Staff Profiles

PhD in Natural Resources Management: Okavango Research Institute, UB

Dr Tsheboeng is a Senior Lecturer/Researcher in Plant Ecology. He joined UB in July 2020 as a Lecturer. Before joining UB, Dr Tsheboeng worked as a Lecturer at the University of Eswatini where he taught and supervised students' projects at both Undergraduate and Msc levels. In 2018 Dr Tsheboeng was awarded AESA-RISE Postdoctoral fellowship through African Academy of Sciences. His research interest is mainly in Plant Ecology. To date, Dr Tsheboeng's research output is distributed as follows: papers in peer-reviewed journals, book chapter, papers in peer-reviewed conference proceedings and Technical reports (https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=56088123100; https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=-HPMWZwAAAAJ&hl=en and https://orcid.org/my-orcid). In addition to this, Dr Tsheboeng has also presented his work in local and regional conferences (Symposia). Over the years, Dr Tsheboeng has served as a peer reviewer for different academic journals.

Dr Tsheboeng is a Subject Editor of Vegetation Classification & Survey journal (https://vcs.pensoft.net/). Furthermore, Dr Tsheboeng is a member of national Technical Review committee and national Joint Coordination committee for a project on capacity development and sustainable use of forest and range resources implemented by Department of Forestry and Range Resources and JICA. Dr Tsheboeng is also an alternate CITES Scientific Authority for flora for Botswana.

BIO 111: Principles of Biology

BIO 409: Life History strategies

BIO 434: Plant Ecology

1. Plant population structure

2. Phytosociology

3. The impact of land use on plant communities

4. Soil seedbank dynamics

I supervise students in the above research areas. Recent specific topics that I supervised students on include:

1. Pine timber plantation effects on conservation of understory plant species in Eswatini: Msc

2. Integrating field based methods and remote sensing in monitoring riparian woodland vegetation in the Okavango Delta: Msc

3. Soil seedbanks and regeneration of riparian woodlands in the Okavango Delta: MPhil

1. Gule, T., Tsheboeng, G.,..Cassidy, L. 2021. Change detection of riparian woodland vegetation in the Okavango Delta, Botswana. Remote sensing Applications: Society & Environment, doi.org/10.1016/j.rsase.2021.100497

2. Tsheboeng et al. 2020. Environmental factors that influence species diversity of floodplain plant communities in different flooding phases in the Okavango Delta, Botswana. Bothalia: African Journal of Biodiversity and Conservation, 50(1)

3. Tsheboeng et al. 2017. The influence of land use on the regeneration of riparian plant species in the Okavango Delta, Botswana. Journal of Forestry Research, doi. 10.1007/s11676-017-0382-y

4. Tsheboeng et al. 2017. Response of riparian plant community composition to distance from surface water in the Okavango Delta, Botswana. African Journal of Ecology, doi:10.111/aje.12364

5. Tsheboeng et al. 2014. Influence of flood variation on soil nutrient status in the Okavango Delta, Botswana. South African Journal of Science, 110(3/4)