| Mapping human and social dimensions of conservation opportunity for the scheduling of conservation action on private land AT Knight, RM Cowling, M Difford, BM Campbell Conservation Biology 24 (5), 1348-1358, 2010 | 271 | 2010 |
| Downscaling last glacial maximum climate over southern Africa FA Engelbrecht, CW Marean, RM Cowling, CJ Engelbrecht, FH Neumann, ... Quaternary Science Reviews 226, 105879, 2019 | 81 | 2019 |
| Spontaneous Return of Biodiversity in Restored Subtropical Thicket: Portulacaria afra as an Ecosystem Engineer ML van der Vyver, RM Cowling, AJ Mills, M Difford Restoration ecology 21 (6), 736-744, 2013 | 43 | 2013 |
| Responses of South African land-use planning stakeholders to the New Ecological Paradigm and the Inclusion of Nature in Self scales: Assessment of their potential as components … A Wilhelm-Rechmann, RM Cowling, M Difford Biological conservation 180, 206-213, 2014 | 34 | 2014 |
| Using social marketing concepts to promote the integration of systematic conservation plans in land-use planning in South Africa A Wilhelm-Rechmann, RM Cowling, M Difford Oryx 48 (1), 71-79, 2014 | 26 | 2014 |
| Part II–The effect of data on waste behaviour: The South African waste information system L Godfrey, D Scott, M Difford, C Trois Waste Management 32 (11), 2163-2176, 2012 | 22 | 2012 |
| Fire severity effects on resprouting of subtropical dune thicket of the Cape Floristic Region T Strydom, T Kraaij, M Difford, RM Cowling PeerJ 8, e9240, 2020 | 20 | 2020 |
| An isotopic test of the seasonal migration hypothesis for large grazing ungulates inhabiting the Palaeo-Agulhas Plain J Hodgkins, CW Marean, JA Venter, L Richardson, P Roberts, J Zech, ... Quaternary Science Reviews 235, 106221, 2020 | 20 | 2020 |
| Active restoration of woody canopy dominants in degraded S outh A frican semi‐arid thicket is neither ecologically nor economically feasible ML van der Vyver, RM Cowling, EE Campbell, M Difford Applied Vegetation Science 15 (1), 26-34, 2012 | 20 | 2012 |
| The resilience to human foraging of intertidal resources on the south Cape coast of South Africa and the implications for pre-historic foragers JC De Vynck, M Difford, R Anderson, CW Marean, RM Cowling, K Hill Quaternary Science Reviews 235, 106041, 2020 | 15 | 2020 |
| Contemporary and historical impacts of megaherbivores on the population structure of tree euphorbias in South African subtropical thicket RM Cowling, A Kamineth, M Difford, EE Campbell African Journal of Ecology 48 (1), 135-145, 2010 | 15 | 2010 |
| Part 1: The role of waste data in building knowledge: The South African waste information system L Godfrey, D Scott, M Difford, C Trois Waste management 32 (11), 2154-2162, 2012 | 13 | 2012 |
| Herbivory and misidentification of target habitat constrain region-wide restoration success of spekboom (Portulacaria afra) in South African subtropical succulent thicket ML van der Vyver, AJ Mills, M Difford, RM Cowling PeerJ 9, e11944, 2021 | 5 | 2021 |
| Fire severity effects on resprouting of subtropical dune thicket of the Cape Floristic Region. PeerJ 8: e9240 T Strydom, T Kraaij, M Difford, RM Cowling | 5 | 2020 |
| Vegetation responses to season of fire in an aseasonal, fire-prone fynbos shrubland T Kraaij, RM Cowling, BW Van Wilgen, DR Rikhotso, M Difford PeerJ 5, e3591, 2017 | 5 | 2017 |
| Climatic stability recorded in speleothems may contribute to higher biodiversity in the Cape Floristic Region K Braun, RM Cowling, M Bar‐Matthews, A Matthews, A Ayalon, ... Journal of Biogeography 50 (6), 1077-1089, 2023 | 3 | 2023 |
| Ostrich farmer characteristics predict conservation opportunity A Wheeler, AT Knight, M Difford, S Vetter South African Journal of Science 115 (3-4), 1-8, 2019 | 2 | 2019 |
| Towards the Bioremediation of the Hypertrophic Swartkops Solar Salt-works M Difford Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2008 | 2 | 2008 |
| Spontaneous return of biodiversity in restored subtropical thicket: Portulacaria afra as an ecosystem engineer. ML Vyver, RM Cowling, AJ Mills, M Difford | | 2013 |
| Biodiversity and restoration of Spekboom-dominated thicket ML Van der Vyver, RM Cowling, AJ Mills, M Difford, EE Campbell SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY 79, 217-218, 2012 | | 2012 |
