Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences
School of Biological Sciences
Department of Zoology and Entomology
The ecology, ethology, physiology and evolution of African animals; Behavioural, physiological and evolutionary ecology; and Antarctic biology - Research Output
Research articles in refereed specialist journals:
Bester MN, Ryan PG, Visagie J: 2009. Summer survey of fur seals at Prince Edward Island, southern Indian Ocean. African Journal of Marine Science, 31 (3), pp 451-455, Full Text
Oosthuizen WC, Dyer BM, de Bruyn PJN: 2009. Vagrant birds ashore at the Prince Edward Islands, southern Indian Ocean, from 1987 to 2009. African Journal of Marine Science, 31 (3), pp 445-450, Full Text
Oosthuizen WC, Bester MN, de Bruyn PJN, Hofmeyr GJG: 2009. Intra-archipelago moult dispersion of southern elephant seals at the Prince Edward Islands, southern Indian Ocean. African Journal of Marine Science, 31 (3), pp 457-462, Full Text
Oosthuizen MK, Bennett NC: 2009. Seasonal variation in gonadal steroids of males and females in the Cape mole-rat (Georychus capensis): The potential for opportunistic breeding. African Zoology, 44 (1), pp 117-122, Full Text
van der Merwe I, Tambling C, Thorn M, Scott DM, Yarnell RW, Green M, Cameron EZ, Bateman PW: 2009. An assessment of diet overlap of two mesocarnivores in the North West Province, South Africa. African Zoology, 44 (2) / Oct, pp 288-291, Full Text
Bennett NC: 2009. African mole-rats (family Bathyergidae): Models for studies in animal physiology. African Zoology, 44 (2) / Oct, pp 263-270, Full Text
Schradin C, Scantlebury M, Pillay N, König B: 2009. Testosterone levels in dominant sociable males are lower than in solitary roamers: Physiological differences between three male reproductive tactics in a sociably flexible mammal. American Naturalist, 173 (3) / Mar, pp 376-388, Full Text
Linklater WL, Cameron EZ: 2009. Social dispersal but with philopatry reveals incest avoidance in a polygynous ungulate. Animal Behaviour, 77, pp 1085-1093, Full Text
White AM, Cameron EZ: 2009. Communal nesting is unrelated to burrow availability in the common warthog. Animal Behaviour, 77, pp 87-94, Full Text
Unck CE, Waterman J, Verburgt L, Bateman PW: 2009. Quantity versus quality: How does level of predation threat affect Cape ground squirrel vigilance?. Animal Behaviour, 78 (3), pp 625-632.
Tosh C, Bornemann H, Ramdohr S, Schroder M, Martin T, Carlini AR, Plotz J, Bester MN: 2009. Adult male southern elephant seals from King George Island utilize the Weddell Sea. Antarctic Science, 21 (2), pp 113-121, Full Text
Tan K, Yang M, Radloff SE, Yu Y, Pirk CWW, Hepburn HR: 2009. Intra- and interspecific brood recognition in pure and mixed-species honeyee colonies,Apis cerana andA. mellifera. Apidologie, 40, pp 184-191.
De Bruyn PJN, Bester MN, Carlini AR, Oosthuizen WC: 2009. How to weigh an elephant seal with one finger: a simple three-dimensional photogrammetric application. Aquatic Biology, 5, pp 31-39, Full Text
Tan K, Yang M, Radloff SE, Pirk CWW, Crewe RM, Phiancharoen M, Hepburn R, Oldroyd B: 2009. Worker reproduction in mixed-species colonies of honey bees. Behavioral Ecology, 20 (5), pp 1106-1110.
McLean IG, Cameron EZ, Linklater WL, Schmitt NT, Pulskamp KSM: 2009. Partnerships in the social system of a small macropod marsupial, the quokka (Setonix brachyurus). Behaviour, 146, pp 89-112.
Asher RJ, Bennett NC, Lehmann T: 2009. The new framework for understanding placental mammal evolution. Bioessays, 31, pp 853-864.
Loarie SR, van Aarde RJ, Pimm SL: 2009. Elephant seasonal vegetation preferences across dry and wet svannas. Biological Conservation, 142, pp 3099-3107.
Carbone C, Maddox T, Funston PJ, Mills MGL, Grether GF, van Valkenburgh B: 2009. Parallels between playbacks and Pleistocene tar seeps suggest sociality in an extinct sabretooth cat,Smilodon. Biology Letters, 5, pp 81-85.
Bar-David S, Bar-David I, Cross PC, Ryan SJ, Knechtel C, Getz WM: 2009. Methods for assessing movement path recursion with application to African buffalo in South Africa. Ecology, 90 (9), pp 2467-2479, Full Text
Warren M, McGeoch MA, Chown SL: 2009. The detection of spatial structure in populations and communities: An empirical case study. Ecoscience, 16 (1), pp 95-110.
Johnson RL, Bester MN, Dudley SFJ, Oosthuizen WH, Me˙er M, Hancke L, Gennari E: 2009. Coastal swimming patterns of white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) at Mossel Bay, South Africa. Environmental Biology of Fishes, 85, pp 189-200.
Olwoch JM, Reyers B, Van Jaarsveld AS: 2009. Host-parasite distribution patterns under simulated climate: implications for tick-borne diseases. International Journal of Climatology, 29, pp 993-1000.
Holter P, Scholtz CH, Stenseng L: 2009. Desert detritivory: Nutritional ecology of a dung beetle (Pachysoma glentoni) subsisting on plant litter in arid South African sand dunes. Journal of Arid Environments, 73 (12), pp 1090-1094, Full Text
Leseigneur C, Nicolson SW: 2009. Nectar concentration preferences and sugar intake in the white-bellied sunbird,Cinnyris talatala (Nectariniidae). Journal of Comparative Physiology B-Biochemical Systemic and Environmental Physiology, 179, pp 673-679.
Nicolson SW: 2009. Water homeostasis in bees, with the emphasis on sociality. Journal of Experimental Biology, 212, pp 429-434, Full Text
Duangphakdee O, Radloff SE, Pirk CWW, Hepburn R: 2009. Sun angle time windows for absconding by the dwarf honeybee, Apis florea. Journal of Insect Physiology, 55 (11), pp 1009-1012.
Kotze SH, van der Merwe EL, Ndou R, O Riain MJ, Bennett NC: 2009. The colonic groove or furrow: A comparative morphological study of six species of African mole-rats (Rodentia, Bathyergidae). Journal of Morphology, 270, pp 966-975.
Hrabar H, Hattas D, du Toit JT: 2009. Differential effects of defoliation by mopane caterpillars and pruning by African elephants on the regrowth ofColophospermum mopane foliage. Journal of Tropical Ecology, 25, pp 301-309, Full Text
Mouton M, Reeb D, Botha A, Best PB: 2009. Yeast infection in a beached southern right whale (Eubalaena australis) neonate. Journal of Wildlife Diseases, 45 (3), pp 692-699.
Oosthuizen WC, Cross PC, Bowers JA, Hay C, Ebinger MR, Buss P, Hofmeyr M, Cameron EZ: 2009. Effects of chemical immobilization on survival of African buffalo in he Kruger National Park. Journal of Wildlife Management, 73 (1), pp 149-153.
Thomas HG, Bateman PW, le Comber SC, Bennett NC, Elwood RW, Scantlebury M: 2009. Burrow architecture and digging activity in the Cape dune mole rat. Journal of Zoology, 279, pp 277-284.
Suchentrunk F, Ben Slimen H, Kryger U: 2009. Molecular evidence of conspecificity of South African hares conventionally considered Lepus capensis L., 1758. Mammalian Biology, 74 (5), pp 325-343, Full Text
Abdel-Rahman EH, Taylor PJ, Contrafatto G, Lamb JM, Bloomer P, Chimimba CT: 2009. Geometric craniometric analysis of sexual dimorphism and ontogenetic variation: A case study based on two geographically disparate species,Aethomys ineptusfrom southern Africa andArvicanthis niloticusfrom Sudan (Rodentia: Muridae). Mammalian Biology, 74, pp 361-373, Full Text
Gubili C, Johnson RL, Gennari E, Oosthuizen WH, Kotze D, Meyer M, Sims DW, Jones CS, Noble LR: 2009. Concordance of genetic and fin photo identification in the great white shark,Carcharodon carcharias, off Mossel Bay, South Africa. Marine Biology, 156 (10), pp 2199-2207.
De Bruyn PJN, Tosh CA, Oosthuizen WC, Bester MN, Arnould JPY: 2009. Bathymetry and frontal system interactions influence seasonal foraging movements of lactating subantarctic fur seals from Marion Island. Marine Ecology-Progress Series, 394, pp 263-276.
Biuw M, Krafft BA, Hofmeyr GJG, Lydersen C, Kovacs KM: 2009. Time budgets and at-sea behaviour of lactating female Antarctic fur seals (Arctocephalus gazella) at Bouvetoya. Marine Ecology-Progress Series, 385, pp 271-284.
Jaffe R, Dietemann V, Crewe RM, Moritz RFA: 2009. Temporal variation in the genetic structure of a drone congregation area: An insight into the population dynamics of wild African honeybees (Apis mellifera scutellata). Molecular Ecology, 18 (7), pp 1511-1522.
McMahon CR, Bester MN, Hindell MA, Brook BW, Bradshaw CJA: 2009. Shifting trends: Detecting environmentally mediated regulation in long-lived marine vertebrates using time-series data. Oecologia, 159, pp 69-82, Full Text
Fleming PA, Verburgt L, Scantlebury M, Medger K, Bateman PW: 2009. Jettisoning ballast or fuel? Caudal autotomy and locomotory energetic of the Cape dwarf geckoLygodactylus capensis (Gekkonidae). Physiological and Biochemical Zoology, 82 (6), pp 756-765, Full Text
Costanzo MS, Bennett NC, Lutermann H: 2009. Spatial learning and memory in African mole-rats: The role of sociality and sex. Physiology & Behavior, 96, pp 128-134, Full Text
Jones CJP, Carter AM, Bennett NC, Blankenship TN, Enders AC: 2009. Placentation in the Hottentot golden mole, Amblysomus hottentotus (Afrosoricida: Chrysochloridae). Placenta, 30, pp 571-578, Full Text
Hagenah N, Munkert H, Gerhardt K, Olff H: 2009. Interacting effects of grass height and herbivores on the establishment of an encroaching savanna shrub. Plant Ecology, 201, pp 553-566, Full Text
Rosenbaum HC, Pomilla C, Mendez M, Leslie MS, Best PB, Findlay KP, Minton G, Ersts PJ, Collins T, Engel MH, Bonatto SL, Kotze DPGH, Meyer M, Barendse J, Thornton M, Razafindrakoto Y, Ngouessono S, Vely M, Kiszka J: 2009. Population structure of humpback whales from their breeding grounds in the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans. Plos One, 4 (10) / Oct, p. e7318, Full Text
Cameron EZ, Dalerum F: 2009. A Trivers-Willard Effect in contemporary humans: male-biased sex ratios among billionaires. Plos One, 4 (1) / Jan, p. e4195, Full Text
Oosthuizen WC, de Bruyn PJN: 2009. King penguin brooding and defending a sub-Antarctic skua chick. Polar Biology, 32, pp 303-305, Full Text
Dalerum F, Kunkel K, Angerbjorn A, Shults B: 2009. Diet of wolverines (Gulo gulo) in the western Brooks Range, Alaska. Polar Research, 28, pp 246-253.
Cameron EZ, Setsaas TH, Linklater WL: 2009. Social bonds between unrelated females increase reproductive success in feral horses. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 106 (33) / Aug, pp 13850-13853.
Symes CT, Human H, Nicolson SW: 2009. Appearances can be deceiving: Pollination in two sympatric winter-floweringAloe species. South African Journal of Botany, 75, pp 668-674, Full Text
van der Merwe M, Stirnemann R: 2009. Group composition and socia events of the banana bat,Neoromicia nanus, in Mpumalanga, South Africa. South African Journal of Wildlife Research, 39 (1) / Apr, pp 48-56, Full Text
Thorn M, Scott DM, Green M, Bateman PW, Cameron EZ: 2009. Estimating brown hyaena occupancy using baited camera traps. South African Journal of Wildlife Research, 39 (1) / Apr, pp 1-10, Full Text
Elwen S, Best PB, Reeb D, Thornton M: 2009. Diurnal movements and behaviour of Heaviside's dolphins,Cephalorhynchus heavisidii, with some comparative data for dusky dolphins,Lagenorhynchus obscurus. South African Journal of Wildlife Research, 39 (2) / Oct, pp 143-154, Full Text
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