• Method development : assigning sex to African clawless otter spraints and assessing stability of faecal androgen and progestagen metabolites post-defaecation 

  Burger, Marli; Webster, Andrea B.; Majelantle, Tshepiso L; Scheun, Juan; Ganswindt, Andre (Elsevier, 2024-12)

  Monitoring reproductive physiology in wildlife can be a useful tool for assessing population dynamics for conservation and management purposes. Utilizing non-invasive approaches for this, such as quantifying reproductive ...
• Evidence for transient deleterious thermal acclimation in field recapture rates of an invasive tropical species, Bactrocera dorsalis (Diptera: Tephritidae) 

  Malod, Kevin; Bierman, Anandi; Karsten, Minette; Manrakhan, Aruna; Weldon, Christopher William; Terblanche, John S. (Wiley, 2024)

  Knowing how environmental conditions affect performance traits in pest in-sects is important to improve pest management strategies. It can be informative for monitoring, but also for control programs where insects are ...
• Understanding and managing introduction pathways into protected areas in a changing climate 

  Lieurance, Deah; Canavan, Susan; Faulkner, Katelyn T.; O'Shaughnessy, Kathryn A.; Lockwood, Julie L.; Parsons, Elliott W.; Avery, Julian D.; Daniel, Wesley (Springer, 2025-02)

  The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework 2030 calls for the conservation of 30% of the world’s ecosystems, focusing on protecting areas vital to biodiversity, identifying and managing invasive species introduction ...
• An empirical assessment of the role of independence filters in temporal activity analyses using camera trapping data 

  Smith, Kyle (Springer, 2025-02)

  Independence filters are commonly applied to camera trapping data when determining the temporal activity patterns of species or populations. However, recent research challenges the validity of independence filters, stating ...
• Conference contributions by section members of the International Union for the Study of Social Insects (IUSSI) at international IUSSI conferences (1952–2022) are not in accordance with membership numbers 

  Buttstedt, Anja; Pirk, Christian Walter Werner; Yusuf, Abdullahi Ahmed (Springer, 2025-02)

  Scientific conferences are of immense importance to scientists, but the resulting benefits are only available to those scientists who can actually attend scientific meetings. So far, research at scientific conferences is ...
• African swine fever virus NAM P1/95 is a mixture of genotype I and genotype VIII viruses 

  Goatley, Lynnette C.; Freimanis, Graham L.; Tennakoon, Chandana; Bastos, Armanda D.S.; Heath, Livio; Netherton, Christopher L. (American Society for Microbiology, 2024-04)

  African swine fever virus causes a lethal hemorrhagic disease of domestic pigs. The NAM P1/1995 isolate was originally described as B646L genotype XVIII; however, full genome sequencing revealed that this assignment was incorrect.
• Estimating body condition of Apennine brown bears using subjective scoring based on camera trap photographs 

  Lacy, Hannah; De Cuyper, Annelies; Dalerum, Fredrik; Tosoni, Elisabetta; Clauss, Marcus; Ciucci, Paolo; Meloro, Carlo (Springer, 2024-07-10)

  The assessment of animal body condition has important practical and management implications for endangered wildlife populations. The nutritional condition of a population can be evaluated in a non-invasive way using ...
• Editorial : Recent advances in endocrinology of non-traditional mammalian models 

  Hart, Daniel William; Bennett, Nigel C.; Mustoe, Aaryn (Frontiers Media, 2024-11)

  No abstract available.
• Dual suppression of Glossina pallidipes using entomopathogenic fungal-based biopesticides and sterile insect technique 

  Ombura, Fidelis L.O.; Abd‑Alla, Adly M.M.; Akutse, Komivi S.; Runo, Steven; Mireji, Paul O.; Bateta, Rosemary; Otiwi, Joseck E.; Ajene, Inusa J.; Khamis, Fathiya (Frontiers Media, 2024-12)

  Please read abstract in article.
• Regional adaptation of integrated pest management to control invasive forest insects 

  Stastny, Michael; Corley, Juan C.; Allison, Jeremy D. (Wiley, 2025)

  Globalization is increasing the threat of invasive forest insects to ecosystems. Control efforts against the same pest species progressively occur across distant jurisdictions as integrated pest management (IPM) programs ...
• The phylogeography and diversification of an endemic trapdoor spider genus, Stasimopus Simon 1892 (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Stasimopidae) in the Karoo, South Africa 

  Brandt, Shannon; Lyle, Robin; Sole, Catherine L. (Wiley, 2024-11)

  The genus Stasimopus is endemic to South Africa but has never undergone a phylogeographic review. This study aims to unravel the phylogeographic patterns and history of the many Stasimopus species which occur in the greater ...
• Phylogenetic systematics of the keratin-feeding genus Polynoncus Burmeister, 1876 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea: Trogidae) 

  Da Costa-Silva, Vinicius; Strumpher, Werner P.; Thyssen, Patricia J.; Vaz-de-Mello, Fernando Z. (Oxford University Press, 2025-01)

  Among the five known Trogidae genera, Polynoncus is the only one endemic to South America. Although the systematics within Trogidae is well established, the evolutionary relationships among Polynoncus species remain poorly ...
• Density dependence in large herbivores inhabiting an insular nature reserve 

  Louw, Cornelius J.; Parrini, Francesca; Marshal, Jason P. (Wiley, 2024-12)

  While studies often focus on density-dependent responses of ungulate populations to resource limitations at large spatial scales, the dynamics at smaller scales remain relatively unexplored. To address this gap, we ...
• The environmental light characteristics of forest under different logging regimes 

  Coetzee, Bernard Walter Thomas; Van Zyl, Layla (Wiley, 2024)

  Light is a fundamental attribute and key abiotic driver in forest ecosystems. Although the ecological effects of light itself is well studied, capturing the complex parameters that constitute the whole light environment ...
• Efficacy of Metarhizium anisopliae, isolate ICIPE 7, against Anopheles arabiensis, Glossina fuscipes, and Rhipicephalus spp. 

  Ong’wen, Fedinand; Njoroge, Margaret M.; Fillinger, Ulrike; Lutermann, Heike; Bukhari, Tullu (MDPI, 2024-06)

  Arthropod vectors are responsible for a multitude of human and animal diseases affecting poor communities in sub-Saharan Africa. Their control still relies on chemical agents, despite growing evidence of insecticide ...
• Digging out another cryptic species : a new sand frog (Anura: Pyxicephalidae: Tomopterna) from Mozambique 

  Channing, Alan; Pietersen, Darren William; Dawood, Abeda (Magnolia Press, 2025-02)

  A new species of Tomopterna is described from Banhine National Park, southern Mozambique. It differs from all other sand frogs by an uncorrected p-distance of 4.9–8.7% for 16S rRNA. The new species can be distinguished ...
• Ecology, distribution and habitat suitability analysis of the North African sengi (Petrosaltator rozeti, Macroscelidea, Afrotheria) in Tunisia 

  El-Farhati, Haithem; Pietersen, Darren William; Jaziri, Brahim; Hizem, Mohamed Wassim; Nouira, Said (De Gruyter, 2025-01)

  The North African sengi (Petrosaltator rozeti syn. Elephantulus rozeti) is a small mammal endemic to the Maghreb area, and is one of the least studied mammals in North Africa. Little is known about its status, habitat ...
• Oxidative stress in an African ground squirrel, a case of healthy aging and reproduction 

  Jacobs, Paul Juan; Vos, Sjoerd; Bishop, Chelsea E.; Hart, Daniel William; Bennett, Nigel C.; Waterman, Jane M. (MDPI, 2024-11)

  Oxidative stress plays a crucial role in mediating life-history processes, where it can compromise survival and reproduction through harmful alterations to DNA, lipids, and proteins. In this study, we investigated oxidative ...
• Heat tolerance and evaporative cooling capacity in an arid-zone elephant shrew 

  Chalwin‑Milton, Olivia J.B.; Freeman, Marc Trevor; McKechnie, Andrew E. (Springer, 2024-10)

  Endotherms vary widely in their capacity to defend sublethal body temperature (Tb) during acute heat exposure. Interspecific variation in the upper thermal limits of small mammals remains poorly studied, particularly in ...
• Within-group sex ratios predict growth of social mole-rats 

  Bensch, H.M.; Thorley, J.; Finn, Kyle; Zottl, M. (Wiley, 2024-09)

  Groups of wild animals can vary considerably in their composition, including in the proportion of group members who are male or female, that is the within-group sex ratio. Variation in within-group sex ratios can arise ...

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