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 Sebataolo
Rahlao
Sebataolo joined the Energy, Environment and Climate Change at ERC
as a postdoctoral fellow in 2010. He is now a Researcher in the same
group since May 2011.
Qualifications
PhD (Invasion biology and climate change): Stellenbosch
MSc (Conservation Biology): UCT
BSc (Hons) (Environmental and Geographical Sciences): UCT
BSc (Biology and Physical Geography): NUL – Lesotho
Current research interests and focus areas
Seb’s interests are non-energy based (agriculture, forestry and land
use) climate change mitigation. His current research is on
development of programmes to increase carbon sinks and reduce
emissions from Land use, Land use Change and Forestry (LULUCF),
Agriculture, and Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and
Degradation (REDD+). He is also interested in the on-going climate
change international negotiations, national policy development and
climate change adaptation.
Previous experience
Seb’s 2010 PhD thesis with Stellenbosch University was on “Current
and future vulnerability of South African ecosystems to perennial
grass invasion under global change scenarios”. He has published a
number of papers from his BSc (Hons) through to PhD theses on land
use dynamics, ecology, invasion biology and climate change. He has
since decided to focus on non-energy related climate change
mitigation and policy development. He has worked as a programme
assistant for the Global Invasive Species Programme.
Selected publications
Rahlao SJ, Milton SJ, Esler KJ, van Wilgen BW and 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.
Rahlao SJ, Hoffman MT, Todd SW, and McGrath K. 2008. Long-term
vegetation change in the Succulent Karoo, South Africa following 67
years of rest from grazing. Journal of Arid Environments
72:808 – 819.
Meadows ME, Rahlao SJ and Dietrich K. 2006. Land use dynamics, soil
erosion and conservation in the Tygerberg Hills, Cape Town, South
Africa. Zeitschrift fur Geomorphogie Supplementband 142: 75
– 86.
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