2024/25

Abera, T.A., Heiskanen, J., Maeda, E.E., Muhammed, M.A., Bhandari, N., Vakkari, V., Hailu, B.T., Pellikka, P.K.E., Hemp, A, Van Zyl, P.G. & Zeuss, D. (2024). Deforestation amplifies climate change effects on warming and cloud level rise in African montane forests. Nature Communications 15, 6992 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-51324-7

Bachari, M., Louw, D., Walsh, J. T., le Roux, P., Fietz, S., & Bergh, E. W. (2025). Late Cenozoic updated foraminiferal stratigraphic and palaeoenvironmental framework for the southwestern shelf of Africa. Journal of African Earth Sciences, 227, 105632. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2025.105632

Buck, C. S., Fietz, S., Hamilton, D. S., Ho, T. Y., Perron, M. M., & Shelley, R. U. (2024). GEOTRACES: Fifteen years of progress in marine aerosol research. Oceanography 37(2):116–119, https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2024.409

Carlson, A.J., Siedlecki, S.A., Granger, J., Veitch, J., Pitcher, G.C., Fearon, G., Zhou, M., Soares, F., Flynn, R.F., Fawcett, S.E. (2025). Seasonal source water changes and winds contribute to the development of hypoxia in St Helena Bay. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans 130, https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JC021702

Centeno, R. V., Pezo-Lanfranco, L., le Roux, P., & Colonese, A. C. (2025). Identifying communal interaction and mobility in the peruvian central coast through strontium isotope analysis of human individuals in Huaca 20. Journal of archaeological science: reports, 61, 104889. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2024.104889

Ciesielska, J. A., Le Roux, P., Scott, E., Lucas, M., & Roberts, P. (2024). Isotopic Evidence for Socio-economic Dynamics Within the Capital of the Kingdom of Alwa, Sudan. African Archaeological Review, 41(2), 271-291. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10437-024-09579-4

Cloete, R., Planquette, H., van Horsten, N. R., Samanta, S., Chen, X. G., Achterberg, E. P., ... & Roychoudhury, A. N. (2025). Drivers of nickel distribution and seasonality in the Southern Ocean: New perspectives from the GEOTRACES GIpr07 transect. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 130(1), e2024JC021542. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JC021542

Cooper, N. P., Scott, J. M., Brenna, M., Palmer, M. C., le Roux, P. J., Cooper, A. F., ... & Stirling, C. H. (2024). Hydrous veined mantle lithosphere and implications for the source of Zealandia intraplate magmas. Lithos, 478, 107608. Lithos, 478-479, 107608. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2024.107608  

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, 452, p.109101. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2024.109101

Donnou, H.E.V., Akpo, A.B., Ossohou, M., Delon, C., Yoboué, V., Laouali, D., Ouafo-Leumbe, M., Van Zyl, P.G., Ndiaye, O., Gardrat, E., Dias-Alves, M., Galy-Lacaux, C. (2024). Measurement report: Long-term measurements of surface ozone and trends in semi-natural sub-Saharan African ecosystems, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 24, 13151–13182. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-13151-2024 

Eisenmann, S., Poolman, L., Schwarz, J., Wickler, A., Anders, D., Vohberger-Herles, M., Le Roux, P., Ilgner, J., Roberts, P. & Stockhammer, P.W. (2025) Strontium isotope analysis of human remains at Middle Bronze Age to Late Bronze Age Megiddo. In: MEGIDDO VII The Shmunis Excavations of a Monumental Middle Bronze Tomb and Its Environs, MJ Adams, MS Cradic and I Finkelstein (Editors), The Institute of Archaeology, chapter 15, 255-280

Engelbrecht, T., von der Heyden, S., & Ndhlovu, A. (2024). Blue carbon dynamics across a salt marsh-seagrass ecotone in a cool-temperate estuary. Plant and Soil, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-024-06953-8

Foeke, K., Queffelec, A., Pickering, R., 2025. No sedimentological evidence for deliberate burial by Homo Naledi – a case study highlighting the need for best practices in geochemical studies within Archaeology and Palaeoanthropology, Paleoanthropology, 2025:1: 94−115. https://doi.org/10.48738/2025.iss1.1099

Frigolé, C., Le Roux, P., Sanhueza, L., Lucero, G., Falabella, F., Cardillo, M., ... & Barberena, R. (2024). Multi-isotope approach allows tracking the circulation of ceramics across the Andes (Argentina and Chile). Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 57, 104684. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2024.104684

Gnecchi-Ruscone, G.A., Rácz, Z., Samu, L., Traverso, L., Szeniczey, T., Faragó, N., Knipper, C., Friedrich, R, Liccardo, S., Wabnitz, S., Popli, D., Zlámalová, D., Wang, K., Radzeviciute, R., Gulyás, B., Koncz, I., Balogh, C., Lezsák, G., Mácsai, V., Bunbury, M., Spekker, O., le Roux, P., Mende, B., Colleran, H., Hajdu, T., Geary, P., Pohl, W., Vida, T., Krause, J., Hofmanová, Z. (2024). Social structure of Avar-period communities revealed through network of multigenerational pedigrees. Nature, 629, 376–383. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07312-4

Granger, R., Smart, S.M., Foreman, A., Auderset, A., Campbell, E.C., Marshall, T.A., Haug, G.H., Sigman, D.M., Martínez-García, A., Fawcett, S.E. (2024). Tracking Agulhas leakage in the South Atlantic using modern planktic foraminifera nitrogen isotopes. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 25, https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GC011190

Gray, K., le Roux, P., & Sealy, J. (2025). Diet and landscape use at Faraoskop from C, N and Sr isotopes in multiple skeletal tissues. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 17(2), 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-024-02085-3

Hamerow, H., Leggett, S., Tinguely, C., & Le Roux, P. (2024). Women of the Conversion Period: a biomolecular investigation of mobility in early medieval England. Antiquity, 98(398), 486-501 https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2023.203

Hare, V.J., Yarian, D.A., Faith, J.T., Harris, C., Lee-Thorp, J.A., Passey, B.H., Sokolowski, K.G. and Ségalen, L., (2025). Triple oxygen isotopes in eggshell carbonate as a proxy of late Cenozoic CO2 and primary productivity. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2025.04.002

Hassler, C.S., Simó, R., Fawcett, S.E., Ellwood, M.J., Jaccard, S.L. (2025). Marine biogenic humic substances control iron biogeochemistry across the Southern Ocean. Nature Communications 16, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-57491-5

Heddell-Stevens, P., Barakat, S., Pastoors, A., Lucas, M., Scott, E., Le Roux, P., & Roberts, P. (2024). Spatial palaeoecology of large-herbivore hominin prey-species at Salzgitter-Lebenstedt, Lower Saxony, Germany: multi-isotope analysis of sequentially-sampled tooth enamel from Rangifer tarandus and Equus sp. Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology, 3, 1458040. https://doi.org/10.3389/fearc.2024.1458040

Heddell-Stevens, P., Jöris, O., Britton, K., Matthies, T., Lucas, M., Scott, E., Le Roux, P., Roberts, P. (2024). Multi-isotope reconstruction of Late Pleistocene large-herbivore biogeography and mobility patterns in Central Europe. Communications Biology, 7(1), 568. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-024-06233-2

Ireland, M. T., Palmer, M. C., Scott, J. M., le Roux, P.J., Reid, M. R., & Stirling, C. H. (2024). Microscale geochemical variations in metamorphic-hydrothermal scheelite and insights into trace element sources (Otago Schist, New Zealand). New Zealand journal of geology and geophysics, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1080/00288306.2024.2377420

Job, X.E.V., Jaars, K., Van Zyl, P.G., MacSween, K., Bredenkamp, L., Josipovic, M., Martin, L.G., Vakkari, V., Kulmala, M., Laakso, L., (2025). Statistical assessment of an atmospheric mercury passive sampler at a regional site in South Africa, Environmental Science: Atmospheres, 5, 191-203. https://doi.org/10.1039/d4ea00071d

Khosa, R., Mbele, V., Kirsten, K., & Pickering, R. (2025). The ground beneath our feet: A critical reflection on 135 years of landscape evolution models for southern Africa. South African Journal of Science, 121(1/2). https://doi.org/10.17159/sajs.2025/18532

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

Lukashe, N.S, Stone, W., Pereira, R., Trojahn, S., Hardie, A.G., Johnson, K.L., Clarke, C.E. (2024).  Stabilization of carbon through co-addition of water treatment residuals with anaerobic digested sludge in a coarse textured soil. Journal of Environmental Management 366:121904. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2024.121904

Luyt, J., Sahle, Y., & Stynder, D. (2025). Stable Isotope Analysis of Pleistocene Proboscideans from Afar (Ethiopia) and the Dietary and Ecological Contexts of Palaeoloxodon. Quaternary, 8(1), 16. https://doi.org/10.3390/quat8010016  

Malherbe, M., Pickering, R., Stynder, D., & Haeusler, M. (2025). The large mammal fossil fauna of the Cradle of Humankind, South Africa: a review. PeerJ, 13, e18946. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.18946

Mole, C.G., Sealy, J., Stynder, D.D., Le Roux, P.J., & Gibbon, V. E. (2024). Bioarchaeology and evidence of violence from a precolonial later stone age communal burial in South Africa. Plos one, 19(9), e0310421. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0310421

Monnereau, A., Ughi, A., Orecchioni, P., Hagan, R., Talbot, H.M., Nikita, E., Hamilton, D., Le Roux, P., Molinari, A., Carver, M. and Craig, O.E., 2024. Multi-proxy bioarchaeological analysis of skeletal remains shows genetic discontinuity in a Medieval Sicilian community. Royal Society Open Science, 11(7), p.240436. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.240436

Moreno-Ibáñez, M., Casado, M., Gremion, G., Rabanal, V., Adojoh, O., Anoruo, C., Arshad, A., Bahar, F.A., Bello, C., Bergstedt, H. Caccavo, J.A., Hare, V.J. et al., (2024). Engagement of early career researchers in collaborative assessments of IPCC reports: achievements and insights. Frontiers in Climate, 6, p.1395040. https://doi.org/10.3389/fclim.2024.1395040

Ndimande, N., Howarth, G. H., Giuliani, A., Janney, P. E., le Roux, P., Guillong, M., Charbonnier, Q., & Haggerty, S. E. (2025). Neoproterozoic kimberlite and lamproite magmatism of the Man Craton, Liberia, from a common sub-lithospheric source. Mineralogy and Petrology, 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00710-025-00903-7

Neethling, E.C., Engelbrecht, K., Roets, F., Crous, C.J. (2024). Early impact assessment of the paninvasive polyphagous shot hole borer beetle on commercial pear production.  Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 172: 796 - 805.  https://doi.org/10.1111/eea.13466

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 55: 1985 - 1999. https://doi.org/10.1080/00103624.2024.2336574

Parra-Encalada, D., Larrea, P., Loaiza, C., Cartagena, R., Salinas, S., Godoy, B., & Le Roux, P. (2024). Decoding subcontinental lithosphere processes: The key role of fractional crystallization in Central Andes monogenetic volcanism-Insight from El Negrillar volcanic field, Chile. Lithos, 464, 107427. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2023.107427

Perron, M. M., Fietz, S., Hamilton, D. S., Ito, A., Shelley, R. U., & Tang, M. (2024). Preface to the inter-journal special issue “RUSTED: Reducing Uncertainty in Soluble aerosol Trace Element Deposition”. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 17(1), 165-166. https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-17-165-2024

Petrie, C. A., Lightfoot, E., Jones, P. J., Walker, J. R., Valentine, B. T., Krigbaum, J., le Roux, P., Joglekar, P.P., Shinde, V., Singh, R.N., & O’Connell, T.C. (2024). Animal movement on the hoof and on the cart and its implications for understanding exchange within the Indus Civilisation. Scientific Reports, 14(1), 158. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-50249-3

Qashani, Z., Hashibi, S., Howarth, G. H., Janney, P. E., le Roux, P., & Robey, J. (2024). Petrogenesis and indicator mineral chemistry of the K-richterite-and leucite-bearing diamondiferous Kareevlei Kaapvaal lamproite. Lithos, 470, 107527. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2024.107527

Sinyanya, K.Y., Marshall, T.A., Flynn, R.F., Harris, E., Mdutyana, M., Roman, R., Walker, D.R., Wallschuss, S., Fawcett, S.E. (2024). Wintertime productivity and carbon export potential across the Agulhas Current system. Deep-Sea Research I, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2024.104405

Scott, J. M., Palmer, M. C., le Roux, P.J., Harris, C., & Craw, D. (2025). Possible Pliocene loess formation caused by tectonic uplift and aridification in Central Otago, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/00288306.2025.2464027

Scott, J. M., Brenna, M., Pearson, D. G., Auer, A., Faure, K., Harris, C., Legros, H., le Roux, P.J., Sun, D.Y., Smit, M., Woodland, S., Mortimer, N., Janney, P.E., Münker, C. & Van Der Meer, Q. H. (2024). Garnet pyroxenite cumulates from Cretaceous alkaline intraplate magmas underplate the Zealandia mantle lithosphere. Journal of petrology, 65(8), egae085. https://doi.org/10.1093/petrology/egae085

Segakweng, C.K., Van Zyl, P.G., Liousse, C., Gnamien, S., Gardrat, E., Beukes, J.P., Jaars, K., Dumat, C., Guinot, B., Josipovic, M. and Burger, R.P., 2025. Oxidative potential of atmospheric particulate matter collected in low-income urban settlements in South Africa. Environmental Science: Atmospheres, 5(1), pp.48-66. https://doi.org/10.1039/d4ea00109e

Stirnimann, L., Bornman, T. G., Verheye, H. M., & Fawcett, S. E. (2024). Seasonal trends in Subantarctic plankton δ13C and δ15N are driven by phytoplankton dynamics and nutrient preference. Limnology and Oceanography, 69(11), 2547-2563. https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.12685

Stone, W., Steytler, J., de Jager, L., Hardie, A., Clarke, C.E. (2024). Improving crop growing conditions with water treatment residual and compost co-amendments: Soil–water dynamics. Journal of Environmental Quality, 53(2), 174–186. https://doi.org/10.1002/jeq2.20541

Spiciarich, A., Gadot, Y., Shalev, Y., Sapir-Hen, L., Scott, E., le Roux, P., Roberts, P. and Stockhammer, P.W., 2024. Unveiling ancient Jerusalem’s pastoral dynamics (7th to 2nd centuries BCE) with multi-isotope analysis. Scientific Reports, 14(1), p.27278. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-78020-2

Thomas, R. K., Fawcett, S. E., Forrer, H. J., Robinson, C. M., & Knapp, A. N. (2024). Estimates of the isotope effect for Nitrate assimilation in the Indian Sector of the Southern Ocean. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 129(7), e2023JC020830. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JC020830

van der Boon, A., Naudé, M.N., Callegaro, S., Monsef, I., Rezaeian, M., Niknam, A., Cotton, L.J., Le Roux, P., Kriegsman, L.M., Mason, P.R. and Langereis, C.G., 2024. Propagating Neotethys slab break-off beneath Iran following Arabia-Eurasia collision. Lithos, 482, p.107737. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2024.107737

Viljoen, J.J., Cloete, R., Philibert, R., Valk, O., Loock, J., van Horsten, N.R., Planquette, H., Bucciarelli, E., Sarthou, G., Roychoudhury, A.N. & Fietz, S., 2025. Winter dynamics of phytoplankton and micronutrients in the Southern Ocean. Authorea Preprints. https://doi.org/10.22541/essoar.173884384.49518335/v1

Vos, H.C., Kangueehi, K.I., Toesie, R., Eckardt, F.D., Ravenscroft, G., Fietz, S. (2024).  Spatial variability of dust concentration and deposition around an industrial port in South Africa emphasises the complexity of sources and transport.  Air Quality, Atmosphere & Health. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11869-024-01581-8

Wang, X., Bocksberger, G., Arandjelovic, M., Agbor A, Angedakin, S., Aubert, F., Ayuk, Ayimisin, E., Bailey, E., Barubiyo, D., Bessone, M., Bobe, R,. Bonnet, M., Boucher, R., Brazzola, G., Brewer, S., Lee, K.C., Carvalho. S., Chancellor, R., Cipoletta, C., Cohen, H,. Copeland, S.R., Corogenes, K., Costa, A.M., Coupland, C., Curran, B., de Ruiter, D.J., Deschner, T., Dieguez, P., Dierks, K., Dilambaka, E., Dowd, D., Dunn, A., Ebot, Egbe, V., Finckh, M., Fruth, B., Gijanto, L., Ginath, Yuh, Y., Goedmakers, A., Gokee, C., Coelho, R,G., Goodman, A.H., Granjon, A.C., Grimes, V., Grueter, C.C., Haour, A., Hedwig, D., Hermans, V., Hernandez-Aguilar, R.A., Hohmann, G., Imong, I., Jeffery, KJ, Jones S, Junker. J., Kadam, P,. Kambere, M., Kambi, M., Kienast, I., Knudson, K.J., Langergraber, K.E., Lapeyre, V., Lapuente, J., Larson, B., Lautenschlaeger, T., le Roux, P., Leinert, V., Llana, M., Logan, A., Lowry. B., Lüdecke, T., Maretti. G., Marrocoli, S., Martín, R., McNeill, P.J., Meier, A.C., Meller, P., Monroe, J.C., Morgan. D., Mulindahabi, F., Murai, M., Neil, E., Nicholl, S., Niyigaba, P., Normand, E., Ormsby, L.J., Orume, R., Pacheco. L, Piel, A., Preece, J., Regnaut, S., Richard, F.G., Richards, M.P., Rundus, A., Sanz, C., Sommer, V., Sponheimer, M., Steele, T.E., Stewart, F.A., Tagg, N., Tédonzong, L.R., Tickle, A., Toubga, L., van Schijndel, J., Vergnes, V., Wangue, Njomen, N., Wessling E.G, Willie, J., Wittig, R.M., Yurkiw, K., Zipkin, A.Z., Zuberbühler, K., Kühl, H.S., Boesch, C., Oelze. V.M. (2024). Strontium isoscape of sub-Saharan Africa allows tracing origins of victims of the transatlantic slave trade Nature communications, 15(1), p.10891. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-55256-0

Weij, R., Baker, S. E., Edwards, T. R., Kibii, J., Luti, G., & Pickering, R. (2025). Taung and beyond: The mining history, geology and taphonomy of Australopithecus in South Africa. South African Journal of Science, 121(1/2). https://doi.org/10.17159/sajs.2025/18509