Sarel Cilliers

Potchefstroom

Sarel Cilliers is professor in Plant Ecology at the North-West University. His research focuses mainly on small urban and rural settlements, investigating biodiversity patterns and processes in fragmented natural areas (mainly grasslands) and private and community gardens along urbanization and socio-economic gradients; social, cultural and legacy effects as drivers of plant diversity, and community gardens as complex social-ecological systems.