Facilitation of interdisciplinary collaboration in research:: lessons from a Kruger National Park Rivers Research Programme project

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Jewitt, GPW
Görgens, AHM
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[1] Univ Natal, Sch Bioresource Engn & Environm Hydrol, ZA-3209 Scottsville, South Africa
[2] Univ Stellenbosch, Dept Civil Engn, ZA-7602 Matieland, South Africa
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O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
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Recent shifts in natural resources management have highlighted the need for an integrated approach that draws upon the expertise of scientists in different disciplines. However, it has been said that effective interdisciplinary collaboration is one of science's missing links. This issue is of importance to many projects, which are increasingly dependent upon successful interaction of scientists from several disciplines. A project, which formed part of the Kruger National Park Rivers Research Programme, focused on linking changes in catchment hydrology, sedimentation and geomorphology to the responses of the fish and riparian vegetation of the Sable River through the development of simulation models. The completion of this project was dependent on successful interdisciplinary collaboration between an hydrologist, an engineer, a botanist, an ecologist and a geomorphologist, all of whom were based at different institutions and separated by wide geographical distances. In this paper, we describe the potential obstacles that may affect similar interdisciplinary projects and the extent to which these affected, and were resolved in, the Kruger Park project.
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