Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences
School of Biological Sciences
Department of Zoology and Entomology
The ecology, ethology, physiology and evolution of African animals; Behavioural, physiological and evolutionary ecology; and Antarctic biology - Research Output
Research articles in refereed specialist journals:
Gowans S, Wursig B, Karczmarski L: 2007. The social structure and strategies of delphinids: predictions based on an ecological framework. Advances in Marine Biology, 53, pp 195-294.
Guldemond R, van Aarde RJ: 2007. The impact of elephants on plants and their community variables in South Africa's Maputaland. African Journal of Ecology, 45, pp 327-335, Full Text
Malherbe GP, Bennett NC: 2007. An assessment of behavioural dominance in a social subterranean rodent, Cryptomys hottentotus pretoriae, using the cardinal dominance index method. African Zoology, 42 (2), pp 187-198.
van der Merwe M: 2007. Discriminating between Thryonomys swinderianus and Thryonomys gregorianus. African Zoology, 42 (2) / Oct, pp 165-171.
Vivier L, van der Merwe M: 2007. The incidence of torpor in winter and summer in the Angolan free-tailed bat, Mops condylurus. African Zoology, 42 (1), pp 50-58.
Belton LE, Ball N, Waterman J, Bateman PW: 2007. Do Cape ground squirrels (Xerus inauris) discriminate between olfactory cues in the faeces of predators versus non-predators?. African Zoology, 42 (1), pp 135-138.
Keith M, Chimimba CT, Reyers B, Van Jaarsveld AS: 2007. A comparative analysis of components in conservation priority assessments: a case study based on South African species of terrestrial mammals. African Zoology, 42 (1), pp 97-111.
Cameron EZ, du Toit JT: 2007. Winning by a neck: Tall giraffes avoid competing with shorter browsers. American Naturalist, 169, pp 130-135.
Hodge SJ, Flower TP, Clutton-Brock TH: 2007. Offspring competition and helper associations in cooperative meerkats. Animal Behaviour, 74, pp 957-964.
Ryan SJ, Knechtel CU, Getz WM: 2007. Ecological cues, gestation length, and birth timing in African buffalo (Syncerus caffer). Behavioral Ecology, 18 (4) / Jul/Aug, pp 635-644.
Pirk CWW, Neumann P, Hepburn R: 2007. Nestmate recognition for eggs in the honeybee (Apis L.). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 61, pp 1685-1693.
Fleming PA, Muller D, Bateman PW: 2007. Leave it all behind: an evolutionary and taxonomic perspective of autotomy in invertebrates. Biological Reviews, 82, pp 481-510.
Cameron EZ, Linklater WL: 2007. Extreme sex ratio variation in relation to change in condition around conception. Biology Letters, 3, pp 395-397, Full Text
Vasconcellos-Neto J, Romero J, Santos AJ, Dippenaar-Schoeman AS: 2007. Associations of spiders of the genus Peucetia (Oxyopidae) with plants bearing glandular hairs. Biotropica, 39 (2), pp 221-226.
Veldtman R, McGeoch MA, Scholtz CH: 2007. Fine-scale abundance and distribution of wild silk moth pupae. Bulletin of Entomological Research, 97, pp 15-27.
Pimm SL: 2007. Africa: Still the 'Dark Continent'. Conservation Biology, 21 (3), pp 567-569, Full Text
Escobar F, Halffter G, Arellano L: 2007. From forest to pasture: an evaluation of the influence of environment and biogeography on the structure of dung beetle (Scarabaeinae) assemblages along three altitudinal gradients in the Neotropical region. Ecography, 30, pp 193-208.
Veldtman R, McGeoch MA, Scholtz CH: 2007. Can life-history and defence traits predict the population dynamics and natural enemy responses of insect herbivores?. Ecological Entomology, 32, pp 662-673.
Holter P, Scholtz CH: 2007. What do dung beetles eat?. Ecological Entomology, 32, pp 690-697, Full Text
Fornara D, du Toit JT: 2007. Browsing lawns? Responses of Acacia nigrescens to ungulate browsing in an African savanna. Ecology, 88, pp 200-209.
Symes CT, Marsden SJ: 2007. Patterns of supra-canopy flight by pigeons and parrots at a hill-forest site in Papua New Guinea. Emu, 107, pp 115-125.
Kinahan A, Bennett NC, O Riain MJ, Hart L, Bateman PW: 2007. Size matters: Genital allometry in an African mole-rat (Family: Bathyergidae). Evolutionary Ecology, 21, pp 201-213.
Nicolson SW: 2007. Amino acid concentrations in the nectars of southern African bird-pollinated flowers, especially Aloe and Erythrina. Journal of Chemical Ecology, 33, pp 1707-1720.
Tan K, Guo YH, Nicolson SW, Radloff SE, Song QS, Hepburn HR: 2007. Honeybee (Apis cerana) foraging responses to the toxic honey of Tripterygium hypoglaucum (Celastraceae): Changing threshold of nectar acceptability. Journal of Chemical Ecology, 33, pp 2209-2217.
Leseigneur C, Verburgt L, Nicolson SW: 2007. Whitebellied sunbirds (Nectarinia talatala, Nectariniidae) do not prefer artificial nectar containing amino acids. Journal of Comparative Physiology B-Biochemical Systemic and Environmental Physiology, 177, pp 679-685.
Dietemann V, Neumann P, Härtel P, Pirk CWW, Crewe RM: 2007. Pheromonal dominance and the selection of a socially parasitic honeybee worker lineage (Apis mellifera capensis Esch.). Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 20, pp 997-1007.
Fleming PA, Bateman PW: 2007. Just drop it and run: the effect of limb autotomy on total distance run and CO², produced by escaping crickets (Gryllus bimaculatus. Journal of Experimental Biology, 210, pp 1446-1454.
Patenaude NJ, Portway VA, Schaeff CM, Bannister JL, Best PB, Payne RS, Rowntree VJ, Rivarola M, Baker CS: 2007. Mitochondrial DNA diversity and population structure among southern right whales (Eubalaena australis). Journal of Heredity, 98, pp 147-157.
Human H, Nicolson SW, Strauss K, Pirk CWW, Dietemann V: 2007. Influence of pollen quality on ovarian development in honeybees (Apis mellifera scutellata). Journal of Insect Physiology, 53, pp 649-655.
Holtzhausen W, Nicolson SW: 2007. Beetle diuretic peptides: The response of mealworm (Tenebrio molitor) Malpighian tubules to synthetic peptides, and cross-reactivity studies with a dung beetle (Onthophagus gazella). Journal of Insect Physiology, 53, pp 361-369, Full Text
Hart L, Chimimba CT, Jarvis JUM, O Riain MJ, Bennett NC: 2007. Craniometric sexual dimorphism and age variation in the solitary South African endemic Cape dune mole-rat, Bathyergus suillus (Rodentia: Bathyergidae). Journal of Mammalogy, 88 (3), pp 657-666.
Kinahan A, Pimm SL, van Aarde RJ: 2007. Ambient temperature as a determinant of landscape use in the savanna elephant, Loxodonta africana. Journal of Thermal Biology, 32, pp 47-58, Full Text
Steenkamp G, Ferreira SM, Bester MN: 2007. Tusklessness and tusk fractures in free-ranging African elephants (Loxodonta africana). Journal of the South African Veterinary Association-Tydskrif van die Suid-Afrikaanse Veterinere Vereniging, 78 (2), pp 75-80, Full Text
Roxburgh L: 2007. The effect of gut processing on the quality of mistletoe seed dispersal. Journal of Tropical Ecology, 23, pp 377-380.
Moe SR, Rutina LP, du Toit JT: 2007. Trade-off between resource seasonality and predation risk explains reproductive chronology in impala. Journal of Zoology, 273, pp 237-243.
Morley R, van Aarde RJ: 2007. Estimating abundance for a savanna elephant population using mark-resight methods: A case study for the Tembe Elephant Park, South Africa. Journal of Zoology, 271, pp 418-427, Full Text
Oosthuizen MK, Bennett NC: 2007. LH responses to single doses of exogenous GnRH in the Cape mole rat (Georychus capensis): The pituitary potential for opportunistic breeding. Journal of Zoology, 271, pp 199-202.
Jackson TP, Waterman J, Bennett NC: 2007. Pituitary luteinizing hormone responses to single doses of exogenous GnRH in female social Cape ground squirrels exhibiting low reproductive skew. Journal of Zoology, 273, pp 8-13, Full Text
Branch TA, Stafford KM, Palacios DM, Allison C, Bannister JL, Burton CLK, Cabrera E, Carlson CA, Galletti Vernazzani B, Gill PC, Hucke-Gaete R, Jenner KCS, Jenner M-NM, Matsuoka K, Mikhalev YA, Miyashita T, Morrice MG, Nishiwaki S, Sturrock VJ, Tormosov DD, Anderson RC, Baker AN, Best PB, Borsa P, Brownell Jr RL, Childerhouse S, Findlay KP, Gerrodette T, Ilangakoon AD, Joergensen M, Kahn B, Ljungblad D, Maughan B, McCauley RD, McKay S, Norris L, Oman Whale and Dolphin Research Group a, Rankin S, Samaran F, Thiele D, van Waerebeek K, Warneke RM: 2007. Past and present distribution, densities and movements of blue whales in the Southern Hemisphere and northern Indian Ocean. Mammal Review, 37 (2), pp 116-175.
Yarnell RW, Scott DM, Chimimba CT, Metcalfe DJ: 2007. Untangling the roles of fire, grazing and rainfall on small mammal communities in grassland ecosystems. Oecologia, 154, pp 387-402.
Wilson JW, van Aarde R, Janse van Rensburg B: 2007. Effects of habitat fragmentation on bird communities of sand forests in southern Mozambique. Ostrich, 78 (1), pp 37-42, Full Text
Kinahan AA, Inge-Moller R, Bateman PW, Kotze A, Scantlebury M: 2007. Body temperature daily rhythm adaptations in African savanna elephants Loxodonta africana. Physiology & Behavior, 92, pp 560-565, Full Text
van Aarde RJ, Jackson TP: 2007. Food, reproduction and survival in mice on sub-Antarctic Marion Island. Polar Biology, 30, pp 503-511.
de Bruyn PJN, Pistorius PA, Tosh C, Bester MN: 2007. Leucistic Antarctic fur seal Arctocephalus gazella at Marion Island. Polar Biology, 30, pp 1355-1358.
Russell AF, Young AJ, Spong G, Jordan NR, Clutton-Brock TH: 2007. Helpers increase the reproductive potential of offspring in cooperative meerkats. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B-Biological Sciences, 274, pp 513-520.
Scantlebury M, Waterman J, Hillegass M, Speakman JR, Bennett NC: 2007. Energetic costs of parasitism in the Cape ground Squirrel Xerus inauris. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B-Biological Sciences, 274, pp 2169-2177.
Yeakel JD, Bennett NC, Koch PL, Dominy NJ: 2007. The isotopic ecology of African mole rats informs hypotheses on the evolution of human diet. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B-Biological Sciences, 274, pp 1723-1730.
Dalerum FD, Bennett NC, Clutton-Brock TH: 2007. Longitudinal differences in 15N between mothers and offspring during and after weaning in a small cooperative mammal, the meerkat (Suricata suricatta). Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 21, pp 1889-1892.
Fleming PA, Hofmeyr S, Nicolson SW: 2007. Role of insects in the pollination of Acacia nigrescens (Fabaceae). South African Journal of Botany, 73, pp 49-55, Full Text
Bateman PW, Moran-Ellis J: 2007. The science in the intelligent design debate: Teach it like it is. South African Journal of Science, 103, pp 271-273, Full Text
van der Merwe M, Stirnemann R: 2007. Reproduction of the banana bat, Neoromicia nanus, in Mpumalanga Province, South Africa, with a discussion on sperm storage and latitudinal effects on reproductive strategies. South African Journal of Wildlife Research, 37 (1) / Apr, pp 53-60, Full Text
Hofmeyr GJG, Bester MN, Pistorius PA, Mulaudzi TW, De Bruyn PJN, Ramunasi AJ, Tshitabane NH, McIntyre T, Radzilani PM: 2007. Median pupping date, pup mortality and sex ratio of fur seals at Marion Island. South African Journal of Wildlife Research, 37 (1), pp 1-8, Full Text
Kryger U, Cole KS, Tukker R, Scholtz CH: 2007. Biology and ecology of Circellium bacchus (Fabricius 1781) (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae), a South African dung beetle of conservation concern. Tropical Zoology, 19, pp 185-207.
Bateman PW, Moran-Ellis J: 2007. Is intelligent design science, and does it matter?. Verbum et Ecclesia, 28, pp 1-18, Full Text
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