The association between the housing structure and continued breastfeeding in two Southern African countries by Khanyile, Ntuthuko, McLaren, Shawn, Fairbrother, Una

“…We studied the association between housing structure and breastfeeding duration in two Southern African countries. Data were extracted, with permission, from the Demographic and Health Survey(DHS), a program which provides nutrition surveillance in 90+ countries. …”
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Identifying remnant biodiversity hotspots in Southern Asia reveals disequilibrium in mammalian communities by Sartor, CC, Kaszta, Z, Kamler, J, Hearn, AJ, Ash, E, Bolongon, G, Can, ÖE, Channa, P, Cheyne, S, Fitzmaurice, A, Haidir, IA, Kyaw, PP, Luskin, MS, Singh, P, Rasphone, A, Wei, CTK, Yadav, BP, Cushman, SA, Macdonald, DW

“…Therefore, we aimed to identify the most important areas for the conservation of specified mammalian groups in Southern Asia, a region rich in biodiversity hotspots threatened by increasing rates of habitat loss and other anthropogenic activities. …”

Assessment research: convergences and divergences in theoreticalframeworks, findings and implications by Sims, D, Pienaar, L, Cilliers, F

Hunting and the social lives of Southern Africa’s first farmers by Jones, M, Kapumha, R, Chirikure, S, Marshall, F

“…To address this discrepancy and investigate human–wild animal interactions over the last ~ 2000 years, we examined zooarchaeological data from 54 southern African Iron Age (first and second millennium AD) farming sites. …”

Controls on present-day and future rainfall over southern Africa in coupled climate models by Munday, C

“…Climate models are the only tools available to estimate future rainfall change, but in the southern African summer rainfall season the latest generation of general circulation models disagree on the sign and magnitude of this change. …”