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List of works by Steven L. Chown

A comparative analysis of metabolic rate in six Scarabaeus species (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) from southern Africa: further caveats when inferring adaptation.

scientific article published in April 2000

A decade of invertebrate colonization pressure on Scott Base in the Ross Sea region

article by Jana Newman et al published 5 April 2018 in Biological Invasions

A global analysis of elevational distribution of non‐native versus native plants

scientific article published on 18 January 2018

A global indicator for biological invasion

scientific article

A hierarchy of factors influence discontinuous gas exchange in the grasshopper Paracinema tricolor (Orthoptera: Acrididae).

scientific article published on 25 July 2014

A meta-analysis of human disturbance impacts on Antarctic wildlife

scientific article published on 28 April 2015

A multi‐site method to capture turnover in rare to common interactions in bipartite species networks

scientific article published in 2021

A planetary health model for reducing exposure to faecal contamination in urban informal settlements: Baseline findings from Makassar, Indonesia

scientific article published in 2021

A predicted niche shift corresponds with increased thermal resistance in an invasive mite,Halotydeus destructor

scientific article published in 2013

A review on the status of invasions on sub-Antarctic Marion and Prince Edward Islands

scientific article

A roadmap for Antarctic and Southern Ocean science for the next two decades and beyond

article

A trait-based approach to understanding plant invasions on the Sub-Antarctic Islands

scientific article

A widespread thermodynamic effect, but maintenance of biological rates through space across life's major domains

scientific article published on 31 October 2018

Abundance and seasonality of mid-altitude fellfield arthropods from Marion Island

Acclimation effects on critical and lethal thermal limits of workers of the Argentine ant, Linepithema humile

scientific article published on 3 April 2008

Acclimation effects on thermal tolerances of springtails from sub-Antarctic Marion Island: indigenous and invasive species

scientific article

Adequate sample sizes for improved accuracy of thermal trait estimates

scientific article published on 05 October 2021

Aliens in Antarctica: Assessing transfer of plant propagules by human visitors to reduce invasion risk

article

Allometric scaling of maximum metabolic rate: the influence of temperature

scientific article published in 2008

Ambient, productive and wind energy, and ocean extent predict global species richness of procellariiform seabirds

article

An information-theoretic approach to evaluating the size and temperature dependence of metabolic rate

scientific article published on 6 June 2012

An unusually diverse genus of Collembola in the Cape Floristic Region characterised by substantial desiccation tolerance

scientific article published in April 2021

Animal Introductions to Southern Systems: Lessons for Ecology and for Policy

scientific article published in 2009

Ant assemblages have darker and larger members in cold environments

scientific article published in 2016

Antagonistic effects of biological invasion and temperature change on body size of island ectotherms

article by Anne M. Treasure & Steven L. Chown published 28 November 2013 in Diversity and Distributions

Antarctic Entomology ⬇️

scientific article

Antarctic Marine Biodiversity and Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vents ⬇️

scientific article published on January 3, 2012

Antarctic Treaty System Past Not Predictive ⬇️

scientific article published on January 11, 2013

Antarctica and the strategic plan for biodiversity.

scientific article

Antarctica's protected areas are inadequate, unrepresentative, and at risk

scientific article

Antarctica's wilderness fails to capture continent's biodiversity

scientific article published on 15 July 2020

Approche cytogénétique de la systématique de trois Curculionides des îles du sud de l'Océan Indien : Ectemnorrhinus angusticollis (Waterhouse), Dusmoecetes marioni (Jeannel) et Canonopsis sericea (Waterhouse) (Coleoptera) ⬇️

Assemblage level variation in springtail lower lethal temperature: the role of invasive species on sub-Antarctic Marion Island

article

Australian penguin ticks screened for novel Borrelia species.

scientific article published on 15 December 2017

Author Correction: Choosing the future of Antarctica

scientific article published in Nature

Barriers to globally invasive species are weakening across the Antarctic

article

Basal Metabolic Rate of the Black-Faced Sheathbill (Chionis minor): Intraspecific Variation in a Phylogenetically Distinct Island Endemic

scientific article

Basal resistance enhances warming tolerance of alien over indigenous species across latitude

scientific article published on 18 December 2017

Basal tolerance but not plasticity gives invasive springtails the advantage in an assemblage setting

scientific article published on 15 June 2020

Beneficial acclimation and the Bogert effect

scientific article published on 9 July 2008

Bias, precision and accuracy in the estimation of cuticular and respiratory water loss: a case study from a highly variable cockroach, Perisphaeria sp.

scientific article published on 6 September 2007

Biological invasions in the Antarctic: extent, impacts and implications

scientific article

Biological invasions of Southern Ocean islands: the Collembola of Marion Island as a test of generalities

scientific article published in 2001

Biological invasions of Southern Ocean islands: the Collembola of Marion Island as a test of generalities

scientific article published in 2008

Biological invasions, climate change and genomics ⬇️

scientific article

Biology and ecology of theDusmoecetes Jeannel (Col. Curculionidae) species complex on Marion Island ⬇️

scientific article published on March 13, 2013

Biotic interactions modify the effects of oxygen on insect gigantism ⬇️

scientific article (publication date: 3 July 2012)

Body size patterns in Drosophila inhabiting a mesocosm: interactive effects of spatial variation in temperature and abundance

scientific article published on 14 June 2006

Body size variation in insects: a macroecological perspective

scientific article published on 10 December 2009

Breaching the dispersal barrier to invasion: quantification and management

scientific article published in October 2009

Can a Terrestrial Ectoparasite Disperse with Its Marine Host?

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

Caterpillars benefit from thermal ecosystem engineering by wandering albatrosses on sub-Antarctic Marion Island

scientific article

Changes in soil nematode populations indicate an annual life cycle at Cape Hallett, Antarctica

article

Chemosensory and thermal cue responses in the sub-Antarctic moth Pringleophaga marioni: Do caterpillars choose Wandering Albatross nest proxies?

article

Chemosynthetic and photosynthetic bacteria contribute differentially to primary production across a steep desert aridity gradient

scientific article published on 25 May 2021

Choosing the future of Antarctica

scientific article published in Nature

Chronic heat stress in tropical urban informal settlements

scientific article published on 10 November 2021

Climate change and elevational diversity capacity: do weedy species take up the slack? ⬇️

scientific article

Climate change and the short-term impact of feral house mice at the sub-Antarctic Prince Edward Islands

scientific article

Climate change leads to increasing population density and impacts of a key island invader.

scientific article published on 20 October 2017

Climatic predictors of temperature performance curve parameters in ectotherms imply complex responses to climate change

scientific article

Climatic variability and the evolution of insect freeze tolerance

scientific article

Coefficient shifts in geographical ecology: an empirical evaluation of spatial and non-spatial regression

article

Cold tolerance of Littorinidae from southern Africa: intertidal snails are not constrained to freeze tolerance

scientific article published on 28 October 2004

Colonisation of sub-Antarctic Marion Island by a non-indigenous aphid parasitoid Aphidius matricariae (Hymenoptera, Braconidae)

scholarly article by J. E. Lee et al published 12 April 2007 in Polar Biology

Comment on "Erosion of lizard diversity by climate change and altered thermal niches".

scientific article

Comparative nutritional ecology of bryophyte and angiosperm feeders in a sub-Antarctic weevil species complex (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)

article

Comparative nutritional ecology of grass-feeding in a sub-Antarctic beetle: the impact of introduced species on Hydromedion sparsutum from South Georgia

scientific article

Comparing thermal performance curves across traits: how consistent are they?

scientific article published on 13 May 2019

Conservation biogeography of the Antarctic

scholarly article by Aleks Terauds et al published 22 May 2012 in Diversity and Distributions

Conservation implications of spatial genetic structure in two species of oribatid mites from the Antarctic Peninsula and the Scotia Arc

Conservation of Southern Ocean Islands: invertebrates as exemplars

Conservation of heterogeneity among dung beetles in the Maputaland Centre of Endemism, South Africa

article

Conservation. Challenges to the future conservation of the Antarctic

scientific article

Conserving pattern and process in the Southern Ocean: designing a Marine Protected Area for the Prince Edward Islands

Constant and fluctuating temperature acclimations have similar effects on phenotypic plasticity in springtails

scientific article published on 15 August 2020

Constraint and competition in assemblages: a cross-continental and modeling approach for ants

scientific article published on 8 March 2005

Continent-wide risk assessment for the establishment of nonindigenous species in Antarctica ⬇️

scientific article (publication date: 27 March 2012)

Contingent absences account for range limits but not the local abundance structure of an invasive springtail

scientific article published in 2012

Control of discontinuous gas exchange in Samia cynthia: effects of atmospheric oxygen, carbon dioxide and moisture

scientific article published on October 2008

Creating novel food webs on introduced Australian acacias: indirect effects of galling biological control agents

article

Critical thermal limits and their responses to acclimation in two sub-Antarctic spiders: Myro kerguelenensis and Prinerigone vagans

article

Critical thermal limits depend on methodological context

scientific article published in December 2007

Critical thermal limits, temperature tolerance and water balance of a sub-Antarctic caterpillar, Pringleophaga marioni (Lepidoptera: Tineidae).

scientific article published on July 1997

Critical thermal limits, temperature tolerance and water balance of a sub-Antarctic kelp fly, Paractora dreuxi (Diptera: Helcomyzidae).

scientific article

Cryptic species, biogeographic complexity and the evolutionary history of the Ectemnorhinus group in the sub-Antarctic, including a description of Bothrometopus huntleyi, n. sp

article

Cryptogam Herbivory in Curculionidae (Coleoptera) from the Sub-Antarctic Prince Edward Islands

scientific article published in 1989

Cuticular lipid mass and desiccation rates in Glossina pallidipes: interpopulation variation

scientific article

DNA barcoding and the documentation of alien species establishment on sub-Antarctic Marion Island

article

Deconstructing a controversial local range expansion: conservation biogeography of the painted reed frog (Hyperolius marmoratus) in South Africa

article

Deleterious effects of repeated cold exposure in a freeze-tolerant sub-Antarctic caterpillar

scientific article

Delivering 21st century Antarctic and Southern Ocean science

Density, body size and sex ratio of an indigenous spider along an altitudinal gradient in the sub-Antarctic

article

Description of the Larva of Christensenia Antarctica Brinck with Implications for the Phylogeny of Ectemnorhinini (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)

scholarly article by S L Chown & C H Scholtz published 1990 in The Coleopterists Bulletin

Desiccation tolerance as a function of age, sex, humidity and temperature in adults of the African malaria vectors Anopheles arabiensis and Anopheles funestus

scientific article published on 29 September 2014

Directional evolution of the slope of the metabolic rate-temperature relationship is correlated with climate

scientific article published on September 2009

Discontinuous gas exchange and the significance of respiratory water loss in Scarabaeine beetles

scientific article

Discontinuous gas exchange in insects: a clarification of hypotheses and approaches

scientific article

Discontinuous gas exchange: new perspectives on evolutionary origins and ecological implications

article published in 2011

Discontinuous gas-exchange in centipedes and its convergent evolution in tracheated arthropods.

scientific article published in April 2002

Dissecting the plant-insect diversity relationship in the Cape.

scientific article

Diurnal variation in supercooling points of three species of Collembola from Cape Hallett, Antarctica

scientific article published in November 2003

ENERGY, SPECIES RICHNESS, AND HUMAN POPULATION SIZE: CONSERVATION IMPLICATIONS AT A NATIONAL SCALE

scientific article published in 2003

Ecogeographical rules: elements of a synthesis

Ecological biogeography of southern ocean islands: species-area relationships, human impacts, and conservation

scientific article

Ecologically relevant measures of tolerance to potentially lethal temperatures

scientific article

Ecophysiological forecasting for environmental change adaptation

scientific article published in 2013

Editorial overview: Global change biology: Insects in a hot, crowded and connected world

editorial overview published on 28 October 2015

Effects of a short-term climate change experiment on a sub-Antarctic keystone plant species

article

Effects of flow rate and temperature on cyclic gas exchange in tsetse flies (Diptera, Glossinidae).

scientific article published on 26 March 2009

Effects of temperature on heat-shock responses and survival of two species of marine invertebrates from sub-Antarctic Marion Island

article

Effects of thermal acclimation on water loss rate and tolerance in the collembolanPogonognathellus flavescens

Emerging biological archives can reveal ecological and climatic change in Antarctica

scientific article published in 2022

Environmental factors, regional body size distributions and spatial variation in body size of local avian assemblages

article by Michelle Greve et al published July 2008 in Global Ecology and Biogeography

Environmental physiology of three species of Collembola at Cape Hallett, North Victoria Land, Antarctica

scientific article

Erratum to Araújoet al(2013)

scientific article published on 11 March 2016

Evidence of Competition in a Herbivorous, Gall-Inhabiting Moth (Lepidoptera) Community

scientific article published in 1997

Evolutionary responses of discontinuous gas exchange in insects

scientific article

Expanding the Protected Area Network in Antarctica is Urgent and Readily Achievable

scientific article published on 19 January 2017

Extinction and recolonization of maritime Antarctica in the limpet Nacella concinna (Strebel, 1908) during the last glacial cycle: toward a model of Quaternary biogeography in shallow Antarctic invertebrates.

scientific article

Extrapolating population size from the occupancy-abundance relationship and the scaling pattern of occupancy

scientific article published in December 2009

Factory flies are not equal to wild flies

scientific article published in September 2007

Following the Antarctic Circumpolar Current: patterns and processes in the biogeography of the limpet Nacella (Mollusca: Patellogastropoda) across the Southern Ocean

scholarly article by Claudio A. González-Wevar et al published 27 December 2016 in Journal of Biogeography

Food for thought: Risks of non-native species transfer to the Antarctic region with fresh produce

article

Further support for thermal ecosystem engineering by wandering albatross

article published in 2015

Gall wasp biocontrol of invasive Acacia longifolia : implications of strong bottom-up effects

scientific article published in 2017

Gas exchange characteristics, metabolic rate and water loss of the Heelwalker, Karoophasma biedouwensis (Mantophasmatodea: Austrophasmatidae).

scientific article published on 8 February 2006

Genetic evidence confirms the origin of the house mouse on sub-Antarctic Marion Island

article

Geographic variation and plasticity in climate stress resistance among southern African populations of Ceratitis capitata (Wiedemann) (Diptera: Tephritidae).

scientific article published on 29 June 2018

Geographical bias in physiological data limits predictions of global change impacts

scientific article published on 20 April 2021

Geothermal activity helps life survive glacial cycles

scientific article (publication date: 15 April 2014)

Global compositional variation among native and non-native regional insect assemblages emphasizes the importance of pathways

article

Global maps of soil temperature

scientific article published on 30 December 2021

Global maps of soil temperature

Global maps of soil temperature.

Globally invariant metabolism but density-diversity mismatch in springtails

Growth and reproduction of laboratory-reared neanurid Collembola using a novel slime mould diet

scientific article

Habitat use and diet as biogeographic indicators for subantarctic Ectemnorhinini (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)

scholarly article by S.L. Chown published in March 1989

Half a century of thermal tolerance studies in springtails (Collembola): A review of metrics, spatial and temporal trends

scientific article published on 28 November 2021

Handbook of protocols for standardized measurement of terrestrial invertebrate functional traits

scientific article published in 2016

Heat freezes niche evolution

scientific article

Hemispheric asymmetries in biodiversity--a serious matter for ecology

scientific article

Herbivores, but not other insects, are scarce on alien plants

article

High resolution temperature data for ecological research and management on the Southern Ocean Islands

scientific article published on 04 September 2018

Historical ecology of sub-Antarctic weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionidae): patterns and processes on isolated islands

scholarly article by S.L. Chown published in April 1994

Human activities, propagule pressure and alien plants in the sub-Antarctic: Tests of generalities and evidence in support of management

article

Human activity strongly influences genetic dynamics of the most widespread invasive plant in the sub‐Antarctic

scientific article

Human impacts, energy availability and invasion across Southern Ocean Islands

article by Steven L. Chown et al published 19 July 2005 in Global Ecology and Biogeography

Increasing impacts by Antarctica’s most widespread invasive plant species as result of direct competition with native vascular plants

scientific article

Indigenous and introduced Collembola differ in desiccation resistance but not its plasticity in response to temperature

scientific article published in 2023

Indirect effects of habitat disturbance on invasion: nutritious litter from a grazing resistant plant favors alien over native Collembola ⬇️

scientific article published on 25 July 2015

Indirect effects of invasive species removal devastate World Heritage Island

article

Inertia in physiological traits: Embryonopsis halticella caterpillars (Yponomeutidae) across the Antarctic Polar Frontal Zone

scientific article published on January 2005

Insect gas exchange patterns: a phylogenetic perspective

scientific article published in December 2005

Insect rate-temperature relationships: environmental variation and the metabolic theory of ecology

scientific article

Insects at low temperatures: an ecological perspective

scientific article published on 13 May 2003

Instar Number and Mass of Palirhoeus eatoni (C. O. Waterhouse) and Bothrometopus randi Jeannel (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) from Subantarctic Marion Island

Inter-island dispersal of flightless Bothrometopus huntleyi (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) from the sub-Antarctic Prince Edward Island archipelago

scholarly article by G.C. Grobler published in February 2011

Interactions between desiccation resistance, host-plant contact and the thermal biology of a leaf-dwelling sub-antarctic caterpillar, Embryonopsis halticella (Lepidoptera: Yponomeutidae).

scientific article

Interactions between rates of temperature change and acclimation affect latitudinal patterns of warming tolerance

scientific article

Intraspecific body size frequency distributions of insects

scientific article

Intraspecific variation in lizard heat tolerance alters estimates of climate impact

scientific article published in 2018

Intraspecific variation in lizard heat tolerance alters estimates of climate impact

Introduced and invasive alien species of Antarctica and the Southern Ocean Islands

scientific article published in 2023

Invasive species differ in key functional traits from native and non‐invasive alien plant species

scientific article published on 24 May 2019

Invasive species impacts on sub-Antarctic Collembola support the Antarctic climate-diversity-invasion hypothesis

scientific article

Invertebrate body sizes from Marion Island

Investigating onychophoran gas exchange and water balance as a means to inform current controversies in arthropod physiology

scientific article published in October 2008

Kelp degradation by Paractora trichosterna (Thomson) (Diptera: Helcomyzidae) at sub-Antarctic South Georgia

Lack of coherence in the warming responses of marine crustaceans

article

Land-use change promotes avian diversity at the expense of species with unique traits

scientific article published in 2016

Landscape Corridors: Possible Dangers?

scientific article published in Science

Life history and osmoregulatory ability of Telmatogeton amphibius (Diptera, Chironomidae) at Marion Island

Life stage-related differences in hardening and acclimation of thermal tolerance traits in the kelp fly, Paractora dreuxi (Diptera, Helcomyzidae).

scientific article published on 24 January 2009

Linking molecular physiology to ecological realities

scientific article published on 8 February 2006

Litter decomposition in fynbos vegetation, South Africa

article

Lizard thermal trait variation at multiple scales: a review

scientific article published on 30 August 2013

Local scale comparisons of biodiversity as a test for global protected area ecological performance: a meta-analysis

scientific article

Local, but not long-distance dispersal of penguin ticks between two sub-Antarctic islands

scientific article published on 21 September 2020

Long-term ecosystem networks to record change: an international imperative

Macrophysiology - progress and prospects

scientific article published in 2015

Macrophysiology for a changing world

scientific article published in July 2008

Macrophysiology for decision‐making

scientific article published on 2 November 2022

Macrophysiology: a conceptual reunification.

scientific article

Management implications of the Macquarie Island trophic cascade revisited: a reply to Dowdinget��al.(2009)

scientific article published in 2009

Mapping the potential distribution of alien species in the sub-Antarctic

scientific article published in 2016

Marine food webs destabilized

scientific article published on 01 August 2020

Mean mass-specific metabolic rates are strikingly similar across life's major domains: Evidence for life's metabolic optimum

scientific article (publication date: 4 November 2008)

Metabolic and water loss rates of two cryptic species in the African velvet worm genus Opisthopatus (Onychophora).

scientific article published on 19 October 2012

Metabolic rate in the whip-spider, Damon annulatipes (Arachnida: Amblypygi).

scientific article published in July 2004

Metabolic rate variation in Glossina pallidipes (Diptera: Glossinidae): gender, ageing and repeatability

scientific article published in May 2004

Metabolic rate, genetic and microclimate variation among springtail populations from sub-Antarctic Marion Island

article

Metabolism of the sub-Antarctic caterpillar Pringleophaga marioni during cooling, freezing and thawing

scientific article

Microclimate-based macrophysiology: implications for insects in a warming world

scientific article

Mid-domain models of species richness gradients: assumptions, methods and evidence

article

Milnesium cfr. tardigradum (Milnesiidae, Apochela, Tardigrada): A Monitor of High Altitude Meiofauna on Sub-Antarctic Marion Island

scientific article published in 2001

Mite dispersal among the Southern Ocean Islands and Antarctica before the last glacial maximum

scientific article (publication date: 22 April 2011)

Modelling the winter distribution of a rare and endangered migrant, the Aquatic Warbler Acrocephalus paludicola

article

Molecular and morphometric assessment of the taxonomic status of Ectemnorhinus weevil species (Coleoptera: Curculionidae, Entiminae) from the sub-Antarctic Prince Edward Islands

article

Monitoring biological invasion across the broader Antarctic: A baseline and indicator framework

article by Melodie A. McGeoch et al published May 2015 in Global Environmental Change

Monitoring of diverse enteric pathogens across environmental and host reservoirs with TaqMan array cards and standard qPCR: a methodological comparison study

scientific article published on 01 May 2021

Morphometric measurement selection: an invertebrate case study based on weevils from sub-Antarctic Marion Island

Multiple introductions, polyploidy and mixed reproductive strategies are linked to genetic diversity and structure in the most widespread invasive plant across Southern Ocean archipelagos

scientific article published in 2022

Mytilus on the move: transport of an invasive bivalve to the Antarctic

scientific article published in 2007

Natural dispersal to sub-Antarctic Marion Island of two arthropod species

article

Nestedness of Southern Ocean island biotas: ecological perspectives on a biogeographical conundrum

scholarly article by Michelle Greve et al published 23 December 2004 in Journal of Biogeography

Non-indigenous microorganisms in the Antarctic: assessing the risks

scientific article

Novel ecosystems support substantial avian assemblages: the case of invasive alienAcaciathickets

scholarly article by Andrew M. Rogers published in September 2013

One hundred research questions in conservation physiology for generating actionable evidence to inform conservation policy and practice

scientific article published on 29 January 2021

Ontogenetic shifts in plant interactions vary with environmental severity and affect population structure ⬇️

scientific article published on June 6, 2013

Options for reducing uncertainty in impact classification for alien species

scientific article

Out of Antarctica: quaternary colonization of sub-Antarctic Marion Island by the limpet genus Nacella (Patellogastropoda: Nacellidae)

scholarly article by Elie Poulin published in 2014

Oxygen limitation and thermal tolerance in two terrestrial arthropod species

scientific article published in July 2010

Parameter landscapes unveil the bias in allometric prediction

article

Parthenogenesis without costs in a grasshopper with hybrid origins

scientific article published on 3 June 2022

Penguin ectoparasite panmixia suggests extensive host movement within a colony

scientific article published in July 2018

People, species richness and human population growth

scientific article published in 2006

People, species richness and human population growth

article published in 2006

Phenotypic plasticity and geographic variation in thermal tolerance and water loss of the tsetse Glossina pallidipes (Diptera: Glossinidae): implications for distribution modelling.

scientific article

Phenotypic plasticity in locomotor performance of a monophyletic group of weevils accords with the 'warmer is better' hypothesis

scientific article published on 07 May 2019

Phenotypic plasticity mediates climate change responses among invasive and indigenous arthropods ⬇️

scientific article published in October 2007

Phenotypic plasticity of gas exchange pattern and water loss in Scarabaeus spretus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae): deconstructing the basis for metabolic rate variation

scientific article published in September 2010

Phenotypic plasticity of locomotion performance in the seed harvester Messor capensis (Formicidae).

scientific article

Phenotypic plasticity of thermal tolerances in five oribatid mite species from sub-Antarctic Marion Island

scientific article

Phenotypic variance, plasticity and heritability estimates of critical thermal limits depend on methodological context

article

Phylogeny and colonization history of Pringlea antiscorbutica (Brassicaceae), an emblematic endemic from the South Indian Ocean Province.

scientific article

Phylogeography of a mite, Halozetes fulvus, reflects the landscape history of a young volcanic island in the sub-Antarctic

Physiological Diversity in Insects: Ecological and Evolutionary Contexts

scientific article (publication date: 2006)

Physiological tolerances account for range limits and abundance structure in an invasive slug ⬇️

scientific article published on 20 February 2009

Physiological variation and phenotypic plasticity: a response to `Plasticity in arthropod cryotypes' by Hawes and Bale

article

Plant diversity drives global patterns of insect invasions ⬇️

scientific article published in Scientific Reports

Polar collaborations are key to successful policies

journal article; published in Nature on 2018-06-13

Polar lake microbiomes have distinct evolutionary histories

scientific article published on 17 November 2023

Polar lessons learned: long-term management based on shared threats in Arctic and Antarctic environments

article

Polar research: Six priorities for Antarctic science

scientific article

Population responses within a landscape matrix: a macrophysiological approach to understanding climate change impacts

article

Population structure, propagule pressure, and conservation biogeography in the sub-Antarctic: lessons from indigenous and invasive springtails

scholarly article by M. Myburgh et al published 2 March 2007 in Diversity and Distributions

Pre-freeze mortality in three species of aphids from sub-Antarctic Marion Island

article

Progress towards a representative network of Southern Ocean protected areas

scientific article published on 22 April 2020

Protect global values of the Southern Ocean ecosystem

scientific article published on 4 November 2022

Protected areas and regional avian species richness in South Africa.

scientific article published in June 2006

Publisher Correction: Open Science principles for accelerating trait-based science across the Tree of Life

scientific article published on 01 April 2020

Quantification of intra-regional propagule movements in the Antarctic

article published in 2011

Quantifying the propagule load associated with the construction of an Antarctic research station

Range expansion and increasing impact of the introduced wasp Aphidius matricariae Haliday on sub-Antarctic Marion Island

Range expansion of two invasive springtails on sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island

Rapid responses to high temperature and desiccation but not to low temperature in the freeze tolerant sub-Antarctic caterpillar Pringleophaga marioni (Lepidoptera, Tineidae).

scientific article

Rate dynamics of ectotherm responses to thermal stress

scientific article published on 01 May 2019

Rates of species introduction to a remote oceanic island ⬇️

scientific article published in May 2003

Reactive oxygen species production and discontinuous gas exchange in insects

scientific article published on 24 August 2011

Realised rather than fundamental thermal niches predict site occupancy: implications for climate change forecasting

scientific article published on 27 September 2020

Realizing a synergy between research and education: how participation in ant monitoring helps raise biodiversity awareness in a resource-poor country

Reconsidering connectivity in the sub-Antarctic.

scientific article

Reframing conservation physiology to be more inclusive, integrative, relevant and forward-looking: reflections and a horizon scan

scientific article published on 04 April 2020

Regulated bradycardia in the pulmonate limpet Siphonaria (Gastropoda: Mollusca) during pollutant exposure: implication for biomarker studies

scientific article published on 01 November 2004

Repeatability of standard metabolic rate and gas exchange characteristics in a highly variable cockroach,Perisphaeriasp ⬇️

scientific article published on December 1, 2003

Respiratory dynamics of discontinuous gas exchange in the tracheal system of the desert locust, Schistocerca gregaria

scientific article published on July 2012

Revisiting water loss in insects: a large scale view

scientific article published in December 2001

Rising temperatures and changing rainfall patterns in South Africa's national parks

Scale effects on the body size frequency distributions of African birds: patterns and potential mechanisms

scientific article published in 2012

Scaling of gas exchange cycle frequency in insects

scientific article published on February 2008

Scientists' warning on climate change and insects ⬇️

journal article from 'Ecological Monographs' published in 2022

Seasonal, altitudinal and host plant-related variation in the abundance of aphids (Insecta, Hemiptera) on sub-Antarctic Marion Island

article

Sex-specific effects of mitochondrial haplotype on metabolic rate in Drosophila melanogaster support predictions of the Mother's Curse hypothesis

scientific article published on 02 December 2019

Similar metabolic rate-temperature relationships after acclimation at constant and fluctuating temperatures in caterpillars of a sub-Antarctic moth

scientific article published on 21 November 2015

Soil Bacterial Communities Exhibit Strong Biogeographic Patterns at Fine Taxonomic Resolution

scientific article published on 21 July 2020

Soil biota in a megadiverse country: Current knowledge and future research directions in South Africa

article

Solving the puzzle ofPringleophaga- threatened, keystone detritivores in the sub-Antarctic

South Africa: big science should stay on the agenda

scientific article published in March 2010

South African research in the Southern Ocean: New opportunities but serious challenges

scholarly article by Anne M. Treasure et al published 2013 in South African Journal of Science

Spatial and Temporal Variability in Terrestrial Antarctic Biodiversity

Spatial and temporal variability across life's hierarchies in the terrestrial Antarctic

scientific article (publication date: 29 December 2007)

Spatial congruence of ecological transition at the regional scale in South Africa

article

Spatial scale and species identity influence the indigenous-alien diversity relationship in springtails

scientific article published in July 2011

Spatial variation and biogeography of sand forest avian assemblages in South Africa

article

Spatial variation in structural damage to a keystone plant species in the sub-Antarctic: interactions between Azorella selago and invasive house mice

article

Speciation in the sub-Antarctic weevil genus Dusmoecetes Jeannel (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)

scholarly article by S. L. CHOWN published in July 1990

Species and community responses to short-term climate manipulation: Microarthropods in the sub-Antarctic

article

Species distribution modelling in low-interaction environments: Insights from a terrestrial Antarctic system

article

Species richness and turnover among indigenous and introduced plants and insects of the Southern Ocean Islands

scientific article published on 23 July 2018

Species richness, environmental correlates, and spatial scale: a test using South African birds.

scientific article published in May 2002

Species-energy relationships of indigenous and invasive species may arise in different ways - a demonstration using springtails ⬇️

scientific article published on 24 September 2019

Springtail diversity in South Africa

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Springtail phylogeography highlights biosecurity risks of repeated invasions and intraregional transfers among remote islands

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