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  • Monitoring the effects of land transformation on African clawless otters (Aonyx capensis) using fecal glucocorticoid metabolite concentrations as a measure of stress 
    Majelantle, Tshepiso Lesedi; McIntyre, Trevor; Ganswindt, Andre (Wiley, 2020-07)
    In a time of increasing environmental change caused by anthropogenic disturbance, there is a greater need to understand animal adaptations to manmade environments. In this regard, the measurement of stress‐related endocrine ...
  • Monograph of Nylanderia (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of the world, Part I : Nylanderia in the Afrotropics 
    LaPolla, John S.; Hawkes, Peter G.; Fisher, Brian L. (Magnolia Press, 2011-11)
    The taxonomy of the Afrotropical Nylanderia fauna is revised for the first time. Fourteen native species are revealed, of which eight are described as new: N. boltoni LaPolla and Fisher, N. brevisetula LaPolla and Fisher, ...
  • More than $1 billion needed annually to secure Africa’s protected areas with lions 
    Lindsey, Peter Andrew; Miller, Jennifer R.B.; Petracca, Lisanne S.; Coad, Lauren; DIckman, Amy J.; Fitzgerald, Kathleen H.; Flyman, Michael V.; Funston, Paul J.; Henschel, Philipp; Kasiki, Samuel; Knights, Kathryn; Loveridge, Andrew J.; Macdonald, David W.; Mandisodza-Chikerema, Roseline L.; Nazerali, Sean; Plumptre, Andrew J.; Stevens, Riko; Van Zyl, Hugo W.; Hunter, Luke T.B. (National Academy of Sciences, 2018-11)
    Protected areas (PAs) play an important role in conserving biodiversity and providing ecosystem services, yet their effectiveness is undermined by funding shortfalls. Using lions (Panthera leo) as a proxy for PA health, ...
  • More than royal food - major royal jelly protein genes in sexuals and workers of the honeybee Apis mellifera 
    Buttstedt, Anja; Moritz, Robin F.A.; Erler, Silvio (BioMed Central, 2013-11-27)
    BACKGROUND: In the honeybee Apis mellifera, female larvae destined to become a queen are fed with royal jelly, a secretion of the hypopharyngeal glands of young nurse bees that rear the brood. The protein moiety of royal ...
  • A morphological analysis of the subtribe Pegylina Lacroix, 1989 (Scarabaeidae : Melolonthinae: Melolonthini) reconstitutes its generic composition 
    Harrison, James du Guesclin (Entomological Society of Southern Africa, 2014-12)
    Phylogenetic analysis using six outgroup and 26 ingroup taxa and 18 external adult morphological characters resulted in a paraphyletic Pegylina as composed by Lacroix (1989). To maintain the Pegylina as a monophyletic ...
  • Morphological and genomic shifts in mole- rat ‘queens’ increase fecundity but reduce skeletal integrity 
    Johnston, Rachel A.; Vullioud, Philippe; Thorley, Jack; Kirveslahti, Henry; Shen, Leyao; Mukherjee, Sayan; Karner, Courtney M.; Clutton-Brock, Tim H.; Tung, Jenny (eLife Sciences Publications, 2021-04-12)
    In some mammals and many social insects, highly cooperative societies are characterized by reproductive division of labor, in which breeders and nonbreeders become behaviorally and morphologically distinct. While differences ...
  • Morphological re-description and molecular identification of Tabanidae (Diptera) in East Africa 
    Mugasa, Claire M.; Villinger, Jandouwe; Gitau, Joseph; Ndungu, Nelly N.; Ciosi, Marc; Masiga, Daniel (Pensoft, 2018-06-26)
    Biting flies of the family Tabanidae are important vectors of human and animal diseases across continents. However, records of Africa tabanids are fragmentary and mostly cursory. To improve identification, documentation ...
  • Morphology and stable isotope analysis demonstrate different structuring of bat communities in rainforest and savannah habitats 
    Monadjem, Ara; Kane, Adam; Taylor, Peter; Richards, Leigh R.; Hall, Grant; Woodborne, Stephan M. (Royal Society Publishing, 2018-12)
    Bats play important ecological roles in tropical systems, yet how these communities are structured is still poorly understood. Our study explores the structure of African bat communities using morphological characters ...
  • Morphology and terminology of dung beetles (Coleoptera : Scarabaeidae : Scarabaeinae) male genitalia 
    Medina Uribe, C.A. (Claudia Alejandra); Molano, Fredy; Scholtz, Clarke H. (Magnolia Press, 2013-03)
    The external and internal male genitalia of 327 species of 11 tribes of the subfamily Scarabaeinae, including species of Deltochilini, Scarabaeini, Gymnopleurini, Ateuchini, and Coprini, among others, were examined. ...
  • Mortalities of southern right whales (Eubalaena australis) and related anthropogenic factors in South African waters, 1999–2019 
    Vermeulen, Els; Jouve, Elise; Best, Peter B.; Cliff, Geremy; Dicken, Matt; Kotze, Deon; McCue, Steven; Meyer, Mike; Seakamela, S. Mduduzi; Thompson, Greg; Thornton, Meredith; Wilkinson, Chris (International Whaling Commission, 2022)
    The southern right whale (Eubalaena australis; SRW) population in South Africa’s coastal waters has experienced marked changes since 2009, including altered feeding and migration behaviour, and decreased calving success. ...
  • Mosquito larvicidal activity of Cassia tora seed extract and its key anthraquinones aurantio-obtusin and obtusin 
    Mbatchou, Valentine C.; Tchouassi, David Poumo; Dickson, Rita A.; Annan, Kofi Ahomkah; Mensah, Abraham Y.; Amponsah, Isaac K.; Jacob, Julia W.; Cheseto, Xavier; Habtemariam, Solomon; Torto, Baldwyn (BioMed Central, 2017-11-10)
    BACKGROUND : The edible and medicinal leguminous plant Cassia tora L. (Fabaceae) is known to possess insecticidal properties against a wide range of plant-feeding insects. However, the bioactivity of extracts of this plant ...
  • Mountains as a critical source of ecosystem services : the case of the Drakensberg, South Africa 
    Ngwenya, Sipiwe Janet; Torquebiau, Emmanuel; Ferguson, Jan Willem Helenus (Springer, 2019-04)
    Mountain natural resource use and consequent ecosystem services for three diverse rural communities around the Mariepskop Mountain in the Mpumalanga Drakensberg, South Africa, were studied using interview and focus group ...
  • Moving in the Anthropocene : global reductions in terrestrial mammalian movements 
    Tucker, Marlee A.; Böhning-Gaese, Katrin; Fagan, William F.; Fryxell, John M.; Van Moorter, Bram; Alberts, Susan C.; Ali, Abdullahi H.; Allen, Andrew M.; Attias, Nina; Avgar, Tal; Bartlam-Brooks, Hattie; Bayarbaatar, Buuveibaatar; Belant, Jerrold L.; Bertassoni, Alessandra; Beyer, Dean; Bidner, Laura; Van Beest, Floris M.; Blake, Stephen; Blaum, Niels; Bracis, Chloe; Brown, Danielle; De Bruyn, P.J. Nico; Cagnacci, Francesca; Calabrese, Justin M.; Camilo-Alves, Constança; Chamaillé-Jammes, Simon; Chiaradia, Andre; Davidson, Sarah C.; Dennis, Todd; DeStefano, Stephen; Diefenbach, Duane; Douglas-Hamilton, Iain; Fennessy, Julian; Fichtel, Claudia; Fiedler, Wolfgang; Fischer, Christina; Fischhoff, Ilya; Fleming, Christen H.; Ford, Adam; Fritz, Susanne; Gehr, Benedikt; Goheen, Jacob R.; Gurarie, Eliezer; Hebblewhite, Mark; Heurich, Marco; Hewison, A.J. Mark; Hof, Christian; Hurme, Edward; Isbell, Lynne A.; Janssen, René; Jeltsch, Florian; Kaczensky, Petra; Kane, Adam; Kappeler, Peter M.; Kauffman, Matthew; Kays, Roland; Kimuyu, Duncan; Koch, Flavia; Kranstauber, Bart; LaPoint, Scott; Leimgruber, Peter; Linnell, John D.C.; López-López, Pascual; Markham, A. Catherine; Mattisson, Jenny; Medici, Emilia Patricia; Mellone, Ugo; Merrill, Evelyn; De Miranda Mourão, Guilherme; Morato, Ronaldo G.; Morellet, Nicolas; Morrison, Thomas; Díaz-Muñoz, Samuel L.; Mysterud, Atle; Nandintsetseg, Dejid; Nathan, Ran; Niamir, Aidin; Odden, John; O'Hara, Robert B.; Oliveira-Santos, Luiz Gustavo R.; Olson, Kirk A.; Patterson, Bruce D.; De Paula, Rogerio Cunha; Pedrotti, Luca; Reineking, Björn; Rimmler, Martin; Rogers, Tracy L.; Rolandsen, Christer Moe; Rosenberry, Christopher S.; Rubenstein, Daniel I.; Safi, Kamran; Saïd, Sonia; Sapir, Nir; Sawyer, Hall; Schmidt, Niels Martin; Selva, Nuria; Sergiel, Agnieszka; Shiilegdamba, Enkhtuvshin; Silva, João Paulo; Singh, Navinder; Solberg, Erling J.; Spiegel, Orr; Strand, Olav; Sundaresan, Siva; Ullmann, Wiebke; Voigt, Ulrich; Wall, Jake; Wattles, David; Wikelski, Martin; Wilmers, Christopher C.; Wilson, John W.; Wittemyer, George; Ziȩba, Filip; Zwijacz-Kozica, Tomasz; Mueller, Thomas (American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2018-01)
    Animal movement is fundamental for ecosystem functioning and species survival, yet the effects of the anthropogenic footprint on animal movements have not been estimated across species. Using a unique GPS-tracking database ...
  • Multi-host pathogens and carnivore management in southern Africa 
    Alexander, Kathleen A.; McNutt, J.W.; Briggs, M.B.; Standers, P.E.; Funston, Paul J.; Hemson, Graham; Keet, D.F.; Van Vuuren, Moritz (Elsevier, 2010)
    A retrospective serosurvey of multi-host feline and canine viruses among carnivore species in southern Africa (n = 1018) identified widespread pathogen exposure even in remote protected areas. In contrast to mortality ...
  • Multi-locus phylogeny of African pipits and longclaws (Aves: Motacillidae) highlights taxonomic inconsistencies 
    Pietersen, Darren William; McKechnie, Andrew E.; Jansen, Raymond; Little, Ian T.; Bastos, Armanda D.S. (Wiley, 2019-10)
    The globally distributed avian family Motacillidae consists of five to seven genera (Anthus, Dendronanthus, Tmetothylacus, Macronyx and Motacilla, and depending on the taxonomy followed, Amaurocichla and Madanga) and 66–68 ...
  • Multi-locus sequence typing of African swine fever viruses from endemic regions of Kenya and Eastern Uganda (2011–2013) reveals rapid B602L central variable region evolution 
    Onzere, C.K.; Bastos, Armanda D.S.; Okoth, E.A.; Lichoti, J.K.; Bochere, E.N.; Owido, M.G.; Ndambuki, G.; Bronsvoort, M.; Bishop, Richard P. (Springer, 2018-02)
    The central variable region (CVR) within the B602L gene of the African swine fever virus (ASFV) is highly polymorphic within the 23 ASFV genotypes defined by sequencing of the C-terminal end of the p72 locus. Sequencing ...
  • Multi-mode movement decisions across widely ranging behavioral processes 
    Prima, Marie-Caroline; Duchesne, Thierry; Merkle, Jerod A.; Jammes, Simon Chamaille; Chamaillé-Jammes, Simon; Fortin, Daniel (Public Library of Science, 2022-08-11)
    Movement of organisms plays a fundamental role in the evolution and diversity of life. Animals typically move at an irregular pace over time and space, alternating among movement states. Understanding movement decisions ...
  • Multi-scale determinants of dung beetle assemblage structure across abiotic gradients of the Kalahari–Nama Karoo ecotone, South Africa 
    Davis, Adrian L.V.; Scholtz, Clarke H.; Deschodt, Christian M. (Blackwell, 2008)
    AIM: Changing conditions across spatial gradients are primary determinants of biotic regions, local habitats, and distributional edges. We investigate how a climatic gradient and edaphic mosaic interact as multi-scale ...
  • Multi-scale habitat selection of Mus minutoides in the Lowveld of Swaziland 
    Long, Andrea K.; Bailey, Karen; Greene, Daniel U.; Tye, Courtney; Parr, Courtnee; Lepage, Heather K.; Gielow, Kurt H.; Monadjem, Ara; McCleery, Robert A. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013-03)
    We investigated habitat selection of Mus minutoides in northeastern Swaziland. We used powder tracking to determine how M. minutoides selected habitat at a fine scale and a broader path scale. At the fine scale, we ...
  • Multi-scale sampling boosts inferences from beta diversity patterns in coastal forests of South Africa 
    Olivier, Pieter Ignatius; Van Aarde, Rudi J. (Wiley, 2014-07)
    AIM : We used a hierarchical fractal-based sampling design to test how sampling scale influences i) beta diversity and ii) inferences on the modelled contribution of niche- versus dispersal-based assembly processes in ...