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

Scholtz, CH

BSc(Hons) MSc DSc(Pret) - Professor

NRF Rating: B1

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Contact Details:

Telephone number: 012 420 3236
Fax number: 012 362 5242
E-mail address: chscholtz@zoology.up.ac.za

Research Interests:

Sustainable insect management

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

 

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