Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences
Department of Animal and Wildlife Sciences
Somers, MJ
MSc (Wildlife management) Pta PhD (Stellenbosch) - Professor
NRF Rating: C2
Contact Details
Research Output
Contact Details:
Telephone number: 012 420 2627
Fax number: 012 420 6096
E-mail address: michael.somers@up.ac.za
Research Output:
Research articles in refereed specialist journals:
Spiering P, Somers MJ, Maldonado JE, Wildt DE, Gunther MS: 2010. Reproductive sharing and proximate factors mediating
cooperative breeding in the African wild dog caon pictus. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 64, p. 583–592.
Spiering P, Gunther MS, Somers MJ, Wildt DE, Walters M, Wilson AS, Maldonado JE: 2010. Inbreeding, heterozygosity and fitness in a reintroduced population of endangered African wild dogs (Lycaon pictus). Conservation Genetics, p. online, 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
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