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The South African Journal of Science is an English, multidisciplinary science journal published bimonthly by the Academy of Science of South Africa. Since the Journal serves a multidisciplinary readership, articles should serve multidisciplinary or multi-institutional areas of interest, and authors are requested to write their papers and reports in a manner and style that is intelligible to specialists and nonspecialists alike.

The journal was established in 1903 as the proceedings of the annual meetings of the SA Association for the Advancement of Science. The annual volume became a monthly publication in August 1947. Since 1973, the Journal has in turn had a close association with Macmillan Journals in London (the then publisher of Nature), the Associated Scientific and Technical Societies of SA (AS&TS), the Foundation for Education, Science and Technology, and the National Research Foundation.

Its abbreviated title is S. Afr. j. sci., which should be used in bibliographies, footnotes and bibliographical references and strips.

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Copyright on published articles is retained by the author(s). The exclusive responsibility in respect of the acknowledgement of author's rights and/or copyright rests with the responsible author(s). The editor and reviewers of this journal cannot accept responsibility for the infringement of authors' rights or copyright. The author grants the publisher unlimited rights to publish the work in any format and/or medium, whether for gain or any other purpose. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License.

Reprints: The journal publishes on an open-access model and authors can download their material from the journal website freely and distribute under the Creative Commons Attribution License.

The publication receives financial support from:

• Department of Science and Technology, South Africa