Browsing Biological Sciences by Advisor "Downs, Colleen Thelma."
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Aspects of the ecology of spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta) in relation to prey availability, land use changes and conflict with humans in western Zimbabwe.
(2018)Patch selection by carnivores is affected by various factors including availability of prey and denning areas, extent of vegetation cover, competition from sympatric large carnivores and anthropogenic habitat change among ... -
Assessment of roadkills in Hluhluwe-Imfolozi Park, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
(2017)Anthropogenic land-use activities are considered to be the main contributor to current worldwide changes in natural ecosystems. South Africa is one of the countries that has been severely affected by changing land-use. The ... -
Diet preference of common mynas (Sturnus tristis) in urban areas of Pietermaritzburg and Durban, KwaZulu-Natal.
(2017)Urbanization is one of the anthropogenic land use changes with a negative impact on biodiversity generally. However, some species are persisting well in urban areas and are termed urban exploiters. One of these species is ... -
Impacts of anthropogenic disturbance on persistence patterns of forest mammals in an urban-forest mosaic of eThekwini Municipality, Durban, South Africa.
(2018)The burgeoning human population size and the consequent land development pressures to meet its various needs has led to an unparalleled increase in the rates at which natural environments are converted for anthropogenic ... -
Urban ecology of the Vervet Monkey Chlorocebus pygerythrus in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
(2017)The spread of development globally is extensively modifying habitats and often results in competition for space and resources between humans and wildlife. For the last few decades a central goal of urban ecology research ... -
Use of invertebrates to evaluate the threat of water resource use on the wellbeing of selected river dominated estuaries in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
(2017)Abstract available in PDF file.