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: A2
Contact Details
Research Interests
Research Output
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:
Deschodt C, Scholtz CH: 2008. Systematics of South African forest-endemic dung beetles: new genera and species of small Canthonini (Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae). African Entomology, 16 (1), pp 91-106, Full Text
Davis ALV, Brink DJ, Scholtz CH, Prinsloo LC, Deschodt C: 2008. Functional implications of temperature-correlated colour polymorphism in an iridescent, scarabaeine dung beetle. Ecological Entomology, 33, pp 771-779.
Tshikae BP, Davis ALV, Scholtz CH: 2008. Trophic associations of a dung beetle assemblage (Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) in a woodland savanna of Botswana. Environmental Entomology, 37 (2), pp 431-441.
Davis ALV, Scholtz CH, Deschodt C: 2008. Multi-scale determinants of dung beetle assemblage structure across abiotic gradients of the Kalahari-Nama Karoo ecotone, South Africa. Journal of Biogeography, 35, pp 1465-1480, Full Text
Sole CL, Bastos AD, Scholtz CH: 2008. Intraspecific patterns of mitochondrial variation in natural population fragments of a localized desert dung beetle species, Pachysoma gariepinum (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Journal of Heredity, 99 (5), pp 464-475, Full Text
le Roux E, Le Roux E, Scholtz CH, Kinahan AA, Bateman PW: 2008. Pre- and post-copulatory mate selection strategies of an African dung beetle Circellium bacchus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Journal of Insect Behavior, 21, pp 111-122.
Frolov A, Akhmetova LA, Scholtz CH: 2008. Revision of the obligate mushroom-feeding African 'dung beetle' genus Coptorhina Hope (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae). Journal of Natural History, 42 (21-22) / Jun, pp 1477-1508, Full Text
Du Toit CA, Scholtz CH, Hyman WB: 2008. Prevalence of the dog nematode Spirocerca lupi in populations of its intermediate dung beetle host in the Tshwane (Pretoria) Metropole, South Africa. Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research, 73, pp 315-321, Full Text
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