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  • Daily rhythms of body temperature and heat production of sibling mastomys species from different ecosystems : the response to photoperiod manipulations 
    Haim, Abraham; Zubidat, Abed Elsalam; Van Aarde, Rudi J. (Elsevier, 2008-07)
    Please refer to abstract in article
  • Dancing to the message : African clawless otter scent marking behaviour 
    Jordaan, Rowan Keith; Somers, Michael J.; McIntyre, Trevor (Associazione Teriologica Italiana, 2017-09-04)
    Latrine use and behaviour at latrines have been studied in numerous otter species, but not African clawless otters, Aonyx capensis. We set up trail cameras at two latrines near Dullstroom, South Africa. On several ...
  • Darker ants dominate the canopy : testing macroecological hypotheses for patterns in colour along a microclimatic gradient 
    Law, Stephanie J.; Bishop, Tom R.; Eggleton, Paul; Griffiths, Hannah; Ashton, Louise; Parr, Catherine Lucy (Wiley, 2020-02)
    Gradients in cuticle lightness of ectotherms have been demonstrated across latitudes and elevations. Three key hypotheses have been used to explain these macroecological patterns: the thermal melanism hypothesis (TMH), the ...
  • Data quality problems undermine analyses of endotherm upper critical temperatures 
    McKechnie, Andrew E.; Coe, Brittney H.; Gerson, Alexander R.; Wolf, Blair O. (Wiley, 2017-10)
    In an analysis of avian and mammalian thermal tolerances recently published in this journal, Khaliq et al. (2015) reported that endotherm thermal niches are phylogenetically conserved in tropical, but not temperate, regions. ...
  • Data-driven discovery of the spatial scales of habitat choice by elephants 
    Mashintonio, Andrew F.; Pimm, Stuart L.; Harris, Grant M.; Van Aarde, Rudi J.; Russell, Gareth J. (PeerJ, 2014-08-19)
    Setting conservation goals and management objectives relies on understanding animal habitat preferences. Models that predict preferences combine location data fromtracked animals with environmental information, usually ...
  • The database of the PREDICTS (Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems) project 
    Davis, Adrian L.V.; Jacobs, Carmen Tina; Hudson, Lawrence N.; Newbold, Tim; Contu, Sara; Hill, Samantha L.L.; Lysenko, Igor; De Palma, Adriana; Phillips, Helen R.P.; Alhusseini, Tamera I.; Bedford, Felicity E.; Bennett, Dominic J.; Booth, Hollie; Burton, Victoria J.; Chng, Charlotte W.T.; Choimes, Argyrios; Correia, David L.P.; Day, Julie; Echeverría-Londono, Susy; Emerson, Susan R.; Gao, Di; Garon, Morgan; Harrison, Michelle L.K.; Ingram, Daniel J.; Jung, Martin; Kemp, Victoria; Kirkpatrick, Lucinda; Martin, Callum D.; Pan, Yuan; Pask-Hale, Gwilym D.; Pynegar, Edwin L.; Robinson, Alexandra N.; Sanchez-Ortiz, Katia; Senior, Rebecca A.; Simmons, Benno I.; White, Hannah J.; Zhang, Hanbin; Aben, Job; Abrahamczyk, Stefan; Adum, Gilbert B.; Aguilar-Barquero, Virginia; Aizen, Marcelo A.; Albertos, Belen; Alcala, E.L.; Del Mar Alguacil, Maria; Alignier, Audrey; Ancrenaz, Marc; Andersen, Alan N.; Arbelaez-Cortes, Enrique; Armbrecht, Inge; Arroyo-Rodríguez, Víctor; Aumann, Tom; Axmacher, Jan C.; Azhar, Badrul; Azpiroz, Adrian B.; Baeten, Lander; Bakayoko, Adama; Baldi, Andras; Barrico, Lurdes; Bartolommei, Paola; Barton, Diane M.; Basset, Yves; Batry, Peter; Bates, Adam J.; Baur, Bruno; Bayne, Erin M.; Beja, Pedro; Benedick, Suzan; Berg, Ake; Bernard, Henry; Berry, Nicholas J.; Bhatt, Dinesh; Bicknell, Jake E.; Bihn, Jochen H.; Blake, Robin J.; Bobo, Kadiri S.; Bocon, Roberto; Boekhout, Teun; Bohning-Gaese, Katrin; Bonham, Kevin J.; Borges, Paulo A.V.; Borges, Sergio H.; Boutin, Celine; Bouyer, Jeremy; Bragagnolo, Cibele; Brandt, Jodi S.; Brearley, Francis Q.; Brito, Isabel; Bros, Vicenc; Brunet, Jorg; Buczkowski, Grzegorz; Buddle, Christopher M.; Bugter, Rob; Buscardo, Erika; Buse, Jorn; Cabra-Garcia, Jimmy; Caceres, Nilton C.; Cagle, Nicolette L.; Calvino-Cancela, Maria; Cameron, Sydney A.; Cancello, Eliana M.; Caparros, Rut; Cardoso, Pedro; Carpenter, Dan; Carrijo, Tiago F.; Carvalho, Anelena L.; Cassano, Camila R.; Castro, Helena; Castro-Luna, Alejandro A.; Cerda B., Rolando; Cerezo, Alexis; Chapman, Kim Alan; Chauvat, Matthieu; Christensen, Morten; Clarke, Francis M.; Cleary, Daniel F.R.; Colombo, Giorgio; Connop, Stuart P.; Craig, Michael D.; Cruz-Lopez, Leopoldo; Cunningham, Saul A.; D’Aniello, Biagio; D’Cruze, Neil; Da Silva, Pedro Giovani; Dallimer, Martin; Danquah, Emmanuel; Darvill, Ben; Dauber, Jens; Dawson, Jeff; De Sassi, Claudio; De Thoisy, Benoit; Deheuvels, Olivier; Dejean, Alain; Devineau, Jean-Louis; Diekotter, Tim; Dolia, Jignasu V.; Dominguez, Erwin; Dominguez-Haydar, Yamileth; Dorn, Silvia; Draper, Isabel; Dreber, Niels; Dumont, Bertrand; Dures, Simon G.; Dynesius, Mats; Edenius, Lars; Eggleton, Paul; Eigenbrod, Felix; Elek, Zoltan; Entling, Martin H.; Esler, Karen J.; De Lima, Ricardo F.; Faruk, Aisyah; Farwig, Nina; Fayle, Tom M.; Felicioli, Antonio; Felton, Annika M.; Fensham, Roderick J.; Fernandez, Ignacio C.; Ferreira, Catarina C.; Ficetola, Gentile F.; Fiera, Cristina; Filgueiras, Bruno K. C.; Fırıncıoglu, Huseyin K.; Flaspohler, David; Floren, Andreas; Fonte, Steven J.; Fournier, Anne; Fowler, Robert E.; Franzen, Markus; Fraser, Lauchlan H.; Fredriksson, Gabriella M.; Freire-Jr, Geraldo B.; Frizzo, Tiago L.M.; Fukuda, Daisuke; Furlani, Dario; Gaigher, Rene; Ganzhorn, Jorg U.; Garcia, Karla P.; Garcia-R, Juan C.; Garden, Jenni G.; Garilleti, Ricardo; Ge, Bao-Ming; Gendreau-Berthiaume, Benoit; Gerard, Philippa J.; Gheler-Costa, Carla; Gilbert, Benjamin; Giordani, Paolo; Giordano, Simonetta; Golodets, Carly; Gomes, Laurens G.L.; Gould, Rachelle K.; Goulson, Dave; Gove, Aaron D.; Granjon, Laurent; Grass, Ingo; Gray, Claudia L.; Grogan, James; Gu, Weibin; Guardiola, Moises; Gunawardene, Nihara R.; Gutierrez, Alvaro G.; Gutierrez-Lamus, Doris L.; Hanley, Mick E.; Hanson, Thor; Hashim, Nor R.; Hassan, Shombe N.; Hatfield, Richard G.; Hawes, Joseph E.; Hayward, Matt W.; Hebert, Christian; Helden, Alvin J.; Henden, John-Andre; Henschel, Philipp; Hernandez, Lionel; Herrera, James P.; Herrmann, Farina; Herzog, Felix; Higuera-Diaz, Diego; Hilje, Branko; Hofer, Hubert; Hoffmann, Anke; Horgan, Finbarr G.; Hornung, Elisabeth; Horvath, Roland; Hylander, Kristoffer; Isaacs-Cubides, Paola; Ishida, Hiroaki; Ishitani, Masahiro; Jaramillo, Victor J.; Jauker, Birgit; Hernandez, F. Jimenez; Johnson, McKenzie F.; Jolli, Virat; Jonsell, Mats; Juliani, S. Nur; Jung, Thomas S.; Kapoor, Vena; Kappes, Heike; Kati, Vassiliki; Katovai, Eric; Kellner, Klaus; Kessler, Michael; Kirby, Kathryn R.; Kittle, Andrew M.; Knight, Mairi E.; Knop, Eva; Kohle, Florian; Koivula, Matti; Kolb, Annette; Kone, Mouhamadou; Korosi, Adam; Krauss, Jochen; Kumar, Ajith; Kumar, Raman; Kurz, David J.; Kutt, Alex S.; Lachat, Thibault; Lantschner, Victoria; Lara, Francisco; Lasky, Jesse R.; Latta, Steven C.; Laurance, William F.; Lavelle, Patrick; Le Feon, Violette; LeBuhn, Gretchen; Legare, Jean-Philippe; Lehouck, Valerie; Lencinas, María V.; Lentini, Pia E.; Letcher, Susan G.; Li, Qi; Litchwark, Simon A.; Littlewood, Nick A.; Liu, Yunhui; Lo-Man-Hung, Nancy; Lopez-Quintero, Carlos A.; Louhaichi, Mounir; Lovei, Gabor L.; Lucas-Borja, Manuel Esteban; Luja, Victor H.; Luskin, Matthew S.; MacSwiney G, M. Cristina; Maeto, Kaoru; Magura, Tibor; Mallari, Neil Aldrin; Malone, Louise A.; Malonza, Patrick K.; Malumbres-Olarte, Jagoba; Mandujano, Salvador; Maren, Inger E.; Marin-Spiotta, Erika; Marsh, Charles J.; Marshall, E.J.P.; Martinez, Eliana; Pastur, Guillermo Martínez; Mateos, David Moreno; Mayfield, Margaret M.; Mazimpaka, Vicente; McCarthy, Jennifer L.; McCarthy, Kyle P.; McFrederick, Quinn S.; McNamara, Sean; Medina, Nagore G.; Medina, Rafael; Mena, Jose L.; Mico, Estefania; Mikusinski, Grzegorz; Milder, Jeffrey C.; Miller, James R.; Miranda-Esquivel, Daniel R.; Moir, Melinda L.; Morales, Carolina L.; Muchane, Mary N.; Muchane, Muchai; Mudri-Stojnic, Sonja; Munira, A. Nur; Muonz-Alonso, Antonio; Munyekenye, B.F.; Naidoo, Robin; Naithani, A.; Nakagawa, Michiko; Nakamura, Akihiro; Nakashima, Yoshihiro; Naoe, Shoji; Nates-Parra, Guiomar; Gutierrez, Dario A. Navarrete; Navarro-Iriarte, Luis; Ndang’ang’a, Paul K.; Neuschulz, Eike L.; Ngai, Jacqueline T.; Nicolas, Violaine; Nilsson, Sven G.; Noreika, Norbertas; Norfolk, Olivia; Noriega, Jorge Ari; Norton, David A.; Noske, Nicole M.; Nowakowski, A. Justin; Numa, Catherine; O’Dea, Niall; O’Farrell, Patrick J.; Oduro, William; Oertli, Sabine; Ofori-Boateng, Caleb; Oke, Christopher Omamoke; Oostra, Vicencio; Osgathorpe, Lynne M.; Otavo, Samuel Eduardo; Page, Navendu V.; Paritsis, Juan; Parra-H, Alejandro; Parry, Luke; Pe’er, Guy; Pearman, Peter B.; Pelegrin, Nicolás; Pelissier, Raphael; Peres, Carlos A.; Peri, Pablo L.; Persson, Anna S.; Petanidou, Theodora; Peters, Marcell K.; Pethiyagoda, Rohan S.; Phalan, Ben; Philips, T. Keith; Pillsbury, Finn C.; Pincheira-Ulbrich, Jimmy; Pineda, Eduardo; Pino, Joan; Pizarro-Araya, Jaime; Plumptre, A.J.; Poggio, Santiago L.; Politi, Natalia; Pons, Pere; Poveda, Katja; Power, Eileen F.; Presley, Steven J.; Proenca, Vania; Quaranta, Marino; Quintero, Carolina; Rader, Romina; Ramesh, B.R.; Ramirez-Pinilla, Martha P.; Ranganathan, Jai; Rasmussen, Claus; Redpath-Downing, Nicola A.; Reid, J. Leighton; Reis, Yana T.; Benayas, Jose M. Rey; Rey-Velasco, Juan Carlos; Reynolds, Chevonne; Ribeiro, Danilo Bandini; Richards, Miriam H.; Richardson, Barbara A.; Richardson, Michael J.; Ríos, Rodrigo Macip; Robinson, Richard; Robles, Carolina A.; Rombke, Jorg; Romero-Duque, Luz Piedad; Ros, Matthias; Rosselli, Loreta; Rossiter, Stephen J.; Roth, Dana S.; Roulston, T’ai H.; Rousseau, Laurent; Rubio, André V.; Ruel, Jean-Claude; Sadler, Jonathan P.; Safian, Szabolcs; Saldana-Vazquez, Romeo A.; Sam, Katerina; Samnegard, Ulrika; Santana, Joana; Santos, Xavier; Savage, Jade; Schellhorn, Nancy A.; Schilthuizen, Menno; Schmiedel, Ute; Schmitt, Christine B.; Schon, Nicole L.; Schuepp, Christof; Schumann, Katharina; Schweiger, Oliver; Scott, Dawn M.; Scott, Kenneth A.; Sedlock, Jodi L.; Seefeldt, Steven S.; Shahabuddin, Ghazala; Shannon, Graeme; Sheil, Douglas; Sheldon, Frederick H.; Shochat, Eyal; Siebert, Stefan J.; Silva, Fernando A.B.; Simonetti, Javier A.; Slade, Eleanor M.; Smith, Jo; Smith-Pardo, Allan H.; Sodhi, Navjot S.; Somarriba, Eduardo J.; Sosa, Ramon A.; Quiroga, Grimaldo Soto; St-Laurent, Martin-Hugues; Starzomski, Brian M.; Stefanescu, Constanti; Steffan-Dewenter, Ingolf; Stouffer, Philip C.; Stout, Jane C.; Strauch, Ayron M.; Struebig, Matthew J.; Su, Zhimin; Suarez-Rubio, Marcela; Sugiura, Shinji; Summerville, Keith S.; Sung, Yik-Hei; Sutrisno, Hari; Svenning, Jens-Christian; Teder, Tiit; Threlfall, Caragh G.; Tiitsaar, Anu; Todd, Jacqui H.; Tonietto, Rebecca K.; Torre, Ignasi; Tothmeresz, Bela; Tscharntke, Teja; Turner, Edgar C.; Tylianakis, Jason M.; Uehara-Prado, Marcio; Urbina-Cardona, Nicolas; Vallan, Denis; Vanbergen, Adam J.; Vasconcelos, Heraldo L.; Vassilev, Kiril; Verboven, Hans A.F.; Verdasca, Maria Joao; Verdu, Jose R.; Vergara, Carlos H.; Vergara, Pablo M.; Verhulst, Jort; Virgilio, Massimiliano; Van Vu, Lien; Waite, Edward M.; Walker, Tony R.; Wang, Hua-Feng; Wang, Yanping; Watling, James I.; Weller, Britta; Wells, Konstans; Westphal, Catrin; Wiafe, Edward D.; Williams, Christopher D.; Willig, Michael R.; Woinarski, John C.Z.; Wolf, Jan H.D.; Wolters, Volkmar; Woodcock, Ben A.; Wu, Jihua; Wunderle, Joseph Jr M.; Yamaura, Yuichi; Yoshikura, Satoko; Yu, Douglas W.; Zaitsev, Andrey S.; Zeidler, Juliane; Zou, Fasheng; Collen, Ben; Ewers, Rob M.; Mace, Georgina M.; Purves, Drew W.; Scharlemann, Jorn P.W.; Purvis, Andy (Wiley Open Access, 2017-01)
    The PREDICTS project—Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems (www.predicts.org.uk)—has collated from published studies a large, reasonably representative database of comparable samples ...
  • Dead-reckoning animal movements in R : a reappraisal using Gundog.Tracks 
    Gunner, Richard M.; Holton, Mark D.; Scantlebury, Mike D.; Van Schalkwyk, Ockert Louis; English, Holly M.; Williams, Hannah J.; Hopkins, Phil; Quintana, Flavio; Gómez‑Laich, Agustina; Borger, Luca; Redcliffe, James; Yoda, Ken; Yamamoto, Takashi; Ferreira, Sam; Govender, Danny; Viljoen, Pauli; Bruns, Angela; Bell, Stephen H.; Marks, Nikki J.; Bennett, Nigel Charles; Tonini, Mariano H.; Duarte, Carlos M.; Van Rooyen, Martin C.; Bertelsen, Mads F.; Tambling, Craig J.; Wilson, Rory P. (BioMed Central, 2021-07)
    BACKGROUND: Fine-scale data on animal position are increasingly enabling us to understand the details of animal movement ecology and dead-reckoning, a technique integrating motion sensor-derived information on heading ...
  • Decadal shift in foraging strategy of a migratory southern ocean predator 
    Van den Berg, Gideon Leon; Vermeulen, Els; Valenzuela, Luciano O.; Berube, Martine; Ganswindt, Andre; Grocke, Darren R.; Hall, Grant; Hulva, Pavel; Neveceralova, Petra; Palsboll, Per J.; Carroll, Emma L. (Wiley, 2021-03)
    Rapid anthropogenic environmental change is expected to impact a host of ecological parameters in Southern Ocean ecosystems. Of critical concern are the consequences of these changes on the range of species that show ...
  • Decision rules for determining terrestrial movement and the consequences for filtering high-resolution global positioning system tracks : a case study using the African lion (Panthera leo) 
    Gunner, Richard M.; Wilson, Rory P.; Holton, Mark D.; Hopkins, Phil; Bell, Stephen H.; Marks, Nikki J.; Bennett, Nigel Charles; Ferreira, Sam M.; Govender, Danny; Viljoen, Pauli; Bruns, Angela; Van Schalkwyk, Ockert Louis; Bertelsen, Mads F.; Duarte, Carlos M.; Van Rooyen, Martin C.; Tambling, Craig; Goppert, Aoife; Diesel, Delmar; Scantlebury, D. Michael (Royal Society, 2022-01)
    The combined use of global positioning system (GPS) technology and motion sensors within the discipline of movement ecology has increased over recent years. This is particularly the case for instrumented wildlife, with ...
  • Decline of birds in a human modified coastal dune forest landscape in South Africa 
    Trimble, Morgan Jayne; Van Aarde, Rudi J. (Public Library of Science, 2011-01)
    Previous studies demonstrate that old-growth forest remnants and vegetation regenerating after anthropogenic disturbance provide habitat for birds in a human modified coastal dune forest landscape in northern KwaZulu-Na ...
  • Decomposing the variance in southern elephant seal weaning mass : partitioning environmental signals and maternal effects 
    Oosthuizen, Wessel Christiaan; Bester, Marthan Nieuwoudt; Altwegg, Res; McIntyre, Trevor; De Bruyn, P.J. Nico (Ecological Society of America, 2015-08)
    Predator populations are likely to respond to bottom-up processes, but there remains limited understanding of how wide-ranging marine predators respond to environmentally driven temporal variation in food availability.Widespread ...
  • Deep divers in even deeper seas : habitat use of male southern elephant seals from Marion Island 
    McIntyre, Trevor; Bornemann, Horst; Plotz, Joachim; Tosh, Cheryl A.; Bester, Marthan Nieuwoudt (Cambridge University Press, 2012)
    We describe the habitat use of 22 male southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina) satellite tagged at Marion Island between 2004 and 2008. While a few areas of increased utilization appeared to be associated with areas ...
  • Defining the link between oxidative stress, behavioural reproductive suppression and heterothermy in the Natal mole-rat (Cryptomys hottentotus natalensis) 
    Jacobs, Paul Juan; Finn, Kyle T.; Janse van Vuuren, Andries Koch; Suess, Tobias; Hart, Daniel William; Bennett, Nigel Charles (Elsevier, 2022-08)
    Sub-lethal effects, such as oxidative stress, can be linked to various breeding and thermophysiological strategies, which themselves can be linked to seasonal variability in abiotic factors. In this study, we investigated ...
  • Degradation of Temminck's pangolin (Smutsia temminckii) scales with a keratinase for extraction of reproductive steroid hormones 
    Blecher, Arantxa Silvia; Scheun, Juan; Ganswindt, Andre (Elsevier, 2021)
    Hormone monitoring in keratinous tissues has become increasingly popular. The insoluble keratin materials are generally pulverised before hormone extraction; however, this is difficult for thicker keratin structures like ...
  • Demographic responses of an insular elephant population to removal as a management intervention 
    Guldemond, Robert Abraham Rene; Louw, Cornelius J.; Mare, Celeste; Norgaard, Camilla; Van Aarde, Rudi J. (Wiley, 2022-08)
    Disturbances that change population structure may evoke transient dynamics that can be assessed within a demographic resilience framework. Conservation management interventions are conceptually disturbances that can be ...
  • Demography of an invading forest insect reunited with hosts and parasitoids from its native range 
    Krivak-Tetley, Flora E.; Sullivan-Stack, Jenna; Garnas, Jeffrey R.; Zylstra, Kelley E.; Hoger, Lars-Olaf; Lombardero, Maria J.; Liebhold, Andrew M.; Ayres, Matthew P. (Pensoft Publishers, 2022-03-25)
    The Sirex woodwasp Sirex noctilio Fabricius (Hymenoptera: Siricidae), a widespread invasive pest of pines in the Southern Hemisphere, was first detected in North America in 2004. This study assessed the impacts of life ...
  • Dengue and yellow fever virus vectors : seasonal abundance, diversity and resting preferences in three Kenyan cities 
    Agha, Sheila Biloh; Tchouassi, David Poumo; Bastos, Armanda D.S.; Sang, Rosemary (BioMed Central, 2017-12-20)
    BACKGROUND : The transmission patterns of dengue (DENV) and yellow fever (YFV) viruses, especially in urban settings, are influenced by Aedes (Stegomyia) mosquito abundance and behavior. Despite recurrent dengue outbreaks ...
  • Density of leopards Panthera pardus on protected and non-protected land in the Waterberg Biosphere, South Africa 
    Swanepoel, Lourens Hendrik; Somers, Michael J.; Dalerum, Fredrik (Nordic Council for Wildlife Research, 2015)
    Data on the population size and trends of large carnivores remains the cornerstone of effective management and conservation programs. However, such data are rarely available for the majority of large carnivore species. ...
  • Density, body size and sex ratio of an indigenous spider along an altitudinal gradient in the sub-Antarctic 
    Lee, Jennifer E.; Somers, Michael J.; Chown, Steven Loudon (Cambridge University Press, 2012)
    Although spiders are a diverse and ecologically important group of predators across the sub-Antarctic islands, relatively little is known about their biology. Here we provide data on the abundance, body size variation ...
  • Density-dependent habitat selection varies between male and female African elephants 
    Fortin, Daniel; Berube, Audrey-Jade; Boudreau, Stephane; Shrader, A.M. (Adrian); Ward, David (Elsevier, 2022-12)
    Habitat selection models are the basis of an increasing number of conservation and management programs. Decision-makers rely on accurate models to assess animal distribution over space and time, and to recommend suitable ...