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  • Landscape heterogeneity and woody encroachment decrease mesocarnivore scavenging in a savanna agroecosystem 
    Lima, Kyle A.; Stevens, Nicola; Wisely, Samantha M.; Fletcher, Robert J., Jr.; Monadjem, Ara; Austin, James D.; Mahlaba, Themb'alilahlwa; McCleery, Robert A. (Elsevier, 2021-09)
    Increased agricultural intensification and extensive woody plant encroachment are having widespread effects on the functioning of grass-dominated systems at multiple spatial scales. Yet there is little understanding of how ...
  • Landscape heterogeneity shapes taxonomic diversity of non-breeding birds across fragmented savanna landscapes 
    Ke, Alison; Sibiya, Muzi D.; Reynolds, Chevonne; McCleery, Robert A.; Monadjem, Ara; Fletcher Jr, Robert J. (Springer, 2018-08)
    There is an ongoing need to integrate agricultural production with wildlife conservation to maintain biodiversity, especially in developing countries. The landscape heterogeneity hypothesis identifies a potential means for ...
  • Landscape level effects of lion presence (Panthera leo) on two contrasting prey species 
    Chizzola, Maddalena; Belton, L.E. (Lydia); Ganswindt, Andre; Greco, Ilaria; Hall, Grant; Swanepoel, Lourens; Dalerum, Fredrik (Frontiers Media, 2018-11-27)
    Due to the strong individual cost of being predated, potential prey species alter their behavior and physiology in response to predation risk. Such alterations may cause major indirect consequences on prey populations ...
  • The landscape‐scale drivers of herbivore assemblage distribution on the central basalt plains of Kruger National Park 
    Young, Cyanne; Fritz, Herve; Smithwick, Erica A.H.; Venter, Jan A. (Cambridge University Press, 2020-01)
    The distribution and abundance of herbivores in African savannas are constrained by interactions between abiotic and biotic factors. At the species-level, herbivores face trade-offs among foraging requirements, vegetation ...
  • Large carnivore dangerousness affects the reactive spatial response of prey 
    Say-Sallaz, Elise; Chamaille-Jammes, Simon; Periquet, Stephanie; Loveridge, Andrew J.; Macdonald, David W.; Antonio, Antony; Fritz, Herve; Valeix, Marion (Elsevier, 2023-08)
    Predators differ in various attributes: body size, sociality, speed, preferred prey size, hunting mode, etc. Together, these characteristics contribute to the predator's overall dangerousness, which is likely to underlie ...
  • Large predators can mitigate nutrient losses associated with off-site removal of animals from a wildlife reserve 
    Abraham, Andrew J.; Webster, A.B. (Andrea); Prys-Jones, Tomos O.; Le Roux, Elizabeth; Smith, Dylan; McFayden, Duncan; De Jager, Pieter Christiaan; Clauss, Marcus; Doughty, Christopher E. (Wiley, 2021-07)
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  • Laterality in the Cape mole-rat, Georychus capensis 
    Jacobs, Paul Juan; Oosthuizen, Maria Kathleen (Elsevier, 2021-04)
    Behavioural lateralization, the differential use one side of the body, and/or the bilateral use of sensory organs or limbs, is common in many vertebrates. One way in which behavioural lateralization can be detected in ...
  • Laterality in the Damaraland mole-rat : insights from eusocial mammal 
    Jacobs, Paul Juan; Oosthuizen, Maria Kathleen (MDPI, 2023-02)
    Lateralization is the functional control of certain behaviors in the brain being processed by either the left or right hemisphere. Behavioral asymmetries can occur at an individual and population level, although population-level ...
  • Leaf nutrients, not specific leaf area, are consistent indicators of elevated nutrient inputs 
    Firn, Jennifer; McGree, James M.; Harvey, Eric; Flores-Moreno, Habacuc; Schütz, Martin; Buckley, Yvonne M.; Borer, Elizabeth T.; Seabloom, Eric W.; La Pierre, Kimberly J.; MacDougall, Andrew M.; Prober, Suzanne M.; Stevens, Carly J.; Sullivan, Lauren L.; Porter, Erica; Ladouceur, Emma; Allen, Charlotte; Moromizato, Karine H.; Morgan, John W.; Harpole, W. Stanley; Hautier, Yann; Eisenhauer, Nico; Wright, Justin P.; Adler, Peter B.; Arnillas, Carlos Alberto; Bakker, Jonathan D.; Biederman, Lori; Broadbent, Arthur A.D.; Brown, Cynthia S.; Bugalho, Miguel N.; Caldeira, Maria C.; Cleland, Elsa E.; Ebeling, Anne; Fay, Philip A.; Hagenah, Nicole; Kleinhesselink, Andrew R.; Mitchell, Rachel; Moore, Joslin L.; Nogueira, Carla; Peri, Pablo Luis; Roscher, Christiane; Smith, Melinda D.; Wragg, Peter D.; Risch, Anita C. (Nature Research, 2019-02)
    Leaf traits are frequently measured in ecology to provide a ‘common currency’ for predicting how anthropogenic pressures impact ecosystem function. Here, we test whether leaf traits consistently respond to experimental ...
  • Learning and laterality in wild-caught Namaqua rock mice (Micaelamys namaquensis) 
    Oosthuizen, Tasha; Lutermann, Heike (Elsevier, 2023-06)
    Individuals often exhibit differences in cognition and/or preferences for one side over the other. Such differences have been attributed to the mating system and lateralization of the brain hemispheres that can differ ...
  • A leatherback turtle stranding at danger point, Gansbaai, South Africa 
    Jewell, Oliver Joseph David; Wcisel, Michelle A. (Southern African Wildlife Management Association, 2012-10)
    A dead, mature male leatherback turtle was sighted at Danger Point, Gansbaai on South Africa’s southwest coast. Leatherback turtle sightings are rare along this coastline although the site lies between two areas of ...
  • The legacy of over a century of introductions : spread debt of rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) in Mpumalanga Province, South Africa 
    Maimela, Lerato T.; Chimimba, Christian Timothy; Zengeya, Tsungai A. (Wiley, 2022-10)
    For over a century, rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) has been widely introduced into lakes and rivers in South Africa to create and enhance sport-fishing opportunities. Despite its long history of introduction, naturalized ...
  • Leopard Panthera pardus density in southern Mozambique : evidence from spatially explicit capture–recapture in Xonghile Game Reserve 
    Strampelli, Paolo; Andresen, Leah; Everatt, K.T. (Kristoffer); Somers, Michael J.; Rowcliffe, J. Marcus (Cambridge University Press, 2020-05)
    Rigorous status estimates of populations of large carnivores are necessary to inform their management and help evaluate the effectiveness of conservation interventions. The African leopard Panthera pardus faces rising ...
  • Life-history traits, but not season, affect the febrile response to a lipopolysaccharide challenge in highveld mole-rats 
    Viljoen, Hermien; Bennett, Nigel Charles; Lutermann, Heike (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011-11)
    Fever is part of an acute phase response that organisms launch to defend themselves against an invasion by microbial pathogens such as bacteria and viruses. The elevation of an individual’s body temperature necessary to ...
  • Ligand binding pocket formed by evolutionarily conserved residues in the glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor core domain 
    Moon, Mi Jin; Lee, Yoo-Na; Park, Sumi; Reyes-Alcaraz, Arfaxad; Hwang, Jong-Ik; Millar, Robert P.; Choe, Han; Seong, Jae Young (American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 2015-02)
    BACKGROUND : Little is known about the interaction between GLP-1 and the heptahelical core domain of GLP1R. RESULTS : GLP-1 Asp9 and Gly4 interact with the evolutionarily conserved residues in extracellular loop ...
  • Likelihood ridges and multimodality in population growth rate models 
    Polansky, Leo; De Valpine, Perry; Lloyd-Smith, James O.; Getz, Wayne Marcus (Ecological Society of America, 2009-08)
    A central problem in population ecology is to use time series data to estimate the form of density dependence in the per capita growth rate (pgr). This is often accomplished with phenomenological models such as the ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • Lion hunting behaviour and vegetation structure in an African savanna 
    Loarie, Scott R.; Tambling, Craig J.; Asner, Gregory P. (Elsevier, 2013-05)
    Emerging evidence suggests that male lions are not dependent on female’s hunting skills but are in fact successful hunters. But difficulty locating kills and objectively characterizing landscapes has complicated the ...