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  1. Estimating Cape hare occupancy and abundance in southern Tunisia using spotlighting data

    Estimating Cape hare occupancy and abundance in southern Tunisia using spotlighting data

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Chammem Mohsen --- Laboratoire d’Elevage et de la Faune Sauvage, Tunisia Karssene Yamna --- Laboratoire d’Elevage et de la Faune Sauvage, Tunisia Jarray Mohsen --- Laboratoire d’Elevage et de la Faune Sauvage, Tunisia Khorchani Touhami --- Laboratoire d’Elevage et de la Faune Sauvage, Tunisia
    This study outlines the importance of integrating spotlighting data and occupancy modelling to estimate the spatial occupancy, abundance and habitat preferences of Cape hares Lepus capensis in southern Tunisia. Exploring the spatial distribution pattern of this species is problematic because...
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  2. Seasonal habitat requirements of Lemon Dove (<em>Aplopelia larvata</em>) in coastal forest: camera-trap surveys of a reclusive species

    Seasonal habitat requirements of Lemon Dove (Aplopelia larvata) in coastal forest: camera-trap surveys of a reclusive species

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: David A Ehlers Smith --- School of Life Sciences, South Africa Yvette C Ehlers Smith --- School of Life Sciences, South Africa Colleen T Downs --- School of Life Sciences, South Africa
    The modification of natural habitats requires behavioural plasticity, which may be challenging for ‘specialist’ species. Quantifying habitat requirements and behavioural responses of specialists to landscape transformation is thus a priority for baseline data to inform conservation practices. Using camera-trap surveys...
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  3. The presence of artificial water points structures an arid-zone avian community over small spatial scales<xref ref-type="fn" rid="FN0001"/>

    The presence of artificial water points structures an arid-zone avian community over small spatial scales

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Salamatu Abdu --- FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, DST-NRF Centre of Excellence, South Africa Alan TK Lee --- FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, DST-NRF Centre of Excellence, South Africa Susan J Cunningham --- FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, DST-NRF Centre of Excellence, South Africa
    Water plays a key role in avian thermoregulation, especially when environmental temperatures approach or exceed body temperature. Birds living in arid environments need to either be adapted to life with unreliable access to water, or engage in large-scale movements to...
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  4. Point counts outperform line transects when sampling birds along routes in South African protected areas

    Point counts outperform line transects when sampling birds along routes in South African protected areas

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Graeme S Cumming --- ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, Australia Dominic AW Henry --- FitzPatrick Institute, South Africa
    Bird atlases have become an important source of distribution data for broad-scale analyses in ecology, biogeography and conservation. However, national bird atlases are undertaken in different ways in different countries, usually with little formal assessment of alternatives. Existing research suggests...
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  5. Habitat utilisation of <em>Pseudobarbus afer</em> and <em>Sandelia capensis</em> in headwaters of the Swartkops River, Eastern Cape, South Africa

    Habitat utilisation of Pseudobarbus afer and Sandelia capensis in headwaters of the Swartkops River, Eastern Cape, South Africa

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: B Hannweg --- , South Africa SM Marr --- , South Africa LE Bloy --- , South Africa OLF Weyl --- , South Africa
    Habitat degradation is one of the greatest threats to endemic freshwater fish in the Cape Fold Ecoregion. One habitat restoration strategy is the replication of critical habitat using artificial materials. In this paper, we evaluate the habitat occupancy of two...
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