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  • Open access solutions for biodiversity journals : do not replace one problem with another 
    Peterson, A. Townsend; Anderson, Robert P.; Beger, Maria; Bolliger, Janine; Brotons, Lluís; Burridge, Christopher P.; Cobos, Marlon E.; Cuervo‐Robayo, Angela P.; Di Minin, Enrico; Diez, Jeffrey; Elith, Jane; Embling, Clare B.; Escobar, Luis E.; Essl, Franz; Feeley, Kenneth J.; Hawkes, Lucy; Jimenez‐Garcia, Daniel; Jimenez, Laura; Green, David M.; Knop, Eva; Kühn, Ingolf; Lahoz‐Monfort, Jose J.; Lira‐Noriega, Andres; Lobo, Jorge M.; Loyola, Rafael; Mac Nally, Ralph; Machado‐Stredel, Fernando; Martinez‐Meyer, Enrique; McCarthy, Michael; Merow, Cory; Nori, Javier; Nunez‐Penichet, Claudia; Osorio-Olvera, Luis; Pysek, Petr; Rejmanek, Marcel; Ricciardi, Anthony; Robertson, Mark P.; Rojas Soto, Octavio; Romero‐Alvarez, Daniel; Roura‐Pascual, Nuria; Santini, Luca; Schoeman, David S.; Schroder, Boris; Soberon, Jorge; Strubbe, Diederik; Thuiller, Wilfried; Traveset, Anna; Treml, Eric A.; Vaclavik, Tomas; Varela, Sara; Watson, James E.M.; Wiersma, Yolanda; Wintle, Brendan; Yanez‐Arenas, Carlos; Zurell, Damaris (Wiley, 2019)
    For much of the twentieth century, many or most scholarly journals in biodiversity, ecology, biogeography and conservation were owned and published by scientific societies and made available to the broader scientific ...
  • Opportunistic ship-based census of pack ice seals in eastern Weddell Sea, Antarctica 
    Bester, Marthan Nieuwoudt; Wege, Mia; Lubcker, Nico; Postma, Martin; Syndercombe, Gavin (Springer, 2019-01)
    The distribution, density and percentage contribution of pack ice pinnipeds during ship-board censuses in the eastern Weddell Sea in summer 2015/2016 are presented. Of the four true pack ice seal species encountered, ...
  • Opportunities to improve eco-agriculture through transboundary governance in transfrontier conservation areas 
    Chitakira, Munyaradzi; Nhamo, Luxon; Torquebiau, Emmanuel; Magidi, James; Ferguson, Jan Willem Helenus; Mpandeli, Sylvester; Mearns, Kevin; Mabhaudhi, Tafadzwanashe (MDPI, 2022-06-08)
    Transfrontier Conservation Areas (TFCAs) are critical biodiversity areas for the conservation and sustainable use of biological and cultural resources while promoting regional peace, cooperation, and socio-economic ...
  • Opportunities to improve goat production and food security in Botswana through forage nutrition and the use of supplemental feeds 
    Cooke, Andrew S.; Machekano, Honest; Ventura-Cordero, Javier; Louro-Lopez, Aranzazu; Joseph, Virgil; Gwiriri, Lovemore C.; Takahashi, Taro; Morgan, Eric R.; Lee, Michael R.F.; Nyamukondiwa, Casper (Springer, 2024-06)
    Goats fulfil a central role in food and nutritional security across Africa with over half of households owning or rearing goats in rural areas. However, goat performance is poor and mortality high. This study assessed the ...
  • Opposing community assembly patterns for dominant and nondominant plant species in herbaceous ecosystems globally 
    Arnillas, Carlos Alberto; Borer, Elizabeth; Seabloom, Eric W.; Alberti, Juan; Baez, Selene; Bakker, Jonathon; Boughton, Elizabeth; Buckley, Yvonne; Bugalho, Miguel Nuno; Donohue, Ian; Dwyer, John; Eskelinen, Anu; Firn, Jennifer; Gridzak, Riley; Hagenah, Nicole; Hautier, Yann; Helm, Aveliina; Jentsch, Anke; Knops, Johannes M.H.; Komatsu, Kimberly J.; Laanisto, Lauri; Laungani, Ramesh; McCulley, Rebecca L.; Moore, Joslin L.; Morgan, John; Peri, Pablo Luis; Power, Sally A.; Price, Jodi; Sankaran, Mahesh; Schamp, Brandon; Speziale, Karina L.; Standish, Rachel; Virtanen, Risto; Cadotte, Marc W. (Wiley Open Access, 2021-12)
    Biotic and abiotic factors interact with dominant plants—the locally most frequent or with the largest coverage—and nondominant plants differently, partially because dominant plants modify the environment where nondominant ...
  • Optimised ICP-MS quantification method for using animal faeces as a measure of protected area ecosystem health 
    Webster, A.B. (Andrea); Ganswindt, Andre; Small, Charney; Rossouw, Riana (Elsevier, 2021)
    Pollution is a key threat to biodiversity and ecosystem health within protected areas. Using a non-invasive, multi-matrix approach, sediment, vegetation and faecal material from lion (Panthera leo) and giraffe (Giraffa ...
  • Orexinergic bouton density is lower in the cerebral cortex of cetaceans compared to artiodactyls 
    Dell, Leigh-Anne; Spocter, Muhammad A.; Patzke, Nina; Karlson, Karl Æ.; Alagaili, Abdulaziz N.; Bennett, Nigel Charles; Muhammed, Osama B.; Bertelsen, Mads F.; Siegel, Jerome M.; Manger, Paul R. (Elsevier, 2015-10)
    The species of the cetacean and artiodactyl suborders, which make up the cetartiodactyl order, have very different arousal thresholds and sleep-wake systems. The aim of this study was to determine whether cetaceans or ...
  • Orexinergic neuron numbers in three species of African mole rats with rhythmic and arrhythmic chronotypes 
    Bhagwandin, Adhil; Gravett, Nadine; Hemingway, J.; Oosthuizen, Maria Kathleen; Bennett, Nigel Charles; Siegel, J.M.; Manger, Paul R. (Elsevier, 2011-12)
    In the present study, orexinergic cell bodies within the brains of rhythmic and arrhythmic circadian chronotypes from three species of African mole rat (Highveld mole rat— Cryptomys hottentotus pretoriae, Ansell’s mole ...
  • An “orientation sphere” visualization for examining animal head movements 
    Wilson, Rory P.; Williams, Hannah J.; Holton, Mark D.; Di Virgilio, Agustina; Borger, Luca; Potts, Jonathan R.; Gunner, Richard; Arkwright, Alex; Fahlman, Andreas; Bennett, Nigel Charles; Alagaili, Abdulaziz; Cole, Nik C.; Duarte, Carlos M.; Scantlebury, David M. (Wiley Open Access, 2020-05)
    Animal behavior is elicited, in part, in response to external conditions, but understanding how animals perceive the environment and make the decisions that bring about these behavioral responses is challenging. Animal ...
  • Origin and phylogeography of African savannah elephants (Loxodonta africana) in Kruger and nearby parks in southern Africa 
    De Flamingh, Alida; Roca, Alfred L.; Van Aarde, Rudi J. (Springer, 2018-02)
    African savannah elephants (Loxodonta africana) occur in fragmented and isolated populations across southern Africa. Transfrontier conservation efforts aim at preventing the negative effects of population fragmentation by ...
  • Origin of Madagascan Scarabaeini dung beetles (Coleoptera : Scarabaeidae) : dispersal from Africa 
    Sole, Catherine L.; Wirta, Helena; Forgie, Shaun Andrew; Scholtz, Clarke H. (Brill, 2011-05)
    Madagascar, the world’s fourth largest island, has a long history of isolation (160 MY) and a wide range of climates and ecosystems which have in turn resulted in high levels of endemism across different taxonomic levels. ...
  • The origin of the giant ground beetle Aplothorax burchelli on St Helena Island 
    Sota, Teiji; Hori, Michio; Scholtz, Clarke H.; Karagyan, Gayane; Liang, Hong-Bin; Ikeda, Hiroshi; Takami, Yasuoki (Oxford University Press, 2020-09)
    Some highly isolated oceanic islands harbour endemic ground beetles that have lost the ability to fly. Here, we investigated the origin of the possibly extinct flightless giant ground beetle Aplothorax burchelli on St ...
  • Outbreaks of avian influenza H6N2 viruses in chickens arose by a reassortment of H6N8 and H9N2 ostrich viruses 
    Abolnik, Celia; Gerdes, Truuske G.H.; Bisschop, S.P.R. (Shahn); Olivier, A.J.; Horner, R.F. (Springer, 2007-01)
    The first recorded outbreak of avian influenza (AI) in South African chickens (low pathogenicity H6N2) occurred at Camperdown, KwaZulu/Natal Province (KZN) in June 2002. To determine the source of the outbreak, we defined ...
  • Over 80% of Africa's savannah conservation land is failing or deteriorating according to lions as an indicator species 
    Robson, Ashley; Trimble, Morgan; Bauer, Dominik; Loveridge, Andrew; Thomson, Paul; Westerntbz, Guy; Lindsey, Peter Andrew (Wiley Open Access, 2022-01)
    Calls to increase the global area under protection for conservation assume existing conservation areas are effective but, without adequate investment, they may not be. We collected survey data from expert respondents on ...
  • Overgrazing and bush encroachment by Tarchonanthus camphoratus in a semi-arid savanna 
    Coetzee, Bernard Walter Thomas; Tincani, Lucrezia; Wodu, Zelalem; Mwasi, Shem M. (Blackwell, 2008)
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  • Overlap and temporal variation in the diets of sympatric Antarctic and Subantarctic fur seals (Arctocephalus spp.) at Marion Island, Prince Edward Islands 
    Reisinger, Ryan Rudolf; Landman, Marietjie; Mgibantaka, Nonkoliso; Smale, Malcolm J.; Bester, Marthan Nieuwoudt; De Bruyn, P.J. Nico; Pistorius, Pierre Anton (Co-Action Publishing, 2018-04-20)
    Antarctic (Arctocephalus gazella) and Subantarctic (A. tropicalis) fur seals are important predators in the Southern Ocean. Marion Island (southern Indian Ocean) hosts the largest sympatric breeding populations of these ...
  • Overview and revision of the extant genera and subgenera of Trogidae (Coleoptera : Scarabaeoidea) 
    Strumpher, Werner P.; Villet, Martin H.; Sole, Catherine L.; Scholtz, Clarke H. (Brill Academic Publishers, 2016-01)
    Extant genera and subgenera of the Trogidae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea) are reviewed. Contemporary classifications of this family have been based exclusively on morphological characters. The first molecular phylogeny for ...
  • Oviposition by the oriental fruit fly, Bactrocera dorsalis (Hendel) (Diptera: Tephritidae), on five citrus types in a laboratory 
    Theron, C.D. (Charmaine); Kotze, Zanthe; Manrhakhan, Aruna; Weldon, Christopher William (Wiley, 2023-11)
    Frugivorous insects use visual, chemical and tactile cues to find a suitable host for oviposition. However, these cues can vary greatly among fruit cultivars and condition, changing their susceptibility to fruit fly ...
  • Oxidative costs of cooperation in cooperatively breeding Damaraland mole-rats 
    Mendonca, Rute; Vullioud, Philippe; Katlein, Nathan; Vallat, Armelle; Glauser, Gaetan; Bennett, Nigel Charles; Helfenstein, Fabrice (Royal Society, 2020-09)
    Within cooperatively breeding societies, individuals adjust cooperative contributions to maximize indirect fitness and minimize direct fitness costs. Yet, little is known about the physiological costs of cooperation, which ...
  • Oxidative stress and senescence in social insects : a significant but inconsistent link? 
    Kramer, Boris H.; Nehring, Volker; Buttstedt, Anja; Heinze, Jurgen; Korb, Judith; Libbrecht, Romain; Meusemann, Karen; Paxton, Robert J.; Seguret, Alice; Schaub, Florentine; Bernadou, Abel (Royal Society, 2021)
    The life-prolonging effects of antioxidants have long entered popular culture, but the scientific community still debates whether free radicals and the resulting oxidative stress negatively affect longevity. Social insects ...