Faculty of Natural and Agricultural 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:
Holm E, Perissinotto R: 2010. Revision of the Afrotropical species of the genus Spilophorus Westwood (in Shaum), 1848 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae: Cremastocheilini). African Entomology, 18 (1), pp 47-65, Full Text
Barendse J, Best PB, Thornton M, Pomilla C, Carvalho I, Rosenbaum HC: 2010. Migration redefined? Seasonality, movements and group composition of humpback whalesMegaptera novaeangliae off the west coast of South Africa. African Journal of Marine Science, 32 (1), pp 1-22, Full Text
Best PB, Meyer MA, Lockyer CH: 2010. Killer whales in South African waters - a review of their biology. African Journal of Marine Science, 32 (2), pp 171-186.
Best PB, Reeb D: 2010. A near mass stranding of cetaceans in St Helena Bay, South Africa. African Journal of Marine Science, 32 (1), pp 163-166.
Reisinger R, Bester MN: 2010. Goose barnacles on seals and a penguin at Gough Island. African Zoology, 45 (1), pp 129-132, Full Text
Chimimba CT, Sichilima AM, Faulkes CG, Bennett NC: 2010. Ontogenetic variation and craniometric sexual dimorphism in the social giant mole-rat, Fukomys mechowii (Rodentia: Bathyergidae), from Zambia. African Zoology, 45 (2), pp 160-176, Full Text
van Zyl A, Delport JH: 2010. Digestibility of nutrients and aspects of the digestive physiology of the greater cane rat, Thryonomys swinderianus in two seasons. African Zoology, 45 (2), pp 254-264, Full Text
Kohler A, Verburgt L, Leseigneur CDC, Nicolson SW: 2010. Dilute bird nectars: viscosity constrains food intake by licking in a sunbird. American Journal of Physiology-Regulatory integrative and Comparative Physiology, 299, pp R1068-R1074.
Clutton-Brock TH, Hodge SJ, Flower TP, Spong G, Young AJ: 2010. Adaptive suppression of subordinate reproduction in cooperative mammals. American Naturalist, 176 (5), pp 664-673, Full Text
Lutermann H, Verburgt L, Rendigs A: 2010. Resting and nesting in a small mammal: sleeping sites as a limiting resource for female grey mouse lemurs. Animal Behaviour, 79, pp 1211-1219, Full Text
Phiancharoen M, Pirk CWW, Radloff SE, Hepburn R: 2010. Clinal nature of the frequencies of ovarioles and spermathecae in Cape worker honeybees, Apis mellifera capensis. Apidologie, 41, pp 129-134, Full Text
White AM, Cameron EZ, Peacock MM: 2010. Grouping patterns in warthogs, Phacochoerus africanus: is communal care of young enough to explain sociality?. Behaviour, 147, pp 1-18.
Davis ALV, Scholtz CH: 2010. Speciation and evolution of eco-climatic ranges in the intertropical African dung beetle genus, Diasellopalpus van Lansberge. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 99, pp 407-423, Full Text
Faulkes CG, Mgode GF, le Comber SC, Bennett NC: 2010. Cladogenesis and endemism in Tanzanian mole-rats, genus Fukomys: (Rodentia: Bathyergidae): a role for tectonics?. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 100, pp 337-352.
Sharpe LL, Sharpe LL, Joustra AS, Cherry MI: 2010. The presence of an avian co-forager reduces vigilance in a cooperative mammal. Biology Letters, 6 (4), pp 475-477.
Cryan PM, Meteyer CU, Boyles JG, Blehert DS: 2010. Wing pathology of white-nose syndrome in bats suggests life-threatening disruption of physiology. BMC Biology, 8, p. 135/8pp, Full Text
Van Hooft P, Prins HHT, Getz WM, Jolles AE, van Wieren SE, Greyling BJ, Van Helden PD, Bastos AD: 2010. Rainfall-driven sex-ratio genes in African buffalo suggested by correlations between Y-chromosomal haplotype frequencies and foetal sex ratio. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 10, pp 106-116, Full Text
Russo IM, Chimimba CT, Bloomer P: 2010. Bioregion heterogeneity correlates with extensive mitochondrial DNA diversity in the Namaqua rock mouse, Micaelamys namaquensis (Rodentia: Muridae) from southern Africa - evidence for a species complex. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 10, p. 307, Full Text
Asher RJ, Maree S, Bronner GN, Bennett NC, Bloomer P, Czechowski P, Meyer M, Hofreiter M: 2010. A phylogenetic estimate for golden moles (Mammalia, Afrotheria, Chrysochloridae). BMC Evolutionary Biology, 10 (69), pp 1-13, Full Text
Ferreira M, Ferguson JWH: 2010. Do Mediterranean crickets Gryllus bimaculatus De Geer (Orthoptera: Gryllidae) come from the Mediterranean? Largescale phylogeography and regional gene flow. Bulletin of Entomological Research, 100, pp 49-58, Full Text
De Meyer M, Robertson MP, Mansell MW, Ekesi S, Tsuruta K, Mwaiko W, Vayssieres J-F, Peterson AT: 2010. Ecological niche and potential geographic distribution of the invasive fruit fly Bactrocera invadens (Diptera, Tephritidae). Bulletin of Entomological Research, 100, pp 35-48, Full Text
Oosthuizen MK, Bennett NC, Cooper HM: 2010. Photic induction of Fos in the suprachiasmatic nucleus of African mole-rats: Responses to increasing irradiance. Chronobiology International, 27 (8), pp 1532-1545, Full Text
McKechnie AE, Swanson DL: 2010. Sources and significance of variation in basal, summit and maximal metabolic rates in birds. Current Zoology, 56 (6), pp 741-758, Full Text
Robertson MP, Cumming GS, Erasmus BFN: 2010. Getting the most out of atlas data. Diversity and Distributions, 16, pp 363-375.
Warren M, Robertson MP, Greeff JM: 2010. A comparative approach to understanding factors limiting abundance patterns and distributions in a fig tree - fig wasp mutualism. Ecography, 33, pp 148-158, Full Text
Boyles JG, McKechnie AE: 2010. Energy conservation in hibernating endotherms: Why "suboptimal" temperatures are optimal. Ecological Modelling, 221, pp 1644-1647, Full Text
Polansky L, Wittemyer G, Cross C, Tambling C, Getz WM: 2010. From moonlight to movement and synchronized randomness: Fourier and wavelet analyses of animal location time series data. Ecology, 91 (5), pp 1506-1518, Full Text
Davis ALV, Scholtz CH, Kryger U, Deschodt CM, Strumpher WP: 2010. Dung beetle assemblage structure in Tswalu Kalahari Reserve: Responses to a mosaic of landscape types, vegetation communities, and dung types. Environmental Entomology, 39 (3), pp 811-820, Full Text
Young AJ, Bennett NC: 2010. Morphological divergence of breeders and helpers in wild Damaraland mole-rat societies. Evolution, 64 (11), pp 3190-3197.
Angilletta Jr MJ, Cooper BS, Schuler M, Boyles JG: 2010. The evolution of thermal physiology in endotherms. Frontiers in Bioscience, E2, pp 861-881.
Kohler A, Verburgt L, McWhorter TJ, Nicolson SW: 2010. Energy management on a nectar diet: can sunbirds meet the challenges of low temperature and dilute food?. Functional Ecology, 24, pp 1241-1251, Full Text
Young AJ, Oosthuizen MK, Lutermann H, Bennett NC: 2010. Physiological suppression eases in Damaraland mole-rat societies when ecological constraints on dispersal are relaxed. Hormones and Behavior, 57, pp 177-183, Full Text
Ganswindt A, Muenscher S, Henley M, Henley S, Heistermann M, Palme R, Thompson PN, Bertschinger HJ: 2010. Endocrine correlates of musth and the impact of ecological and social factors in free-ranging African elephants (Loxodonta africana). Hormones and Behavior, 57, pp 506-514, Full Text
Carvalheiro LG, Seymour CL, Veldtman R, Nicolson SW: 2010. Pollination services decline with distance from natural habitat even in biodiversity-rich areas. Journal of Applied Ecology, 47, pp 810-820.
Guldemond RAR, van Aarde RJ: 2010. Forest patch size and isolation as drivers of bird species richness in Maputaland, Mozambique. Journal of Biogeography, 37, pp 1884-1893.
Yusuf AA, Pirk CWW, Crewe RM, Njagi PGN, Gordon I, Torto B: 2010. Nestmate recognition and the role of cuticular hydrocarbons in the African termite raiding ant Pachycondyla analis. Journal of Chemical Ecology, 36, pp 441-448.
Kalamatianos T, Faulkes CG, Oosthuizen MK, Poorun R, Bennett NC, Coen CW: 2010. Telencephalic binding sites for oxytocin and social organization: A comparative study of eusocial naked mole-rats and solitary Cape mole-rats. Journal of Comparative Neurology, 518, pp 1792-1813.
Baird E, Byrne M, Scholtz CH, Warrant EJ, Dacke M: 2010. Bearing selection in ball-rolling dung beetles:is it constant?. Journal of Comparative Physiology A-Neuroethology Sensory Neural and Behavioral Physiology, 196, pp 801-806.
Purchase C, Fleming PA, Nicolson SW: 2010. Added salt helps sunbirds and honeyeaters maintain energy balance on extremely dilute nectar diets. Journal of Comparative Physiology B-Biochemical Systemic and Environmental Physiology, 180, pp 1227-1234.
Verburgt L, Ferguson JWH: 2010. Mate choice in field crickets: can females acoustically detect male body size?. Journal of Ethology, 28, pp 141-151.
Altaye SZ, Pirk CWW, Crewe RM, Nicolson SW: 2010. Convergence of carbohydrate-biased intake targets in caged worker honeybees fed different protein sources. Journal of Experimental Biology, 213, pp 3311-3318, Full Text
Oosthuizen MK, Viljoen H, Bennett NC: 2010. Effects of season and social status on gonadal function in social Natal mole-rats. Journal of Mammalogy, 91 (2), pp 429-436.
Kotze SH, van der Merwe EL, Bennett NC, O Riain MJ: 2010. The comparative anatomy of the abdominal gastrointestinal tract of six species of African mole-rat (Bathyergidae). Journal of Morphology, 271, pp 50-60.
Turner WC, Getz WM: 2010. Seasonal and demographic factors influencing gastrointestinal parasitism in ungulates of Etosha National Park. Journal of Wildlife Diseases, 46 (4), pp 1108-1119.
Tambling C, Cameron EZ, du Toit JT, Getz WM: 2010. Methods for locating African lion kills using Global Positioning System movement data. Journal of Wildlife Management, 74 (3), pp 549-556, Full Text
Scantlebury M, Krackow S, Pillay N, Bennett NC, Schradin C: 2010. Basking is affected by season and influences oxygen consumption in desert-living striped mice. Journal of Zoology, 281, pp 132-139.
Scantlebury M, Maher-McWilliams M, Marks M, Dick JTA, Edgar H, Lutermann H: 2010. Effects of life-history traits on parasite load in grey squirrels. Journal of Zoology, 282, pp 245-255.
Medger K, Chimimba CT, Bennett NC: 2010. Seasonal reproduction in the female spiny mouse from South Africa. Journal of Zoology, 282, pp 163-170.
Nice PA, Fleming PA, Bennett NC, Bateman PW, Millar DW: 2010. Exposure to non-kin females rapidly affects testicular morphology in non-reproductive male Damaraland mole-rats. Journal of Zoology, 282, pp 84-90.
Bennett NC, van Sandwyk J, Lutermann H: 2010. The pattern of ovulation in Ansell's mole-rat: phylogenetic or ecological constraints?. Journal of Zoology, 281, pp 66-73, Full Text
Herbst M, Mills MGL: 2010. The feeding habits of the Southern African wildcat, a facultative trophic specialist, in the southern Kalahari (Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, South Africa / Botswana). Journal of Zoology, 280, pp 403-413, Full Text
Faulkes CG, Sichilima AM, van Sandwyk J, Lutermann H, Bennett NC: 2010. Control of ovulation in female giant mole-ratsFukomys mechowii (Rodentia: Bathyergidae), and phylogenetic trends within the family. Journal of Zoology, 282, pp 64-74.
de Bruyn PJN, Cameron EZ, Tosh CA, Oosthuizen WC, Reisinger R, Mufanadzo NT, Phalanndwa MV, Postma M, Wege M, van der Merwe DS, Bester MN: 2010. Prevalence of allosuckling behaviour in Subantarctic fur seal pups. Mammalian Biology, 75, pp 555-560, Full Text
Cory Toussaint D, McKechnie AE, van der Merwe M: 2010. Heterothermy in free-ranging male Egyptian free-tailed bats (Tadarida aegyptiaca) in a subtropical climate. Mammalian Biology, 75, pp 466-470, Full Text
Andrews KR, Karczmarski L, Whitlow WLU, Rickards SH, Vanderlip CA, Bowen BW, Grau EG, Toonen RJ: 2010. Rolling stones and stable homes: social structure, habitat diversity and population genetics of the Hawaiian spinner dolphin (Stenella longirostris). Molecular Ecology, 19, pp 732-748.
Sole CL, Scholtz CH: 2010. Did dung beetles arise in Africa? A phylogenetic hypothesis based on five gene regions. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 56, pp 631-641.
Linklater WL, Plotz RD, Kerley GIH, Brashares JS, Lent PC, Cameron EZ, Law PR, Hitchins PM: 2010. Dissimilar home range estimates for black rhinocerosDiceros bicornis cannot be used to infer habitat change. Response to Reidet al 2007. Oryx, 44, pp 16-19, Full Text
Pietersen DW, Symes CT: 2010. Assessing the diet of Amur FalconFalco amurensis Lesser KestrelFalco naumani using stomach content analysis. Ostrich, 81 (1), pp 39-44.
Pietersen DW, Symes CT, Ferguson JWH: 2010. Site fidelity and longevity of the Karoo ThrushTurdus smithi (Bonaparte 1850) in an urban environment. Ostrich, 81 (3), pp 211-215.
McKechnie AE, Smit B: 2010. Thermoregulation under seminatural conditions in two species of African barbets (Piciformes: Lybiidae). Ostrich, 81 (2), pp 97-102, Full Text
Smit B, McKechnie AE, McKechnie AE: 2010. Do owls use torpor? Winter thermoregulation in free-ranging Pearl-spotted owlets and African scops-owls. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology, 83 (1), pp 149-156, Full Text
Reisinger R, de Bruyn PJN, Pistorius PA, Bester MN: 2010. Antarctic fur seal predation on cephalopods at Marion Island. Polar Biology, 33, pp 571-574, Full Text
Reisinger R, Bester MN: 2010. Long distance breeding dispersal of a southern elephant seal. Polar Biology, 33, pp 1289-1291, Full Text
Reisinger R, McIntyre T, Bester MN: 2010. Goose barnacles hitchhike on satellite-tracked southern elephant seals. Polar Biology, 33, pp 561-564.
Hofmeyr GJG, Bester MN, Kirkman SP, Lydersen C, Kovacs KM: 2010. Intraspecific differences in the diet of Antarctic fur seals at Nyroysa, Bouvetoya. Polar Biology, 33, pp 1171-1178, Full Text
Thorn M, Green M, Bateman PW, Cameron EZ, Yarnell RW, Scott DM: 2010. Comparative efficacy of sign surveys, spotlighting and audio playbacks in a landscape-scale carnivore survey. South African Journal of Wildlife Research, 40 (1), pp 77-86, Full Text
Dalerum F, Cameron EZ, Kunkel K, Somers MJ: 2010. Interactive effects of species richness and species traits on functional diversity and redundancy. Theoretical Ecology, 1, pp 1-2, Full Text
Hulsman A, Dalerum F, Swanepoel LH, Ganswindt A, Sutherland C, Paris M: 2010. Patterns of scat deposition by brown hyaenasHyaena brunnea in a mountain savannah region of South Africa. Wildlife Biology, 16 (4), pp 445-451, Full Text
Ganswindt A, Muenscher S, Henley M, Palme R, Thompson PN, Bertschinger HJ: 2010. Concentrations of faecal glucocorticoid metabolites in physically injured free-ranging African elephantsLoxodonta africana. Wildlife Biology, 16 (3), pp 323-332, Full Text
Hulsman A, Dalerum F, Ganswindt A, Muenscher S, Bertschinger HJ, Paris M: 2010. Non-invasive monitoring of glucocorticoid metabolites in brown hyaena (Hyaena brunnea) feces. Zoo Biology, 29, pp 1-8.
Michel B, Mansell MW: 2010. Revision of the genusGanguilus Navas (Neuroptera, Myrmeleontidae) with descriptions of three new species. Zootaxa, 2386, pp 1-24.
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