Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences
School of Biological Sciences
Department of Zoology and Entomology
Biology of fragmented populations; Conservation planning; Conservation and restoration ecology; and Biodiversity and systematics - Research Output
Research articles in refereed specialist journals:
Linzey AV, Kesner M, Chimimba CT, Newbery C: 2003. Distribution of veld rat sibling species Aethomys chrysophilus and Aethomys ineptus (Rodentia: Muridae) in southern Africa. African Zoology, 38 (1) / Apr, pp 169-174.
Ferguson JWH, van Jaarsveld AS, Johnson RL, Bredenkamp GJ, Foord SH, Britz M: 2003. Rodent-induced damage to pine plantations: a South African case study. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment, 95, pp 379-386.
Wessels KJ, Reyers B, van Jaarsveld AS, Rutherford MC: 2003. Identification of potential conflict areas between land transformation and biodiversity conservation in north-eastern South Africa. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment, 95, pp 157-178.
Parr CL, Chown SL: 2003. Burning issues for conservation: A critique of faunal fire research in Southern Africa. Austral Ecology, 28, pp 384-395.
Veldtman R, McGeoch MA: 2003. Gall-forming insect species richness along a non-scleromorphic vegetation rainfall gradient in South Africa: The importance of plant community composition. Austral Ecology, 28, pp 1-13.
Best PB, Schaeff CM, Reeb D, Palsboll P: 2003. Composition and possible function of social groupings of southern right whales in South African waters. Behaviour, 140, pp 1469-1494.
Solomon M, Van Jaarsveld AS, Biggs HC, Knight MH: 2003. Conservation targets for viable species assemblages?. Biodiversity and Conservation, 12, pp 2435-2441.
Bronner GN, Hoffmann M, Taylor PJ, Chimimba CT, Best PB, Matthee CA, Robinson TJ: 2003. A revised systematic checklist of the extant mammals of the southern African subregion. Durban Museum Novitates, 28, pp 56-106.
Chown SL, Janse van Rensburg B, Gaston KJ, Rodrigues ASL, Van Jaarsveld AS: 2003. Energy, species richness, and human population size: Conservation implications at a national scale. Ecological Applications, 13, pp 1233-1241.
Parr ZJE, Parr CL, Chown SL: 2003. The size-grain hypothesis: A phylogenetic and field test. Ecological Entomology, 28, pp 475-481.
Foord SH, Ferguson JWH, van Jaarsveld AS: 2003. Coleopteran assemblages in afromontane grasslands reflect fine-scale variation in vegetation. Environmental Entomology, 32 (1) / Aug, pp 797-806.
Olwoch JM, Rautenbach CJdW, Erasmus BFN, Engelbrecht FA, Van Jaarsveld AS: 2003. Simulating tick distributions over sub-Saharan Africa: The use of observed and simulated climate surfaces. Journal of Biogeography, 30, pp 1221-1232.
Best PB, Rademeyer RA, Burton C, Ljungblad D, Sekiguchi K, Shimada H, Thiele D, Reeb D, Butterworth DS: 2003. The abundance of blue whales on the Madagascar Plateau, December 1996. Journal of Cetacean Research Management, 5 (3), pp 253-260.
de Villiers MS, Richardson PRK, van Jaarsveld AS: 2003. Patterns of coalition formation and spatial association in a social carnivore, the African wild dog (Lycaon pictus). Journal of Zoology, 260, pp 377-389.
Cassens I, van Waerebeek K, Best PB, Crespo EA, Reyes J, Milinkovitch MC: 2003. The phylogeography of dusky dolphins (Lagenorhynchus obscurus): A critical examination of network methods and rooting procedures. Molecular Ecology, 12, pp 1781-1792.
Allen WR, Mathias SS, Wooding FBP, van Aarde RJ: 2003. Placentation in the African elephant (Loxodonta Africana): II Morphological changes in the uterus and placenta throughout gestation. Placenta, 24, pp 598-617.
Weiermans J, van Aarde RJ: 2003. Roads as ecological edges for rehabilitating coastal dune assemblages in northern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Restoration Ecology, 11 (1), pp 43-49.
Davis ALV, van Aarde RJ, Scholtz CH, Delport JH: 2003. Convergence between dung beetle assemblages of a post-mining vegetational chronosequence and unmined dune forest. Restoration Ecology, 11 (1), pp 29-42.
Crawford RJM, Cooper J, Dyer BM, Greyling MD, Klages NTW, Ryan PG, Petersen SL, Underhill LG, Upfold L, Wilkinson W, de Villiers MS, du Plessis S, du Toit M, Leshoro TM, Makhado AB, Mason MS, Merkle D, Tshingana D, Ward VL, Whittington PA: 2003. Populations of surface-nesting seabirds at Marion Island, 1994/95-2002/03. South African Journal of Marine Science, 25, pp 427-440.
Crawford RJM, Cooper J, du Toit M, Greyling MD, Hanise B, Holness CL, Keith DG, Nel JL, Petersen SL, Spencer K, Tshingana D, Wolfaardt AC: 2003. Population and breeding of the gentoo penguin Pygoscelis papua at Marion Island, 1994/95-2002/03. South African Journal of Marine Science, 25, pp 463-474.
Crawford RJM, Cooper J, Dyer BM, Wolfaardt AC, Tshingana D, Spencer K, Petersen SL, Nel JL, Keith DG, Holness CL, Hanise B, Greyling MD, du Toit M: 2003. Population, breeding, diet and conservation of the crozet shag Phalacrocorax [Atriceps] Melanogenis at Marion Island, 1994/95-2002/03. South African Journal of Marine Science, 25, pp 537-547.
Crawford RJM, Cooper J, Dyer BM, Greyling MD, Klages NTW, Nel DC, Nel JL, Petersen SL, Wolfaardt AC: 2003. Decrease in numbers of the eastern rockhopper penguin Eudyptes chrysocome filholi at Marion Island, 1994/95-2002/03. South African Journal of Marine Science, 25, pp 487-498.
Ryan PG, Cooper J, Dyer BM, Underhill LG, Crawford RJM, Bester MN: 2003. Counts of surface-nesting seabirds breeding at Prince Edward Island, summer 2001-02. South African Journal of Marine Science, 25, pp 441-451.
Bester MN, Ryan PG, Dyer BM: 2003. Population numbers of fur seals at Prince Edward Island, Southern Ocean. South African Journal of Marine Science, 25, pp 549-554.
Jackson TP, van Aarde RJ: 2003. Advances in vertebrate pest control: implications for the control of feral house mice on Marion Island. South African Journal of Science, 99 / Mar/Apr, pp 130-136.
Meyer VW, Crewe RM, Braack LEO: 2003. Estimates of food consumption by the fungus-growing termite Macrotermes natalensisin a South African savanna-woodland. South African Journal of Science, 99 / May/Jun, pp 207-208.
Chapters in books:
Naiman RJ, Braack LEO, Grant R, Kemp A, du Toit JT, Venter F: 2003. Interactions between Species and Ecosystem Characteristics. In The Kruger Experience: Ecology and Management of Savanna Heterogeneity, (10), Island Press, Washington, DC, pp 221-241.
du Toit JT: 2003. Large herbivores and savanna heterogeneity. In The Kruger Experience: Ecology and Management of Savanna Heterogeneity, (14), Island Press, Washington, DC, pp 292-309.
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