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Overview

M.T. Hoffman is affiliated with the University of Cape Town in South Africa. Their research primarily spans the field of Environmental Science, with a focus on topics related to global and planetary change, ecology, nature and landscape conservation, atmospheric science, as well as management, monitoring, policy, and law.

Their research work covers multiple subfields including:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Ecology
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

Hoffman's main research topics involve:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Rangeland and Wildlife Management
  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management

A number of recent publications provide insight into their work. These include:

  • Application of Landsat-derived vegetation trends over South Africa: Potential for monitoring land degradation and restoration (2020, Ecological Indicators)
  • The 2015-19 multi year drought in the Eastern Cape, South Africa: it's evolution and impacts on agriculture (2021, Journal of Arid Environments)
  • Impacts of climatic change on agricultural nutrient losses in Finland (2024, Boreal Environment Research Journal Archive)
  • UAVs improve detection of seasonal growth responses during post-fire shrubland recovery (2022, Landscape Ecology)
  • Post-fire summer rainfall differentially affects reseeder and resprouter population recovery in fire-prone shrublands of South Africa (2021, The Science of The Total Environment)

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Lindsey Gillson
  • Hana Petersen
  • Wesley Bell
  • Vernon Visser
  • Justin J. van Blerk

Hoffman has published extensively in several academic venues with the highest number of publications appearing in the African Journal of Range and Forage Science. Other notable journals where their work appears include the Journal of Arid Environments, South African Journal of Botany, Journal of Vegetation Science, and Ecological Indicators.

In addition to journal articles, they contributed to book literature, notably with a publication titled Contested Karoo: Interdisciplinary perspectives on change and continuity in South Africa's drylands released in 2024 by UCT Press eBooks.

Best Publications

  • Hotspots Revisited: Earth's Biologically Richest and Most Endangered Terrestrial Ecoregions

    R.A. Mittermeier;P.G. Gil;M. Hoffman;J. Pilgrim

  • Bush encroachment in southern Africa: changes and causes

    Tim G O'Connor;James R Puttick;M Timm Hoffman

  • Thicket expansion in a South African savanna under divergent land use: local vs. global drivers?

    Benjamin J. Wigley;William J. Bond;M. Timm Hoffman

  • A fence-line contrast reveals effects of heavy grazing on plant diversity and community composition in Namaqualand, South Africa

    S.W. Todd;M.T. Hoffman

  • A changing climate is eroding the geographical range of the Namib Desert tree Aloe through population declines and dispersal lags

    Wendy Foden;Guy F. Midgley;Greg Hughes;William J. Bond

  • A National Review of Land Degradation in South Africa: The Influence of Biophysical and Socio-economic Factors

    M. Timm Hoffman;Simon Todd

  • Ecology. Rangeland ecology in a changing world.

    Lindsey Gillson;M. Timm Hoffman

  • Bush encroachment under three contrasting land-use practices in a mesic South African savanna

    B. J. Wigley;W. J. Bond;M. T. Hoffman

  • The application of state‐and‐transition models to rangeland research and management in arid succulent and semi‐arid grassy Karoo, South Africa

    S.J. Milton;M.T. Hoffman

  • Vegetation change in the semi-arid eastern Karoo over the last 200 years: an expanding Karoo - fact or fiction?

    M. T. Hoffman;R. M. Cowling

  • The impacts of sustained heavy grazing on plant diversity and composition in lowland and upland habitats across the Kamiesberg mountain range in the Succulent Karoo, South Africa

    P.M.L. Anderson;M.T. Hoffman

  • Drought, Climate change and Vegetation response in the succulent karoo, South Africa

    M.T. Hoffman;P.J. Carrick;L. Gillson;A.G. West;A.G. West

  • Changes in population biology of two succulent shrubs along a grazing gradient

    Corinna Riginos;M. Timm Hoffman

  • Dynamics of grazing policy and practice: environmental and social impacts in three communal areas of southern Africa

    R.F. Rohde;N.M. Moleele;M. Mphale;N. Allsopp

  • The nature, extent and causes of land degradation in South Africa: legacy of the past, lessons for the future?

    M. E. Meadows;M. T. Hoffman

  • From pastoralism to tourism: The historical impact of changing land use practices in Namaqualand

    M.T. Hoffman;R.F. Rohde

  • Desertification in the lower Sundays River Valley, South Africa

    M. T. Hoffman;R. M. Cowling

  • Climate Change Impacts on African Rangelands

    M. Timm Hoffman;Coleen Vogel

  • Global Gap Analysis: towards a representative network of protected areas

    Ana S L Rodrigues;Sandy J Andelman;Janice Long;Pablo A Marquet

  • A century of woody plant encroachment in the dry Kimberley savanna of South Africa

    David Ward;M Timm Hoffman;Sarah J Collocott

  • Review Paper Bush encroachment in southern Africa: changes and causes

    Tim G O’Connor;James R Puttick;M Timm Hoffman

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard M. Cowling
Richard M. Cowling Nelson Mandela University
William J. Bond
William J. Bond University of Cape Town
Lindsey Gillson
Lindsey Gillson University of York
Patrick J. O’Farrell
Patrick J. O’Farrell University of Cape Town
Walter G. Whitford
Walter G. Whitford New Mexico State University
Adam G. West
Adam G. West University of Cape Town
Guy F. Midgley
Guy F. Midgley Stellenbosch University
Suzanne J. Milton
Suzanne J. Milton University of Cape Town
Thomas M. Brooks
Thomas M. Brooks International Union for Conservation of Nature
J. Van Staden
J. Van Staden University of KwaZulu-Natal

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