List of works - Hervé Fritz

A global assessment of terrestrial alien ferns (Polypodiophyta): species’ traits as drivers of naturalisation and invasion

African elephants adjust speed in response to surface-water constraint on foraging during the dry-season

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

African ungulates and their drinking problems: hunting and predation risks constrain access to water

scientific article published in 2012

Ageing of ungulate pellets in semi-arid landscapes: how the shade of colour can refine pellet-group counts

Androgen changes and flexible rutting behaviour in male giraffes

scientific article (publication date: 23 October 2013)

Another call for the end of invasion biology

article by Loïc Valéry et al published 8 May 2013 in Oikos

Anti-predator behaviour of kudu and impala in response to mimicked African wild dog presence: do age and sex matter?

scientific article published in 2015

Are fission-fusion dynamics consistent among populations? A large-scale study with Cape buffalo

scientific article published on 11 August 2020

Assessing different methods for measuring mammal diversity in two southern African arid ecosystems

scientific article published in 2021

Between-gender differences in vigilance do not necessarily lead to differences in foraging-vigilance tradeoffs

scientific article published on 26 March 2016

Bird species assemblages differ, while functional richness is maintained across an urban landscape

scientific article published in 2021

Bush selection along foraging pathways by sympatric impala and greater kudu.

scientific article published on 23 July 2004

Can an herbivore affect where a top predator kills its prey by modifying woody vegetation structure?

scientific article published on 14 February 2020

Challenges of foraging on a high-quality but unpredictable food source: the dynamics of grass production and consumption in savanna grazing lawns

scientific article published on 26 April 2010

Characterising African tick communities at a wild-domestic interface using repeated sampling protocols and models

scientific article

Characteristics of African wild dog natal dens selected under different interspecific predation pressures

scientific article published in 2013

Collective Vigilance in the Greater Kudu: Towards a Better Understanding of Synchronization Patterns

scientific article published in 2011

Conservation overstretch and long‐term decline of wildlife and tourism in the Central African savannas

scientific article published on 28 December 2021

Contacts and foot and mouth disease transmission from wild to domestic bovines in Africa

article

Cost and Efficiency of Large Mammal Census Techniques: Comparison of Methods for a Participatory Approach in a Communal Area, Zimbabwe

scientific article published in 2006

Defence strategies in African savanna trees

scientific article published on 12 May 2018

Demography of plains zebras (Equus quagga) under heavy predation

scientific article published in 2015

Detecting predators and locating competitors while foraging: an experimental study of a medium-sized herbivore in an African savanna

scientific article published on 27 December 2011

Determinants of the prevalence of the cloacal cestode Cloacotaenia megalops in teal wintering in the French Camargue

article

Diet and Feeding Habitats of Camargue Dabbling Ducks: What Has Changed Since the 1960s?

Diet and Life-History Traits of Savannah Dwelling Waterbirds in Southern Africa: Implications for Their Conservation Status

scientific article published in 2021

Diet quality in a wild grazer declines under the threat of an ambush predator.

scientific article published on 30 April 2014

Disentangling the roles of bottom‐up and top‐down drivers in the trade‐off between food acquisition and safety in prey with multiple predators

scientific article published in 2020

Do large termite mounds effect woody plant phylogenetic diversity and endemism across African savannas?

scientific article published on 18 March 2022

Drivers of foot-and-mouth disease in cattle at wild/domestic interface: Insights from farmers, buffalo and lions

scientific article published on 30 August 2017

Ecosystem-level consequences of invasions by native species as a way to investigate relationships between evenness and ecosystem function

article

Effects of seasonality, isolation and patch quality for habitat selection processes by mute swans Cygnus olor in a fishpond landscape

scientific article published in 2010

Elephant-induced structural changes in the vegetation and habitat selection by large herbivores in an African savanna

scientific article published on 31 December 2010

Endozoochory of Mediterranean aquatic plant seeds by teal after a period of desiccation: Determinants of seed survival and influence of retention time on germinability and viability

article

Factors that influence Cape fur seal predation on Cape gannets at Lambert’s Bay, South Africa

scientific article published on 13 June 2022

Feeding patch selection by herbivorous Anatidae: the influence of body size, and of plant quantity and quality

scientific article published in 2004

Fire weather effects on flammability of indigenous and invasive alien plants in coastal fynbos and thicket shrublands (Cape Floristic Region) ⬇️

scientific article published on 11 November 2020

Habitat Use by Sympatric Wild and Domestic Herbivores in an African Savanna Woodland: The Influence of Cattle Spatial Behaviour

scientific article published on 17 June 2006

Habitat selection of the Eurasian woodcock in winter in relation to earthworms availability

article

Habitat structure, not the anthropogenic context or large predators, shapes occupancy of a generalist mesopredator across protected areas in South Africa

scientific article published in 2022

Herbivores shape woody plant communities in the Kruger National Park: Lessons from three long-term exclosures

article

Heterogeneity of water physico-chemical characteristics in artificially pumped waterholes: do African herbivores drink at the same locations and does it lead to interference competition?

scientific article published in 2020

How key habitat features influence large terrestrial carnivore movements: waterholes and African lions in a semi-arid savanna of north-western Zimbabwe

article

Importance of nutritional and anti-parasite strategies in the foraging decisions of horses: an experimental test

scientific article published in 2005

In search of a real definition of the biological invasion phenomenon itself

article

Individual activity rates in wintering Eurasian woodcocks: starvation versus predation risk trade-off?

scientific article published in 2005

Individual vigilance of African herbivores while drinking: the role of immediate predation risk and context

scientific article published in 2010

Insights for integrated conservation from attitudes of people toward protected areas near Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe

scientific article

Interface processes between protected and unprotected areas: A global review and ways forward

scientific article published on 07 November 2019

Interference competition and temporal niche shifts: elephants and herbivore communities at waterholes.

scientific article

Interspecific interference competition at the resource patch scale: do large herbivores spatially avoid elephants while accessing water?

scientific article

Invasive species can also be native...

scientific article

Large herbivores in rangelands

scientific article published in Nature

Leaf traits of African woody savanna species across climate and soil fertility gradients: evidence for conservative versus acquisitive resource-use strategies

scientific article published in 2016

Legacy Effects of Different Land-Use Histories Interact with Current Grazing Patterns to Determine Grazing Lawn Soil Properties

scientific article published in 2015

Linear social dominance hierarchy and corticosterone responses in male mallards and pintails

scientific article

Long‐term high densities of African elephants clear the understorey and promote a new stable savanna woodland community

scientific article published on 06 December 2021

Low ungulate biomass in west African savannas: primary production or missing megaherbivores or large predator species?

scientific article published in 1997

Maintenance of daily intake through bite mass diversity adjustment in sheep grazing on heterogeneous and variable vegetation

scientific article published on 09 February 2005

Mammal Browsers and Rainfall AffectAcaciaLeaf Nutrient Content, Defense, and Growth in South African Savannas

article

Measuring species diversity while counting large mammals: comparison of methods using species-accumulation curves

scientific article published in 2005

Megaherbivores influence trophic guilds structure in African ungulate communities

scientific article

Monoterpene effect on feeding choice by deer

scientific article

Morphological criteria to identify faecal pellets of sympatric ungulates in West African savanna and estimates of associated error

scientific article published on 21 July 2008

Non-consumptive effects of predation in large terrestrial mammals: Mapping our knowledge and revealing the tip of the iceberg

scientific article published in 2019

On the Advantages of Mixed-Species Groups: Impalas Adjust Their Vigilance When Associated With Larger Prey Herbivores

scientific article published in 2014

Patch-scale selection patterns of grazing herbivores in the central basalt plains of Kruger National Park

scientific article published in 2020

Poaching impedes the selection of optimal post-fire forage in three large grazing herbivores

scientific article published in 2020

Predation risk constrains the plasticity of foraging behaviour in teals, Anas crecca: a flyway-level circumannual approach

scientific article published in 2007

Predators, food and social context shape the types of vigilance exhibited by kangaroos

scientific article published in 2015

Reactive responses of zebras to lion encounters shape their predator-prey space game at large scale

scientific article published in 2015

Relationships between farmer perceptions and temporal variation in nutritive value of browse species on savanna rangelands

scientific article published on 20 July 2020

Resource variability, aggregation and direct density dependence in an open context: the local regulation of an African elephant population

scientific article

Retrodicting large herbivore biomass for the last glacial maximum on the Palaeo-Agulhas Plain (South Africa) using modern ecological knowledge of African herbivore assemblages and rainfall

scientific article published in 2021

Scale-dependent hierarchical adjustments of movement patterns in a long-range foraging seabird

scientific article

Seasonal density estimates of common large herbivores in Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe

article

Selection of feeding sites by horses at pasture: Testing the anti-parasite theory

Short-term behavioural responses of impalas in simulated antipredator and social contexts

scientific article

Simultaneous modeling of habitat suitability, occupancy, and relative abundance: African elephants in Zimbabwe

scientific article

Size-related consumption of Scirpus maritimus tubers by greylag geese Anser anser explained by their functional response

scientific article published on 19 September 2008

Snapshot Safari: a large-scale collaborative to monitor Africa’s remarkable biodiversity

scientific article published on 29 January 2021

Spatial Distribution of a Large Herbivore Community at Waterholes: An Assessment of Its Stability over Years in Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe

scientific article

Spatial avoidance of invading pastoral cattle by wild ungulates: insights from using point process statistics

Spatial relationship between elephant and sodium concentration of water disappears as density increases in Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe

scholarly article by Simon Chamaillé-Jammes et al published 29 October 2007 in Journal of Tropical Ecology

Spread of avian influenza viruses by common teal (Anas crecca) in Europe

scientific article

Temporal variation in feeding tactics: exploring the role of competition and predators in wintering dabbling ducks

scientific article published in 2002

The Effect of Simulated African Wild Dog Presence on Anti-predator Behaviour of Kudu and Impala

scientific article published in 2012

The Lion King and the Hyaena Queen: large carnivore interactions and coexistence

scientific article published on 20 December 2014

The effect of horticultural trade on establishment success in alien terrestrial true ferns (Polypodiophyta)

scientific article published on 23 July 2021

The functional response in three species of herbivorous Anatidae: effects of sward height, body mass and bill size

scientific article published in 2003

The influence of nest location and the effect of predator removal on Cape Gannet <i>Morus capensis</i> egg predation by Kelp Gulls <i>Larus dominicanus vetula</i>

scientific article published in 2022

The landscape-scale drivers of herbivore assemblage distribution on the central basalt plains of Kruger National Park

scientific article published in 2019

The potential distance of highly pathogenic avian influenza virus dispersal by mallard, common teal and Eurasian pochard

scientific article published in September 2009

The role of migratory ducks in the long-distance dispersal of native plants and the spread of exotic plants in Europe

article

The role of water abundance, thermoregulation, perceived predation risk and interference competition in water access by African herbivores

scientific article published in 2008

The scale of effect depends on operational definition of forest cover—evidence from terrestrial mammals of the Brazilian savanna

scientific article published on 01 February 2021

Towards a Meta-Social-Ecological System Perspective: A Response to Gounand et al

scientific article published on 03 May 2018

Using functional groups to predict the spatial distribution of large herbivores on the Palaeo‐Agulhas Plain, South Africa, during the Last Glacial Maximum

scientific article published in 2022

Vegetation structure and ungulate abundance over a period of increasing elephant abundance in Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe

scholarly article by Marion Valeix et al published January 2007 in Journal of Tropical Ecology

Vulnerability to predation and water constraints limit behavioural adjustments of ungulates in response to hunting risk

scientific article published in 2012

What is the spatial unit for a wintering teal Anas crecca? Weekly day roost fidelity inferred from nasal saddles in the Camargue, southern France

article

Within-group spatial position and vigilance: a role also for competition? The case of impalas (Aepyceros melampus) with a controlled food supply

article

Zebra diel migrations reduce encounter risk with lions at night

scientific article published on 22 October 2018

List of works by Hervé Fritz

A global assessment of terrestrial alien ferns (Polypodiophyta): species’ traits as drivers of naturalisation and invasion

African elephants adjust speed in response to surface-water constraint on foraging during the dry-season

African ungulates and their drinking problems: hunting and predation risks constrain access to water

Ageing of ungulate pellets in semi-arid landscapes: how the shade of colour can refine pellet-group counts

Androgen changes and flexible rutting behaviour in male giraffes

Another call for the end of invasion biology

Anti-predator behaviour of kudu and impala in response to mimicked African wild dog presence: do age and sex matter?

Are fission-fusion dynamics consistent among populations? A large-scale study with Cape buffalo

Assessing different methods for measuring mammal diversity in two southern African arid ecosystems

Between-gender differences in vigilance do not necessarily lead to differences in foraging-vigilance tradeoffs

Bird species assemblages differ, while functional richness is maintained across an urban landscape

Bush selection along foraging pathways by sympatric impala and greater kudu.

Can an herbivore affect where a top predator kills its prey by modifying woody vegetation structure?

Challenges of foraging on a high-quality but unpredictable food source: the dynamics of grass production and consumption in savanna grazing lawns

Characterising African tick communities at a wild-domestic interface using repeated sampling protocols and models

Characteristics of African wild dog natal dens selected under different interspecific predation pressures

Collective Vigilance in the Greater Kudu: Towards a Better Understanding of Synchronization Patterns

Conservation overstretch and long‐term decline of wildlife and tourism in the Central African savannas

Contacts and foot and mouth disease transmission from wild to domestic bovines in Africa

Cost and Efficiency of Large Mammal Census Techniques: Comparison of Methods for a Participatory Approach in a Communal Area, Zimbabwe

Defence strategies in African savanna trees

Demography of plains zebras (Equus quagga) under heavy predation

Detecting predators and locating competitors while foraging: an experimental study of a medium-sized herbivore in an African savanna

Determinants of the prevalence of the cloacal cestode Cloacotaenia megalops in teal wintering in the French Camargue

Diet and Feeding Habitats of Camargue Dabbling Ducks: What Has Changed Since the 1960s?

Diet and Life-History Traits of Savannah Dwelling Waterbirds in Southern Africa: Implications for Their Conservation Status

Diet quality in a wild grazer declines under the threat of an ambush predator.

Disentangling the roles of bottom‐up and top‐down drivers in the trade‐off between food acquisition and safety in prey with multiple predators

Do large termite mounds effect woody plant phylogenetic diversity and endemism across African savannas?

Drivers of foot-and-mouth disease in cattle at wild/domestic interface: Insights from farmers, buffalo and lions

Ecosystem-level consequences of invasions by native species as a way to investigate relationships between evenness and ecosystem function

Effects of seasonality, isolation and patch quality for habitat selection processes by mute swans Cygnus olor in a fishpond landscape

Elephant-induced structural changes in the vegetation and habitat selection by large herbivores in an African savanna

Endozoochory of Mediterranean aquatic plant seeds by teal after a period of desiccation: Determinants of seed survival and influence of retention time on germinability and viability

Factors that influence Cape fur seal predation on Cape gannets at Lambert’s Bay, South Africa

Feeding patch selection by herbivorous Anatidae: the influence of body size, and of plant quantity and quality

Fire weather effects on flammability of indigenous and invasive alien plants in coastal fynbos and thicket shrublands (Cape Floristic Region) ⬇️

Habitat Use by Sympatric Wild and Domestic Herbivores in an African Savanna Woodland: The Influence of Cattle Spatial Behaviour

Habitat selection of the Eurasian woodcock in winter in relation to earthworms availability

Habitat structure, not the anthropogenic context or large predators, shapes occupancy of a generalist mesopredator across protected areas in South Africa

Herbivores shape woody plant communities in the Kruger National Park: Lessons from three long-term exclosures

Heterogeneity of water physico-chemical characteristics in artificially pumped waterholes: do African herbivores drink at the same locations and does it lead to interference competition?

How key habitat features influence large terrestrial carnivore movements: waterholes and African lions in a semi-arid savanna of north-western Zimbabwe

Importance of nutritional and anti-parasite strategies in the foraging decisions of horses: an experimental test

In search of a real definition of the biological invasion phenomenon itself

Individual activity rates in wintering Eurasian woodcocks: starvation versus predation risk trade-off?

Individual vigilance of African herbivores while drinking: the role of immediate predation risk and context

Insights for integrated conservation from attitudes of people toward protected areas near Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe

Interface processes between protected and unprotected areas: A global review and ways forward

Interference competition and temporal niche shifts: elephants and herbivore communities at waterholes.

Interspecific interference competition at the resource patch scale: do large herbivores spatially avoid elephants while accessing water?

Invasive species can also be native...

Large herbivores in rangelands

Leaf traits of African woody savanna species across climate and soil fertility gradients: evidence for conservative versus acquisitive resource-use strategies

Legacy Effects of Different Land-Use Histories Interact with Current Grazing Patterns to Determine Grazing Lawn Soil Properties

Linear social dominance hierarchy and corticosterone responses in male mallards and pintails

Long‐term high densities of African elephants clear the understorey and promote a new stable savanna woodland community

Low ungulate biomass in west African savannas: primary production or missing megaherbivores or large predator species?

Maintenance of daily intake through bite mass diversity adjustment in sheep grazing on heterogeneous and variable vegetation

Mammal Browsers and Rainfall AffectAcaciaLeaf Nutrient Content, Defense, and Growth in South African Savannas

Measuring species diversity while counting large mammals: comparison of methods using species-accumulation curves

Megaherbivores influence trophic guilds structure in African ungulate communities

Monoterpene effect on feeding choice by deer

Morphological criteria to identify faecal pellets of sympatric ungulates in West African savanna and estimates of associated error

Non-consumptive effects of predation in large terrestrial mammals: Mapping our knowledge and revealing the tip of the iceberg

On the Advantages of Mixed-Species Groups: Impalas Adjust Their Vigilance When Associated With Larger Prey Herbivores

Patch-scale selection patterns of grazing herbivores in the central basalt plains of Kruger National Park

Poaching impedes the selection of optimal post-fire forage in three large grazing herbivores

Predation risk constrains the plasticity of foraging behaviour in teals, Anas crecca: a flyway-level circumannual approach

Predators, food and social context shape the types of vigilance exhibited by kangaroos

Reactive responses of zebras to lion encounters shape their predator-prey space game at large scale

Relationships between farmer perceptions and temporal variation in nutritive value of browse species on savanna rangelands

Resource variability, aggregation and direct density dependence in an open context: the local regulation of an African elephant population

Retrodicting large herbivore biomass for the last glacial maximum on the Palaeo-Agulhas Plain (South Africa) using modern ecological knowledge of African herbivore assemblages and rainfall

Scale-dependent hierarchical adjustments of movement patterns in a long-range foraging seabird

Seasonal density estimates of common large herbivores in Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe

Selection of feeding sites by horses at pasture: Testing the anti-parasite theory

Short-term behavioural responses of impalas in simulated antipredator and social contexts

Simultaneous modeling of habitat suitability, occupancy, and relative abundance: African elephants in Zimbabwe