• Phenotypic plasticity and local adaptation in a wild hibernator evaluated through reciprocal translocation 

  Lane, Jeffrey E.; Czenze, Zenon J.; Findlay-Robinson, Rachel; Bayne, Erin (University of Chicago Press, 2019-10)

  Phenological shifts are the most commonly reported ecological responses to climate change and can be produced rapidly by phenotypic plasticity. However, both the limits of plasticity and whether it will be sufficient ...
• Geographic range extension of Speke’s Hinge-back Tortoise Kinixys spekii Gray, 1863 

  Ihlow, Flora; Farooq, Harith M.; Gvozdík, Vaclav; Hofmeyr, Margaretha D.; Conradie, Werner; Campbell, Patrick D.; Harvey, James; Verburgt, Luke; Fritz, Uwe (Craig Hassapakis, 2019-11-06)

  Kinixys spekii has a wide distribution range across sub-Saharan Africa, having been reported from Angola, Botswana, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, eSwatini, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, ...
• Preferred, small‑scale foraging areas of two Southern Ocean fur seal species are not determined by habitat characteristics 

  Wege, Mia; De Bruyn, P.J. Nico; Hindell, Mark A.; Lea, Mary‑Anne; Bester, Marthan Nieuwoudt (BioMed Central, 2019-09-11)

  BACKGROUND : To understand and predict the distribution of foragers, it is crucial to identify the factors that affect individual movement decisions at different scales. Individuals are expected to adjust their foraging ...
• Entomological assessment of dengue virus transmission risk in three urban areas of Kenya 

  Agha, Sheila B.; Tchouassi, David P.; Turell, Michael J.; Bastos, Armanda D.S.; Sang, Rosemary (Public Library of Science, 2019-08)

  Urbanization is one of the major drivers of dengue epidemics globally. In Kenya, an intriguing pattern of urban dengue virus epidemics has been documented in which recurrent epidemics are reported from the coastal city of ...
• Aardwolf population diversity and phylogenetic positioning inferred using complete mitochondrial genomes 

  Westbury, Michael V.; De Cahsan, Binia; Dalerum, Fredrik; Noren, Karin; Hofreiter, Michael (Southern African Wildlife Management Association, 2019)

  The aardwolf (Proteles cristata) is a unique, insectivorous species of the family Hyaenidae. It occupies a disjunct range in eastern and southern Africa and is possibly a remaining member of a historical dog-like hyaena ...
• Limited animal-facilitated nutrient transfer across an aquatic–terrestrial interface in a southern African savanna 

  Conradie, Shannon R.; Hall, Grant; Somers, Michael J.; McIntyre, Trevor (Southern African Wildlife Management Association, 2019)

  Animal-mediated nutrient transfer facilitates nutrient cycling in marine, freshwater and terrestrial ecosystems via the deposition of aquatically-derived nutrients such as nitrogen (N) and carbon (C). This mode of nutrient ...
• Vegetation structure shapes small mammal communities in African savannas 

  Loggins, Anne A.; Monadjem, Ara; Kruger, Laurence M.; Reichert, Brian E.; McCleery, Robert A. (Oxford University Press, 2019-07)

  Disturbance by large herbivores, fires, and humans shapes the structure of savannas, altering the amount of woody vegetation and grass. Due to change in the intensity and frequency of these disturbances, savannas are ...
• New collection records for Theraphosidae (Araneae, Mygalomorphae) in Angola, with the description of a remarkable new species of Ceratogyrus 

  Midgley, John M.; Engelbrecht, I.A. (Ian) (Pensoft Publishers, 2019-02-06)

  During 2015 and 2016 several baboon spider specimens (Araneae: Theraphosidae) were collected in central Angola during surveys undertaken for the Okavango Wilderness Project. These collections represent range and habitat ...
• New insights from RADseq data on differentiation in the Hottentot golden mole species complex from South Africa 

  Mynhardt, Samantha; Bennett, Nigel C., 1961-; Bloomer, Paulette (Elsevier, 2020-02)

  Golden moles (Family Chrysochloridae) are small subterranean mammals, endemic to sub-Saharan Africa, and many of the 21 species are listed as threatened on the IUCN Red List. Most species have highly restricted ranges; ...
• Loxodonta localizer: a software tool fori nferring the provenance of African elephants and their ivory using mitochondrial DNA 

  Zhao, Kai; Ishida, Yasuko; Green, Cory E.; Davidson, Alexis G.; Sitam, Frankie A.; Donnelly, Cassidy L.; De Flamingh, Alida; Perrin-Stowe, Tolulope I.N.; Bourgeois, Stephanie; Brandt, Adam L.; Mundis, Stephanie J.; Van Aarde, Rudi J.; Greenberg, Jonathan A.; Malhi, Ripan S.; Georgiadis, Nicholas J.; McEwing, Ross; Roca, Alfred L. (Oxford University Press, 2019-11)

  Illegal hunting is a major threat to the elephants of Africa, with more elephants killed by poachers than die from natural causes. DNA from tusks has been used to infer the source populations for confiscated ivory, relying ...
• Thermal physiology of a range-restricted desert lark 

  Kemp, Ryno; McKechnie, Andrew E. (Springer, 2019-02)

  Please read abstract in the article.
• Interactions between humidity and evaporative heat dissipation in a passerine bird 

  Van Dyk, Monique; Noakes, Matthew J.; McKechnie, Andrew E. (Springer, 2019-04)

  Please read abstract in the article.
• Tergal gland components of reproductively dominant honey bee workers have both primer and releaser effects on subordinate workers 

  Okosun, Olabimpe O.; Yusuf, Abdullahi Ahmed; Crewe, Robin M.; Pirk, Christian Walter Werner (Springer, 2019-04)

  The primer and releaser effects of dominant honey bee workers’ tergal gland pheromones are not known under queenless conditions. The Cape honey bee, Apis mellifera capensis, is the ideal model to investigate such question ...
• The effect of varying laboratory conditions on the locomotor activity of the nocturnal Namaqua rock mouse (Micaelamys namaquensis) and the diurnal Four-striped grass mouse (Rhabdomys dilectus) 

  Ackermann, Simone; Bennett, Nigel C., 1961-; Oosthuizen, Maria Kathleen (Elsevier, 2020-05)

  Rodents are the most common laboratory animals all over the world, however, most studies on the effects of laboratory conditions on the behavior and physiology of the study animals have been performed on traditional ...
• Effect of colony disruption and social isolation on naked mole-rat endocrine correlates 

  Blecher, Arantxa S.; Bennett, Nigel C., 1961-; Medger, Katarina; Hagenah, Nicole; Ganswindt, Andre; Oosthuizen, Maria Kathleen (Elsevier, 2020-05)

  The social environment of animals can have profound implications on their behaviour and physiology. Naked mole-rats (Heterocephalus glaber) are highly social with complex dominance hierarchies that influence both stress- ...
• Lemon terpenes influence behavior of the African citrus triozid Trioza erytreae (Hemiptera: Triozidae) 

  Antwi-Agyakwah, Akua Konadu; Fombong, Ayuka T.; Deletre, Emilie; Ekesi, Sunday; Yusuf, Abdullahi Ahmed; Pirk, Christian Walter Werner; Torto, Baldwyn (Springer, 2019-12)

  The African citrus triozid, Trioza erytreae Del Guercio (Hemiptera: Triozidae) is one of the primary vectors of the bacterium Candidatus Liberibacter spp. which causes citrus greening, a disease of global economic importance ...
• Antibiotic treatment impairs protein digestion in the honeybee, Apis mellifera 

  Du Rand, Esther Elizabeth; Stutzer, Christian; Human, Hannelie; Pirk, Christian Walter Werner; Nicolson, Sue W. (Springer, 2020-02)

  Nutritional stress due to habitat transformation and loss is one of several factors contributing to current declines in global bee populations. Bees obtain protein from pollen, which in honeybees is consumed and digested ...
• How to halt the global decline of lands 

  Willemen, Louise; Barger, Nichole N.; Ten Brink, Ben; Cantele, Matthew; Erasmus, B.F.N. (Barend); Fisher, Judith L.; Gardner, Toby; Holland, Timothy G.; Kohler, Florent; Kotiaho, Janne S.; Von Maltitz, Graham P.; Nangendo, Grace; Pandit, Ram; Parrotta, John A.; Potts, Matthew D.; Prince, Stephen D.; Sankaran, Mahesh; Brainich, Anastasia; Montanarella, Luca; Scholes, Robert (Nature Research, 2020-03)

  The assessment of land degradation and restoration by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services shows that land degradation across the globe is a wide and severe issue and is ...
• ASSAf : putting the ‘Statement on Ethical Research and Scholarly Publishing Practices’ into practice 

  Veldsman, Susan; Gevers, Wieland; Crewe, Robin M. (Academy of Science of South Africa, 2019-11)

  Following a Workshop on the Ethics of Scholarly Publishing on 11 April 2018, and with the collective goal of advancing research integrity in South Africa, the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf), the Council for ...
• High temperatures are associated with substantial reductions in breeding success and offspring quality in an arid-zone bird 

  Van de Ven, T.M.F.N.; McKechnie, Andrew E.; Er, S.; Cunningham, S.J. (Springer, 2020-04)

  Please read abstract in the article.

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