| 2020 | Mills AJ | De Wet R | Quantifying a sponge: The additional water in restored thicket. | South African Journal of Science | dx.doi.org/10.17159/sajs.2019/a0309 |
| 2020 | Mills AJ | Allen JA & Le Roux ZM. | Small ratios of anabolic to catabolic soil nutrients constrain non-indigenous trees in the Western Cape, South Africa. | South African Journal of Botany | doi.org/10.1016/j.sajb.2020.03.035 |
| 2020 | Mills AJ | Strydom T | Basal stem area is a better measure of woodiness than canopy cover in the savannas of the Kruger National Park. | South African Journal of Science | dx.doi.org/10.17159/sajs.2020/7409 |
| 2020 | Mills AJ | Tan D, Manji AK, Vijitpan T, Henriette E, Murugaiyan P, Pantha RH, Lafdal MY, Soule A, Cazzetta S, Begat P, Vlieghe KEP, Lavirotte L, Kok, JT & Lister J. | Ecosystem-based adaptation to climate change: Lessons learned from a pioneering project spanning Mauritania, Nepal, the Seychelles, and China. | Plants, People, Planet | doi.org/10.1002/ppp3.10126 |
| 2018 | Mills AJ | Sirami C | Nutrient enrichment of ecosystems by fungus-growing versus non-fungus-growing termites. | Journal of Tropical Ecology | dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0266467418000330 |
| 2018 | Thomas RJ | Reed M, Clifton K, Appadurai AN, Mills AJ. et al. | A framework for scaling sustainable land management options. | Land Degradation and Development | doi.org/10.1002/ldr.3080 |
| 2018 | Mills AJ | Allen, JL | Searching for David within the Goliath of alien woody plant invasions in the Western Cape Province. | South African Journal of Science | doi.org/10.17159/sajs.2018/a0285 |
| 2005 | Mills AJ | O?Connor TG, Donaldson JS, Fey MV, Skowno AL, Sigwela AM, Lechmere-Oertel RG & Bosenberg JD. | Ecosystem carbon storage under different land uses in three semi-arid shrublands and a mesic grassland in South Africa. | South African Journal of Plant and Soil | doi.org/10.1080/02571862.2005.10634705 |
| 2005 | Mills AJ | Fey MV. | Interactive response of herbivores, soils and vegetation to annual burning in a South African savanna. | Austral Ecology | doi.org/10.1111/j.1442-9993.2005.01487.x |
| 2005 | Mills AJ | Cowling RM, Fey MV, Kerley, GIH Donaldson JS, Lechmere-Oertal RG, Sigwale AM, Skowno AL & Rundel P. | Effects of goat pastoralism on ecosystem carbon storage in semiarid thicket, Eastern Cape, South Africa. | Austral Ecology | doi.org/10.1111/j.1442-9993.2005.01523.x |
| 2004 | Mills AJ | Fey MV. | Transformation of thicket to savanna reduces soil quality in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. | Plant and Soil | doi.org/10.1007/s11104-005-0534-2 |
| 2004 | Mills AJ | Fey MV. | Frequent fires intensify soil crusting: physicochemical feedback in the pedoderm of long-term burn experiments in South Africa. | Geoderma | doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2003.10.004 |
| 2004 | Mills AJ | Fey MV. | A simple laboratory infiltration method for measuring the tendency of soils to crust. | Soil Use and Management | doi.org/10.1079/SUM2003213 |
| 2004 | Mills AJ | Fey MV. | Effects of vegetation cover on the tendency of soil to crust in South Africa. | Soil Use and Management | doi.org/10.1079/SUM2004262 |
| 2004 | Mills AJ | Fey MV. | Soil carbon and nitrogen in five contrasting biomes of South Africa. | South African Journal of Plant and Soil | doi.org/10.1080/02571862.2004.10635030 |
| 2004 | O?Connor TG | Uys RG & Mills AJ. | Ecological effects of firebreaks in the montane grasslands of the southern Drakensberg, South Africa. | African Journal of Range and Forage Science | doi.org/10.2989/10220110409485828 |
| 2003 | Mills AJ | Fey MV. | Declining soil quality in South Africa: effects of land use on soil organic matter and surface crusting. | South African Journal of Science | |
| 2007 | Milton SJ | Dean WRJ, O?Connor TG & Mills AJ. | Scaling up from site-based research to a national research and monitoring network: lessons from Tierberg Karoo Research Centre and other design considerations. | South African Journal of Science | |
| 2007 | Mills AJ | Turpie J, Cowling RM, Marais C, Kerley GIH, Lechmere-Oertel RG, Sigwela AM & Powell M. | Assessing costs, benefits and feasibility of subtropical thicket restoration in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. | Restoring Natural Capital | |
| 2006 | Fey MV | Mills AJ & Yaalon DH. | The alternative meaning of pedoderm and its use for soil surface characterisation. | Geoderma | doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2005.07.018 |
| 2006 | Mills AJ | Morkel P, Amiyo A, Runyoro V, Borner M & Thirgood S. | Managing small populations in practice: black rhino in the Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania. | Oryx | doi.org/10.1017/S0030605306000901 |
| 2006 | Mills AJ | Fey MV, Grongroft A, Petersen A & Medinski TV. | Unravelling the effects of soil properties on water infiltration: segmented quantile regression on a large data set from arid southwest Africa. | Australian Journal of Soil Research | doi.org/10.1071/SR05180 |
| 2006 | Mills AJ | | The role of salinity and sodicity in the dieback of Acacia xanthophloea in Ngorongoro Caldera, Tanzania. | African Journal of Ecology | doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2028.2006.00616.x |
| 2006 | Mills AJ | Cowling RM. | Rate of carbon sequestration at two thicket restoration sites in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. | Restoration Ecology | doi.org/10.1111/j.1526-100X.2006.00103.x |
| 2006 | Mills AJ | Rogers KH, Stalmans M & Witkowski ETF. | A framework for the scaled exploration of the determinants of savanna and grassland distribution: a challenge for the new generation of ecologists. | Bioscience | doi.org/10.1641/0006-3568(2006)56[579:AFFETD]2.0.CO;2 |
| 2005 | Mills AJ | Fey MV & Johnson CE. | Ionic strength as a measure of sulphate salinity stress: effects of sodium sulphate, sodium chloride and manganese sulphate on kikuyu (Pennisetum clandestinum) growth and ion uptake. | South African Journal of Plant and Soil | doi.org/10.1080/02571862.2004.10635051 |
| 2007 | Fey MV | Francis ML, Prinsloo HP, Ellis F, Mills AJ, de Clercq WP, Sinjan E & Medinski TV. | Soils of Namaqualand: compensations for aridity. | Journal of Arid Environments | doi.org/10.1016/j.jaridenv.2006.12.028 |
| 2007 | Mills AJ | Milewski AV. | Geophagy and micronutrient supplementation in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania, with particular reference to selenium, cobalt, and molybdenum. | Journal of Zoology | doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7998.2006.00241.x |
| 2007 | Turpie JK | O'Connor TG, Mills AJ & Robertson H. | The ecological and economic consequences of changing land use in the southern Drakensberg grasslands. | South African Journal of Economic and Management Sciences | doi.org/10.4102/sajems.v10i4.1057 |
| 2008 | Brown R | Mills AJ & Jack C. | Non-rainfall moisture inputs in the Knersvlakte: methodology and preliminary findings. | Water SA | |
| 2009 | Sako A | Mills AJ & Roychoudhury AN. | Rare earth and trace element geochemistry of termite mounds in central and northeastern Namibia: Mechanisms for micro-nutrient accumulation. | Geoderma | doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2009.08.011 |
| 2009 | Sigwela A | Cowling R, Kerley G & Mills AJ. | The impact of browsing-induced degradation on the reproduction of subtropical thicket canopy shrubs and trees. | South African Journal of Botany | doi.org/10.1016/j.sajb.2008.12.001 |
| 2009 | Medinksi TV | Mills AJ & Fey MV. | Relationships between soil particle size fractions and infiltrability. | South African Journal of Plant and Soil | doi.org/10.1080/02571862.2009.10639948 |
| 2009 | Medinksi TV | Mills AJ & Fey MV. | Infiltrability in soils from south-western Africa: effects of texture, electrical conductivity and exchangeable sodium percentage. | South African Journal of Plant and Soil | doi.org/10.1080/02571862.2009.10639949 |
| 2009 | Mills AJ | Milewski A, Fey MV, Groengroeft A & Peterson A. | Fungus culturing, nutrient mining and geophagy: a geochemical investigation of Macrotermes and Trinervitermes mounds in southern Africa. | Journal of Zoology | doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7998.2008.00544.x |
| 2008 | Lechmere-Oertel RG | Kerley GIH, Mills AJ & Cowling RM. | Litter dynamics across browsing-induced fenceline contrasts in succulent thicket, South Africa. | South African Journal of Botany | doi.org/10.1016/j.sajb.2008.04.002 |
| 2009 | Mills AJ | Fey MV, Donaldson J, Todd S & Theron L. | Soil infiltrability as a driver of plant cover and species richness in the semi-arid Karoo, South Africa. | Plant and Soil | doi.org/10.1007/s11104-009-9904-5 |
| 2009 | Fox SC | Mills AJ & Poch RM. | Micromorphology of surface crusts in the Knersvlakte, South Africa. | Journal of Mountain Science | doi.org/10.1007/s11629-009-1036-0 |
| 2011 | Cowling RM | Mills AJ. | A preliminary assessment of rain throughfall beneath Portulacaria afra canopy in subtropical thicket and its implications for soil carbon stocks. | South African Journal of Botany | doi.org/10.1016/j.sajb.2010.06.004 |
| 2011 | Mills AJ | Cowling RM, Steyn D, Spekreijse J & Van den Broeck D, Weel S & Boogerd C. | Portulacaria afra is constrained under extreme soil conditions in the Fish River Reserve, Eastern Cape, South Africa. | South African Journal of Botany | doi.org/10.1016/j.sajb.2010.12.008 |
| 2011 | Mills AJ | Fey MV, Kgope B, Donaldson J & Bosenberg JD. | Detecting the onset of rangeland degradation using soil respiration and boundary lines: preliminary findings from the Nama Karoo. | Africa Journal of Range and Forage Science | doi.org/10.2989/10220119.2011.608903 |
| 2010 | Stephenson J | Mills, AJ, Eksteen J, Milewski AV & Myburgh J. | Geochemistry of mineral licks at Loskop Dam Nature Reserve, Mpumalanga, South Africa. | Environmental Geochemistry and Health | doi.org/10.1007/s10653-010-9313-y |
| 2010 | Mills AJ | Cowling RM. | Below-ground carbon stocks in intact and transformed subtropical thicket landscapes in semi-arid South Africa. | Journal of Arid Environments | doi.org/10.1016/j.jaridenv.2009.07.002 |
| 2010 | Fey MV | Milewski AV & Mills AJ. | Animals in soil environments. | Soils of South Africa | doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511782183.004 |
| 2010 | Milewski AV | Mills AJ. | Does life consistently maximise energy intensity? | Biological Reviews | doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-185X.2010.00131.x |
| 2012 | Kaseke KF | Mills AJ, Henschel J, Seely MK, Esler K & Brown R. | The effects of desert pavements (gravel mulch) on soil micro-hydrology. | Pure and Applied Geophysics. | doi.org/10.1007/s00024-011-0367-2 |
| 2012 | Kaseke KF | Mills AJ, Esler K, Henschel J, Seely MK & Brown R. | Spatial variation of ?non-rainfall? water input and the effect of mechanical soil crusts on input and evaporation. | Pure and Applied Geophysics | doi.org/10.1007/s00024-012-0469-5 |
| 2012 | Mills AJ | Milewski AV, Sirami C, Rogers KH, Witkowski ETF, Stalmans M & Fey MV. | Aerosol capture by small trees in savannas marginal to treeless grassland in South Africa. | Geoderma | doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2012.05.006 |
| 2012 | Mills AJ | Birch SC, Stephenson JD & Bailey RV. | Carbon stocks in fynbos, pastures and vineyards on the Agulhas Plain, South Africa: a preliminary assessment. | South African Journal of Plant and Soil | doi.org/10.1080/02571862.2012.730636 |
| 2012 | Kumamoto M | Mills AJ. | What African countries perceive to be adaptation priorities: results from 20 countries in the Africa Adaptation Programme. | Climate and Development | doi.org/10.1080/17565529.2012.733676 |
| 2012 | Van der Vyfer ML | Cowling RM, Mills AJ & Difford M. | Spontaneous return of biodiversity in restored subtropical thicket: Portulacaria afra as an ecosystem engineer. | Restoration Ecology | doi.org/10.1111/rec.12000 |
| 2011 | Zedda L | Gr”ngr”ft A, Schultz M, Petersen A, Mills AJ & Rambold G. | Distribution patterns of soil lichens across the principal biomes of southern Africa. | Journal of Arid Environments | doi.org/10.1016/j.jaridenv.2010.10.007 |
| 2014 | Mills AJ | Cowling RM. | How fast can carbon credits be generated through restoration of degraded subtropical thicket? | Restoration Ecology | doi.org/10.1111/rec.12117 |
| 2013 | Mills AJ | Milewski AV, Rogers KH, Witkowski ETF & Stalmans M. | Boundary of treeless grassland in relation to nutrient content of soils on the Highveld of South Africa. | Geoderma | doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2013.02.007 |
| 2013 | Seymour CL | Mills AJ, Milewski AV, Joseph GS, Cumming DHM, Mahlangu Z. | Do the large termite mounds of Macrotermes concentrate micronutrients in addition to macronutrients in nutrient-poor African savannas? | Soil Biology and Biochemistry | doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2013.09.022 |
| 2013 | Mills AJ | Birch SC, Stanway R, Huyser O, Chisholm RA, Sirami C & Spear D. | Sequestering carbon and restoring renosterveld though fallowing: a practical conservation approach for the Overberg, Cape Floristic Region, South Africa. | Conservation Letters | doi.org/10.1111/conl.12003 |
| 2013 | Mills AJ | Milewski AV, Fey MV, Gr”ngr”ft A, Petersen M & Sirami C. | Constraint on woody cover in relation to nutrient content of soils in western southern Africa. | Oikos | doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0706.2012.20417.x |
| 2012 | Kaseke KF | Mills AJ, Brown R, Esler K, Henschel J & Seely MK. | A method for direct assessment of the “non rainfall” atmospheric water cycle: input and evaporation from the soil. | Pure and Applied Geophysics | doi.org/10.1007/s00024-011-0328-9 |
| 2015 | Milewski AV | Mills AJ. | Why was the Highveld treeless? Looking laterally to the Pampas for global edaphic principles beyond biogeographical incidents. | South African Journal of Botany | doi.org/10.1016/j.sajb.2015.05.019 |
| 2015 | Mills AJ | Vyver M, Gordon I, Patwardhan A, Marais C, Blignaut J, Sigwela A & Kgope B. | Prescribing innovation within a large-scale restoration programme in degraded subtropical thicket in South Africa. | Forests | doi.org/10.3390/f6114328 |
| 2014 | Mills AJ | Spear D, Ndhlovu T, Knight MH, Pienke DM, Hofmeyr S & Cowling RM. | Biomass of large herbivores in South African subtropical thicket. | African Journal of Ecology | doi.org/10.1111/aje.12162 |
| 2018 | Mills AJ | Hunter R. | Restoration of wetlands on the Agulhas Plain is unlikely to generate peat. | South African Journal of Science | doi.org/10.17159/sajs.2018/a0252 |
| 2017 | Mander M | Jewitt G, Dini J, Glenday J, Blignaut J, Hughes C, Marais C, Maze K, van der Waal B & Mills AJ. | Modelling potential hydrological returns from investing in ecological infrastructure: case studies from the Baviaanskloof-Tsitsikamma and uMngeni catchments, South Africa. | Ecosystem Services | doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2017.03.003 |
| 2017 | Mills AJ | Milewski AV, Snyman D & Jordaan JJ. | Effects of anabolic and catabolic nutrients on woody plant encroughment after long-term experimental fertilization in a South African savanna. | PLoS ONE | doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0179848 |
| 2017 | Mills AJ | Robson, A. | Survivorship of spekboom (Portulacaria afra) planted within the Subtropical Thicket Restoration Programme. | South African Journal of Science | doi.org/10.17159/sajs.2017/a0196 |
| 2016 | Mills AJ | Milewski AV, & Sirami C. | A preliminary test of catabolic nutrients in explanation of the puzzling treelessness of grassland in mesic Australia. | Austral Ecology | doi.org/10.1111/aec.12385 |
| 2018 | Mills AJ | Milton SJ, Taplin BD & Allen JL. | Viability of watering Portulacaria afra truncheons to facilitate restoration of subtropical thicket: Results from a nursery experiment and cost model. | South African Journal of Botany | doi.org/10.1016/j.sajb.2017.10.017 |
