In recent years, Profs Taylor and Clark have co-authored several published book chapters and scientific articles synthesising the biodiversity knowledge of different mountainous regions of Southern Africa, including Angola (by Brian Huntley and colleagues), the Highlands and Escarpments of Namibia and Angola (2023: by John Mendelsohn and colleagues), the South East Africa Montane Archipelago of northern Mozambique (by Julian Bayliss and colleagues), and the bats of the Great Escarpment of Southern Africa (by Peter Taylor and colleagues). Prof Clark is co-editing a soon-to-be-published volume on African and Malagasy mountains for the multi-volume series on Safeguarding Mountain Social-Ecological Systems: A Global Challenge. These works (listed below) are easily accessible and provide a useful resource on the biodiversity of Southern African mountains.

Collectively, the co-authors and collaborators of the above projects come from centres and universities in eight Southern African countries, making them potential members who will be invited to become members of the new regional hub.

Huntley, BJ, Russo, V, Lages, F, Ferrand, N (Editors). 2019. Biodiversity of Angola, Springer International Publishing, Switzerland, ISBN 978-3-030-03082-7/978-3-030-03083-4, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03083-4

Mendelsohn, JM, Huntley, BJ, Vaz Pinto, P (Editors). 2023. ‘Endemism in the Highlands and Escarpments of Angola and Namibia.’ Namibian Journal of Environment, Volume 8; www.nje.org.na. 
Bayliss, J, Bittencourt-Silva, GB, Branch, WR, Bruessow, C, Collins, S, Congdon, TCE, Conradie, W, Curran, M, Daniels, S, Darbyshire, I, Farooq, H, Fishpool, L, Grantham, G, Magombo, Z, Matimele, H, Monadjem, A, Monteiro, J, Osborne, J, Saunders, J, Smith, P, Spottiswoode, CN, Taylor, PJ, Timberlake, J, Tolley, KA, Tovela, E, Platts, PJ. 2024. ‘The South East Africa Montane Archipelago (SEAMA) – a biogeographical appraisal of a threatened ecoregion.’ Scientific Reports, 14, 5971. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-54671-z. 

Taylor, PJ, Kearney, TC, Clark, VR, Howard, A, Mdluli, MV, Markotter, W, Geldenhuys, M, Richards, LR, Rakotoarivelo, AR, Watson, J, Balona, J, and Monadjem, A. 2024. ‘Southern Africa’s Great Escarpment as an amphitheatre of climate-driven diversification and a buffer against future climate change in bats,’ Global Change Biology, 30:e17344, https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.17344.
 

A study of Prof Julian Bayliss documents 127 plant species, and 90 species of amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals, butterflies, and freshwater crabs in the South East Africa Montane Archipelago of northern Mozambique, all of which are found nowhere else on Earth.