Mapping tree species composition in South African savannas using an integrated airborne spectral and LiDAR system MA Cho, R Mathieu, GP Asner, L Naidoo, JAN Van Aardt, A Ramoelo, ... Remote Sensing of Environment 125, 214-226, 2012 | 287 | 2012 |
Do artificial waterholes influence the way herbivores use the landscape? Herbivore distribution patterns around rivers and artificial surface water sources in a large African … IPJ Smit, CC Grant, BJ Devereux Biological Conservation 136 (1), 85-99, 2007 | 282 | 2007 |
Ecology of grazing lawns in Africa GP Hempson, S Archibald, WJ Bond, RP Ellis, CC Grant, FJ Kruger, ... Biological Reviews 90 (3), 979-994, 2015 | 228 | 2015 |
Effects of fire on woody vegetation structure in African savanna IPJ Smit, GP Asner, N Govender, T Kennedy-Bowdoin, DE Knapp, ... Ecological Applications 20 (7), 1865-1875, 2010 | 195 | 2010 |
Ecosystem‐scale effects of megafauna in African savannas GP Asner, N Vaughn, IPJ Smit, S Levick Ecography 39 (2), 240-252, 2016 | 132 | 2016 |
Sustainability of protected areas: Vulnerabilities and opportunities as revealed by COVID-19 in a national park management agency MKS Smith, IPJ Smit, LK Swemmer, MM Mokhatla, S Freitag, DJ Roux, ... Biological Conservation 255, 108985, 2021 | 119 | 2021 |
Predicting the effects of woody encroachment on mammal communities, grazing biomass and fire frequency in African savannas IPJ Smit, HHT Prins PloS one 10 (9), e0137857, 2015 | 108 | 2015 |
An examination of the potential efficacy of high‐intensity fires for reversing woody encroachment in savannas IPJ Smit, GP Asner, N Govender, NR Vaughn, BW van Wilgen Journal of Applied Ecology 53 (5), 1623-1633, 2016 | 102 | 2016 |
Unsustainable fuelwood extraction from South African savannas KJ Wessels, MS Colgan, BFN Erasmus, GP Asner, WC Twine, R Mathieu, ... Environmental Research Letters 8 (1), 014007, 2013 | 93 | 2013 |
Impact of communal land use and conservation on woody vegetation structure in the Lowveld savannas of South Africa KJ Wessels, R Mathieu, BFN Erasmus, GP Asner, IPJ Smit, JAN Van Aardt, ... Forest Ecology and Management 261 (1), 19-29, 2011 | 93 | 2011 |
Finding common ground between adaptive management and evidence-based approaches to biodiversity conservation L Gillson, H Biggs, IPJ Smit, M Virah-Sawmy, K Rogers Trends in Ecology & Evolution 34 (1), 31-44, 2019 | 90 | 2019 |
The ongoing development of a pragmatic and adaptive fire management policy in a large African savanna protected area BW van Wilgen, N Govender, IPJ Smit, S MacFadyen Journal of environmental management 132, 358-368, 2014 | 88 | 2014 |
Disruption of rhino demography by poachers may lead to population declines in Kruger National Park, South Africa SM Ferreira, C Greaver, GA Knight, MH Knight, IPJ Smit, D Pienaar PloS one 10 (6), e0127783, 2015 | 84 | 2015 |
Surface moisture and vegetation cover analysis for drought monitoring in the southern Kruger National Park using Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2, and Landsat-8 M Urban, C Berger, TE Mudau, K Heckel, J Truckenbrodt, ... Remote Sensing 10 (9), 1482, 2018 | 82 | 2018 |
Toward structural assessment of semi-arid African savannahs and woodlands: The potential of multitemporal polarimetric RADARSAT-2 fine beam images R Mathieu, L Naidoo, MA Cho, B Leblon, R Main, K Wessels, GP Asner, ... Remote Sensing of Environment 138, 215-231, 2013 | 81 | 2013 |
Rainfall, geology and landscape position generate large‐scale spatiotemporal fire pattern heterogeneity in an African savanna IPJ Smit, CF Smit, N Govender, M Linde, S MacFadyen Ecography 36 (4), 447-459, 2013 | 80 | 2013 |
Landscape‐scale sexual segregation in the dry season distribution and resource utilization of elephants in Kruger National Park, South Africa IPJ Smit, CC Grant, IJ Whyte Diversity and Distributions 13 (2), 225-236, 2007 | 80 | 2007 |
Managing surface-water in a large semi-arid savanna park: Effects on grazer distribution patterns IPJ Smit, CC Grant Journal for Nature Conservation 17 (2), 61-71, 2009 | 74 | 2009 |
Retention: Predicting first-year success: Research in higher education A Lourens, IPJ Smit South African Journal of Higher Education 17 (2), 169-176, 2003 | 74 | 2003 |
Management intervention affects river-bound spatial dynamics of elephants IPJ Smit, SM Ferreira Biological Conservation 143 (9), 2172-2181, 2010 | 70 | 2010 |