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Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences
School of Biological Sciences
Department of Zoology and Entomology

Janse van Rensburg, B

PhD (UP) - Lecturer

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Contact Details:

Telephone number: 012 420 4627
Fax number: 012 362 5242
E-mail address: bjvanrensburg@zoology.up.ac.za

Research Interests:

The ecology, ethology, physiology and evolution of African animals; Behavioural, physiological and evolutionary ecology; and Antarctic biology

Biology of fragmented populations; Conservation planning; Conservation and restoration ecology; and Biodiversity and systematics

Research Output:

Research articles in refereed specialist journals:

Botes A, McGeoch MA, Janse van Rensburg B: 2006. Elephant- and human-induced changes to dung beetle (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) assemblages in the Maputaland Centre of Endemism. Biological Conservation, 130, pp 573-583.

Evans KL, Janse van Rensburg B, Gaston KJ, Chown SL: 2006. People, species richness and human population growth. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 15, pp 625-636.

Kark S, Janse van Rensburg B: 2006. Ecotones: marginal or central areas of transition?. Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution (Formerly Zoology), 52, pp 29-53.

van Eeden DG, Janse van Rensburg B, De Wijn M, Bothma JduP: 2006. The value of community-based conservation in a heterogeneous landscape: an avian case study from sand forest in Maputaland, South Africa. South African Journal of Wildlife Research, 36 (2) / Oct, pp 153-157.

 

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