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  • Towards more equal footing in north-south biodiversity research : European and sub-Saharan viewpoints 
    Habel, Jan Christian; Eggermont, Hilde; Günter, Sven; Mulwa, Ronald K.; Rieckmann, Marco; Koh, Lian Pin; Niassy, Saliou; Ferguson, Jan Willem Helenus; Gebremichael, Gelaye; Githiru, Mwangi; Weisser, Wolfgang W.; Lens, Luc (Springer, 2014-11)
    Research collaboration between developed countries from the northern hemi- sphere and developing countries in the southern hemisphere is essential for the under- standing and protection of the major proportion of biodiversity ...
  • Towed passive acoustic monitoring complements visual survey methods for Heaviside’s dolphins Cephalorhynchus heavisidii in the Namibian Islands Marine protected area 
    Gridley, T.; Martin, Morgan Jennifer; Slater, J.; Roux, J.-P.; Swift, R.J.; Elwen, Simon Harvey (NISC (Pty) Ltd and Informa UK Limited (trading as Taylor & Francis Group), 2020)
    The genus Cephalorhynchus contains four dolphin species, of which three are classified as Near Threatened or Endangered and one subspecies is close to extinction. Understanding the species’ abundance, distributions and ...
  • Tracking data from nine free-roaming Cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus) collared in the Thabazimbi area, Limpopo Province, South Africa 
    Marnewick, Kelly; Page-Nicholson, Samantha; Roxburgh, Lizanne; Somers, Michael J. (Pensoft Publishers, 2017-02-23)
    BACKGROUND : In partnership with the University of Pretoria, the Endangered Wildlife Trust's Carnivore Conservation Programme collared six male and three female free-roaming Cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus) in the Thabazimbi ...
  • Tracking of marine predators to protect Southern ocean ecosystems 
    Hindell, Mark A.; Reisinger, Ryan Rudolf; Ropert-Coudert, Yan; Huckstadt, Luis A.; Trathan, Philip N.; Bornemann, Horst; Charrassin, Jean-Benoit; Chown, Steven L.; Costa, Daniel P.; Danis, Bruno; Lea, Mary-Anne; Thompson, David; Torres, Leigh G.; Van de Putte, Anton P.; Alderman, Rachael; Andrews-Goff, Virginia; Arthur, Ben; Ballard, Grant; Bengtson, John; Bester, Marthan Nieuwoudt; Blix, Arnoldus Schytte; Boehme, Lars; Bost, Charles-Andre; Boveng, Peter; Cleeland, Jaimie; Constantine, Rochelle; Corney, Stuart; Crawford, Robert J.M.; Dalla Rosa, Luciano; De Bruyn, P.J. Nico; Delord, Karine; Descamps, Sebastien; Double, Mike; Emmerson, Louise; Fedak, Mike; Friedlaender, Ari; Gales, Nick; Goebel, Michael E.; Goetz, Kimberly T.; Guinet, Christophe; Goldsworthy, Simon D.; Harcourt, Rob; Hinke, Jefferson T.; Jerosch, Kerstin; Kato, Akiko; Kerry, Knowles R.; Kirkwood, Roger; Kooyman, Gerald L.; Kovacs, Kit M.; Lawton, Kieran; Lowther, Andrew D.; Lydersen, Christian; Lyver, Phil O’B.; Makhado, Azwianewi B.; Márquez, Maria E.I.; McDonald, Birgitte I.; McMahon, Clive Reginald; Muelbert, Monica; Nachtsheim, Dominik; Nordøy, Erling S.; Olmastroni, Silvia; Phillips, Richard A.; Pistorius, Pierre Anton; Plotz, Joachim; Putz, Klemens; Ratcliffe, Norman; Ryan, Peter G.; Santos, Mercedes; Southwell, Colin; Staniland, Iain; Takahashi, Akinori; Tarroux, Arnaud; Trivelpiece, Wayne; Wakefield, Ewan; Weimerskirch, Henri; Wienecke, Barbara; Xavier, Jose C.; Wotherspoon, Simon; Jonsen, Ian D.; Raymond, Ben (Nature Research, 2020-04)
    Southern Ocean ecosystems are under pressure from resource exploitation and climate change. Mitigation requires the identifcation and protection of Areas of Ecological Signifcance (AESs), which have so far not been ...
  • Trade-offs between immunity and testosterone in male African ground squirrels 
    O'Brien, Kelsey A.; Waterman, Jane M.; Anderson, W. Gary; Bennett, Nigel Charles (Company of Biologists, 2018-08)
    The immunocompetence handicap hypothesis (ICHH) proposes that testosterone has both beneficial effects on male reproductive potential and negative effects by suppressing the immune system. However, support for the ICHH ...
  • Trading new neurons for status : adult hippocampal neurogenesis in eusocial Damaraland mole-rats 
    Oosthuizen, Maria Kathleen; Amrein, I. (Elsevier, 2016-06)
    Diversity in social structures, from solitary to eusocial, is a prominent feature of subterranean African mole-rat species. Damaraland mole-rats are eusocial, they live in colonies that are characterized by a reproductive ...
  • A trait-based assessment of southern African arid-zone birds' vulnerability to climate change 
    Payne, Stephanie L.; Cunningham, Susan J.; Howes, Caroline G.; McKechnie, Andrew E. (Elsevier, 2023-11)
    Trait-based assessments allow rapid evaluation of species’ vulnerability to climate change, but often overlook subtle yet consequential interspecific variation in behavioural and physiological traits. We assessed 241 ...
  • The transcriptomic changes associated with the development of social parasitism in the honeybee Apis mellifera capensis 
    Aumer, Denise; Mumoki, F.N. (Fiona); Pirk, Christian Walter Werner; Moritz, Robin F.A. (Springer, 2018-04)
    Social insects are characterized by the division of labor. Queens usually dominate reproduction, whereas workers fulfill non-reproductive age-dependent tasks to maintain the colony. Although workers are typically sterile, ...
  • Transfer of three species of Namakwanus Scholtz & Howden to Versicorpus Deschodt, Davis & Scholtz or to Namaphilus gen. nov., with descriptions of two new species (Coleoptera : Scarabaeidae : Scarabaeinae) 
    Deschodt, Christian M.; Davis, Adrian L.V. (Transvaal Museum, 2017)
    Taxonomic changes are made in the Byrrhidium group of Canthonini dung beetles. The genera Versicorpus Deschodt, Davis & Scholtz, 2011 and Namakwanus Scholtz & Howden, 1987 currently comprise one and four species, respectively. ...
  • Translating marine animal tracking data into conservation policy and management 
    Hays, Graeme Clive; Bailey, Helen; Bograd, Steven J.; Bowen, William Don; Campagna, Claudio; Carmichael, Ruth H.; Casale, Paolo; Chiaradia, Andre; Costa, Daniel P.; Cuevas, Eduardo; De Bruyn, P.J. Nico; Dias, Maria P.; Duarte, Carlos M.; Dunn, Daniel C.; Dutton, Peter H.; Esteban, Nicole; Friedlaender, Ari; Goetz, Kimberley T.; Godley, Brendan J.; Halpin, Patrick N.; Hamann, Mark; Hammerschlag, Neil; Harcourt, Robert; Harrison, Autumn-Lynn; Hazen, Elliott L.; Heupel, Michelle Ra Nae; Hoyt, Erich; Humphries, Nicolas E.; Kot, Connie Y.; Lea, James S.E.; Marsh, Helene; Maxwell, Sara M.; McMahon, Clive Reginald; Di Sciara, Giuseppe Notarbartolo; Palacios, Daniel M.; Phillips, Richard A.; Righton, David; Schofield, Gail; Seminoff, Jeffrey A.; Simpfendorfer, Colin Ashley; Sims, David W.; Takahashi, Akinori; Tetley, Michael J.; Thums, Michele; Trathan, Philip N.; Villegas-Amtmann, Stella; Wells, Randall S.; Whiting, Scott D.; Wildermann, Natalie E.; Sequeira, Ana Micaela Martins (Elsevier, 2019-05)
    There have been efforts around the globe to track individuals of many marine species and assess their movements and distribution, with the putative goal of supporting their conservation and management. Determining whether, ...
  • Translocation stress and faecal glucocorticoid metabolite levels in free-ranging African savanna elephants 
    Viljoen, Jozua Jakobus; Ganswindt, Andre; Du Toit, Johan T.; Langbauer, William Richard (Southern African Wildlife Management Association, 2008-10)
    There are local populations of African elephants (Loxodonta africana) which have increased to levels where they are implicated in altering vegetation types. The local reduction of elephant numbers for wildlife management ...
  • Transmission efficiency of Grapevine leafroll-associated virus 3 (GLRaV-3) by the mealybugs Planococcus ficus and Pseudococcus longispinus (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae) 
    Douglas, N.; Kruger, Kerstin (Springer, 2008)
    Grapevine leafroll-associated virus 3 (GLRaV-3) is transmitted from grapevine to grapevine through grafting infected material, as well as mealybug and soft scale insect vectors. We determined the transmission efficiency ...
  • Transmission of foot and mouth disease at the wildlife/livestock interface of the Kruger National Park, South Africa : can the risk be mitigated? 
    Jori, Ferran J.; Etter, Eric Marcel Charles (Elsevier, 2016-04)
    In Southern Africa, the African buffalo (Syncerus caffer) is the natural reservoir of foot and mouth disease(FMD). Contacts between this species and cattle are responsible for most of the FMD outbreaks in cattleat the edge ...
  • Transmission of foot-and-mouth disease SAT2 viruses at the wildlife-livestock interface of two major transfrontier conservation areas in Southern Africa 
    Brito, Barbara P.; Jori, Ferran J.; Dwarka, Rahana; Maree, Francois Frederick; Heath, Livio; Perez, Andres M. (Frontiers Research Foundation, 2016-04-22)
    Over a decade ago, foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) re-emerged in Southern Africa specifically in beef exporting countries that had successfully maintained disease-free areas in the past. FMD virus (FMDV) serotype SAT2 has ...
  • Trapping of Rift Valley Fever (RVF) vectors using Light Emitting Doide (LED) CDC traps in two arboviral disease hot spots in Kenya 
    Tchouassi, David Poumo; Sang, Rosemary; Sole, Catherine L.; Bastos, Armanda D.S.; Cohnstaedt, Lee W.; Torto, Baldwyn (BioMed Central, 2012-05-19)
    BACKGROUND: Mosquitoes’ response to artificial lights including color has been exploited in trap designs for improved sampling of mosquito vectors. Earlier studies suggest that mosquitoes are attracted to specific wavelengths ...
  • Tree and bird functional groups as indicators of recovery of regenerating subtropical coastal dune forests 
    Rolo, Victor; Olivier, Pieter Ignatius; Van Aarde, Rudi J. (Wiley, 2017-09)
    Functional diversity indicators are increasingly used to monitor forest function recovery because they connect biodiversity to ecosystem functions. However, identifying which functions deviate from a reference forest has ...
  • Tree defence and bark beetles in a drying world : carbon partitioning, functioning and modelling 
    Huang, Jianbei; Kautz, Markus; Trowbridge, Amy M.; Hammerbacher, Almuth; Raffa, Kenneth F.; Adams, Henry D.; Goodsman, Devin W.; Xu, Chonggang; Meddens, Arjan J.H.; Kandasamy, Dineshkumar; Gershenzon, Jonathan; Seidl, Rupert; Hartmann, Henrik (Wiley, 2020-01)
    Drought has promoted large-scale, insect-induced tree mortality in recent years, with severe consequences for ecosystem function, atmospheric processes, sustainable resources and global biogeochemical cycles. However, ...
  • Tree health in South Africa : retrospect and prospect 
    Wingfield, Michael J.; Hurley, Brett Phillip; Wingfield, Brenda D.; Slippers, Bernard (AOSIS Open Journals, 2020-11-26)
    South Africa is a country with very limited natural forest cover. Consequently, the timber and fibre needs of the country cannot be provided for from indigenous forest. It is largely for this reason that South Africa ...
  • Tree species identity mediates mechanisms of top soil carbon sequestration in a Norway spruce and European beech mixed forest 
    Andivia, Enrique; Rolo, Victor; Jonard, Mathieu; Formánek, Pavel; Ponette, Quentin (Springer, 2016-06)
    CONTEXT : The establishment of mixed stands by intermingling individuals of European beech and Norway spruce is an ongoing trend in adaptive forest management strategies. However, our understanding of the potential of ...
  • Trend changes in sympatric Subantarctic and Antarctic fur seal pup populations at Marion Island, Southern Ocean 
    Wege, Mia; Etienne, Marie-Pierre; Oosthuizen, Wessel Christiaan; Reisinger, Ryan Rudolf; Bester, Marthan Nieuwoudt; De Bruyn, P.J. Nico (Wiley, 2016-07)
    Recent pup population estimates of sympatric Subantarctic (Arctocephalus tropicalis) and Antarctic fur seals (A. gazella) at Marion Island are presented. Published pup population estimates of A. tropicalis (1995 and 2004) ...