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  • The exceptional attachment ability of the ectoparasitic bee louse Braula coeca (Diptera, Braulidae) on the honeybee 
    Büscher, Thies H.; Petersen, Dennis S.; Bijma, Nienke N.; Baumler, Fabian; Pirk, Christian Walter Werner; Busse, Sebastian; Heepe, Lars; Gorb, Stanislav N. (Wiley, 2022-06)
    Bee lice (Braulidae) are small parasitic flies, which are adapted to live on their bee host. As such, the wingless Braula coeca is a parasite of the common honey bee Apis mellifera and it is well adapted to attach to its ...
  • Excessive red tape is strangling biodiversity research in South Africa 
    Alexander, Graham J.; Tolley, Krystal A.; Maritz, Bryan; McKechnie, Andrew E.; Manger, Paul R.; Thomson, Robert L.; Schradin, Carsten; Fuller, Andrea; Meyer, Leith Carl Rodney; Hetem, Robyn S.; Cherry, Michael; Conradie, Werner; Bauer, Aaron M.; Maphisa, David; O’Riain, Justin; Parker, Daniel M.; Mlambo, Musa C.; Bronner, Gary; Madikiza, Kim; Engelbrecht, Adriaan; Lee, Alan T.K.; Jansen van Vuuren Bettine; Mandiwana-Neudani, Tshifhiwa G.; Pietersen, Darren William; Venter, Jan A.; Somers, Michael J.; Slotow, Rob; Strauss, W. Maartin; Humphries, Marc S.; Ryan, Peter G.; Kerley, Graham I.H. (Academy of Science of South Africa, 2021-09)
    Preventing the over-exploitation of natural resources is vital to ensure that biodiversity is protected and conserved. Legislation and regulations are therefore necessary to manage resource utilisation, but overly stringent ...
  • Exotic biological control agents : a solution or contribution to arthropod invasions? 
    Hajek, Ann E.; Hurley, Brett Phillip; Kenis, Marc; Garnas, Jeffrey R.; Bush, Samantha J.; Wingfield, Michael J.; Van Lenteren, Joop C.; Cock, Matthew J.W. (Springer, 2016-04)
    Biological control is a valuable and effective strategy for controlling arthropod pests and has been used extensively against invasive arthropods. As one approach for control of invasives, exotic natural enemies from the ...
  • Experimental manipulation of air temperature in captivity appears unsuitable for evaluating fecal glucocorticoid metabolite responses of wild-caught birds to heat exposure 
    Ngcamphalala, Celiwe Angel; Bouwer, Michelle; Nicolson, Sue W.; Ganswindt, Andre; McKechnie, Andrew E. (University of Chicago Press, 2021-09)
    Noninvasive measurement of stress-related alterations in fecal glucocorticoid metabolite (fGCM) concentrations has considerable potential for quantifying physiological responses to very hot weather in free-ranging birds, ...
  • Experimental sources of variation in avian energetics : estimated basal metabolic rate decreases with successive measurements 
    Jacobs, Paul Juan; McKechnie, Andrew E. (University of Chicago Press, 2014-09)
    Basal metabolic rate (BMR) is one of the most widely used metabolic variables in endotherm ecological and evolutionary physiology. Surprisingly few studies have investigated howBMR is influenced by experimental and ...
  • Expert range maps of global mammal distributions harmonised to three taxonomic authorities 
    Marsh, Charles J.; Sica, Yanina V.; Burgin, Connor J.; Dorman, Wendy A.; Anderson, Robert C.; Del Toro Mijares, Isabel; Vigneron, Jessica G.; Barve, Vijay; Dombrowik, Victoria L.; Duong, Michelle; Guralnick, Robert; Hart, Julie A.; Maypole, J. Krish; McCall, Kira; Ranipeta, Ajay; Schuerkmann, Anna; Torselli, Michael A.; Lacher Jr, Thomas; Mittermeier, Russell A.; Rylands, Anthony B.; Sechrest, Wes; Wilson, Don E.; Abba, Agustín M.; Aguirre, Luis F.; Arroyo-Cabrales, Joaquín; Astúa, Diego; Baker, Andrew M.; Braulik, Gill; Braun, Janet K.; Brito, Jorge; Busher, Peter E.; Burneo, Santiago F.; Camacho, M. Alejandra; Cavallini, Paolo; De Almeida Chiquito, Elisandra; Cook, Joseph A.; Cserkész, Tamás; Csorba, Gábor; Soto, Erika Cuéllar; Da Cunha Tavares, Valeria; Davenport, Tim R.B.; Demere, Thomas; Denys, Christiane; Dickman, Christopher R.; Eldridge, Mark D.B.; Fernandez-Duque, Eduardo; Francis, Charles M.; Frankham, Greta; Franklin, William L.; Freitas, Thales; Friend, J. Anthony; Gadsby, Elizabeth L.; Garbino, Guilherme S.T.; Gaubert, Philippe; Giannini, Norberto; Giarla, Thomas; Gilchrist, Jason S.; Gongora, Jaime; Goodman, Steven M.; Gursky-Doyen, Sharon; Hackländer, Klaus; Hafner, Mark S.; Hawkins, Melissa; Helgen, Kristofer M.; Heritage, Steven; Hinckley, Arlo; Hintsche, Stefan; Holden, Mary; Holekamp, Kay E.; Honeycutt, Rodney L.; Huffman, Brent A.; Humle, Tatyana; Hutterer, Rainer; Ulargui, Carlos Ibanez; Jackson, Stephen M.; Janecka, Jan; Janecka, Mary; Jenkins, Paula; Juškaitis, Rimvydas; Juste, Javier; Kays, Roland; Kilpatrick, C. William; Kingston, Tigga; Koprowski, John L.; Krystufek, Boris; Lavery, Tyrone; Lee Jr, Thomas E.; Leite, Yuri L.R.; Novaes, Roberto Leonan M.; Lim, Burton K.; Lissovsky, Andrey; Lopez-Antonanzas, Raquel; Lopez-Baucells, Adria; MacLeod, Colin D.; Maisels, Fiona G.; Mares, Michael A.; Marsh, Helene; Mattioli, Stefano; Meijaard, Erik; Monadjem, Ara; Morton, F. Blake; Musser, Grace; Nadler, Tilo; Norris, Ryan W.; Ojeda, Agustina; Ordonez-Garza, Nicte; Pardinas, Ulyses F. J.; Patterson, Bruce D.; Pavan, Ana; Pennay, Michael; Pereira, Calebe; Prado, Joyce; Queiroz, Helder L.; Richardson, Matthew; Riley, Erin P.; Rossiter96 |, Stephen J.; Rubenstein, Daniel I.; Ruelas, Dennisse; Salazar-Bravo, Jorge; Schai-Braun, Stéphanie; Schank, Cody J.; Schwitzer, Christoph; Sheeran, Lori K.; Shekelle, Myron; Shenbrot, Georgy; Soisook, Pipat; Solari, Sergio; Southgate, Richard; Superina, Mariella; Taber, Andrew B.; Talebi, Maurício; Taylor, Peter; Vu Dinh, Thong; Ting, Nelson; Tirira, Diego G.; Tsang, Susan; Turvey, Samuel T.; Valdez, Raul; Van Cakenberghe, Victor; Veron, Geraldine; Wallis, Janette; Wells, Rod; Whittaker, Danielle; Williamson, Elizabeth A.; Wittemyer, George; Woinarski, John; Zinner, Dietmar; Upham, Nathan S.; Jetz, Walter (Wiley, 2022-05)
    AIM : Comprehensive, global information on species' occurrences is an essential biodiversity variable and central to a range of applications in ecology, evolution, biogeography and conservation. Expert range maps often ...
  • An expert-curated global database of online newspaper articles on spiders and spider bites 
    Mammola, Stefano; Malumbres-Olarte, Jagoba; Arabesky, Valeria; Barrales-Alcala, Diego Alejandro; Barrion-Dupo, Aimee Lynn; Benamú, Marco Antonio; Bird, Tharina L.; Bogomolova, Maria; Cardoso, Pedro; Chatzaki, Maria; Cheng, Ren-Chung; Chu, Tien-Ai; Classen-Rodríguez, Leticia M.; Cupic, Iva; Dhiya’ulhaq, Naufal Urfi; Drapeau Picard, Andre-Philippe; El-Hennawy, Hisham K.; Elverici, Mert; Fukushima, Caroline S.; Ganem, Zeana; Gavish-Regev, Efrat; Gonnye, Naledi T.; Hacala, Axel; Haddad, Charles R.; Hesselberg, Thomas; Ho, Tammy Ai Tian; Into, Thanakorn; Isaia, Marco; Jayaraman, Dharmaraj; Karuaera, Nanguei; Khalap, Rajashree; Khalap, Kiran; Kim, Dongyoung; Korhonen, Tuuli; Kralj-Fiser, Simona; Land, Heidi; Lin, Shou-Wang; Loboda, Sarah; Lowe, Elizabeth; Lubin, Yael; Martínez, Alejandro; Mbo, Zingisile; Milicic, Marija; Kioko, Grace Mwende; Nanni, Veronica; Norma- Rashid, Yusoff; Nwankwo, Daniel; Painting, Christina J.; Pang, Aleck; Pantini, Paolo; Pavlek, Martina; Pearce, Richard; Petcharad, Booppa; Petillon, Julien; Raberahona, Onjaherizo Christian; Saarinen, Joni A .; Segura-Hernández, Laura; Sentenska, Lenka; Uhl, Gabriele; Walker, Leilani; Warui, Charles M.; Wiśniewski, Konrad; Zamani, Alireza; Scott, Catherine; Chuang, Angela (Nature Research, 2022-03-28)
    Mass media plays an important role in the construction and circulation of risk perception associated with animals. Widely feared groups such as spiders frequently end up in the spotlight of traditional and social media. ...
  • Exploratory behaviour, memory and neurogenesis in the social Damaraland mole-rat (Fukomys damarensis) 
    Oosthuizen, Maria Kathleen (Company of Biologists, 2020-07)
    Both exploratory behaviour and spatial memory are important for survival in dispersing animals. Exploratory behaviour is triggered by novel environments and having a better spatial memory of the surroundings provides an ...
  • Exploring South Africa's southern frontier : a 20-year vision for polar research through the South African National Antarctic Programme 
    Ansorge, Isabelle J.; Skelton, Paul; Bekker, Annie; De Bruyn, P.J. Nico; Butterworth, Doug; Cilliers, Pierre; Cooper, John; Cowan, Don A.; Dorrington, Rosemary; Fawcett, Sarah; Fietz, Susanne; Findlay, Kenneth Pierce; Froneman, P. William; Grantham, Geoff H.; Greve, Michelle; Hedding, D.W. (David William); Hofmeyr, G.J. Greg (Gordon John Gregory); Kosch, Michael; Le Roux, Peter Christiaan; Lucas, Mike; MacHutchon, Keith; Meiklejohn, K.I. (Ian); Nel, Werner; Pistorius, Pierre Anton; Ryan, Peter G.; Stander, Johan; Swart, Sebastiaan; Treasure, Anne; Vichi, Marcello; Jaansen van Vuuren, Bettine J. (Academy of Science of South Africa, 2017-05)
    Antarctica, the sub-Antarctic islands and surrounding Southern Ocean are regarded as one of the planet’s last remaining wildernesses, ‘insulated from threat by [their] remoteness and protection under the Antarctic ...
  • Exploring the diet of arctic wolves (Canis lupus arctos) at their northern range limit 
    Dalerum, Fredrik; Freire, S.; Angerbjörn, Anders; Lecomte, Nicolas; Lindgren, Åsa; Meijer, Tomas; Pečnerová, P.; Dalén, Love (NRC Research Press, 2018)
    The grey wolf (Canis lupus Linnaeus, 1758) is one of the most widespread large carnivores on Earth, and occurs throughout the Arctic. Although wolf diet is well studied, we have scant information from high Arctic areas. ...
  • Exploring the influence of different habitats and their volatile chemistry in modulating sand fly population structure in a leishmaniasis endemic Foci, Kenya 
    Hassaballa, Iman B.; Torto, Baldwyn; Sole, Catherine L.; Tchouassi, David Poumo (Public Library of Science, 2021-02)
    Phlebotomine sand flies transmit many viral protozoan and bacterial pathogens of public health importance. Knowledge of the ecologic factors influencing their distribution at local scale can provide insights into disease ...
  • Exploring the Kairomone-based foraging behaviour of natural enemies to enhance biological control 
    Ayelo, Pascal Mahukpe; Pirk, Christian Walter Werner; Yusuf, Abdullahi Ahmed; Chailleux, Anais; Mohamed, Samira A.; Deletre, Emilie (Frontiers Media, 2021-04-22)
    Kairomones are chemical signals that mediate interspecific interactions beneficial to organisms that detect the cues. These attractants can be individual compounds or mixtures of herbivore-induced plant volatiles (HIPVs) ...
  • Exploring the role of host specialisation and oxidative stress in interspecific lifespan variation in subtropical tephritid flies 
    Malod, Kevin; Archer, C. Ruth; Karsten, Minette; Cruywagen, Ruben; Howard, Alexandra; Nicolson, Sue W.; Weldon, Christopher William (Nature Publishing Group, 2020-03-27)
    In herbivorous insects, the degree of host specialisation may be one ecological factor that shapes lifespan. Because host specialists can only exploit a limited number of plants, their lifecycle should be synchronised ...
  • Extension of the diet of an extreme foraging specialist, the aardwolf (Proteles cristata) 
    De Vries, J.L.; Pirk, Christian Walter Werner; Bateman, Philip W.; Cameron, Elissa Z.; Dalerum, Fredrik (Zoological Society of Southern Africa, 2011-04)
    The aardwolf, Proteles cristata, is a highly specialized myrmecophagous carnivore that feeds almost exclusively on termites of the genus Trinervitermes. Here we report data from an ongoing analysis of aardwolf diet, where ...
  • Extent and fragmentation of suitable leopard habitat in South Africa 
    Swanepoel, Lourens Hendrik; Lindsey, Peter Andrew; Somers, Michael J.; Van Hoven, Wouter; Dalerum, Fredrik (Wiley, 2013-02)
    Large mammalian carnivores are threatened by anthropogenic environmental impacts, particularly through habitat loss which often cause population declines. Understanding the extent of suitable habitat is therefore of great ...
  • Extreme and variable torpor among high-elevation Andean hummingbird species 
    Wolf, Blair O.; McKechnie, Andrew E.; Schmitt, C. Jonathan; Czenze, Zenon J.; Johnson, Andrew B.; Witt, Christopher C. (Royal Society, 2020-09)
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  • Extreme hyperthermia tolerance in the world’s most abundant wild bird 
    Freeman, Marc Trevor; Czenze, Zenon J.; Schoeman, K.; McKechnie, Andrew E. (Nature Publishing Group, 2020-08-04)
    The thermal tolerances of vertebrates are generally restricted to body temperatures below 45–47 °C, and avian and mammalian critical thermal maxima seldom exceed 46 °C. We investigated thermoregulation at high air ...
  • Extreme sex ratio variation in relation to change in condition around conception 
    Cameron, Elissa Z.; Linklater, Wayne L. (Royal Society, 2007-08)
    Adaptive theory predicts that mothers would be advantaged by adjusting the sex ratio of their offspring in relation to their offspring's future reproductive success. Studies investigating sex ratio variation in mammals ...
  • Eye morphology and colour preferences in a semi-field test of the pine pest, Sirex noctilio (Hymenoptera: Siricidae) 
    Guignard, Quentin; Slippers, Bernard; Allison, Jeremy D.; Spaethe, Johannes; Nikolic, Natasa (Entomological Society of Southern Africa, 2023-03)
    The woodwasp, Sirex noctilio, is a global pest of pines. Although it is known to be attracted to light and possess sexually dimorphic body colouration, the visual ecology of S. noctilio is poorly understood. ...
  • Eyes on the future – evidence for trade‐offs between growth, storage and defense in Norway spruce 
    Huang, Jianbei; Hammerbacher, Almuth; Weinhold, Alexander; Reichelt, Michael; Gleixner, Gerd; Behrendt, Thomas; Van Dam, Nicole M.; Sala, Anna; Gershenzon, Jonathan; Trumbore, Susan; Hartmann, Henrik (Wiley, 2019-04)
    Carbon (C) allocation plays a central role in tree responses to environmental changes. Yet, fundamental questions remain about how trees allocate C to different sinks, for example, growth vs storage and defense. In ...