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Adreani, N.M., D’Amelio, P.B., Gahr, M. and Ter Maat, A. 2020. Life-stage dependent plasticity in the auditory system of a songbird is signal and emitter-specific. Frontiers in Neuroscience 14. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2020.588672 IF: 3.648
Bliard, L., Paquet, M., Robert, A., Dufour, P., Renoult, J.P., Grégoire, A., Crochet, P.A., Covas, R. and Doutrelant, C., 2020. Examining the link between relaxed predation and bird coloration on islands. Biology Letters 16(4). https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2020.0002 IF: 3.323
Bourne, A.R., Cunningham, S.J., Spottiswoode, C.N. and Ridley, A.R. 2020. Hot droughts compromise interannual survival across all group sizes in a cooperatively breeding bird. Ecology Letters. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13604 IF: 8.665
Bourne, A.R., Cunningham, S.J., Spottiswoode, C.N. and Ridley, A.R. 2020. Compensatory breeding in years following drought in a desert-dwelling cooperative breeder. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 8: 190. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2020.00190 IF: 2.416
Bourne, A.R., Cunningham, S.J., Spottiswoode, C.N. and Ridley, A.R. 2020. High temperatures drive offspring mortality in a cooperatively breeding bird. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 287. 20201140. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2020.1140 IF: 4.638
Brink, C.W., Santangeli, A., Amar, A., Wolter, K., Tate, G., Krüger, S., Tucker A.S. and Thomson, R.L. 2020. Perceptions of vulture supplementary feeding site managers and potential hidden risks to avian scavengers. Conservation Science and Practice. https://doi.org/10.1111/cs
Brink, C.W., Santangeli, A., Amar, A., Wolter, K., Tate, G., Krüger, S., Tucker, A.S. and Thomson, R.L. 2020. Quantifying the spatial distribution and trends of supplementary feeding sites in South Africa and their potential contribution to vulture energetic requirements. Animal Conservation. https://doi.org/10.1111/acv.12561 IF: 3.048
Carpenter-Kling, T., Reisinger, R.R, Orgeret F., Connan, M., Stevens, K.L., Ryan, P.G., Makhado, A., Pistorius, P.A. 2020. Foraging in a dynamic environment: Response of four sympatric sub-Antarctic albatross species to interannual environmental variability. Ecology and Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.6766 IF: 2.392
Carrick, P.J. and Forsythe, K.J. 2020. The species composition—ecosystem function relationship: A global meta-analysis using data from intact and recovering ecosystems. PloS one 15 (7). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0236550 IF: 2.740
Clements, H.S., Biggs, R. and Cumming, G.S. 2020. Cross-scale and social-ecological changes constitute main threats to private land conservation in South Africa. Journal of Environmental Management 274. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2020.111235 IF: 5.647
Coetzee, A., Spottiswoode, C.N. and Seymour, C.L. 2020. Post-pollination barriers enable coexistence of pollinator-sharing ornithophilous Erica species. Journal of Plant Research. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10265-020-01226-8 IF: 2.185
Colyn, R.B., Campbell, A. and Smit-Robinson, H.A. 2020. The use of a camera trap and acoustic survey design to ascertain the vocalization and breeding status of the highly elusive White-winged Flufftail, Sarothrura ayresi. Avian Conservation and Ecology 15(2). https://doi.org/10.5751/ACE-01681-150212 IF: 2.541
Cook, T.R., Martin, R., Roberts, J., Häkkinen, H., Botha, P., Meyer, C., Sparks, E., Underhill, L.G., Ryan, P.G. and Sherley, R.B. 2020. Parenting in a warming world: thermoregulatory responses to heat stress in an endangered seabird. Conservation Physiology 8(1). https://doi.org/10.1093/conphys/coz109 IF: 3.634
Dean, W.R.J., 2020. François Levaillant: Explorer and biologist. South African Journal of Science 116 (1/2). https://doi.org/10.17159/sajs.2020/6556 IF: 1.351
Dilley, B.J., Davies, D., Glass, T., Bond, A.L., Ryan, P.G. 2020. Severe impact of introduced scale insects on Island Trees threatens endemic finches at the Tristan da Cunha archipelago. Biological Conservation 251. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2020.108761 IF: 4.711
Dilley, B.J., Swain, G., Repetto, J. and Ryan, P.G. 2020. Using playback to estimate the distribution and density of the world's smallest flightless bird, the Inaccessible Island Rail Atlantisia rogersi. Bird Conservation International. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0959270920000453 IF: 1.846
du Toit C.J., Chinsamy A., Cunningham S.J. 2020 Cretaceous origins of the vibrotactile bill-tip organ in birds. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 287. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2020.2322 IF: 4.638
Ferreira, A.C., Covas, R., Silva, L.R., Esteves, S.C., Duarte, I., Fortuna, R., Theron, F., Doutrelant, C. and Farine, D.R. 2020. How to make methodological decisions when inferring social networks. Ecology and Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.6568 IF: 2.392
Fuchs, J., Bowie, R.C., Melo, M., Boano, G., Pavia, M. and Fjeldså, J. 2020. Phylogeographic history of the Olive Woodpecker Dendropicos griseocephalus a species widely distributed across Africa. Ibis. https://doi.org/10.1111/ibi.12875 IF: 2.076
Geerts, S., Coetzee, A., Rebelo, A.G. and Pauw, A. 2020. Pollination structures plant and nectar‐feeding bird communities in Cape fynbos, South Africa: Implications for the conservation of plant–bird mutualisms. Ecological Research. https://doi.org/10.1111/1440-1703.12148 IF: 1.580
Gillson L., Seymour C.L., Slingsby J.A. and Inouye D.W. 2020. What are the grand challenges for plant conservation in the 21st Century? Frontiers in Conservation Science 1. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcosc.2020.600943 NO IF
Grémillet, D., Gallien, F., El Ksabi, N. and Courbin, N. 2020. Sentinels of coastal ecosystems: the spatial ecology of European shags breeding in Normandy. Marine Biology 167(4). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-020-3655-5 IF: 2.050
Grémillet, D., Péron, C., Lescroël, A., Fort, J., Patrick, S.C., Besnard, A. and Provost, P. 2020. No way home: collapse in northern gannet survival rates point to critical marine ecosystem perturbation. Marine Biology, 167(12). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-020-03801-y IF: 2.050
Gula, J., Gopi Sundar, K.S. and Dean, W.R.J. 2020. Known and potential distributions of the African Ciconia miscroscelis and Asian C. episcopus Woollyneck Storks. SIS Conservation 2.
Gumbs, R., Williams, R.C., Lowney, A.M. and Smith, D. 2020. Spatial and species-level metrics reveal global patterns of irreplaceable and imperiled gecko phylogenetic diversity. Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution, 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22244662-bja10020 IF: 0.357
Halimubieke, N., Kupán, K., Valdebenito, J.O., Kubelka, V., Carmona-Isunza, M.C., Burgas, D., Catlin, D., St Clair, J.J., Cohen, J., Figuerola, J., Yasué, M., Johnson, M., Mencarelli, M., Cruz‑López, M., Stantial, M., Weston, M.A., Lloyd, P., Que, P., Montalvo, T., Bansal, U., McDonald, G.C., Liu, Y., Kosztolányi, A. and Székely, T. 2020. Successful breeding predicts divorce in plovers. Scientific Reports 10. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-72521-6 IF: 3.998
Ibáñez-Álamo, J.D., Jimeno, B., Gil, D., Thomson, R.L., Aguirre, J.I., Díez-Fernández, A., Faivre, B., Tieleman, B.I. and Figuerola, J. 2020. Physiological stress does not increase with urbanization in European blackbirds: evidence from hormonal, immunological and cellular indicators. Science of The Total Environment. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.137332 IF: 5.589
Jamie, G.A., Van Belleghem, S.M., Hogan, B.G., Hamama, S., Moya, C., Troscianko, J., Stoddard, M.C., Kilner, R.M. and Spottiswoode, C.N. 2020. Multimodal mimicry of hosts in a radiation of parasitic finches. Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.14057 IF: 3.698
Jones, C.W., Phillips, R.A., Grecian, W.J. and Ryan, P.G. 2020. Ecological segregation of two superabundant, morphologically similar, sister seabird taxa breeding in sympatry. Marine Biology 167: 45. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-020-3645-7 IF: 2.050
Joseph, G.S. and Seymour, C.L. 2020. Madagascan highlands: originally woodland and forest containing endemic grasses, not grazing-adapted grassland. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 287. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2020.1956 IF: 4.638
Joubert, M., Raubenheimer, H., Siegfried, R. 2020. Remembering Rein Arndt, 1929–2020. South African Journal of Science 116(5/6). https://doi.org/10.17159/sajs.2020/8266 IF: 1.351
Kemp, L.V., Kotze, A., Jansen, R., Dalton, D.L., Grobler, P. and Little, R.M. 2020. Review of trial reintroductions of the long-lived, cooperative breeding Southern Ground-hornbill. Bird Conservation International. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0959270920000131 IF: 1.725
Lee, A.T.K. and Wright, D.R. 2020. Patterns of bird species richness at two sampling scales in the Karoo biome of South Africa. Journal of Arid Environments 174. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaridenv.2019.104077 IF: 1.825
Lee, A.T.K., Macray, M.B., Ryan, P.G. and Alexander, G.J. 2020. Tortoise mortality along fence lines in the Karoo region of South Africa. Journal for Nature Conservation 59. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnc.2020.125945 IF: 2.482
Lowney, A.M., Bolopo, D., Krochuk, B.A. and Thomson, R.L. 2020. The large communal nests of sociable weavers provide year-round insulated refuge for weavers and pygmy falcons. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 8. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2020.570006 IF: 2.416
Malan, G. and Padayachee, K. 2020. Interspecific competition for cliff ledges on the Magaliesberg between nesting Verreaux’s Eagles and roosting Chacma baboons. African Zoology. https://doi.org/10.1080/15627020.2020.1842242 IF: 0.860
McCarren, S., Sumasgutner, P., Tate, G., Koeslag, A. and Amar, A. 2020. Clinal variation in the polymorphic Black Sparrowhawk Accipiter melanoleucus is unrelated to infection by the blood parasite Haemoproteus nisi. Journal of Ornithology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10336-020-01823-3 IF: 1.286
McClure, C.J., Westrip, J.R., Johnson, J.A., Schulwitz, S.E., Virani, M.Z., Davies, R., Symes, A., Wheatley, H., Thorstrom, R., Amar, A., Buij, R., Jones, V.R., Williams, N.P., Buechley, E.R. and Butcharte, S.H.M. 2020. Raptor conservation priorities must incorporate evolution, ecology, and economics, in addition to island endemism. Biological Conservation. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2020.108583 IF: 4.711
Merkel, B., Descamps, S., Yoccoz, N.G., Grémillet, D., Daunt, F., Erikstad, K.E., Ezhov, A.V., Harris, M.P., Gavrilo, M., Lorentsen, S.H., Reiertsen, T.K., Steen, H., Systad, G.H., Lorensten, S-H., Þórarinsson, Þ. L., Wanless, S. and Strøm, H. 2020. Individual migration strategy fidelity but no habitat specialization in two congeneric seabirds. Journal of Biogeography. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.13883 IF: 3.723
Muller, R., Amar, A., Sumasgutner, P., McPherson, S.C. and Downs, C.T. 2020. Urbanization is associated with increased breeding rate, but decreased breeding success, in an urban population of near-threatened African Crowned Eagles. The Condor. https://doi.org/10.1093/condor/duaa024 IF: 2.804
Nwaogu, C.J. and Cresswell, W. 2020. Local timing of rainfall predicts the timing of moult within a single locality and the progress of moult among localities that vary in the onset of the wet season in a year-round breeding tropical songbird. Journal of Ornithology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10336-020-01825-1 IF: 1.286
Nwaogu, C.J., Cresswell, W. and Tieleman, B.I. 2020. Geographic variation in baseline innate immune function does not follow variation in aridity along a tropical environmental gradient. Scientific Reports 10(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-62806-1 IF: 3.998
Oswald, K.N., Diener, E.F., Diener, J.P., Cunningham, S.J., Smit, B. and Lee, A.T.K. 2020. Increasing temperatures increase the risk of reproductive failure in a near threatened alpine ground‐nesting bird, the Cape Rockjumper Chaetops frenatus. Ibis. https://doi.org/10.1111/ibi.12846 IF: 1.994
Oswald, K.N., Lee, A.T. and Smit, B. 2020. Seasonal metabolic adjustments in an avian evolutionary relict restricted to mountain habitat. Journal of Thermal Biology 95. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtherbio.2020.102815 IF: 2.361
Pakanen, V.M., Rönkä, N., Thomson, R., Blomqvist, D. and Koivula, K. 2020. Survival probability in a small shorebird decreases with the time an individual carries a tracking device. Journal of Avian Biology. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jav.02555 IF: 1.750
Pan, H., Cole, T.L., Bi, X., Fang, M., Zhou, C., Yang, Z., Ksepka, D.T., Hart, T., Bouzat, J.L., Argilla, L.S., Bertelsen, M.F., Boersma, P.D., Bost, C.A., Cherel, Y., Dann, P., Fiddaman, S.R., Howard, P., Labuschagne, K., Mattern, T., Miller, G., Parker, P., Phillips, R.A., Quillfeldt, P., Ryan, P.G., Taylor, H., Thompson, D.R., Young, M.J., Ellegaard, M.R., Gilbert, M.T.P., Sinding, M.H.S., Pacheco, G., Shepherd, L.D., Tennyson, A.J.D., Grosser, S., Kay, E., Nupen, L.J., Ellenberg, U., Houston, D.M., Reeve, A.H., Johnson, K., Masello, J.F., Stracke, T., McKinlay, B., Garc´ıa Borboroglu, P., Zhang, D.X. and Zhang, G. 2020. Correction to: High-coverage genomes to elucidate the evolution of penguins. GigaScience 9. https://doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/giaa031 IF: 4.688
Pattinson, N.B., Thompson, M.L., Griego, M., Russell, G., Mitchell, N.J., Martin, R.O., Wolf, B.O., Smit, B., Cunningham, S.J., McKechnie, A.E. and Hockey, P.A. 2020. Heat dissipation behaviour of birds in seasonally hot, arid‐zones: are there global patterns? Journal of Avian Biology. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jav.02350 IF: 1.750
Perold, V., Schoombie, S. and Ryan, P.G. 2020. Decadal changes in plastic litter regurgitated by albatrosses and giant petrels at sub-Antarctic Marion Island. Marine Pollution Bulletin 159. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2020.111471 IF: 4.049
Prayag, K.D., du Toit, C.J., Cramer, M.D., Thomson, R.L. 2020. Faunal input at host plants: Can camel thorn trees use nutrients imported by resident sociable weavers? Ecology and Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.6798 IF: 2.392
Provencher, J.F., Liboiron, M., Borrelle, S.B., Bond, A.L., Rochman, C., Lavers, J.L., Avery-Gomm, S., Yamashita, R., Ryan, P.G., Lusher, A.L., Hammer, S., Bradshaw, H., Kahn, J. and Mallory, M.L. 2020. A Horizon Scan of research priorities to inform policies aimed at reducing the harm of plastic pollution to biota. Science of The Total Environment. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.139381 IF: 5.589
Rasool, F.N., Saavedra, M.A., Pamba, S., Perold, V., Mmochi, A.J., Maalim, M., Simonsen, L., Buur, L., Pedersen, R.H., Syberg, K. and Jelsbak, L. 2020. Isolation and characterization of human pathogenic multidrug resistant bacteria associated with plastic litter collected in Zanzibar. Journal of Hazardous Materials 405. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2020.124591 IF: 9.038
Rat, M., Mathe‐Hubert, H., McKechnie, A.E., Sueur, C. and Cunningham, S.J. 2020. Extreme and variable environmental temperatures are linked to reduction of social network cohesiveness in a highly social passerine. Oikos. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/oik.07463 IF: 3.370
Requena, S., Oppel, S., Bond, A.L., Hall, J., Cleeland, J., Crawford, R.J.M., Davies, D., Dilley, B.J., Glass, T., Makhado, A. and Ratcliffe, N., Reid, T.A., Ronconi, R.A, Schofield, A., Steinfurth, A., Wege, M., Bester, M. and Ryan, P.G. 2020. Marine hotspots of activity inform protection of a threatened community of pelagic species in a large oceanic jurisdiction. Animal Conservation. https://doi.org/10.1111/acv.12572 IF: 3.048
Reusch, K., Suárez, N., Ryan, P.G. and Pichegru, L. 2020. Foraging movements of breeding Kelp Gulls in South Africa. Movement Ecology 8(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40462-020-00221-x IF: 3.365
Reynolds, C., Henry, D.A., Tye, D.R. and Tye, N.D. 2020. Defining separation zones for coastal birds at a wetland of global importance. Wildlife Research. https://doi.org/10.1071/WR20098 IF: 1.669
Reynolds, C., Venter, N., Cowie, B.W., Marlin, D., Mayonde, S., Tocco, C. and Byrne, M.J., 2020. Mapping the socio-ecological impacts of invasive plants in South Africa: Are poorer households with high ecosystem service use most at risk? Ecosystem Services 42: 101075. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2020.101075 IF: 5.572
Ropert-Coudert, Y. Ryan, P.G. et al. 2020. The retrospective analysis of Antarctic tracking data project. Scientific Data. 7(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-020-0406-x IF: 5.311
Ryan, P.G. 2020. The transport and fate of marine plastics in South Africa and adjacent oceans. South African Journal of Science 116 (5/6). https://doi.org/10.17159/sajs.2020/7677 IF: 1.351
Ryan, P.G. 2020. Using photographs to record plastic in seabird nests. Marine Pollution Bulletin 156. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2020.111262 IF: 4.049
Ryan, P.G. and Schofield, A. 2020. Low densities of macroplastic debris in the Pitcairn Islands Marine Reserve. Marine Pollution Bulletin. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2020.111373 IF: 4.049
Ryan, P.G., Maclean, K. and Weideman, E.A. 2020. The impact of the COVID-19 lockdown on urban street litter in South Africa. Environmental Processes https://doi.org/10.1007/s40710-020-00472-1 IF: 1.65
Ryan, P.G., Pichegru, L., Perold, V. and Moloney, C.L. 2020. Monitoring marine plastics – will we know if we are making a difference? South African Journal of Science 116 (5/6). https://doi.org/10.17159/sajs.2020/7678 IF: 1.351
Ryan, P.G., Weideman, E.A., Perold, V. and Moloney, C. 2020. Toward balancing the budget: surface macro-plastics dominate the mass of particulate pollution stranded on beaches. Frontiers in Marine Science 7. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2020.575395 IF: 3.661
Ryan, P.G., Weideman, E.A., Perold, V., Durholtz, D. and Fairweather, T.P. 2020. A trawl survey of seafloor macrolitter on the South African continental shelf. Marine Pollution Bulletin 150. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2019.110741 IF: 4.049
Ryan, P.G., Suaria, G., Perold, V., Pierucci, A., Bornman, T.G. and Aliani, S. 2020. Sampling microfibres at the sea surface: The effects of mesh size, sample volume and water depth. Environmental Pollution. 258. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2019.113413 IF: 5.714
Ryan, P.G., Dilley, B.J., Risi, M.M., Jones, C.W., Osborne, A., Schofield, A., Repetto, J. and Ratcliffe, N. 2020. Three new seabird species recorded at Tristan da Cunha archipelago. Seabird 32: 122-125. NO IF
Santangeli, A., Chen, Y., Kluen, E., Chirumamilla, R., Tiainen, J. and Loehr, J. 2020. Integrating drone‑borne thermal imaging with artificial intelligence to locate bird nests on agricultural land. Scientific Reports 10. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-67898-3 IF: 3.998
Santangeli, A., Girardello, M., Buechley, E., Botha, A., Di Minin, E. and Moilanen, A. 2020. Importance of complementary approaches for efficient vulture conservation: reply to Efrat et al. Conservation biology. https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13579 IF: 5.405
Santangeli, A., Pakanen, V.M., Bridgeford, P., Boorman, M., Kolberg, H. and Sanz-Aguilar, A. 2020. The relative contribution of camera trap technology and citizen science for estimating survival of an endangered African vulture. Biological Conservation 246. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2020.108593 IF: 4.711
Seymour, C.L., Simmons, R.E., Morling, F., George, S.T., Peters, K. and O’Riain, M.J. 2020. Caught on camera: the impacts of urban domestic cats on wild prey in an African city and neighbouring protected areas. Global Ecology and Conservation. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2020.e01198 IF: 2.526
Scherer, L., Svenning, J.C., Huang, J., Seymour, C., Sandel, B., Mueller, N., Kummu, M., Bekunda, M., Bruelheide, H., Hochman, Z., Siebert, S., Rueda, O. and van Bodegom, P.M. 2020. Global priorities of environmental issues to combat food insecurity and biodiversity loss. Science of The Total Environment. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.139096 IF: 5.589
Suaria, G., Achtypi, A., Perold, V., Lee, J.R., Pierucci, A., Bornman, T.G. and Ryan, P.G. 2020. Microfibers in oceanic surface waters: a global characterization. Science Advances 6 (23) https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aay8493 IF: 12.804
Suaria, G., Perold, V., Lee, J.R., Lebouard, F., Aliani, S. and Ryan, P.G. 2020. Floating macro- and microplastics around the Southern Ocean: results from the Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition. Environment International 136. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2020.105494 IF: 7.943
Sumasgutner, P., Jenkins, A., Amar, A., Altwegg, R. 2020. Nest boxes buffer the effects of climate on breeding performance in an African urban raptor. PLoS One 15 (6) https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0234503 IF: 2.740
Tavares, D.C., Moura, J.F., Acevedo-Trejos, E., Crawford, R.J., Makhado, A., Lavers, J.L., Witteveen, M., Ryan, P.G. and Merico, A. 2020. Confidence intervals and sample size for estimating the prevalence of plastic debris in seabird nests. Environmental Pollution. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2020.114394 IF: 5.714
Thompson, L., Davies, J.P., Tate, G. and Downs, C.T. 2020. Captive large predators killing vultures: exposing captive facilities as an additional source of mortality to highly threatened birds. Bothalia 50(1) http://dx.doi.org/10.38201/btha.abc.v50.i1.6 IF: 1.982
van Sebille, E., Aliani, S., Law, K.L., Maximenko, N., Alsina, J.M., Bagaev, A., Bergmann, M., Chapron, B., Chubarenko, I., Cózar, A., Delandmeter, P., Egger, M., Fox-Kemper, B., Garaba, S.P., Goddijn-Murphy, L., Hardesty, B.D., Hoffman, M.J., Isobe, A., Jongedijk, C.E., Kaandorp, M.L.A., Khatmullina, L., Koelmans, A.A., Kukulka, T., Laufkötter, C., Lebreton, L., Lobelle, D., Maes, C., Martinez-Vicente, V., Maqueda, M.A.M., Poulain-Zarcos, M., Rodriguez, E., Ryan, P.G., Shanks, A.L., Shim, W.J., Suaria, G., Thiel, M., von den Bremer, T.S. and Wichmann, D. 2020. The physical oceanography of the transport of floating marine debris. Environmental Research Letters 15(2). https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab6d7d IF: 6.192
Venter, O., Pillay, D. and Prayag, K. 2020. Water filtration by burrowing sandprawns provides novel insights on endobenthic engineering and solutions for eutrophication. Scientific Reports 10. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-58677-1 IF: 3.998
Weideman, E.A., Munro, C., Perold, V., Omardien, A. and Ryan, P.G. 2020. Ingestion of plastic litter by the sandy anemone Bunodactis reynaudi. Environmental Pollution. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2020.115543 IF: 6.792
Weideman, E.A., Perold, V. and Ryan, P.G. 2020. Limited long-distance transport of plastic pollution by the Orange-Vaal river system, South Africa. Science of The Total Environment. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.138653 IF: 5.589
Weideman, E.A., Perold, V., Arnold, G. and Ryan, P.G. 2020. Quantifying changes in litter loads in urban stormwater run-off from Cape Town, South Africa, over the last two decades. Science of The Total Environment. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.138310 IF: 5.589
Weideman, E.A., Perold, V., Omardien, A., Smyth, L.K., Ryan, P.G. 2020. Quantifying temporal trends in anthropogenic litter in a rocky intertidal habitat. Marine Pollution Bulletin 160. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2020.111543 IF: 4.049
Zafra-Calvo, N., Balvanera, P., Pascual, U., Merçon, J., Martín-López, B., van Noordwijk, M., Mwampamba, T.H., Lele, S., Speranza, C.I., Arias-Arévalo, P., Cabrol, D., Cáceres, D.M., O'Farrell, P., Subramanian, S.M., Devy, S., Krishnani, S., Carmenta, R., Guibrunet, L., Kraus-Elsin, Y., Moersberger, H., Cariño, J. and Díaz, S. 2020. Plural valuation of nature for equity and sustainability: Insights from the Global South. Global Environmental Change 63. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2020.102115 IF: 10.466
Zoeller, K.C., Gurney, G.G., Heydinger, J. and Cumming, G.S. 2020. Defining cultural functional groups based on perceived traits assigned to birds. Ecosystem Services 44. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2020.101138 IF: 6.330
Final Journal Published Papers
Arena, G., Dean, W.R.J. and Milton, S.J. 2020. Ant communities in two habitats in succulent Karoo shrubland. African Entomology 28 (1): 202-209. https://doi.org/10.4001/003.028.0202 IF: 0.536
Balvanera, P., Jacobs, S., Nagendra, H., O’Farrell, P., Bridgewater, P., Emilie Crouzat, E., Dendoncker, N., Goodwin, S., Gustafsson, K.M., Kadykalo, A.N., Krug, C.B., Matuk, F.A., Pandit, R., Sala, J.E., Schröter, M., and Washbourne, C-L. 2020. The science-policy interface on ecosystems and people: challenges and opportunities. Ecosystems and People 16(1): 345-353. https://doi.org/10.1080/26395916.2020.1819426
Bester, M.N., Dilley, B.J., Davies, D. and Glass, T. 2020. Sub-Antarctic fur seals depredate northern rockhopper penguins at Nightingale Island. Tristan da Cunha. Polar Biology 43: 925–927. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-020-02688-1 IF: 2.002
Bolopo, D., Roncalli, G., Canestrari, D. and Baglione, V. 2020. Cheating cheaters: Social monogamy but genetic polygamy in a brood parasite. Ardeola 67: 39-56. https://doi.org/10.13157/arla.67.1.2020.ra4 IF: 1.974
Bond, A.L., McClelland, G.T.W., Cuthbert, R.J., Glass, T., Repetto, J. and Ryan, P.G. 2020. No change in Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross (Thalassarche chlororhynchos) egg size over 160 years. Emu - Austral Ornithology 120(2): 142-149. https://doi.org/10.1080/01584197.2020.1752733 IF: 1.351
Boyce, A.J., Mouton, J.C., Lloyd, P., Wolf, B.O. and Martin, T.E. 2020. Metabolic rate is negatively linked to adult survival but does not explain latitudinal differences in songbirds. Ecology Letters 23(4): 642-652. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13464 IF: 8.699
Brink, C.W., Krüger, S. and Amar, A. 2020. Potential release sites and strategies for a Bearded Vulture Gypaetus barbatus reintroduction in South Africa. Ostrich 91(2): 118-128. https://doi.org/10.2989/00306525.2020.1753252 IF: 0.628
Carneiro, A.P., Pearmain, E.J., Oppel, S., Clay, T.A., Phillips, R.A., Bonnet‐Lebrun, A.S., Wanless, R.M., Abraham, E., Richard, Y., Rice, J., Handley, J., Davies, T.E., Dilley, B.J., Ryan, P.G., Small, C., Arata, J., Arnould, J.P.Y., Bell, E., Bugoni, L., Campioni, L., Catry, P., Cleeland, J., Deppe, L., Elliott, G., Freeman, A., González-Solís, J., Granadeiro, J.P., Grémillet, D., Landers, T.J., Makhado, A., Nel, D., Nicholls, D.G., Rexer-Huber, K., Robertson, C.J.R., Sagar, P.M., Scofield, P., Stahl, J.C., Stanworth, A., Stevens, K.L., Trathan, P.N., Thompson, D.R., Torres, L., Walker, K., Waugh, S.M., Weimerskirch, H. and Dias, M.P. 2020. A framework for mapping the distribution of seabirds by integrating tracking, demography and phenology. Journal of Applied Ecology 57: 514-525. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.13568 IF: 5.782
Chamberlain, D., Reynolds, C., Amar, A., Henry, D., Caprio, E. and Batáry, P. 2020. Wealth, water and wildlife: landscape aridity intensifies the urban luxury effect. Global Ecology and Biogeography 29: 1595-1605. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13122
Colyn, R.B., Howes-Whitecross, M.A., Howes, C. and Smit-Robinson, H.A. 2020. Restricted breeding habitat of the Critically Endangered White-winged Flufftail in Ethiopia and its conservation implications., Ostrich 91(3): 204-213. https://doi.org/10.2989/00306525.2020.1737259 IF: 0.628
Courbin, N., Chinho, T., Pichegru, L., Verma-Grémillet, A., Péron, C., Ryan, P.G. and Grémillet, D. 2020. The dance of the Cape gannet may contain social information on foraging behaviour. Animal Behaviour 166: 95-108. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2020.06.012 IF: 2.689
Crowe, T.M., Mandiwana-Neudani, T.G., Donsker, D.B., Bowie, R.C.K. and Little, R.M. 2020. Resolving nomenclatural ‘confusion’ vis-à-vis Latham’s Francolin (Francolinus/Peliperdix/Afrocolinus lathami) and the ‘Red-tailed’ francolins (Francolinus/Ortygornis/Peliperdix spp.). Ostrich 91(2): 134-136. https://doi.org/10.2989/00306525.2020.1723140 IF: 0.628
Davidson, S.C., Bohrer, G., Gurarie, E., LaPoint, S., Mahoney, P.J., … Grémillet, D. et al. 2020. Ecological insights from three decades of animal movement tracking across a changing Arctic. Science 370(6517): 712-715. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abb7080 IF: 41.846
Dean, W.R.J., Milton, S.J., Vernon, C.J., Nichols, G.R. and Boon, R.G.C. 2020. The use of alien plants by birds in southern Africa. Durban Natural Science Museum Novitates 40: 24-48. NO IF
Dilley, B.J., Davies, D., Repetto, J., Swain, G. and Ryan, P.G. 2020. Rats and prions at Tristan da Cunha Island. Ostrich 91(3): 101-106. https://doi.org/10.2989/00306525.2020.1771622 IF: 0.628
Dilley, B.J., Hedding, D.W., Schoombie, S. and Ryan, P.G. 2020. A survey of Great-winged Petrels Pterodroma macroptera breeding at sub-Antarctic Marion Island and a revised global population estimate. Ostrich. https://doi.org/10.2989/00306525.2020.1721587 IF: 0.628
Feng, S., Stiller, J., Deng, Y., Armstrong, J., Fang, Q.,.... Ryan, P.G…. et al. 2020. Dense sampling of bird diversity increases power of comparative genomics. Nature 587(7833): 252-257. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2873-9 IF: 42.779
Ferreira, A.C., Silva, L.R., Renna, F., Brandl, H.B., Renoult, J.P., Farine, D.R., Covas, R. and Doutrelant, C. 2020. Deep learning-based methods for individual recognition in small birds. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 11: 1072-1085 https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13436 IF: 6.511
Flood, R.L. Olsen, K., Senfeld, T., Shannon, T.J. and Collinson, J.M. 2020. Audubon’s Shearwater collected in Skagerrak, Denmark, in September 1912. Dutch Birding 42 (3): 147-156. No IF
Hartfelder, J., Reynolds, C., Stanton, R.A., Sibiya, M., Monadjem, A., McCleery, R.A. and Fletcher, R.J. 2020. the allometry of movement predicts the connectivity of communities. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117(36): 22274-22280. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2001614117 IF: 9.412
Henry, D.A., Lee, A.T. and Altwegg, R. 2020. Can time‐to‐detection models with fewer survey replicates provide a robust alternative to traditional site‐occupancy models? Methods in Ecology and Evolution 11: 643-355. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13379 IF: 6.511
Hindell, M.A., Reisinger, R.R., Ropert-Coudert, Y. et al. 2020. Tracking of marine predators to protect Southern Ocean ecosystems. Nature 580: 87-92. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2126-y IF: 42.779
Jamie, G.A., Meier, J.I. 2020. The persistence of polymorphisms across species radiations. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 35 (9):795-808. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2020.04.007 IF: 15.236
Jones, C.W., Risi, M.M., Osborne, A.M., Parker, G.C., Rexer-Huber, K., Le Bouard, F., Cleeland, J.B., Lawrence, K., Kinchin-Smith, D., Witcutt, E., Starnes, T., Bond, A.L., Ryan, P.G. and Oppel, S. 2020. Abundance, distribution and breeding success of the endemic Gough Island Finch Rowettia goughensis between 2009 and 2018. Emu - Austral Ornithology 120(3): 230-238 https://doi.org/10.1080/01584197.2020.1773859 IF: 1.493
Jones, S.E., Jamie, G.A., Sumbane, M. and Jocque, M. 2020. The avifauna, conservation and biogeography of the Njesi Highlands in northern Mozambique, with a review of the country’s Afromontane birdlife. Ostrich 91:45-56. https://doi.org/10.2989/00306525.2019.1675795 IF: 0.628
Kattge, J. and Joseph, G.S. (and 727 other authors). 2020. TRY plant trait database–enhanced coverage and open access. Global change biology 26: 119–188. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14904 IF: 8.880
Lee, A.T.K. 2020. A celebration of 90 years of Ostrich: a review of past, present, and future directions. Ostrich 91(3): iii-xx. https://doi.org/10.2989/00306525.2020.1818045 IF: 0628
Lee, A.T.K. 2020. Best student article published in Ostrich in 2019: hold onto your saddle, Bill, for the story behind a close race. Ostrich 91:1: iii-v. https://doi.org/10.2989/00306525.2020.1739810 IF: 0.628
Lee, A.T.K. and Nel, H. 2020. BirdLasser: The influence of a mobile app on a citizen science project. African Zoology. https://doi.org/10.1080/15627020.2020.1717376 IF: 0.962
Lee, A.T.K., Barnard, P., Fraser, M., Lennard, C., Smit, B. and Oschadleus, H.D. 2020. Body mass and condition of a fynbos bird community: investigating impacts of time, weather and raptor abundance from long-term citizen- science datasets. Ostrich 91(2): 142-157. https://doi.org/10.2989/00306525.2019.1683093 IF: 0.628
Leepile, L.B.L., Maude, G., Hancock, P., Reading, R.P., Bridges, B., Hartley, R. and Amar, A. 2020. Changes in nesting numbers and breeding success of African White-backed Vulture Gyps africanus in north-central Botswana. Bird Conservation International 30(3) September; 456-473. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0959270920000179 IF: 1.846
Lindberg, C., Griffiths, C.L. and Anderson, R.J. 2020. Colonisation of South African kelp-bed canopies by the alien mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis: extent and implications of a novel bioinvasion. African Journal of Marine Science 42 (2): 167-176. https://doi.org/10.2989/1814232X.2020.1754908 IF: 0.733
Little, R.M. 2020. Elevated spurfowl and francolin taxa: recent research and a request for photographs. Malimbus 42(2): 121-123. IF: 0.200
Little, R.M. 2020. Managing nuisance Egyptian Geese (Alopochen aegyptiaca) on golf courses in Cape Town, South Africa. African Journal of Wildlife Research 50: 144–148. https://doi.org/10.3957/056.050.0144 IF: 0.700
Lowney, A.M., Flower, T.P. and Thomson, R.L. 2020. Kalahari skinks eavesdrop on sociable weavers to manage predation by pygmy falcons and expand their realized niche. Behavioral Ecology 31(5): 1094–1102. https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/araa057 IF: 2.761
Lund, J., Bolopo, D., Thomson, R.L., Elliott, D.L., Arnot, L.F., Kemp, R., Lowney, A.M. and McKechnie, A.E. 2020. Winter thermoregulation in free-ranging pygmy falcons in the Kalahari Desert. Journal of Ornithology 161:549-555. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10336-020-01755-y IF: 1.286
Miller, S.M., Moeller, C.H., Harper, C.K. and Bloomer, P. 2020. Anthropogenic movement results in hybridisation in impala in southern Africa. Conservation Genetics 21: 653-663. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10592-020-01276-4 IF: 2.283
Miller, S.M., Druce, D.J., Dalton, D.L., Harper, C.K., Kotze, A., Packer, C., Slotow, R. and Bloomer, P. 2020. Genetic rescue of an isolated African lion population. Conservation Genetics 21: 41–53. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10592-019-01231-y IF: 1.917
Moleón, M., Cortés-Avizanda, A., Pérez-García, J.M., Bautista, J., Geoghegan, C., Carrete, M., Amar, A., Sánchez-Zapata, J.A. and Donázar, J.A. 2020. Distribution of avian scavengers inside and outside of protected areas: contrasting patterns between two areas of Spain and South Africa. Biodiversity and Conservation 29: 3349-3368. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-020-02027-0 IF: 2.935
Mondreti, R., Davidar, P., Ryan, P.G., Thiebot, J.B. and Gremillet, D. 2020. Seabird and cetacean occurrence in the Bay of Bengal associated with marine productivity and commercial fishing effort. Marine Ornithology 48: 91-101. IF: 0.537
Nebel, C., Sumasgutner, P., McPherson, S.C., Tate, G.J. and Amar, A., 2020. Contrasting parental color morphs increase regularity of prey deliveries in an African raptor. Behavioral Ecology 31(5): 1142–1149. https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/araa063 IF: 2.761
Olsen, K., Flood, R.L., Senfeld, T., Shannon, T.J. and Collinson, J.M., 2020 Scopoli's Shearwater collected in Faeroes in August 1877. Dutch Birding 42(5): 335-341.
Osborne, A., Jones, C.W., Risi, M.M., Green, D.B., Dilley, B.J. and Cooper, J. 2020. Cases of foreign egg adoption by Brown Skuas Stercorarius antarcticus on Marion and Gough Islands. Polar Biology 43: 887-891 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-020-02678-3 IF: 2.002
Perold, V., Ralston-Paton, S. and Ryan, P. 2020. On a collision course? The large diversity of birds killed by wind turbines in South Africa. Ostrich 91(3): 228-239. https://doi.org/10.2989/00306525.2020.1770889 IF: 0.628
Ripple, W.J., Wolf, C., Newsome, T.M., Barnard, P., Moomaw, W.R., Maas, B. and Law, B.E. 2020. The climate emergency, forests, and transformative change. BioScience 70(6): 446-447. https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biaa032 IF: 6.591
Rose, S., Suri, J., Brooks, M. and Ryan, P.G. 2020. COVID-19 and citizen science: lessons learned from southern Africa. Ostrich 91(2): 188-191. https://doi.org/10.2989/00306525.2020.1783589 IF: 0.628
Rose, S., Thomson, R.L., Oschadleus, H.D. and Lee, A.T.K. 2020. Summarising biometrics from the SAFRING database for southern African birds. Ostrich 91(2): 139-173. https://doi.org/10.2989/00306525.2019.1645054
Ryan, P.G. 2020. Land or sea? What bottles tell us about the origins of beach litter in Kenya. Waste Management 116: 49-57. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wasman.2020.07.044 IF: 5.448
Ryan, P.G., Dilley, B.J., Davies, D., Glass, T. and Abadi, F., 2020. Short-term movement patterns, population estimates and breeding biology of an island endemic bird, the Tristan Thrush. Revista Brasileira de Ornitologia-Brazilian Journal of Ornithology 27(4): 245-252. IF: 0.565
Seymour, C.L., Milton, S.J., Altwegg, R., Joseph, G.S. and Dean, W.R.J. 2020. Addition of nitrogen increases variability of vegetation cover in an arid system with unpredictable rainfall. Ecosystems, 23(1): 175-187. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-019-00396-4 IF: 4.207
Sherley, R.B., Crawford, R.J., de Blocq, A.D., Dyer, B.M., Geldenhuys, D., Hagen, C., Kemper, J., Makhado, A.B., Pichegru, L., Tom, D.B., Upfold, L., Visagie, J., Waller, L.J. and Winker, H. 2020. The conservation status and population decline of the African penguin deconstructed in space and time. Ecology and Evolution 10(15): 8506-8516. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.6554 IF: 2.392
Slater, S.J., Dwyer, J.F. and Murgatroyd, M. 2020. Conservation Letter: Raptors and overhead electrical systems. Journal of Raptor Research 54(2): 198-203. https://doi.org/10.3356/0892-1016-54.2.198 IF: 1.167
Steinfurth, A., Oppel, S., Dias, M.P., Starnes, T., Pearmain, E.J., Dilley, B.J., Davies, D., Nydegger, M., Bell, C., Le Bouard, F., Bond, A.L., Cuthbert, R.J., Glass, T., Makhado, A.B., Crawford, R.J.M., Ryan, P.G., Wanless, R.M. and Ratcliffe, N. 2020. Important marine areas for the conservation of northern rockhopper penguins within the Tristan da Cunha Exclusive Economic Zone. Endangered Species Research 43: 409-420. https://doi.org/10.3354/esr01076 IF: 2.258
Tolvanen, J., Morosinotto, C., Forsman, J.T. and Thomson, R.L. 2020. Information collected during the post-breeding season guides future breeding decisions in a migratory bird. Oecologia 192: 965-977. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-020-04629-5 IF: 2.915
Valente, L., Phillimore, A.B., Melo, M., Warren, B.H., Clegg, S.M., Havenstein, K., Tiedemann, R., Illera, J.C., Thébaud, C., Aschenbach, T. and Etienne, R.S. 2020. A simple dynamic model explains the diversity of island birds worldwide. Nature 579: 92-96. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2022-5 IF: 42.779
van de Ven, T.M.F.N., McKechnie, A.E., Er, S. and Cunningham, S.J. 2020. High temperatures are associated with substantial reductions in breeding success and offspring quality in an arid-zone bird. Oecologia 193: 225-235. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-020-04644-6 IF: 2.915
Weideman, E.A., Slingsby, J.A., Thomson, R.L. and Coetzee, B.T. 2020. Land cover change homogenizes functional and phylogenetic diversity within and among African savanna bird assemblages. Landscape Ecology 35(1): 145-157. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-019-00939-z IF: 3.385
Wogan, G.O., Voelker, G., Oatley, G. and Bowie, R.C. 2020. Biome stability predicts population structure of a southern African aridland bird species. Ecology and Evolution 10(9): 4066-4081. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.6175 IF: 2.415