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Are Trout South African? Or: A Postcolonial Fish
There has been substantial attention paid in literary and postcolonial studies to issues of environment and ecology, and especially the environmental transformations which colonial and imperial histories have wrought upon the (post)colony.

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Bodies in Landscapes: Entanglements of trout and waters in South Africa
Nustad, K. G., Brown, D., & Swanson, H. A. 2025. Bodies in Landscapes: Entanglements of trout and waters in South Africa. Environment an...


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Hatching Conflicts: Trout Reproduction, Properties of Water, and Property Ownership in South Africa
Nustad, Knut G., Duncan Brown and Heather A. Swanson. 2023. Hatching Conflicts: Trout Reproduction, Properties of Water, and Property Owners...


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Global trout: investigating environmental change through more-than human world systems
This project investigates how the humanities and social sciences can contribute to new modes of conservation and environmental management that are responsive to the complex histories and politics of species introductions.

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Nutrient Release Dynamics Associated with Native and Invasive Leaf Litter Decomposition: A Mesocosm Experiment
Mutshekwa, Thendo, Ross N. Cuthbert, R. N., Ryan J. Wasserman, Florence M. Murungweni and Tatenda Dalu. 2020. Nutrient Release Dynamics Asso...

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Macroinvertebrate colonisation associated with native and invasive leaf litter decomposition
Mutshekwa, Thendo, Ross N. Cuthbert, Ryan J. Wasserman, Florence M. Murungweni, and Dalu, Tatenda. 2020. Macroinvertebrate colonisation asso...

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Are Trout South African (Stories of Fish, People and Places)
Duncan Brown. 2013. Are Trout South African (Stories of Fish, People and Places). Picador Africa, 256 pp. ISBN 978-1-77010-302-3.

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Invasive plants as drivers of regime shifts: identifying high-priority invaders that alter feedback relationships
Mirijam Gaertner, Reinette Biggs, Mariska Te Beest et al. 2014. Invasive plants as drivers of regime shifts: identifying high-priority invad...
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Native, Natural, Indigenous, Indigenised? Trout in the Postcolony
Brown, Duncan. 2016. Native, Natural, Indigenous, Indigenised? Trout in the Postcolony. Critical African Studies 8(2):179–95. http://dx.doi....

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Scaling the drivers and consequences of biodiversity change
Biological diversity is intrinsically scale-dependent, and understanding its scaling properties may help us better manage and conserve it.
