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  • Lessons from COVID-19 for wildlife ranching in a changing world 
    Clements, Hayley S.; Child, Matthew F.; Lindeque, Lehman; Lunderstedt, Kyra; De Vos, Alta (Nature Research, 2022-12)
    The COVID-19 pandemic provided an opportunity to assess the impacts of a global disturbance on conservation land uses and learn from responses to the crisis to enable more resilient conservation systems. To understand ...
  • Lethal and sublethal effects of insecticides on Bathycoelia distincta (heteroptera: Pentatomidae) 
    Pal, Elisa; Allison, Jeremy D.; Hurley, Brett Phillip; Slippers, Bernard; Fourie, Gerda (Academy of Science of South Africa, 2024-01-01)
    Bathycoelia distincta is one of the most dominant stink bug pests associated with macadamia orchards in South Africa. Understanding the toxicity and sublethal effects of insecticides on this pest is essential for its ...
  • Life after Cecil : channelling global outrage into funding for conservation in Africa 
    Lindsey, Peter Andrew; Balme, Guy A.; Funston, Paul J.; Henschel, Philipp H.; Hunter, Luke T.B. (Wiley, 2016-07)
    Trophy hunting is widely used in Africa to generate funding for wildlife areas. In 2015, a global media frenzy resulted from the illegal killing of a radiocollared lion, “Cecil,” by a trophy hunter in Zimbabwe. Trophy ...
  • Life history traits of the Pentatomidae (Hemiptera) for the development of pest management tools 
    Pal, Elisa; Allison, Jeremy D.; Hurley, Brett Phillip; Slippers, Bernard; Fourie, Gerda (MDPI, 2023-04-22)
    Knowledge of the biology of a pest is essential for building sustainable management programmes. Pentatomidae have a hemimetabolous life cycle with egg, nymphal, and adult life stages, which differ in morphological, ...
  • Life on the rocks : multilocus phylogeography of rock hyrax (Procavia capensis) from southern Africa 
    Maswanganye, Kgaogelo Amanda; Cunningham, Michael J.; Bennett, Nigel Charles; Chimimba, Christian Timothy; Bloomer, Paulette (Elsevier, 2017-09)
    Understanding the role of geography and climatic cycles in determining patterns of biodiversity is important in comparative and evolutionary biology and conservation. We studied the phylogeographic pattern and historical ...
  • Life‐history and demographic traits of the marula fruit fly Ceratitis cosyra : potential consequences of host specialization 
    Roets, Petrus D.; Bosua, Henrika Jacomina; Archer, C. Ruth; Weldon, Christopher William (Wiley, 2018-12)
    Life‐history strategies are diverse both across and within species, although the factors shaping this diversity are not fully understood. In the present study, we investigate the life‐history strategies of the marula fruit ...
  • Lights out, let’s move about : locomotory activity patterns of Wagner’s gerbil from the desert of Saudi Arabia 
    Alagaili, Abdulaziz N.; Mohammed, Osama B.; Bennett, Nigel Charles; Oosthuizen, Maria Kathleen (Zoological Society of Southern Africa, 2012-10)
    We investigated the circadian activity rhythm in the little-studied Wagner's gerbil (Gerbillus dasyurus) from the Raydah Protected Area, southwestern Saudi Arabia. In order to assess whether these animals possess an ...
  • Limited animal-facilitated nutrient transfer across an aquatic–terrestrial interface in a southern African savanna 
    Conradie, Shannon Rose; 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 ...
  • Limited evidence for parallel molecular adaptations associated with the subterranean niche in mammals : a comparative study of three superorders 
    Davies, Kalina T.J.; Bennett, Nigel Charles; Faulkes, Christopher G.; Rossiter, Stephen J. (Oxford University Press, 2018)
    Among mammals, several lineages have independently adapted to a subterranean niche and possess similar phenotypic traits for burrowing (e.g., cylindrical bodies, short limbs, and absent pinnae). Previous research on ...
  • Limited thermal plasticity may constrain ecosystem function in a basally heat tolerant tropical telecoprid dung beetle, Allogymnopleurus thalassinus (Klug, 1855) 
    Machekano, Honest; Zidana, Chipo; Gotcha, Nonofo; Nyamukondiwa, Casper (Nature Research, 2021-11)
    Tropical organisms are more vulnerable to climate change and associated heat stress as they live close to their upper thermal limits (UTLs). UTLs do not only vary little across tropical species according to the basal ...
  • Linalool oxide : generalist plant based lure for mosquito disease vectors 
    Nyasembe, Vincent Odhiambo; Tchouassi, David Poumo; Mbogo, Charles; Sole, Catherine L.; Pirk, Christian Walter Werner; Torto, Baldwyn (BioMed Central, 2015-11-09)
    BACKGROUND : Lack of effective vaccines and therapeutics for important arboviral diseases such as Rift Valley fever (RVF) and dengue, necessitates continuous monitoring of vector populations for infections in them. ...
  • Linking avian communities and avian influenza ecology in southern Africa using epidemiological functional groups 
    Caron, Alexandre; De Garine-Wichatitsky, Michel; Ndlovu, Mduduzi; Cumming, Graeme S. (BioMed Central, 2012-10-26)
    The ecology of pathogens, and particularly their emergence in multi-host systems, is complex. New approaches are needed to reduce superficial complexities to a level that still allows scientists to analyse underlying and ...
  • Linking changes in species composition and biomass in a globally distributed grassland experiment 
    Ladouceur, Emma; Blowes, Shane A.; Chase, Jonathan M.; Clark, Adam T.; Garbowski, Magda; Alberti, Juan; Arnillas, Carlos Alberto; Bakker, Jonathan D.; Barrio, Isabel C.; Bharath, Siddharth; Borer, Elizabeth; Brudvig, Lars A.; Cadotte, Marc W.; Chen, Qingqing; Collins, Scott L.; Dickman, Christopher R.; Donohue, Ian; Du, Guozhen; Ebeling, Anne; Eisenhauer, Nico; Fay, Philip A.; Hagenah, Nicole; Hautier, Yann; Jentsch, Anke; Jonsdottir, Ingibjorg S.; Komatsu, Kimberly J.; MacDougall, Andrew; Martina, Jason P.; Moore, Joslin L.; Morgan, John W.; Peri, Pablo L.; Power, Sally A.; Ren, Zhengwei; Risch, Anita C.; Roscher, Christiane; Schuchardt, Max A.; Seabloom, Eric W.; Stevens, Carly J.; Veen, G.F. (Ciska); Virtanen, Risto; Wardle, Glenda M.; Wilfahrt, Peter A.; Harpole, W. Stanley (Wiley, 2022-12)
    Global change drivers, such as anthropogenic nutrient inputs, are increasing globally. Nutrient deposition simultaneously alters plant biodiversity, species composition and ecosystem processes like aboveground biomass ...
  • Lions Panthera leo prefer killing certain cattle Bos taurus types 
    Weise, Florian Johannes; Tomeletso, Mathata; Stein, Andrew B.; Somers, Michael J.; Hayward, Matt W. (MDPI, 2020-04)
    Lion predation on cattle causes severe human–wildlife conflict that results in retaliatory persecution throughout the lion’s geographic range. Cattle closely resemble the body size, shape, and herding patterns of preferred ...
  • Lipidome determinants of maximal lifespan in mammals 
    Bozek, Katarzyna; Khrameeva, Ekaterina E.; Reznick, Jane; Omerbasic, Damir; Bennett, Nigel Charles; Lewin, Gary R.; Azpurua, Jorge; Gorbunova, Vera; Seluanov, Andrei; Regnard, Pierrick; Wanert, Fanelie; Marchal, Julia; Pifferi, Fabien; Aujard, Fabienne; Liu, Zhen; Shi, Peng; Paabo, Svante; Schroeder, Florian; Willmitzer, Lothar; Giavalisco, Patrick; Khaitovich, Philipp (Nature Publishing Group, 2017-01-31)
    Maximal lifespan of mammalian species, even if closely related, may differ more than 10-fold, however the nature of the mechanisms that determine this variability is unresolved. Here, we assess the relationship between ...
  • A list of spider species found in the Addo Elephant National Park, Eastern Cape province, South Africa 
    Dippenaar-Schoeman, Anna S. (Anna Sophia), 1948-; Wiese, Linda; Foord, Stefan H.; Haddad, Charles R. (AOSIS Open Journals, 2020-04-02)
    The knowledge of spiders in the Eastern Cape province lags behind that of most other South African provinces. The Eastern Cape province is renowned for its conservation areas, as the largest part of the Albany Centre of ...
  • Listening to lions : animal-borne acoustic sensors improve bio-logger calibration and behaviour classification performance 
    Wijers, Matthew; Trethowan, Paul; Markham, Andrew; Du Preez, Byron; Chamaillé-Jammes, Simon; Loveridge, Andrew; Macdonald, David (Frontiers Media, 2018-10-29)
    Efforts to better understand patterns of animal behaviour have often been restricted by several environmental, human and experimental limitations associated with the collection of animal behavioural data. The introduction ...
  • Living on the edge : daily, seasonal and annual body temperature patterns of Arabian oryx in Saudi Arabia 
    Streicher, S.; Lutermann, Heike; Bennett, Nigel Charles; Bertelsen, M.F.; Mohammed, O.B.; Manger, R.; Scantlebury, M.; Ismael, K.; Alagaili, A.N. (Public Library of Science, 2017-08-30)
    Heterothermy, the ability to allow body temperature (Tb) to fluctuate, has been proposed as an adaptive mechanism that enables large ungulates to cope with the high environmental temperatures and lack of free water ...
  • Local and regional scale genetic variation in the Cape dune mole-rat, Bathyergus suillus 
    Visser, Jacobus Hendrik; Bennett, Nigel Charles; Jansen van Vuuren, Bettine J.; Roca, Alfred L. (Public Library of Science, 2014-09-07)
    The distribution of genetic variation is determined through the interaction of life history, morphology and habitat specificity of a species in conjunction with landscape structure. While numerous studies have investigated ...
  • Local antagonism and resource partitioning between two invasive pine plantation pests 
    Wondafrash, Mesfin; Slippers, Bernard; Hurley, Brett Phillip; Garnas, Jeffrey R. (Wiley, 2019-08)
    The woodwasp Sirex noctilio Fabricius, native to Eurasia and North Africa, regularly co‐occurs with a North American origin Pissodes sp. on Pinus trees in South Africa. The nature of this co‐occurrence and potential impacts ...