research. 13:12. https://doi.org/10.48130/FMR-2023-0012.

Adetunji, A.I., Oberholster, P.J. & Erasmus, M. (2023) From Garbage to Treasure: A Review on Biorefinery of Organic Solid Wastes into Valuable Biobased Products. Bioresource Technology Reports. 24:101610. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biteb.2023.101610 .

Audh, R.R., Fawcett, S.E., Johnson, S., Rampai, T., Vichi, M. (2023) Rafting of growing Antarctic sea ice enhances in-ice biogeochemical activity in winter. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans 128, https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JC019925 .

Brady, M. P., Tostevin, R. & Tosca, N. J. (2022) Marine phosphate availability and the chemical origins of life on Earth. Nature Communications 13, 5162 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32815-x

Bröcker, J. H. L., Stone, W., Carstens, A. & Wolfaardt, G.M. (2022) Micropollutant Transformation and Toxicity: Electrochemical Ozonation versus Biological Metabolism. Toxicology Research and Application. https://doi.org/10.1177/23978473221122880 .

Casciotti, K.L., Marshall, T.A., Fawcett, S.E., Knapp, A.N. (2024) Advances in understanding the marine nitrogen cycle in the GEOTRACES era. Oceanography https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2024.406

Cogho, E., Beukes, J.P., Van Zyl, P.G., Vakkari, V., Laakso, L., Josipovic, M. & Kulmala, M. (2023) Concentration contextualisation, temporal patterns and sources of hydrogen sulphide at a site on the South African Highveld, Atmospheric Environment, 315, 120140, 1-20, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2023.120140.

De Freitas, C.R. & Grenfell, S. (2024) Event-scale suspended sediment fluxes in a dryland environment valley-bottom wetland: Implications for downstream sediment and phosphorous fluxes. Geomorphology, p.109101.

Du Plessis, M., Fourie, C., Stone, W., & Engelbrecht, A.M. (2022) The Impact of Endocrine Disrupting Compounds and Carcinogens in Wastewater: Implications for Breast Cancer. Biochemie (209): 103-115. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biochi.2023.02.006 .

Edwards, T.R., Pickering, R., Mallet., T., Herries, A.I.R. (2023) Challenging the antiquity of the Cradle of Humankind, South Africa: Geochronological evidence restricts the age of Eurotomys bolti and Parapapio to less than 2.3 Ma at Waypoint 160, Bolt’s Farm. Journal of Human Evolution, 178, 103334. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2023.103334 .

Enebe, M.C. & Erasmus, M. (2023) Vermicomposting Technology - A Perspective on Vermicompost Production Technologies, Limitations and Prospects. Journal of Environmental Management. 345:118585. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2023.118585 .

Enebe, M.C. & Erasmus, M. (2023) Susceptibility and Plant Immune Control — a Case of Mycorrhizal Strategy for Plant Colonization, Symbiosis, and Plant Immune Suppression. Frontiers in Microbiology. 14:1178258. https://doi.org/doi:10.3389/fmicb.2023.1178258 .

Enebe, M.C. & Erasmus M. (2023) Symbiosis—A Perspective on the Effects of Host Traits and Environmental Parameters in Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungal Richness, Colonization and Ecological Functions. Agriculture. 13:1899.  https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture13101899 .

Enebe, M.C. & Erasmus M. (2024) Disease suppression in plants: a perspective on the impact of phage-directed soil fertilization in enhancing soil health and sustainability. Biological Control. 188:105429. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocontrol.2023.105429 .

Enebe, M.C. & Erasmus M. (2023) Mediators of Biomass Transformation – A Focus on the Enzyme Composition of the Vermicomposting Process. Environmental Challenges. 12. (2023). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envc.2023.100732 .

Flynn, R.F., Haraguchi, L., McQuaid, J., Burger, J.M., Mutseka Langa, P., Stirnimann, L., Samanta, S., Roychoudhury, A., Fawcett, S.E. (2023) Nanoplankton: the dominant vector for carbon export across the springtime Southern Ocean. Science Advances 9, eadi3059, https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adi3059 .

Gibbon, V.E., Feris, L., Gretzinger, J., Smith, K., Hall, S., Penn, N., Mutsvangwa, T.E.M., Heale, M., Finaughty, D.A., Karanjai, Y.W., Esterhuyse, J., Kotze, D., Barnes, N., Gunston, G., May, J., Krause, J., Wilkinson, C.M., Schiffels, S., Februarie, D., Alves, S. & Sealy, J.C. (2023) Confronting historical legacies of biological anthropology in South Africa - restitution, redress and community-centered science: the Sutherland Nine. PloS One 18(5): e0284785. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0284785 .

Kok, L., Van Zyl, P.G., Beukes, J.P., Burger, R.P., Ellis, S.M., Josipovic, M., Jaars, K., Vakkari, V., Laakso, L. & Kulmala, M., Factors governing the chemical composition of rain at a regional site in South Africa, Atmospheric Environment, 318, 120246, 1-27, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2023.120246

Lachkar, Z., Cornejo-D’Ottone, M., Singh, A., Arístegui, J., Dewitte, B., Fawcett, S.E., Garcon, V., Lovecchio, E., Molina, V., Vinayachandran, P.N.M. (2024) Biogeochemistry of greenhouse gases in coastal upwelling systems: Processes and sensitivity to global change. Elementa Science of the Anthropocene 12, https://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.2023.00088 .

Marshall, T.A., Beal, L.M., Sigman, D.M., Fawcett, S.E. (2023) Instabilities across the Agulhas Current enhance upward nitrate supply in the southwest subtropical Indian Ocean. AGU Advances 4, https://doi.org/10.1029/2023AV000973 . [Editors’ highlight in EOS (https://eos.org/editor-highlights/how-nutrients-get-back-up-to-the-surface-ocean)]. 

Meynecke, J. O., Samanta, S., de Bie, J., Seyboth, E., Prakash Dey, S., Fearon, G., ... & Mackey, B. (2023) Do whales really increase the oceanic removal of atmospheric carbon? Frontiers in Marine Science, 10. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2023.1117409

Mtonda, M.T., Le Roux, P., Taylor, W.L., Wilton, A. & Tostevin, R., (2024) High resolution strontium isotope data from Nama Group, South Africa, constrain global stratigraphic relationships in the terminal Ediacaran. Precambrian Research, 404, p.107339. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2024.107339 .

Nel, T., Clarke, C. E., Francis, M. L., Stone, W., Cowan, D. A., Botha, A., & Gallagher, T. (2024) Efficient Quantification of Soluble and Insoluble Oxalates in Clay Mineral Mixtures. Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis. https://doi.org/10.1080/00103624.2024.2336574 .

Pickering, R. & Kgotleng, D.W. (2024) Preprints, press releases and fossils in space: What is happening in South African human evolution research and where do we draw the line? South African Journal of Science, 2024;120(3/4). https://doi.org/10.17159/sajs.2024/17473.

Pickering, R., Ervens, B., Jesus-Rydin, C., Wingate, L., Beniest, A., Panieri, G., Mazibuko, N. & Sephtopn, A. (2023) How language can be a path away from neo-colonialism in geosciences. Nature Geoscience, 2023-12. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-023-01337-6 .

Pickering, R. & Edwards, T.R. (2024) The geology and dating of the South African Paranthropus-bearing cave deposits. In: Wood, B., Constantino, P., Reed, K. (Eds.) Paranthropus: the forgotten lineage. Springer.

Present, T. M., Niespolo, E. M., Clarke, C. E., Behrensmeyer, A. K., Leakey, L. N., Leakey, M. G., Mongle, C., Du Plessis, A., Northrup, P., Tappero, R. V., Yang, D., Rasbury, E. T., & Grine, F. E. (2024) Nondestructive geochemical characterization of fossil hominin taphonomy and burial history. Quaternary Science Reviews, 328. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.108525 .

Puccinelli, E., Fawcett, S.E., Flynn, R.F., Burger, J.M., Delebecq, G., Duquesne, N., Lambert, C., Little, H., Pecquerie, L., Sardenne, F., Wallschuss, S., Soudant, P. (2023) Are upwelling systems an underestimated source of omega-3 in the ocean? The case of the southern Benguela upwelling system. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JG007528 .

Seyboth, E., Meynecke, J.O., de Bie, J., Roychoudhury, A. & Findlay, K. (2023) A review of post-whaling abundance, trends, changes in distribution and migration patterns, and supplementary feeding of Southern Hemisphere humpback whales. Front Mar Sci, https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2023.997491 .

Shields, G. A., Strachan, R. A., Porter, S. M., Halverson, G. P., Macdonald, F. A., Plumb, K. A., Tostevin, R., et al. (2021) A template for an improved rock-based subdivision of the pre-Cryogenian timescale. Journal of the Geological Society, 179(1), jgs2020–222. https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2020-222 .

Singh, A., Fietz, S., Thomalla, S.J., Sanchez, N., Ardelan, M.V., Moreau, S., Kauko, H.M., Fransson, A., Chierici, M., Samanta, S. and Mtshali, T.N. (2023). Absence of photophysiological response to iron addition in autumn phytoplankton in the Antarctic sea-ice zone. Biogeosciences, 20(14), pp.3073-3091. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-20-3073-2023 .

Smith, S., Altieri, K. E., Mdutyana, M., Walker, D. R., Parrott, R. G., Spence, K. A. M., Burger, J. M., and Fawcett, S. E. (2022) Biogeochemical controls on wintertime ammonium accumulation in the surface layer of the Southern Ocean, Biogeosciences, 19 (3), 715-741, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-19-715-2022 .

Stone, W., Steytler, J., de Jager, L., Hardie, A. & Clarke, C. E. (2023) Improving Crop Growing Conditions with Water Treatment Residual and Compost Co- Amendments: Soil Water Dynamics. Journal of Environmental Quality. https://doi.org/10.1002/jeq2.20541

Stirnimann, L., Bornman, T.G., Forrer, H.J., Mirkin, J., Flynn, R.F., Ryan-Keogh, T.J., Dorrington, R.A., Verheye, H.M., Fawcett, S.E. (2024) A circum-Antarctic plankton isoscape: Carbon export potential across the summertime Southern Ocean. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 38, https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GB007808

Tang, W., Ward, B.B., Beman, M., Bristow, L., Clark, D., Dunne, J.P., Fawcett, S.E., Frey, C., Fripiat, F., Herndl, G.J., Mdutyana, M., Paulot, F., Peng, X., Santoro, A., Shiozaki, T., Sintes, E., Stock, C., Sun, X., Wan, X.S., Xu, M., Zhang, Y. (2023) Database of nitrification and nitrifiers in the global ocean. Earth System Science Data 15, 5039-5077, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-5039-2023    

Tostevin, R. & Ahmed, I.A.M. (2023) Micronutrient availability in Precambrian oceans controlled by greenalite formation. Nat. Geosci. 16, 1188–1193. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-023-01294-0

Weij, R., Sniderman, J. K., Woodhead, J. D., Hellstrom, J. C., Brown, J. R., Drysdale, R. N., Reed, E., Bourne, S. & Gordon, J. (2024) Elevated Southern Hemisphere moisture availability during glacial periods. Nature, 626(7998), 319-326. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06989-3

Wiener, K. D., & Grenfell, S. E. (2024) Valley‐bottom wetlands as temporary buffers for source‐to‐sink dispersal of sediment and associated phosphorus in dryland landscapes. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.5761

Wiener, K. D., & Grenfell, S. E. (2024) System-scale dynamics of long-term sediment and phosphorus accumulation in contrasting valley-bottom wetlands in dryland landscapes of South Africa. Catena, 240, 107962. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2024.107962

Welman-Purchase, M.D. & Hansen, R.N., (2023) Cyanide within gold mine waste of the free state goldfields: A geochemical modelling approach. Environmental Pollution, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2022.120825

Welman-Purchase, M.D., Castillo, J., Gomez-Arias, A., Matu, A. & Hansen, R.N. (2024) First insight into the natural biodegradation of cyanide in a gold tailings environment enriched in cyanide compounds. Science of the Total Environment, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.167174

Welman-Purchase, M.D. & Hansen, R.N., (2024) Re-evaluation of the stability of Prussian Blue and Turnbull’s Blue – Implications for the Witwatersrand sulfidic gold-tailings environment. SSNR, https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4366419

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