| Fynbos biome 4 AG Rebelo, C Boucher, N Helme, L Mucina, MC Rutherford The Vegetation of South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland, 144-145, 2006 | 544 | 2006 |
| National Biodiversity Assessment 2018: The Status of South Africa's Ecosystems and Biodiversity: Synthesis Report AL Skowno South African National Biodiversity Institute, 2019 | 187 | 2019 |
| Bird community composition in an actively managed savanna reserve, importance of vegetation structure and vegetation composition AL Skowno, WJ Bond Biodiversity & Conservation 12, 2279-2294, 2003 | 158 | 2003 |
| The nebulous ecology of native invasions LL Nackley, AG West, AL Skowno, WJ Bond Trends in Ecology & Evolution 32 (11), 814-824, 2017 | 137 | 2017 |
| Woodland expansion in South African grassy biomes based on satellite observations (1990–2013): general patterns and potential drivers AL Skowno, MW Thompson, J Hiestermann, B Ripley, AG West, WJ Bond Global change biology 23 (6), 2358-2369, 2017 | 128 | 2017 |
| Effects of goat pastoralism on ecosystem carbon storage in semiarid thicket, Eastern Cape, South Africa AJ Mills, RM Cowling, MV Fey, GIH Kerley, JS Donaldson, ... Austral ecology 30 (7), 797-804, 2005 | 118 | 2005 |
| Scientific foundations for an ecosystem goal, milestones and indicators for the post-2020 global biodiversity framework E Nicholson, KE Watermeyer, JA Rowland, CF Sato, SL Stevenson, ... Nature Ecology & Evolution 5 (10), 1338-1349, 2021 | 97 | 2021 |
| A metric for spatially explicit contributions to science-based species targets L Mair, LA Bennun, TM Brooks, SHM Butchart, FC Bolam, ND Burgess, ... Nature Ecology & Evolution 5 (6), 836-844, 2021 | 86 | 2021 |
| Secondary succession in Acacia nilotica (L.) savanna in the Hluhluwe game reserve, South Africa AL Skowno, JJ Midgley, WJ Bond, D Balfour Plant Ecology 145, 1-9, 1999 | 82 | 1999 |
| Impacts of the IUCN Red List of Ecosystems on conservation policy and practice LM Bland, E Nicholson, RM Miller, A Andrade, A Carré, A Etter, ... Conservation letters 12 (5), e12666, 2019 | 76 | 2019 |
| Ecosystem carbon storage under different land uses in three semi-arid shrublands and a mesic grassland in South Africa AJ Mills, TG O'Connor, JS Donaldson, MV Fey, AL Skowno, AM Sigwela, ... South African Journal of Plant and Soil 22 (3), 183-190, 2005 | 62 | 2005 |
| Advancing land-sea integration for ecologically meaningful coastal conservation and management LR Harris, M Bessinger, A Dayaram, S Holness, S Kirkman, ... Biological Conservation 237, 81-89, 2019 | 61 | 2019 |
| Long-term changes in land use, land cover and vegetation in the Karoo drylands of South Africa: implications for degradation monitoring M Timm Hoffman, A Skowno, W Bell, S Mashele African Journal of Range & Forage Science 35 (3-4), 209-221, 2018 | 60 | 2018 |
| Rates and patterns of habitat loss across South Africa's vegetation biomes AL Skowno, D Jewitt, JA Slingsby South African journal of science 117 (1-2), 1-5, 2021 | 51 | 2021 |
| Vegetation map of South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland 2018: a description of changes since 2006 A Dayaram, LR Harris, BA Grobler, S Van der Merwe, AG Rebelo, ... Bothalia-African Biodiversity & Conservation 49 (1), 1-11, 2019 | 46 | 2019 |
| South African national biodiversity assessment 2018 technical report volume 1: Terrestrial realm AL Skowno, DC Raimondo, CJ Poole, B Fizzotti, JA Slingsby South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria 1, 2019 | 43 | 2019 |
| Ecosystem indices to support global biodiversity conservation JA Rowland, LM Bland, DA Keith, D Juffe‐Bignoli, MA Burgman, A Etter, ... Conservation Letters 13 (1), e12680, 2020 | 38 | 2020 |
| Review of available data for a South African inventory of inland aquatic ecosystems (SAIIAE) H Van Deventer, L Smith-Adao, C Petersen, N Mbona, A Skowno, JL Nel Water SA 44 (2), 184-199, 2018 | 38 | 2018 |
| Practical actions for applied systematic conservation planning EA Botts, G Pence, S Holness, K Sink, A Skowno, A Driver, LR Harris, ... Conservation Biology 33 (6), 1235-1246, 2019 | 35 | 2019 |
| National Wetland Map 5: An improved spatial extent and representation of inland aquatic and estuarine ecosystems in South Africa H Van Deventer, L Van Niekerk, J Adams, MK Dinala, R Gangat, ... Water SA 46 (1), 66-79, 2020 | 34 | 2020 |
