• Repeated reduction in parasite diversity in invasive populations of Xenopus leavis: a global experiment in enemy release 

  Schoeman, A.L.; Kruger, N.; Secondi, J.; du Preez, L.H. (Springer, 2019)

  The introduction of species to multiple continents creates natural experiments suited to the evaluation of ecological hypotheses. For the Enemy Release Hypothesis (ERH), which postulates that the success of invasive ...

• Deciphering the worldwide invasion of the Asian long-horned beetle: A recurrent invasion process from the native area together with a bridgehead effect 

  Javal, M.; Lombaert, E.; Tsykun, T.; Courtin, C.; Kerdelhue, C.; Prospero, S.; Roques, A.; Roux, G. (John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2019)

  Retracing introduction routes is crucial for understanding the evolutionary processes involved in an invasion, as well as for highlighting the invasion history of a species at the global scale. The Asian long‐horned beetle ...

• Environmental temperature alters the overall digestive energetics and differentially affects dietary protein and lipid use in a lizard 

  Plasman, M.; McCue, M.D.; Reynoso, V.H.; Terblanche, J.S.; Clusella-Trullas, S. (The Company of Biologists Ltd, 2019)

  Processing food (e.g. ingestion, digestion, assimilation) requires energy referred to as specific dynamic action (SDA) and is at least partially fuelled by oxidation of the nutrients (e.g. proteins and lipids) within the ...

• Rapid recovery of macroinvertebrates in a South African stream treated with rotenone 

  Bellingan, T.A.; Hugo, S.; Woodford, D.J.; Gouws, J.; Villet, M.H.; Weyl, O.L.F. (Springer, 2019)

  South Africa’s Cape Fold Ecoregion supports a unique freshwater fish assemblage with many endemics. To mitigate impacts of alien invasive fishes on this unique assemblage, nature conservation authority CapeNature used ...

• Cold treatment enhances low-temperature flight performance in false codling moth, Thaumatotibia leucotreta (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) 

  Boersma, N.; Boardman, L.; Gilbert, M.; Terblanche, J.S. (The Royal Entomological Society, 2019)

  1 In sterile insect technique programmes, temperatures experienced by insects during rearing and handling, along with cool temperatures after release, can negatively affect performance and activity levels. Phenotypic ...

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