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Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences
School of Biological Sciences
Department of Zoology and Entomology
Research articles in refereed specialist journals

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Select the first letter of the journal title from the alphabetical list.

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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.

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.

Coetzee BWT, Janse van Rensburg B, Robertson MP: 2007. Invasion of grasslands by silver wattle, Acacia dealbata (Mimosaceae), alters beetle (Coleoptera) assemblage structure. African Entomology, 15 (2), pp 328-339.

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.

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.

Reeb D, Best PB, Kidson SH: 2007. Structure of the integument of southern right whales Eubalaena australis. Anatomical Record, 290, pp 596-613.

Hodge SJ, Flower TP, Clutton-Brock TH: 2007. Offspring competition and helper associations in cooperative meerkats. Animal Behaviour, 74, pp 957-964.

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.

Wanless RM, Wilson JW, Wilson JW: 2007. Predatory behaviour of the Gough Moorhen Gallinula comeri: Conservation implications. Ardea, 95 (2), pp 311-315.

Abolnik C, Bisschop SPR, Gerdes T, Olivier A, Horner R: 2007. Phylogenetic analysis of low-pathogenicity avian influenza H6N2 viruses from chicken outbreaks (2001-2005) suggest that they are reassortants of historic ostrich low-pathogenicity avian influenza H9N2 and H6N8 viruses. Avian Diseases, 51 (s1), pp 279-284, Full Text

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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.

Wittemyer G, Getz WM, Vollrath F, Douglas-Hamilton I: 2007. Social dominance, seasonal movements, and spatial segregation in African elephants: A contribution to conservation behavior. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 61, pp 1919-1931.

Nichols E, Larsen J, Spector L, Davis ALV, Escobar F, Favila M, Vulinec K: 2007. Global dung beetle response to tropical forest modification and fragmentation: A quantitative literature review and meta-analysis. Biological Conservation, 137, pp 1-19, Full Text

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

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.

Lattorff HMG, Moritz RFA, Crewe RM, Solignac M: 2007. Control of reproductive dominance by the thelytoky gene in honeybees. Biology Letters, 3, pp 292-295, Full Text

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.

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

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.

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Pimm SL: 2007. Africa: Still the 'Dark Continent'. Conservation Biology, 21 (3), pp 567-569, Full Text

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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.

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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..

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Mellet (Mostert) MA, Schoeman AS: 2007. Effect of Bt-cotton on chrysopids, ladybird beetles and their prey: aphids and whiteflies. Indian Journal of Experimental Biology, 45, pp 554-562.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

Bronner GN, van der Merwe M, Njobe K: 2007. Nongeographic cranial variation in two medically important rodents from South Africa, Mastomys natalensis and Mastomys coucha. Journal of Mammalogy, 88 (5), pp 1179-1194.

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

Cross PC, Johnson PLF, Lloyd-Smith JO, Getz WM: 2007. Utility of RO as a predictor of disease invasion in structured populations. Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 4, pp 315-324.

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

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.

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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.

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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.

Olwoch J.M., Van Jaarsveld AS, Scholtz CH, Horak IG, Horak IG: 2007. Climate change and the genus Rhipicephalus (Acari: Ixodidae) in Africa. Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research, 74, pp 45-72, Full Text

Hunter LTB, Pretorius K, Carlisle LC, Rickelton M, Walker C, Slotow R, Skinner JD: 2007. Restoring lions Panthera leo to northern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: Short-term biological and technical success but equivocal long-term conservation. Oryx, 41 (2) / Apr, pp 196-204, Full Text

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

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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 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.

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.

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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.

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

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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

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

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

Hurley B, Govender P, Coutinho TA, Wingfield BD, Wingfield MJ: 2007. Fungus gnats and other Diptera in South African forestry nurseries and their possible association with the pitch canker fungus. South African Journal of Science, 103 (1 & 2) / Jan/Feb, pp 43-46, Full Text

Govender P: 2007. Status of seedling establishment pests of Acacia mearnsii De Wild. (Mimosaceae) in South Africa. South African Journal of Science, 103, pp 141-147, Full Text

Peacock DS, van Rensburg BJ, Robertson MP: 2007. The distribution and spread of the invasive alien common myna, Acridotheres tristis L. (Aves. Sturnidae), in southern Africa. South African Journal of Science, 103 (11/12), pp 465-473, 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

Hurley BP, Slippers B, Coutinho TA, Wingfield BD, Govender P, Wingfield MJ: 2007. Molecular detection of fungi carried by Bradysia difformis (Sciaridae: Diptera) in South African forestry nurseries. Southern Hemisphere Forestry Journal, 69 (2), pp 103-109.

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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.

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Bateman PW, Moran-Ellis J: 2007. Is intelligent design science, and does it matter?. Verbum et Ecclesia, 28, pp 1-18, Full Text

Boshoff CI, Bastos AD, Gerber LJ, Vosloo W: 2007. Genetic characterisation of African swine fever viruses from outbreaks in southern Africa (1973-1999). Veterinary Microbiology, 121, pp 45-55, Full Text

Kryger U, Deschodt C, Davis ALV, Scholtz CH: 2007. Effects of cattle treatment with a fluazuron pour-on on survival and reproduction of the dung beetle species Onthophagus gazella (Fabricius). Veterinary Parasitology, 143 (3-4) / Feb, pp 380-384.

Lubisi BA, Bastos AD, Dwarka RM, Vosloo W: 2007. Intra-genotypic resolution of African swine fever viruses from an East African domestic pig cycle: a combined p72-CVR approach. Virus Genes, 35, pp 729-735, Full Text

Abolnik C, Bisschop SPR, Gerdes T, Olivier A, Horner R: 2007. Outbreaks of avian influenza H6N2 viruses in chickens arose by a reasortment of H6N8 and H9N2 ostrich viruses. Virus Genes, 34 (1) / Jan, pp 37-45, Full Text