Honorary Research Associate

Phoebe Barnard BSc Hons (Acadia, Canada), MSc (Witwatersrand), PhD (Uppsala, Sweden) Tel: +27 (0)21 799 8722 Fax: +27 (0)21 797 6903 Birds & Environmental Change Partnership Programme, Climate Change and BioAdaptation Division, Kirstenbosch Research Centre South African National Biodiversity Institute email: barnard@sanbi.org

Although Phoebe trained as a behavioural and evolutionary ecologist, working mainly on birds of prey and highly ornamented African passerines, she has spent the last decade in conservation biology, policy and strategic planning. A senior scientist (and the only zoologist) at the Global Change Research Group, South African National Biodiversity Institute, she is resuming her research life to combine her twin 'work passions' of biodiversity and climate change by looking at the vulnerability and adaptation of African birds and other animals to environmental change.

Phoebe previously founded and ran the Namibian national biodiversity and climate change programmes, and worked as a scientific and technical coordinator for the Global Invasive Species Programme. Her interests in global environmental change in Africa include the roles of scientific networks, long-term environmental observatories and young scientists. Her ecological interests include the behavioural, genetic and life history determinants of species vulnerability to climate change, what bird data can tell us about population trends, ecosystem health and human well-being, and how species will move across fragmented landscapes in response to environmental change.

Research programmes

Climate Change Vulnerability & Adaptation

Recent publications

2010

Barnard, P. & Midgley, G.F. 2010. No going back for species and ecosystems. Review of Heatstroke: Nature in an age of global warming (Island Press, Shearwater Books). Trends in Ecology & Evolution 25:9-10.

Barnard, P., Ziervogel, G., Holloway, A., Small, J. & Chapman, A. 2010. Helping reorient local planning: lessons from climate change preparedness training in South Africa. AdaptNet Policy Forum: in press.

Huntley, B., Barnard, P., Altwegg, R., Chambers, L., Coetzee, B.W.T., Gibson, L., Hockey, P.A.R., Hole, D.G., Midgley, G.F., Underhill, L.G., Willis, S.G. 2010. Beyond bioclimatic envelopes: dynamic species’ range and abundance modelling in the context of climate change. Ecography 33:1-6.

Rahlao, S.J., Milton, S.J., Esler, K.J. & Barnard, P. 2010. Corridor interchanges as habitats for the invasive alien grass Pennisetum setaceum in semi-arid South Africa. Weed Research: in press.

2009

Barnard, P. 2009. Sustainable living: Hypermiling. Full Circle 6(6): 62.

Barnard, P. 2009. Sustainable living: Climate change denialism - making sense of the myths about climate change. Full Circle 6(8): 60-62.

Barnard, P. 2009. Sustainable living: Fortress or community? Full Circle 6(9): 62.

Barnard, P. & Simmons, R. 2009. Birds of the South: Elsie's Peak - birds on the edge. Full Circle 6(7):52.

Barnard, P. & Simmons, R. 2009. How will birds cope with climate change? Africa Birds & Birding 14(6):78-79.

Barnard, P. & Simmons, R. 2009. Rooi Els' jewels in the breeze - observers needed! Rooi Els Breeze/Bries - Newsletter of the Rooi Els Conservancy: in press.

Barnard, P. & Simmons, R. 2009. The Southern African Bird Atlas Project 2 (SABAP2). Rooi Els Breeze/Bries - Newsletter of the Rooi Els Conservancy: in press.

Dean, W.R.J., Barnard, P., Anderson, M.J. 2009. When to stay, when to go: tradeoffs for arid zone birds in times of drought. South African Journal of Science 105:24-28. [Download PDF]

Rahlao, S.J., Milton, S.J., Esler, K.J., van Wilgen, B.W. & Barnard, P. 2009. Effects of invasion of fire-free arid shrublands by a fire-promoting invasive alien grass (Pennisetum setaceum) in South Africa. Austral Ecology 34:920-928.

Sirami, C., Seymour, C., Midgley, G.F. & Barnard, P. 2009. Shrub encroachment impact on savanna bird diversity from local to regional scale. Diversity & Distributions 15:948-957.

Triplet, P. & Barnard, P. 2009. Intégrer les changements climatiques à la gestion. In: Triplet, P. (ed.). Manuel des conservateurs des aires protégées d'Afrique francophone. [A wide-ranging handbook for West African protected area planners and managers, published online December 2009]

Underhill, L. & Barnard, P. 2009. SABAP2 and climate change. Africa Birds & Birding 14(6):79.

2008

Barnard, P. 2008. Sustainable living. The choice is ours. Full Circle 5(5):64 [Download PDF]

Barnard, P. 2008. Birds of the south. Coping with climate change. Full Circle 5(8):52

Barnard, P. 2008. Vanishing Glencairn dunes. Full Circle 5(8):56.

Barnard, P. 2008. Time to take back the streets. Full Circle 5(8):64.

Barnard, P. 2008. Do good lives have to cost the Earth. Full Circle 5(10):62

Barnard, P. 2008. Birds and people. Full Circle 5(11):52.

Barnard P. 2008. Meet a conservationist: Wendy Foden. Interview with Phoebe Barnard. African Conservation Telegraph 3(1):4. [Download PDF]

Barnard P. 2008. Meet a conservationist: Mao Angua Amis. Interview with Phoebe Barnard. African Conservation Telegraph 3(1):6. [Download PDF]

Harrison, J.A., Underhill, L.G. & Barnard, P. 2008. The seminal legacy of the Southern African Bird Atlas Project. South African Journal of Science 104:82-84. [Download PDF]

2007

Barnard P & Midgley G.F. 2007. Putting it on the line. Review of The Atlas of Climate Change, Mapping the World's Greatest Challenge). Trends in Ecology and Evolution 22:177-178.

Simmons R & Barnard P. 2007. Breeding booted eagles at Brukkaros, Namibia? Gabar - Journal of African Raptor Biology 18(1):9-15.

This list includes only recent peer-reviewed publications. For a more comprehensive list go to Fitz Publications. Reprints can be obtained from the librarian.