Climate records along aridity gradients where manifestations of climate change are most profound are important for testing climate models. The Kalahari Transect spans such a gradient, but instrumental records of ...

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The diet of Temminck’s ground pangolin Smutsia temminckii (hereafter, pangolin) has thus far been studied only in mesic savannahs. We provide arid-zone dietary data for this species based on direct observations, and ...

Understanding pattern and process at both regional and local scales is important for conservation planning although such knowledge of insects is frequently lacking. To assess patterns along a regional gradient of increasing ...

Arboreal ants use a variety of plant structures as nesting sites, but may also nest in structures created by arboreal ecosystem engineers. We observed, for the first time, ants using empty cocoons of the economically ...

In this paper we describe new taxa and discuss others previously described from arid south-west Africa. Descriptions are provided for a new monotypic genus (Variuscorpus Deschodt, Davis and Scholtz gen. n.) and three new ...

The nutritional status of springbok, Antidorcas marsupialis, in the Kalahari was assessed in four habitats and three seasons by means of faecal profiling. Habitat only had a significant effect on the faecal nitrogen ...

The techniques used for the capture, marking and habituation of African wildcats (Felis silvestris cafra) in the Kalahari are described and evaluated in this paper. African wildcats were captured, with either baited cage ...

An ecological assessment of the vegetation was conducted in the south-eastern part of the Kalahari. Detailed classification of the vegetation of Witsand Nature Reserve to determine small scale plant communities for a Nature ...