Browsing Research Articles (Zoology and Entomology) by UP Author "De Vries, J. Low"

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Circadian rhythms of locomotor activity in Ansell's mole-rat : are mole-rat's clocks ticking?

De Vries, J.L.; Oosthuizen, Maria Kathleen; Sichilima, Alfred Matafwali; Bennett, Nigel Charles (Blackwell, 2008)

Circadian rhythms of locomotor activity have been investigated in several African mole-rat species. Even though mole-rats spend most of their lives in underground burrows devoid of light, studies have shown that they do ...
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 ...
Spatial and temporal dimensions to the taxonomic diversity of arthropods in an arid grassland savannah

Dalerum, Fredrik; De Vries, J. Low; Pirk, Christian Walter Werner; Cameron, Elissa Z. (Elsevier, 2017-09)

Quantifying the drivers of biodiversity variation is a key topic in contemporary ecology. While the geographic distribution of biodiversity is broadly determined by water and energy, local environmental conditions may be ...

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