Marlize Muller - Internal Stakeholder Communication

Marlize Muller is a PhD student registered at the North-West University (NWU) and is affiliated with SAEON, Ndlovu Node. Her research focusses on grassland diversity and
functioning under increased climate and land-use change. More specifically she is making use of an existing floristic dataset covering several land-use types across the Grassland Biome of South Africa. Furthermore, SAEON has a large number of long-term datasets in the critically endangered Woodbush Granite Grasslands (WGG) that she will be using in her studies. She is supervised by Dr Frances Siebert (NWU), Dr Anja Linstädter (University of Cologne), Dr Dave Thompson (SAEON) and Prof Stefan Siebert (NWU). She is passionate about grasslands and the natural environment in general and hopes to contribute to the conservation and sustainable use of these systems.