Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences
School of Biological Sciences
Department of Zoology and Entomology
Bennett, NC
BSc(Hons)(Bristol) PhD(Cape Town) - Professor
NRF Rating: B1
Contact Details
Research Interests
Research Output
Contact Details:
Telephone number: 012 420 2538
Fax number: 012 362 5242
E-mail address: ncbennett@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:
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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