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Welcome to the GDRI South Africa website

The purpose of the GDRI “Biodiversity and global change in Southern Africa” is to provide support for research, and to coordinate the scientific activities of its members; its actions focused on two main activities: an annual meeting and the development and promotion of research training for young scientists.



The GDRI “Biodiversity and global change in Southern Africa” undertakes to:


- Facilitate and encourage contacts and exchanges between researchers,


- Promote cooperative actions, and coordinate and structure multi-partner research programs to respond to calls for tender for research and technological development support, 

- Hold conferences on its research themes

- Encourage training.




Four work packages form this GDRI:

Savanna dynamics and global change


Climate changes and mammal evolution

            Coevolution, invasion and plant conservation biology

                  Global change, functional traits and phylogeography




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