African Zoology

African Zoology is a general zoology, peer reviewed journal that publishes research articles, short communications, topical reviews, book reviews as well as conference proceedings with some bearing on the African biodiversity.

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Official journal of the Zoological Society of Southern Africa

(continue Zoologica Africana and South African Journal of Zoology)

African Zoology is widely indexed in larger indexes, Biological Abstracts, Chemical Abstracts, Current Advances in Biology & Molecular Biology, Elsevier Geoabstracts, Science Citation Index (ISI)(IF = 1.018), TEEL, Web of Science and Zoological Record.

African Zoology is accredited by the South African National Department of Education for measurement of research output of public higher education.




Vol 46, No 2 (2011)

Table of Contents

Reviews

Bee food: the chemistry and nutritional value of nectar, pollen and mixtures of the two PDF
Sue Nicolson

Articles

Assessing local scale impacts of Opuntia stricta (Cactaceae) invasion on beetle and spider diversity in Kruger National Park, South Africa PDF
M. Robertson
TROPHIC STRUCTURE AND BIOMASS DISTRIBUTION OF MACROBENTHOS ON SHELTERED AND SEMI-EXPOSED ROCKY SHORES OF TSITSIKAMMA MARINE PROTECTED AREA. PDF
Nicholas Hanekom
Marine connectivity and fish length frequencies of selected species in two adjacent temporarily open/closed estuaries in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa PDF
Poogendri Reddy
Exploring the diversity and molecular evolution of shrews (family Soricidae) using mtDNA cytochrome b data PDF
Sandy Willows-Munro
Macrofaunal community structure in the littoral zone of a freshwater deprived permanently open Eastern Cape estuary PDF
Tony Henninger
Ontogenetic dietary shift and morphological correlates for Diplodus capensis (Teleostei: Sparidae) in southern Angola PDF
Timothy Richardson
Do deterministic processes influence the phenotypic patterns of animalivorous bat ensembles at urban rivers? PDF
Corrie Schoeman
The social correlates of self-directed behaviour and faecal glucocorticoid levels among adult male olive baboons (Papio hamadryas anubis) in Gashaka-Gumti National Park, Nigeria PDF
Jacklyn J Ellis
Resolving the confusion: Amietia vertebralis and A. umbraculata tadpole morphology PDF
Donnavan JD Kruger, Che Weldon, Louis H du Preez
Rapid assessment of montane anuran communities in the Albertine Rift: Hyperolius castaneus Ahl, 1931 as an umbrella species for conservation PDF
Ulrich Sinsch
Field evidence for colony size and aseasonality of breeding and in Ansell’s mole-rat, Fukomys anselli (Rodentia: Bathyergidae) PDF
A M Sichilima, N C Bennett, Chris Faulkes
Parasitic infections of amphibians in the Pendjari Biosphere Reserve, Benin Republic PDF
M.S.O. Aisien
Yellow-bellied or white-bellied? Identity of Arabian house bats (Vespertilionidae: Scotophilus) revealed from mitochondrial DNA and morphology PDF
Peter Vallo
AARDVARK BURROWS: A POTENTIAL RESOURCE FOR ANIMALS IN ARID AND SEMI-ARID ENVIRONMENTS PDF
GM Whittington-Jones, Ric TF Bernard, Dan M Parker
Invasion of a South African Anguilla mossambica (Anguillidae) population by the alien gill worm Pseudodactylogyrus anguillae (Monogenea) PDF
Denham Parker
Diet of largemouth bass, Micropterus salmoides (Centrarchidae) an invasive alien in the lower reaches of an Eastern Cape River, South Africa PDF
Ryan Wasserman, Nadine Strydom, Olaf Weyl

Conference Proceedings (Peer Reviewed)

Differences in diet between two rodent species of Mastomys natalensis and Gerbilliscus vicinus in fallowland habitat of central Tanzania PDF
Loth S. Mulungu
Spatial and temporal population dynamics of rodents in three geographically different regions in Africa: Implication for ecologically- based rodent management PDF
A.W. Massawe
Laboratory evaluation of germinated and non-germinated bait base for the management of the house rat, Rattus rattus PDF
Palaniyandi Sakthivel

Short Communications

First records of the echiurans Anelassorhynchus inanensis (Ikeda, 1904) and Ochetostoma pellucidum (Fischer, 1895) from the east coast of southern Africa (Echiuroinea: Echiuridae) PDF
Ramlall Biseswar
Genetic variation in the Critically Endangered velvet worm species Opisthopatus roseus (Onychophora: Peripatopsidae) PDF
Savel Daniels
Satellite telemetry of Afrotropical ducks: methodological details and assessment of success rates PDF
Graeme Cumming, Mduduzi Ndlovu

Obituary

John Dawson Skinner (17 September 1932 to 28 August 2011) PDF
Rudi van Aarde, Robert Millar

Book Reviews

Bats of Southern and Central Africa: A Biogeographic and Taxonomic Synthesis PDF
Ric Bernard
Soils of South Africa PDF
Eduard Hoffman



ISSN 2224-073X (online) ; ISSN 1562-7020 (print)

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