Dung beetle conservation biogeography in southern Africa: current challenges and potential effects of climatic change

Defining new dung beetle tribes to resolve discrepancies between phylogeny and tribal classification in the subfamily Scarabaeinae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)

(2019) ADRIAN L.V. DAVIS et al.   ZOOTAXA

Systematics of the dung beetle tribe Sisyphini Mulsant (Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) inferred from a molecular phylogeny and biogeography of southern African species

(2019) Gimo M. Daniel et al.   SYSTEMATIC ENTOMOLOGY

Sensitivity of Africa’s larger mammals to humans

(2018) Jason Riggio et al.   JOURNAL FOR NATURE CONSERVATION

Uplift history of a transform continental margin revealed by the stratigraphic record: The case of the Agulhas transform margin along the Southern African Plateau

(2018) Guillaume Baby et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Choosing the future of Antarctica

(2018) S. R. Rintoul et al.   NATURE

Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene

(2018) Will Steffen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

New deltochiline (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) taxa associated with hyrax dung in arid south western Namibia

(2018) CHRISTIAN M. DESCHODT et al.   ZOOTAXA

Edaphic and climatic history has driven current dung beetle species pool and assemblage structure across a transition zone in central South Africa

(2016) Adrian L. V. Davis et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Multigene phylogenetic analysis redefines dung beetles relationships and classification (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae)

(2016) Sergei Tarasov et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

The timing of the Cape Orogeny: New 40 Ar/ 39 Ar age constraints on deformation and cooling of the Cape Fold Belt, South Africa

(2016) Jeroen Hansma et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Miocene climate and vegetation changes in the Cape Peninsula, South Africa: Evidence from biogeochemistry and palynology

(2016) L. Sciscio et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Interannual to interdecadal variability of winter and summer southern African rainfall, and their teleconnections

(2016) Bastien Dieppois et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-ATMOSPHERES

If Dung Beetles (Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) Arose in Association with Dinosaurs, Did They Also Suffer a Mass Co-Extinction at the K-Pg Boundary?

(2016) Nicole L. Gunter et al.   PLoS One

Cretaceous–Cenozoic sedimentary budgets of the Southern Mozambique Basin: Implications for uplift history of the South African Plateau

(2015) Aymen Said et al.   JOURNAL OF AFRICAN EARTH SCIENCES

Miocene–Pliocene vegetation change in south-western Africa (ODP Site 1081, offshore Namibia)

(2015) S. Hoetzel et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Late Pliocene upwelling in the Southern Benguela region

(2015) Benjamin Petrick et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

An operational framework for biome boundary research with examples from South Africa

(2015) A.J. Potts et al.   SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Uplift histories of Africa and Australia from linear inverse modeling of drainage inventories

(2015) John F. Rudge et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-EARTH SURFACE

Innovative Bayesian and Parsimony Phylogeny of Dung Beetles (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Scarabaeinae) Enhanced by Ontology-Based Partitioning of Morphological Characters

(2015) Sergei Tarasov et al.   PLoS One

The evolution of scarab beetles tracks the sequential rise of angiosperms and mammals

(2014) D. Ahrens et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The African landscape through space and time

(2014) Jonathan D. Paul et al.   TECTONICS

Climate change impacts and adaptation in South Africa

(2014) Gina Ziervogel et al.   Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Climate Change

Roles of environmental variables and land usage as drivers of dung beetle assemblage structure in mopane woodland

(2013) Adrian L. V. Davis et al.   AUSTRAL ECOLOGY

Does an aridity and trophic resource gradient drive patterns of dung beetle food selection across the Botswana Kalahari?

(2013) BALATLHANE P. TSHIKAE et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Dung beetle assemblage structure across the aridity and trophic resource gradient of the Botswana Kalahari: patterns and drivers at regional and local scales

(2013) B. Power Tshikae et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT CONSERVATION

Potential impacts of climatic change on southern African birds of fynbos and grassland biodiversity hotspots

(2012) Brian Huntley et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Observed and simulated changes in the Southern Hemisphere surface westerly wind-stress

(2012) N. C. Swart et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Is microclimate-driven turnover of dung beetle assemblage structure in regenerating coastal vegetation a precursor to re-establishment of a forest fauna?

(2012) Adrian L. V. Davis et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT CONSERVATION

Low clouds and fog along the South-Western African coast — Satellite-based retrieval and spatial patterns

(2011) Jan Cermak   ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH

Climate-driven rampant speciation of the Cape flora

(2011) Lydie M. Dupont et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

The Benguela upwelling related to the Miocene cooling events and the development of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current: Evidence from calcareous dinoflagellate cysts

(2011) Sonja Heinrich et al.   PALEOCEANOGRAPHY

Miocene to Pliocene development of surface and subsurface temperatures in the Benguela Current system

(2011) Florian Rommerskirchen et al.   PALEOCEANOGRAPHY

Improving assessment and modelling of climate change impacts on global terrestrial biodiversity

(2011) Sean M. McMahon et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) can improve soil hydrological properties

(2010) Jacqueline Brown et al.   APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY

Ensemble models predict Important Bird Areas in southern Africa will become less effective for conserving endemic birds under climate change

(2009) Bernard W. T. Coetzee et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Ecological functions and ecosystem services provided by Scarabaeinae dung beetles

(2008) E. Nichols et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Impacts of climate change on the vegetation of Africa: an adaptive dynamic vegetation modelling approach

(2008) SIMON SCHEITER et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY