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Selected Recent Publications
Please do not hesitate to contact me (I will send you a free pdf) should you not be able to access any of my publications (Google scholar).
Pandraud et al. (Accepted). Intrinsic and extrinsic factors affecting the spatio-temporal interactions
within a black rhinoceros population. Animal BehaviourSomervuo 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.
* Student authors
Image: Cass Mountain Research Area - view towards Waimakariri river, Aotearoa, NZ (© W. Maartin Strauss)
Conference participation
I have participated in, and shared research findings and ideas at, 40+ conferences globally, from North and South America, to Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia. Usually only paying attendees see the presentations. A noticeable exception (post-covid) is the Southern African Wildlife Management Association (SAWMA) that started live-streaming, and recording, their annual conferences. Below is a recording of a speed presentation using data collected by María Blanco-Perez (former MSc student):
A selection:
Setting the scene
As conveneor of the scientific programme with conference theme: Wildlife management in context – managing small, declining and fragmented populations
IMC2017