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Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences
School of Agricultural and Food Sciences
Department of Animal and Wildlife Sciences

Somers, MJ

MSc (Wildlife management) Pta PhD (Stellenbosch) - Professor

NRF Rating: Y2

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Telephone number: 012 420 2627
Fax number: 012 420 6096
E-mail address: michael.somers@up.ac.za

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Research articles in refereed specialist journals:

Graf JA, Somers MJ, Gunther MS, Slotow R: 2009. Heterogeneity in the density of spotted hyaenas in Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park, South Africa. Acta Theriologica, 54 (4), pp 333-343.

Gusset M, Gusset M, Jakoby O, Müller M, Somers MJ, Slotow R, Grimm V: 2009. Dogs on the catwalk: Modelling re-introduction and translocation of endangered wild dogs in South Africa. Biological Conservation, 142, pp 2774-2781.

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.

Spiering P, Gunther MS, Wildt DE, Somers MJ, Maldonado JE: 2009. Sampling error in non-invasive genetic analyses of an endangered social carnivore. Conservation Genetics, 10, pp 2005-2007.

Houser AM, Somers MJ, Boast LK: 2009. Spoor density as a measure of true density of a known population of free-ranging wild cheetah in Botswana. Journal of Zoology, 278 (2), pp 108-115.

Houser AM, Somers MJ, Boast LK: 2009. Home range use of free-ranging cheetah on farm and conservation land in Botswana. South African Journal of Wildlife Research, 39 (1) / Apr, pp 11-22, Full Text

 

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