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

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

Research articles in refereed specialist journals:

Brettschneider H, Chimimba CT, Scholtz CH, Bateman PW: 2007. Review of southern African Anostostomatidae (Orthoptera: Ensifera), with a key to genera. African Entomology, 15 (1), pp 103-119.

Davis ALV, Genier F: 2007. Validation of Gymnopleurus humanus MacLeay, 1821, revalidation of G. humeralis Klug, 1855, and a discussion of their synonyms (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae). African Entomology, 15 (2), pp 261-268.

Lombard AT, Reyers B, Schonegevel LY, Cooper J, Smith-Adao LB, Nel DC, Froneman PW, Ansorge IJ, Bester MN, Tosh C, Strauss T, Akkers T, Gon O, Leslie RW, Chown SL: 2007. Conserving pattern and process in the Southern Ocean: Designing a Marine Protected Area for the Prince Edward Islands. Antarctic Science, 19 (1), pp 39-54.

de Bruyn PJN, Cooper J, Bester MN, Tosh C: 2007. The importance of land-based prey for sympatrically breeding giant petrels at sub-Antarctic Marion Island. Antarctic Science, 19 (1), pp 25-30.

van Aarde RJ, Jackson TP: 2007. Megaparks for metapopulations: Addressing the causes of locally high elephant numbers in southern Africa. Biological Conservation, 134, pp 289-297, Full Text

Keith M, Warren M: 2007. Can anthropogenic variables be used as threat proxies for South African plant richness?. Bothalia, 37 (1), pp 79-88.

Dippenaar-Schoeman AS, van Harten A: 2007. Crab spiders (Araneae: Thomisidae) from mainland Yemen and the Socotra Archipelago: Part 1. The genusThomisus Walckenaer, 1805. Fauna of Arabia..

Scholtz CH, Inward DJG, Kerley MD: 2007. Description of a new Palaearctic Trox Fabricius species (Coleoptera: Trogidae) from Thailand, with a review of the Trox opacotuberculatus species-group and its biogeography. Insect Systematics & Evolution, 38 / Apr, pp 93-103.

Sole CL, Bastos AD, Scholtz CH: 2007. Do individual and combined data analyses of molecules and morphology reveal the generic status of 'Pachysoma' Macleay (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)?. Insect Systematics & Evolution, 38 / Oct, pp 311-330.

Deschodt C, Kryger U, Scholtz CH: 2007. New taxa of relictual Canthonini dung beetles (Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) utilizing rock hyrax middens as refuges in south-western Africa. Insect Systematics & Evolution, 38 / Nov, pp 361-376.

Moreno C, Pineda E, Escobar F, Sanchez-Rojas G: 2007. Shortcuts for biodiversity evaluation: a review of terminology and recommendations about the use of target groups, bioindicators and surrogates. International Journal of Environmental Health Research, 1 (1), pp 71-86.

Best PB, Mate BR: 2007. Sighting history and observations of southern right whales following satellite tagging off South Africa. Journal of Cetacean Research and Management, 9 (2), pp 111-114.

Lindsey PA, Alexander R, Mills MGL, Romanach S, Woodroffe R: 2007. Wildlife viewing preferences of visitors to protected areas in South Africa: implications for the role of ecotourism in conservation. Journal of Ecotourism, 6, pp 19-33.

Buettner UK, Davies-Mostert HT, du Toit JT, Mills MGL: 2007. Factors affecting juvenile survival in African wild dogs (Lycaon pictus) in Kruger National Park, South Africa. Journal of Zoology, 272, pp 10-19.

Van Hooft P, Greyling B, Prins HH, Getz WM, Jolles AE, Bastos AD: 2007. Selection at the Y chromosome of the African buffalo driven by rainfall. PLOS One, 2 (10), pp 1086-1090.

Wassenaar TD, Ferreira SM, van Aarde RJ: 2007. Flagging aberant sites and assemblages in restoration projects. Restoration Ecology, 15 (1), pp 68-76.

Van Jaarsveld AS, Pauw JC, Mundree S, Mecenero S, Coetzee BWT, Alard GF: 2007. South African Environmental Observation Network: Vision, design and status. South African Journal of Science, 103, pp 289-294, Full Text

 

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