Acknowledgement: This research was funded by the South African Research Chairs Initiative through the South African National Department of Science and Innovation/National Research Foundation, by a Community of Practice grant in Ocean Accounts Framework (UID: 125455). The opinions expressed in this website are not necessarily those of the funding bodies.
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SAEON has a distributed network of seven nodes, two research infrastructure and a national office. The research network covers the major terrestrial and marine ecosystems in South Africa and supports well over 100 researchers and students, a year.