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Faculty of Science
Dr A Milewski
Interactions between plants and megaherbivores
Dr M Pineiro de Melo
Systematics and Biogeography
Dr P Pistorius
Project Manager, DST/NRF at the Percy FitzPatrick Institute,
NMMU
Dr C O’Ryan
Dr L Roxburgh
Rarity and Conservation of African Birds
Dr C Spottiswoode
Contact details
Tel: +27 21 650 3603/4
Fax: +27 21 650 3301
E-mail: soraya.abrahams@uct.ac.za
Web: www.zoology.uct.ac.za
UCT General Enquiries: +27 21 650 9111
UCT web: http://www.uct.ac.za
Research output
Edited books
Chinsamy-Turan, A. (ed.) 2012. The Forerunners
of Mammals: Radiation, Histology, Biology. 330pp.
Bloomington, USA: Bloomington: Indiana University
Press. ISBN 978025335697.
Chapters in books
Botha-Brink, J., Abdala, F. and Chinsamy-Turan, A. 2012.
The radiation and osteohistology of nonmammaliaform
cynodonts. In A. Chinsamy-Turan (ed.), Forerunners of
Mammals: Radiation, Histology, Biology, pp. 223-246.
Bloomington, Indiana, USA: Indiana University Press. ISBN
9780253356970.
Chinsamy-Turan, A. and Ray, S. 2012. Bone histology of
some Therocephalians and Gorgonopsians, and evidence
of bone degradation by fungi. In A. Chinsamy-Turan (ed.),
Forerunners of Mammals: Radiation, Histology, Biology,
pp. 199-221. Bloomington, Indiana, USA: Indiana University
Press. ISBN 9780253356970.
Chinsamy-Turan, A. 2012. The microstructure of bones
and teeth of nonmammalian therapsids. In A. Chinsamy-
Turan (ed.), Forerunners of Mammals: Radiation, Histology,
Biology, pp. 65-88. Bloomington, Indiana, USA: Indiana
University Press. ISBN 9780253356970.
Cumming, G.S. 2012. The resilience of big river basins. In
M. Fisher and S. Cook (eds), Water, Food and Poverty in
River Basins: Defining the Limits, pp. 63-95. London, UK:
Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group). ISBN 0415592070.
Hurum, J. and Chinsamy-Turan, A. 2012. The radiation,
bone histology, and biology of early mammals. In A.
Chinsamy-Turan (ed.), Forerunners of Mammals: Radiation,
Histology, Biology, pp. 249-270. Bloomington Indiana, USA:
Indiana University Press. ISBN 9780253356970.
Jasinoski, S. and Chinsamy-Turan, A. 2012. Biological
inferences of the cranial microstructure of the dicynodonts
Oudenodon and Lystrosaurus. In A. Chinsamy-Turan (ed.),
Forerunners of Mammals: Radiation, Histology, Biology,
pp. 149-176. Bloomington Indiana, USA: Indiana University
Press. ISBN9780253356970.
Langmore, N.E. and Spottiswoode, C.N. 2012. Host
manipulation through visual trickery in avian brood
parasites. In D.P. Hughes, J. Brodeur and F. Thomas
(eds), Host Manipulation by Parasites, pp. 95-109. United
Kingdom: Oxford University Press. ISBN 97801964224.
Ray, S., Botha-Brink, J. and Chinsamy-Turan, A. 2012.
Dicynodont growth dynamics and lifestyle adaptations. In A.
Chinsamy-Turan (ed.), Forerunners of Mammals: Radiation,
Histology, Biology, pp. 121-146. Bloomington, Indiana,
USA: Indiana University Press. ISBN 9780253356970.
Ropert-Coudert, J., Kato, A., Grémillet, D. and Crenner,
F. 2012. Bio-logging: recording the ecophysiology and
behaviour of animals moving freely in their environment. In
J.-F. Le Galliard, J.-M. Guarini, and F. Gaill (eds), Sensors for
Ecology, Towards Integrated Knowledge of Ecosystems,pp.
17-35. Paris: CNRS. ISBN 9782954168302.
Spottiswoode, C.N., Kilner, R.M. and Davies, N.B. 2012.
Brood parasitism. In N.J. Royle, P.T. Smiseth, and M. Klliker
(eds), The Evolution of Parental Care, pp. 226-239. United
Kingdom: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199692583.
Articles in Peer-reviewed Journals
Abadi, F., Gimenez, O., Hans Jakober, H., Stauber, W.,
Arlettaz, R. and Schaub, M.M. 2012. Estimating the strength
of density dependence in the presence of observation
errors using integrated population models. Ecological
Modelling, 242: 1-9.
Altwegg, R., Broms, K., Erni, B., Barnard, P., Midgley, G.F.
and Underhill, L.G. 2012. Novel methods reveal shifts in
migrationphenology of barn swallows in South Africa.
Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences,
279: 1485-1490.