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  • Altitude effects on spatial components of vascular plant diversity in a subarctic mountain tundra 
    Naud, Lucy; Masviken, Johannes; Freire, Susana; Angerbjorn, Anders; Dalen, Love; Dalerum, Fredrik (Wiley Open Access, 2019-04)
    Environmental gradients are caused by gradual changes in abiotic factors, which affect species abundances and distributions, and are important for the spatial distribution of biodiversity. One prominent environmental ...
  • And then there was one: a camera trap survey of the declining population of African elephants in Knysna, South Africa 
    Moolman, Lizette; De Morney, Melanie A.; Ferreira, Sam M.; Ganswindt, Andre; Poole, Joyce H.; Kerley, Graham I.H. (Southern African Wildlife Management Association, 2019)
    Conservation agencies rely on accurate wildlife population estimates to inform management practices. The importance of accuracy increases with smaller, threatened populations, but so too does the challenge in achieving it, ...
  • Androgen changes and flexible rutting behaviour in male giraffes 
    Seeber, Peter Andreas; Duncan, Patrick; Fritz, Hervé; Ganswindt, Andre (Royal Society, 2013)
    The social organization of giraffes (Giraffa camelopardalis) imposes a high-cost reproductive strategy on bulls, which adopt a ‘roving male’ tactic. Our observations on wild giraffes confirm that bulls indeed have ...
  • Angolan highlands peatlands : extent, age and growth dynamics 
    Lourenco, Mauro; Fitchett, Jennifer M.; Woodborne, Stephan M. (Elsevier, 2022-03)
    Please read abstract in the article.
  • Animal diversity declines with broad-scale homogenization of canopy cover in African savannas 
    McCleery, Robert A.; Monadjem, Ara; Baiser, Benjamin; Fletcher Jr, Robert; Vickers, Karen; Kruger, Laurence (Elsevier, 2018-10)
    Savannas are increasingly threatened by anthropogenic forces that are causing broad-scale directional shifts in woody vegetation that homogenizes their structure. Yet, whether animal communities respond consistently to ...
  • Animal telemetry : tagging effects 
    McIntyre, Trevor (American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2015-08)
    The 12 June Reviews by R. Kays et al. (“Terrestrial animal tracking as an eye on life and planet,” p. 1222) and N. E. Hussey et al. (“Aquatic animal telemetry: A panoramic window into the underwater world,” p. 1221) ...
  • Animal welfare considerations for using large carnivores and guardian dogs as vertebrate biocontrol tools against other animals 
    Allen, Benjamin L.; Allen, Lee R.; Ballard, Guy; Drouilly, Marine; Fleming, Peter J.S.; Hampton, Jordan O.; Hayward, Matt W.; Kerley, Graham I.H.; Meek, Paul D.; Minnie, Liaan; O'Riain, M. Justin; Parker, Daniel M.; Somers, Michael J. (Elsevier, 2019-04)
    Introducing consumptive and non-consumptive effects into food webs can have profound effects on individuals, populations and communities. This knowledge has led to the deliberate use of predation and/or fear of predation ...
  • Animal-borne telemetry : an integral component of the ocean observing toolkit 
    Harcourt, Rob; Sequeira, Ana M.M.; Zhang, Xuelei; Roquet, Fabien; Komatsu, Kosei; Heupel, Michelle; McMahon, Clive Reginald; Whoriskey, Fred; Meekan, Mark; Carroll, Gemma; Brodie, Stephanie; Simpfendorfer, Colin; Hindell, Mark; Jonsen, Ian; Costa, Daniel P.; Block, Barbara; Muelbert, Monica; Woodward, Bill; Weise, Mike; Aarestrup, Kim; Biuw, Martin; Boehme, Lars; Bograd, Steven J.; Cazau, Dorian; Charrassin, Jean-Benoit; Cooke, Steven J.; Cowley, Paul; De Bruyn, P.J. Nico; Du Dot, Tiphaine Jeanniard; Duarte, Carlos; Eguíluz, Víctor M.; Ferreira, Luciana C.; Fernández-Gracia, Juan; Goetz, Kimberly; Goto, Yusuke; Guinet, Christophe; Hammill, Mike; Hays, Graeme C.; Hazen, Elliott L.; Huckstadt, Luis A.; Huveneers, Charlie; Iverson, Sara; Jaaman, Saifullah Arifin; Kittiwattanawong, Kongkiat; Kovacs, Kit M.; Lydersen, Christian; Moltmann, Tim; Naruoka, Masaru; Phillips, Lachlan; Picard, Baptiste; Queiroz, Nuno; Reverdin, Gilles; Sato, Katsufumi; Sims, David W.; Thorstad, Eva B.; Thums, Michele; Treasure, Anne; Trites, Andrew W.; Williams, Guy D.; Yonehara, Yoshinari; Fedak, Mike A. (Frontiers Media, 2019-06)
    Animal telemetry is a powerful tool for observing marine animals and the physical environments that they inhabit, from coastal and continental shelf ecosystems to polar seas and open oceans. Satellite-linked biologgers ...
  • An annotated checklist of mammals of Kenya 
    Musila, Simon; Monadjem, Ara; Webala, Paul W.; Patterson, Bruce D.; Hutterer, Rainer; De Jong, Yvonne A.; Butynski, Thomas M.; Mwangi, Geoffrey; Chen, Zhong-Zheng; Jiang, Xue-Long (Science Press, PR China, 2019)
    Kenya has a rich mammalian fauna. We reviewed recently published books and papers including the six volumes of Mammals of Africa to develop an up-to-date annotated checklist of all mammals recorded from Kenya. A total ...
  • Antarctic fur seal predation on cephalopods at Marion Island 
    Reisinger, Ryan Rudolf; De Bruyn, P.J. Nico; Pistorius, Pierre Anton; Bester, Marthan Nieuwoudt (Springer, 2010-04)
    We report two observations of adult male Antarctic fur seals, Arctocephalus gazella, preying on large octopods at subAntarctic Marion Island during July and August 2008. If Antarctic fur seals take cephalopods ...
  • Antarctic pack ice seal observations during spring across the Lazarev Sea 
    Bester, Marthan Nieuwoudt; Lubcker, Nico; Haddad, Wiam; Bornemann, Horst; Wege, Mia (Cambridge University Press, 2021)
    The distribution, density and percentage contribution of pack ice seals during ship-board censuses in the marginal sea ice zone beyond the Lazarev Sea in spring 2019 are presented. Adult/juvenile crabeater seals (n = 19), ...
  • Anthropogenic forcing increases the water-use efficiency of African trees 
    Wils, Tommy H.G.; Robertson, Iain; Woodborne, Stephan M.; Hall, Grant; Koprowski, Marcin; Eshetu, Zewdu (Wiley, 2016-05)
    Rising atmospheric CO2 concentrations affect climate directly through radiative effects and indirectly by changing plant water-use efficiency. Under global warming scenarios these widely reported changes will have ...
  • Anthropogenic influences on distance traveled and vigilance behavior and stress-related endocrine correlates in free-roaming giraffes 
    Scheijen, Ciska P.J.; Van der Merwe, Sean; Ganswindt, Andre; Deacon, Francois (MDPI, 2021-04)
    Giraffes are an important tourist attraction, and human presence to wildlife is increasing. This has an impact on an animal’s behavior and its endocrine correlates. Studies on other species show alterations in movement ...
  • Anthropogenic influences on spotted hyaena diet in the Kruger National Park, South Africa 
    Belton, L.E. (Lydia); Cameron, Elissa Z.; Dalerum, Fredrik (Springer, 2018-07)
    Rapid urban expansion has led to an increase in carnivores that live close to human dominated environments. Some carnivore species have successfully adapted to these novel conditions and taken advantage of opportunities ...
  • Anthropogenic supply of nutrients in a wildlife reserve may compromise conservation success 
    Abraham, Andrew J.; Duvall, Ethan S.; Le Roux, Elizabeth; Ganswindt, Andre; Clauss, Marcus; Doughty, Christopher E.; Webster, Andrea B. (Elsevier, 2023-08)
    In nutrient-poor wildlife reserves it has become common-practice to provide supplemental mineral resources for wildlife. Yet, the impacts of anthropogenic mineral supplementation on large herbivore nutrition, behaviour, ...
  • Appeasing pheromones for the management of stress and aggression during conservation of wild canids: could the solution be right under our nose? 
    Riddell, Pia; Paris, Monique C.J.; Joonè, Carolynne J.; Pageat, Patrick; Paris, Damien B.B.P. (MDPI, 2021-05)
    Thirty-six species of canid exist globally, two are classified as critically endangered, three as endangered, and five as near threatened. Human expansion and the coinciding habitat fragmentation necessitate conservation ...
  • Arabian oryx (Oryx leucoryx) respond to increased ambient temperatures with a seasonal shift in the timing of their daily inactivity patterns 
    Davimes, Joshua G.; Alagaili, Abdulaziz N.; Gravett, Nadine; Bertelsen, Mads F.; Mohammed, Osama B.; Ismail, Khairy; Bennett, Nigel Charles; Manger, Paul R. (Sage, 2016-08)
    The Arabian oryx inhabits an environment where summer ambient temperatures can exceed 40 °C for extended periods of time. While the oryx uses a suite of adaptations that aid survival, the effects of this extreme environment ...
  • Are fission–fusion dynamics consistent among populations? A large-scale study with Cape buffalo 
    Wielgus, Elodie; Cornelis, Daniel; De Garine-Wichatitsky, Michel; Cain, Bradley; Fritz, Herve; Miguel, Eve; Valls-Fox, Hugo; Caron, Alexandre; Chamaillé-Jammes, Simon (Wiley Open Access, 2020-09)
    Fission–fusion dynamics allow animals to manage costs and benefits of group living by adjusting group size. The degree of intraspecific variation in fission–fusion dynamics across the geographical range is poorly known. ...
  • Are hippos Africa's most influential megaherbivore? A review of ecosystem engineering by the semi-aquatic common hippopotamus 
    Voysey, Michael D.; De Bruyn, P.J. Nico; Davies, Andrew B. (Wiley, 2023-10)
    Megaherbivores perform vital ecosystem engineering roles, and have their last remaining stronghold in Africa. Of Africa's remaining megaherbivores, the common hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius) has received the least ...
  • Are novel ecosystems the only novelty of rewilding? 
    Klop-Toker, Kaya; Clulow, Simon; Shuttleworth, Craig; Hayward, Matt W. (Wiley, 2020-11)
    Since the introduction of the term “rewilding” in 1998, several definitions have been proposed, sparking debate around terminology and how (or if) rewilding differs from restoration. Many papers attempt to distinguish ...