Melville HIAS & Strauss WM (2026). Fear or feast: small mammal activity increases in the presence of carcasses despite increased threat of predation by black-backed jackals. Wildlife Biology https://doi.org/10.1002/wlb3.01620

Pandraud A, Melville H, Slater K, Sholto-Douglas C & Strauss WM (2026). Intrinsic and extrinsic factors affecting the spatio-temporal interactions within a black rhinoceros population. Animal Behaviour https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2025.123444

Somervuo P, Roslin T, Fisher BL, ... Strauss WM, ... et al. (2025). Human contributions to global soundscapes are less predictable than the acoustic rhythms of wildlife. Nature Ecology and Evolution https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-025-02786-5

Hetem RS, Haylock KA*, Boyers M, Parrini F, Owen-Smith N, Beytell P & Strauss WM (2025). Integrating physiology into movement ecology of large, terrestrial mammals. Journal of Experimental Biology 228 JEB248112. https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.248112

Marneweck CJ, Strauss WM, Slater K & Melville HIAS. (2024). Predator movements are impacted by anthropogenic disturbance in a managed forested landscape of East Texas. Acta Oecologica 124 104013 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actao.2024.104013

Vermeulen M*, Fritz H, Strauss WM, Hetem RS & Venter J. (2024). Seasonal activity patterns of a Kalahari mammal community: Trade-offs between environmental heat load and predation pressure. Ecology and Evolution 14:e11304 https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.11304

Melville H, Gaines M*, Slater K & Strauss WM (2023). Ecological gatekeeping: Black-backed jackals are left to crave carrion in absence of large facultative scavengers. Food Webs 37, December 2023, e00310, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fooweb.2023.e00310

Oosthuysen M*, Strauss WM & Somers, MJ (2023). The relationship between mammalian burrow abundance and bankrupt bush (Seriphium plumosum) encroachment. Bothalia - African Biodiversity and Conservation 53(1),a11. http://dx.doi.org/10.38201/btha.abc.v53.i1.11

Turner WC, Périquet S, Goelst CE, Vera KB*, Cameron EZ, Alexander KA, Belant JL, Cloete CC, du Preez P, Getz WM, Hetem RS, Kamath PL, Kasaona ML, Mackenzie M, Mendelsohn J, Mfune JKE, Muntifering JR, Portas R*, Scott HA, Strauss WM, Versfeld W, Wachter B, Wittemyer G, and Kilian JW (2022). Africa’s drylands in a changing world: Challenges for wildlife conservation under climate and land-use changes in the Greater Etosha Landscape. Global Ecology and Conservation 38 e02221 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2022.e02221

Melville HIAS & Strauss WM (2021). Trialing a simple camera-trap based method to estimate Black-backed jackal population density. Indago 37: 77-87.

Alexander GJ, Tolley KA, Maritz B, McKechnie A, Manger P, Thomson RL, Schradin C, Fuller A, Meyer L, Hetem RS, Cherry M, Conradie W, Bauer AM, Maphisa D, O’Riain J, Parker DM, Mlambo MC, Bronner G, Madikiza K, Engelbrecht A, Lee AT, Jansen van Vuuren B, Mandiwana-Neudani TG, Pietersen D, Venter JA, Somers MJ, Slotow R, Strauss WM, Humphries MS, Ryan PG & Kerley GI (2021). Excessive red tape is strangling biodiversity research in South Africa. South African Journal of Science 117; https://doi.org/10.17159/sajs.2021/10787

Melville HI, Hetem RS & Strauss WM (2021). Is climate change a concern for the ownership of game within fenced wildlife areas? Koedoe -African Protected Area Conservation and Science 63; https://doi.org/10.4102/koedoe.v63i1.1673

Pardo LE, Bombaci S, Huebner SE, Somers M, Fritz H, Downs C, Guthmann A, Hetem R, Keith M, le Roux A, Mgqatsa N, Packer C, Palmer S, Parker D, Peel M, Slotow R, Strauss WM, Swanepoel L, Tambling C, Tsie N*, Vermeulen M*, Willi M, Jachowski, D & Venter J. (2021). Snapshot Safari: a large-scale collaborative to monitor Africa’s remarkable biodiversity. South African Journal of Science 117; https://doi.org/10.17159/sajs.2021/8134

Somers MJ, Walters M, Measey J, Strauss WM, Turner AA, Venter JA, Nel L, Kerley GIH, Taylor WA & Moodley Y (2020). The implications of the reclassification of South African wildlife species as farm animals. South African Journal of Science 116; https://doi.org/10.17159/sajs.2020/7724

Mitchell D, Henschel J, Hetem RS, Wassenaar T, Strauss WM, Hanrahan S & Seely M (2020). Fog and Fauna of the Namib Desert: Past and future. Ecosphere 11 e02996; https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.2996

Mitchell D, Snelling E, Hetem R, Maloney S, Strauss WM & Fuller A (2018). Revisiting concepts of thermal physiology: predicting responses of mammals to climate change. Journal of Animal Ecology 87:956-973; doi: 10.1111/1365-2656.12818.

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W. Maartin Strauss, Ph.D.

Biologist experienced in using a range of technologies and techniques across various taxa in the field