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Brian W. Van Wilgen is affiliated with Stellenbosch University in South Africa. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with significant contributions across several related subfields including nature and landscape conservation, global and planetary change, plant science, ecology, and ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics.

Their main topics of work cover a broad range of ecological and environmental issues such as ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, fire effects on ecosystems, rangeland and wildlife management, African botany and ecology studies, biological control of invasive species, botany and plant ecology studies, and plant and animal studies.

The scientist has published extensively in several notable venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • South African Journal of Science
  • Biological Invasions
  • Fire Ecology
  • African Journal of Range and Forage Science
  • South African Journal of Botany

Frequent co-authors of Brian W. Van Wilgen include:

  • David M. Richardson
  • Urs Schaffner
  • Willem A. Nieman
  • Alison J. Leslie
  • John R. Wilson

Among recent papers, several stand out by title, year, and publication venue:

  • A review of the impacts of biological invasions in South Africa, 2021, Biological Invasions
  • A review of fire management practices in African savanna-protected areas, 2021, Koedoe
  • Ecological restoration of ecosystems degraded by invasive alien plants in South African Fynbos: Is spontaneous succession a viable strategy?, 2020, Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa
  • Quantifying the social and economic benefits of the biological control of invasive alien plants in natural ecosystems, 2020, Current Opinion in Insect Science
  • A review of two decades of government support for managing alien plant invasions in South Africa, 2022, Biological Conservation

Best Publications

  • What limits fire? An examination of drivers of burnt area in Southern Africa

    Sally Archibald;David P. Roy;Brian W. van Wilgen;Robert J. Scholes

  • The effect of fire season, fire frequency, rainfall and management on fire intensity in savanna vegetation in South Africa

    Navashni Govender;Winston S. W. Trollope;Brian W. Van Wilgen

  • Invasive alien trees and water resources in South Africa: case studies of the costs and benefits of management

    D.C Le Maitre;B.W van Wilgen;C.M Gelderblom;C Bailey

  • Spread and impact of introduced conifers in South America: Lessons from other southern hemisphere regions

    Daniel Simberloff;Martín A. Nuñez;Martín A. Nuñez;Nicolas J. Ledgard;Anibal Pauchard

  • Invasive plants and water resources in the Western Cape Province, South Africa: modelling the consequences of a lack of management.

    D. C. le Maitre;B. W. van Wilgen;R. A. Chapman;D. H. McKelly

  • THE ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF ALIEN PLANT INVASIONS: EXAMPLES OF IMPACTS AND APPROACHES TO SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT IN SOUTH AFRICA

    B.W. van Wilgen;D.M. Richardson;D.C. Le Maitre;C. Marais

  • Response of Savanna Fire Regimes to Changing Fire-Management Policies in a Large African National Park

    B.W. Van Wilgen;N. Govender;H.C. Biggs;D. Ntsala

  • A biome-scale assessment of the impact of invasive alien plants on ecosystem services in South Africa.

    B.W. van Wilgen;B. Reyers;D.C. Le Maitre;D.M. Richardson

  • A proposed classification of invasive alien plant species in South Africa: towards prioritizing species and areas for management action.

    J. L. Nel;D. M. Richardson;M. Rouget;T. N. Mgidi

  • The effects of alien shrub invasions on vegetation structure and fire behaviour in South African fynbos shrublands: a simulation study.

    B. W. van Wilgen;D. M. Richardson

  • Ecosystem services, efficiency, sustainability and equity: South Africa's Working for Water programme.

    B.W van Wilgen;D.C Le Maitre;R.M Cowling

  • Trends in woody vegetation cover in the Kruger National Park, South Africa, between 1940 and 1998

    H. C. Eckhardt;B. W. van Wilgen;H. C. Biggs

  • Valuation of ecosystem services. A case study from South African fynbos ecosystems.

    Brian W. van Wilgen;Richard M. Cowling;Chris J. Burgers

  • A patch mosaic burning system for conservation areas in southern African savannas

    B.H. Brockett;H.C. Biggs;B.W. van Wilgen

  • A status quo, vulnerability and adaptation assessment of the physical and socio-economic effects of climate change in the Western Cape

    G F Midgley;R A Chapman;B Hewitson;P Johnston

  • Fire management in Mediterranean-climate shrublands: a case study from the Cape fynbos, South Africa

    Brian W. Van Wilgen;Gregory G. Forsyth;Helen Margaret De Klerk;Sonali Das

  • Costs and benefits of biological control of invasive alien plants: case studies from South Africa

    BW Van Wilgen;MP De Wit;HJ Anderson;David C Le Maitre

  • Invasive alien plants and water resources in South Africa: Current understanding, predictive ability and research challenges

    A. H. M. Gorgens;B. W. Van Wilgen

  • Ecology and management of invasive Pinaceae around the world: progress and challenges

    Martin Andres Nuñez;Mariana Cecilia Chiuffo;Agostina Torres;Thomas Paul

  • A fire history of the savanna ecosystems in the Kruger National Park, South Africa, between 1941 and 1996.

    B. W. van Wilgen;H. C. Biggs;S. P. O'Regan;N. Marè

  • The impact of commercial afforestation on bird populations in Mpumalanga Province, South Africa — Insights from bird-atlas data

    DG Allan;JA Harrison;RA Navarro;BW Van Wilgen

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin A. Nuñez
Martin A. Nuñez University of Houston
David M. Richardson
David M. Richardson Stellenbosch University
Karen J. Esler
Karen J. Esler Stellenbosch University
Richard M. Cowling
Richard M. Cowling Nelson Mandela University
David C. Le Maitre
David C. Le Maitre Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
Catherine M. Pringle
Catherine M. Pringle University of Georgia
Patrick Christie
Patrick Christie University of Washington
José Sarukhán
José Sarukhán National Commission for the Knowledge and Use of Biodiversity
David P. Roy
David P. Roy Michigan State University
Sally Archibald
Sally Archibald University of the Witwatersrand

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