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Lourenco M, Woodborne S, Fitchett JM 2022. Fire regime of peatlands in the Angolan Highlands. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 195
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Melzheimer J, Heinrich SK, Wasiolka B, Mueller R, Thalwitzer S, Palmegiani I, Weigold A, Portas R, Roeder R, Krofel M, Hofer H, Wachter B 2020. Communication hubs of an asocial cat are the source of a human-carnivore conflict and key to its solution. PNAS 117 (52) 33325-33333
Melzheimer J, Streif S, Wasiolka B, Fischer M, Thalwitzer S, Heinrich SK, Weigold A, Hofer H, Wachter B 2018. Queuing, takeovers, and becoming a fat cat: Long-term data reveal two distinct male spatial tactics at different life-history stages in Namibian cheetahs. Ecosphere 9 (6) e02308
Edwards S, Noack J, Heyns L, Rodenwoldt D 2019. First confirmed record of infanticide for wild brown hyena. African Journal of Ecology 58 (3) 534-536
Novoa A, le Roux JL, Robertson MP, Wilson JRU, Richardson DM 2014. Introduced and invasive cactus species: a global review. AoB PLANTS 7
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Stricker KB, Hagan D, Flory SL 2015. Improving methods to evaluate the impacts of plant invasions: lessons from 40 years of research. AoB PLANTS 7
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Weyrich A, Guerrero-Altamirano TP, Yasar S, Czirjak GA, Wachter B, Fickel J 2022. First steps towards the development of epigenetic biomarkers in female cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus). Life 12
Krücken J, Czirjak GA, Ramünke S, Serocki M, Heinrich SK, Melzheimer J, Costa MC, Hofer H, Aschenborn OH-K, Barker NA, Capodanno S, Madeira de Carvalho L, von Samson‑Himmelstjerna G, East ML, Wachter B 2021. Genetic diversity of vector-borne pathogens in spotted and brown hyenas from Namibia and Tanzania relates to ecological conditions rather than host taxonomy. Parasites Vectors 14
Paijmans JLA, Barlow A, Becker MS, Bhak J, Manica A 2021. African and Asian leopards are highly differentiated at the genomic level. Current Biology 31 (9) 1872-1882
Klein K, Jaeger S, Melzheimer J, Wachter B, Hofer H, Baltabayev A, Schreiber F 2021. Visual analytics of sensor movement data for cheetah behaviour analysis. Journal of Visualization 24 807-825
Frigerio D, Pipek P, Kimmig S, Winter S, Melzheimer J, Diblíkova L, Wachter B, Richter A 2017. Citizen science and wildlife biology: Synergies and challenges. Ethology 124 365-377
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Edwards S, Fischer M, Wachter B, Melzheimer J 2018. Coping with intrasexual behavioral differences: Capture-recapture abundance estimation of male cheetah. Ecology and Evolution 8 9171-9180
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Wasimuddin, Menke S, Melzheimer J, Thalwitzer S, Heinrich S, Wachter B, Sommer S 2017. Gut microbiomes of free-ranging and captive Namibian cheetahs: Diversity, putative functions and occurrence of potential pathogens. Molecular Ecology 26 (20) 5515-5527
Tordiffe ASW, Wachter B, Heinrich SK, Reyers F, Lodewyk JM 2016. Comparative serum fatty acid profiles of captive and free-ranging Cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus) in Namibia. PLoS ONE 12
Durant SM, Mitchell N, Groom R, Pettorelli N, Ipavec A, Jacobson AP, Woodroffe R, Böhm M, Hunter LTB, Becker MS, Broekhuis F, Bashir S, Andresen L, Aschenborn O, Beddiaf M, Belbachir F, Belbachir-Bazi A, Berbash A, de Matos Machado IB, Breitenmoser C, Chege M, Cilliers D, Davies-Mostert H, Dickman AJ, Ezekiel F, Farhadinia MS 2016. The global decline of cheetah Acinonyx jubatus and what it means for conservation. PNAS 114 (3) 528-533
Heinrich SK, Wachter B, Wibbelt G 2016. Benign pigmented dermal basal cell tumor in a Namibian cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus). Hindawi Publishing Corporation Case Reports in Veterinary Medicine 2016
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Krengel A, Cattori V, Meli ML, Wachter B, Böni J, Bisset LR, Thalwitzer S, Melzheimer J, Jago M, Hofmann-Lehmann R, Hofer H, Lutz H 2015. Gammaretrovirus-specific antibodies in free-ranging and captive Namibian cheetahs. Clinical and Vaccine Immunology 22 (6) 611-617
Voigt CC, Melzheimer J, Thalwitzer S, Wachter B 2013. A breath test to assign carnivore diets to browsers or grazers. Wildlife Biology 19 (3) 311-316
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Johnson S, Marker L, Mengersen K, Gordon CH, Melzheimer J, Schmidt-Küntzel A, Nghikembua M, Fabiano E, Henghali J, Wachter B 2013. Modeling the viability of the free-ranging cheetah population in Namibia: an object-oriented Bayesian network approach. Ecosphere 4 (7) 1-19
Castro-Prieto A, Wachter B, Melzheimer J, Thalwitzer S, Hofer H, Sommer S 2012. Immunogenetic variation and differential pathogen exposure in free-ranging cheetahs across Namibian farmlands. PLoS ONE 7 (11) 1-19
Wachter B, Blanc A-S, Melzheimer J, Höner OP, Jago M, Hofer H 2012. An advanced method to assess the diet of free-ranging large carnivores based on scats. PLoS ONE 7 (6)
Castro-Prieto A, Wachter B, Sommer S 2011. Cheetah paradigm revisited: MHC diversity in the world's largest free-ranging population. Molecular Biology and Evolution 28 (4) 1455-1468
Thalwitzer S, Wachter B, Robert N, Wibbelt G, Müller T, Lonzer J, Meli ML, Bay G, Hofer H, Lutz H 2010. Seroprevalences to viral pathogens in free-ranging and captive cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus) on Namibian farmland. Clinical and Vaccine Immunology 17 (2) 232-238
Gobabeb Namib Research Institute 2022. 2022 Research Bibliography - Gobabeb.
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Makhado AB, Braby R, Dyer BM, Kemper J, Mcinnes AM, Tom D, Crawford RJM 2021. Seabirds of the Benguela Ecosystem: Utilisation, long-term changes and challenges. Birds - Challenges and opportunities for business, conservation and research
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Martin MJ, Gridley T, Elwen SH, Jensen FH 2018. Heaviside’s dolphins (Cephalorhynchus heavisidii) relax acoustic crypsis to increase communication range. Proceedings: Biological Sciences 285 (1883) 1-9
Roux J-P, Braby RJ, Best PB 2015. Does disappearance mean extirpation? The case of right whales off Namibia. Marine Mammal Science 31 (3) 1132-1152
Sherley RB, Ludynia K, Dyer BM, Lamont T, Makhado AB, Roux J-P, Scales KL, Underhill LG, Votier SC 2017. Metapopulation tracking juvenile penguins reveals an ecosystem-wide ecological trap. Current Biology 27 (4) 563-568
Sherley RB, Ludynia K, Lamont T, Roux J-P, Crawford RJM, Underhill LG 2013. The initial journey of an Endangered penguin: implications for seabird conservation. Endangered Species Research 21 89-95
Vanstreels RET, Parsons NJ, Sherley RB, Stander N, Strauss V, Kemper J, Waller L, Barham BJ, Ludynia K 2023. Factors determining the number of seabirds impacted by oil spills and the success of their rehabilitation: Lessons learned from Namibia and South Africa. Marine Pollution Bulletin 188 114708
Kohi EM, de Boer WF, Peel MJS, Slotow R, van der Waal C, Heitkönig IMA, Skidmore A, Prins HHT 2011. African elephants Loxodonta africana amplify browse heterogeneity in african savanna. BIOTROPICA 43 (6) 711-721
Cowan D, Ramond J-B 2022. A decade of microbiome research in the Namib Desert. Journal of the Namibia Scientific Society 69 19-41
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Göttsche F-M, Cermak J, Marais E, Maggs-Kölling G 2022. Validation of Satellite-Retrieved Land Surface Temperature (LST) Products at Gobabeb, Namibia. Journal of the Namibia Scientific Society 69 43-63