Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences
School of Biological Sciences
Department of Zoology and Entomology
Biology of fragmented populations; Conservation planning; Conservation and restoration ecology; and Biodiversity and systematics - Research Output
Research articles in refereed specialist journals:
Olivier P, Ferreira SM, van Aarde RJ: 2009. Dung survey bias and elephant population estimates in southern Mozambique. African Journal of Ecology, 47, pp 202-213.
Young K, Ferreira SM, van Aarde RJ: 2009. The influence of increasing population size and vegetation productivity on elephant distribution in the Kruger National Park. Austral Ecology, 34, pp 329-342.
Loarie SR, van Aarde RJ, Pimm SL: 2009. Fences and artificial water distort elephant movements across wet and dry savannahs. Biological Conservation, 142, pp 3086-3098.
Roura-Pascual N, Richardson DM, Krug RM, Brown A, Chapman RA, Forsyth GG, le Maitre D, Robertson MP, Stafford L, van Wilgen BW, Wannenburgh A, Wessels N: 2009. Ecology and management of alien plant invasions in South African fynbos: accommodating key complexities in objective decision making. Biological Conservation, 142, pp 1595-1604, Full Text
Hugo S, Van Rensburg BJ: 2009. Alien and native birds in South Africa: Patterns, processes and conservation. Biological Invasions, 11 (10), pp 2291-2302.
Taylor PJ, Maree S, van Sandwyk J, Kerbis Peterhans JC, Stanley WT, Verheyen E, Kaliba P, Verheyen W, Kaleme P, Bennett NC: 2009. Speciation mirrors geomorphology and palaeoclimatic history in African laminate-toothed rats (Muridae: Otomyini) of theOtomys denti andOtomys lacustris species-complexes in the 'Montane Circle' of East Africa. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 96, pp 913-941.
Dalerum F, Cameron EZ, Kunkel K, Somers MJ: 2009. Diversity and depletions in continental carnivore guilds: implications for prioritizing global carnivore conservation. Biology Letters, 5, pp 35-38.
Davis ALV, Philips TK: 2009. Regional fragmentation of rain forest in West Africa and its effect on local dung beetle assemblage structure. Biotropica, 41 (2), pp 215-220.
Malherbe GP, Maude G, Bastos AD: 2009. Genetic clues from olfactory cues: Brown hyaena scent marks provide a non-invasive source of DNA for genetic profiling. Conservation Genetics, 10, pp 759-762.
Van Rensburg BJ, Levin N, Kark S: 2009. Spatial congruence between ecotones and range-restricted species: Implications for conservation biogeography at the sub-continental scale. Diversity and Distributions, 15, pp 379-389.
van Aarde RJ, Ferreira SM: 2009. Elephant populations and CITES trade resolutions. Environmental Conservation, 36 (1), pp 8-10, Full Text
Coetzee BWT, Robertson MP, Erasmus BFN, Van Rensburg BJ, Thuiller W: 2009. Ensemble models predict Important Bird Areas in southern Africa will become less effective for conserving endemic birds under climate change. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 18, pp 701-710.
Moe SR, Rutina LP, Hytteborn H, du Toit JT: 2009. What controls woodland regeneration after elephants have killed the big trees?. Journal of Applied Ecology, 46, pp 223-230.
Missa O, Basset Y, Alonso A, Miller SE, Curletti G, De Meyer M, Eardley CD, Mansell MW, Wagner T: 2009. Monitoring arthropods in a tropical landscape: relative effects of sampling methods and habitat types on trap catches. Journal of Insect Conservation, 13, pp 103-118.
Best PB, Glass JP, Ryan PG, Dalebout ML: 2009. Cetacean records from Tristan da Cunha, South Atlantic. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 89 (5), pp 1023-1032, Full Text
Young K, Ferreira SM, van Aarde RJ: 2009. Elephant spatial use in wet and dry savannas of southern Africa. Journal of Zoology, 278, pp 189-205.
Taylor PJ, Maree S, van Sandwyk J, Baxter R, Rambau RV: 2009. When is a species not a species? Uncoupled phenotypic, karyotypic and genotypic divergence in two species of South African laminate-toothed rats (Murinae: Otomyini). Journal of Zoology, 277 (4), pp 317-332.
Lindsey PA, Romanach S, Davies-Mostert HT: 2009. The importance of conservancies for enhancing the conservation value of game ranch land in southern Africa. Journal of Zoology, 277, pp 99-105.
Trimble M, Ferreira SM, van Aarde RJ: 2009. Drivers of megaherbivore demographic fluctuations: Inference from elephants. Journal of Zoology, 279, pp 18-26.
Jackson CR, Setsaas TH, Robertson MP, Scantlebury M, Bennett NC: 2009. Insights into torpor and behavioural thermoregulation of the endangered Juliana's golden mole. Journal of Zoology, 278, pp 299-307.
Dippenaar-Schoeman AS, Van Den Berg A, Prendini L: 2009. Spiders and scorpions (Arachnida: Araneae, Scorpiones) of the Nylsvley Nature Reserve, South Africa. Koedoe, 51 (1), pp 1-9, Full Text
Haddad CR, Dippenaar-Schoeman AS: 2009. A checklist of the non-acarine arachnids (Chelicerata: Arachnida) of the De Hoop Nature Reserve, Western Cape Province, South Africa. Koedoe, 51 (1), pp 1-9, Full Text
Van Rensburg BJ, Peacock DS, Robertson MP: 2009. Biotic homogenization and alien bird species along an urban gradient in South Africa. Landscape and Urban Planning, 92, pp 233-241, Full Text
Castiglia R, Annesi F, Sichilima AM, Hutterer R: 2009. A molecular and chromosomal study of the moonshine shrew,Crocidura luna Dollman, 1910 from Zambia with a description of a new remarkable karyotype. Mammalia, 73 (1), pp 56-59.
Olivier P, van Aarde RJ, Ferreira SM: 2009. Support for a metapopulation structure among mammals. Mammal Review, 39 (3), pp 178-192.
Ntumi CP, Ferreira SM, van Aarde RJ: 2009. A review of historical trends in the distribution and abundance of elephantsLoxodonta africana in Mozambique. Oryx, 43 (4), pp 568-579, Full Text
de Bruyn M, Hall BL, Chauke LF, Baroni C, Koch PL, Hoelzel AR: 2009. Rapid response of a marine mammal species to Holocene climate and habitat change. PLoS Genetics, 5 (7) / Jul, p. e1000554, Full Text
Cooper J, Bester MN, Chown SL, Crawford RJM, Crawford RJM, Daly R, Heyns E, Lamont T, Ryan PG, Shaw JD: 2009. Biological survey of the Prince Edward Islands, December 2008. South African Journal of Science, 105 / Jul/Aug, pp 317-320, Full Text
Ferreira SM, van Aarde RJ: 2009. Aerial survey intensity as a determinant of estimates of African elephant population sizes and trends. South African Journal of Wildlife Research, 39 (2) / Oct, pp 181-191, Full Text
de Bruyn PJN, Landman M, Tambling C, Verburgt L: 2009. Does science serve the wildlife industry? A critique of von Brandis & Reilly (2008). South African Journal of Wildlife Research, 39 (1) / Apr, pp 103-105, Full Text
Dippenaar-Schoeman AS, Myburgh JG: 2009. A review of the cave spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from South Africa. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa, 64 (1), pp 53-61.
Harrison JduG: 2009. A taxonomic revision of the African leaf chafer genusAsthenopholis Brenske, 1898 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae): a SEM study. Zootaxa, 2225, pp 1-48.
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