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Published December 10, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.59350/kfmne-vmn74

Homage to William Bond

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William J. Bond (University of Cape Town) passed away on 4 December 2025. This is a great loss. He was an extraordinary and enthusiastic ecologist, and a critical thinker who greatly influenced many of us. I learned so much from him, and I still had so much more to learn. We will certainly miss him. To remember him, you could listen to his powerful talk on behalf of grasses! a seminal lesson in savanna ecology. Personally, I also find it nice to hear his voice in that video.
Here are a few pictures I have of him (click to enlarge).

November 2006, Otay Mountains (San Diego, southern California). From left to right: Malcom Gill, Dylan Schwilk, Ross Bradstock, Peter Clarke, William Bond, and Juli Pausas. Photo by Jon Keeley.
February 2007, Alicante, Spain. From left to right: Ian Wright, Wilfried Thuiller, Andy Gillison, William Bond, and Juli Pausas. In the back: Bill Shipley.

Juli Pausas and William Bond. Left: April 2018, London, working on the Alternative Biome States paper. Right:  2017, Cádiz, Spain, sitting below a recently debarked cork oak. Photos: J. Belliure, F. Ojeda

Update:
Orbituary by RA Butler: William Bond, defender of grasslands [link]

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William J. Bond (University of Cape Town) passed away on 4 December 2025. This is a great loss. He was an extraordinary and enthusiastic ecologist, and a critical thinker who greatly influenced many of us. I learned so much from him, and I still had so much more to learn. We will certainly miss him.

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