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Periquet-Pearce S, Cloete C, Beasley J, Wachter B, Becker R, Melzheimer J, Portas R, Krofel M, Aschenborn O, Jago M, Hoth T, Uiseb K, Muzuma U, Kilian JW 2025. The Greater Etosha Carnivore Programme: A large-scale collaborative approach. African Journal of Wildlife Research 55 (2)

Website link:https://bioone.org/journals/african-journal-of-wildlife-research/volume-55/issue-sp2/056.055.0386/The-Greater-Etosha-Carnivore-Programme--A-Large-Scale-Collaborative/10.3957/056.055.0386.short

Melzheimer J, Weise F, Schmidt-Küntzel A, Marker L, Nghikembua M, Fleury G, Wachter BH, Portas R 2025. A conservation assessment of Cheetah Acinonyx jubatus. Conservation Status and Red List of the Terrestrial Carnivores of Namibia NCE, LCMAN, MEFT 14-22

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Rast W, Portas R, Shatumbu GI, Berger A, Cloete C, Curk T, Götz T, Aschenborn O, Melzheimer J 2024. Death detector: Using vultures as sentinels to detect carcasses by combining bio-logging and machine learning. Journal of Applied Ecology 61 2936-2945

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Death detector_Using vultures as sentinels to detect carcasses by combining bio_logging and machine learning.pdf	299.79 KB

Aschenborn O, Aschenborn J, Beytell P, Wachter B, Melzheimer J, Dumendiak S, Rüffler B, Mackenstedt U, Kern P, Romig T, Wassermann M 2023. High species diversity of Echinococcus spp. in wild mammals of Namibia. International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife 21 134-142

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High species diversity of Echinococcus spp in wild mammals of Namibia.pdf	520.35 KB

Menke S, Wasimuddin, Meier M, Melzheimer J, Mfune JKE, Heinrich S, Thalwitzer S, Wachter B, Sommer S 2022. Oligotyping reveals differences between gut microbiomes of free-ranging sympatric Namibian carnivores (Acinonyx jubatus, Canis mesomelas) on a bacterial species-like level. Frontiers in Microbiology 5

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Portas R, Wachter B, Beytell P, Uiseb KH, Melzheimer J, Edwards S 2022. Leopard Panthera pardus camera trap surveys in the arid environments of northern Namibia. Mammalian Biology

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Leopard Panthera pardus camera trap surveys in the arid environments of northern Namibia.pdf	464.77 KB

Edwards S, Mueller R, Roeder R, Melzheimer J, Wachter B 2022. Cheetah marking sites are also used by other species for communication: evidence from photographic data in a comparative setup. Mammalian Biology

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Thomson GC, Wachter B, Melzheimer J 2021. Teamwork and science enables coexistence between farmers and cheetahs. Conservation and the Environment in Namibia (2021) 70-75

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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

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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

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Portas R, Aschenborn OH-K, Melzheimer J, le Roux M, Uiseb KH, Czirjak GA, Wachter B 2021. GPS telemetry reveals a zebra with anthrax as putative cause of death for three cheetahs in the Namib Desert. Frontiers in Veterinary Science 8

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GPS telemetry reveals a zebra with anthrax as putative cause of death for three cheetahs in the Namib Desert.pdf	1.21 MB

Giese L, Melzheimer J, Bockmühl D, Wasiolka B, Rast W, Berger A, Wachter B 2021. Using machine learning for remote behaviour classification - verifying acceleration data to infer feeding events in free-ranging cheetahs. Sensors 21

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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

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Costantini D, Czirjak G, Melzheimer J, Menges V, Wachter B 2019. Sex and species differences of stress markers in sympatric cheetahs and leopards in Namibia. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology (Part A) 8-13

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Sex and species differences of stress markers in sympatric cheetahs and leopards in Namibia.pdf	582.07 KB

Melzheimer J, Wachter B 2019. Want to do fieldwork in the 21st century? Pack your high-tech equipment to generate big data!. Conservation and the Environment in Namibia (2019)

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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

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Long_term data reveal two distinct male spatial tactics at different life_history stages in Namibian cheetahs.pdf	529.53 KB

Edwards S, Cooper S, Uiseb K, Hayward M, Wachter B, Melzheimer J 2018. Making the most of by-catch data: Assessing the feasibility of utilising non-target camera trap data for occupancy modelling of a large felid. African Journal of Ecology

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Voigt CC, Krofel M, Menges V, Wachter B, Melzheimer J 2018. Sex-specific dietary specialization in a terrestrial apex predator, the leopard, revealed by stable isotope analysis. Journal of Zoology 306 (1) 1-7

Website link:https://zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jzo.12566

Edwards S, Portas R, Hanssen L, Beytell P, Melzheimer J, Stratford K 2018. The spotted ghost: Density and distribution of serval Leptailurus serval in Namibia. African Journal of Ecology 56 (4) 831-840

Website link:https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/aje.12540

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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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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Costantini D, Wachter B, Melzheimer J, Czirjak GA 2017. Socioecological and environmental predictors of physiological stress markers in a threatened feline species. Conservation Physiology 5 (1)

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Socioecological and environmental predictors of physiological stress markers in a threatened feline species.pdf	305.77 KB

Menke S, Meier M, Mfune JKE, Melzheimer J, Wachter B, Sommer S 2017. Effects of host traits and land-use changes on the gut microbiota of the Namibian black-backed jackal (Canis mesomelas). FEMS Microbiology Ecology 93 (11)

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Effects of host traits and land_use changes on the gut microbiota of the Namibian black_backed jackal.pdf	1.67 MB

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

Website link:https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mec.14278

Périquet S, Fleury G, Marker L, Melzheimer J 2017. Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus).

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Weise FJ, Vijay V, Jacobson AP, Schoonover RF, Groom RJ, Horgan J, Keeping D, Klein R, Marnewick K, Maude G, Melzheimer J, Mills G, van der Merwe V, van der Meer E, Van Vuuren RJ, Wachter B, Primm SL 2017. The distribution and numbers of cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) in southern Africa. PeerJ e4096

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Melzheimer J 2016. The science before and after the "collaring" of wildlife. Leibniz-Institute for Zoology & Wildlife Research, Germany.

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Heinrich SK, Hofer H, Courtiol A, Melzheimer J, Dehnhard M, Czirjak GA, Wachter B 2016. Cheetahs have a stronger constitutive innate immunity than leopards. Scientific Reports 7 44837

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Heinrich SK, Wachter B, Aschenborn OH-K, Thalwitzer S, Melzheimer J, Hofer H, Czirják GA 2016. Feliform carnivores have a distinguished constitutive innate immune response. Biology Open 5 (5) 550-555

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Jarvis A, Melzheimer J 2016. An assessment of Movebank as a repository for tracking data.

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Potgieter GC, Weise FJ, Wachter B, Melzheimer J, Wiesel I, Stratford K 2016. Comment on Rust et al.: Human-carnivore conflict in Namibia is not simply about black and white. Society and Natural Resources 30 (10) 1299-1303

Website link:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08941920.2017.1283077?journalCode=usnr20

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

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Gammaretrovirus_Specific Antibodies in Free-Ranging and Captive Namibian Cheetahs.pdf	136.7 KB

Voigt CC, Thalwitzer S, Melzheimer J, Blanc A-S, Jago M, Wachter B 2014. The conflict between cheetahs and humans on Namibian farmland elucidated by stable isotope diet analysis. PLoS ONE (9)

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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

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Modeling the viability of the free-ranging cheetah population in Namibia.pdf	440.15 KB

Krengel A, Meli ML, Cattori V, Wachter B, Thalwitzer S, Melzheimer J, Hofer H, Lutz H, Hofmann-Lehmann R 2013. First evidence of hemoplasma infection in free-ranging Namibian cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus). Veterinary Microbiology 162 (2-4) 972-976

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378113512005482

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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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)

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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

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Immunogenetic Variation and Differential Pathogen Exposure in Free_Ranging Cheetahs across Namibian Farmlands.pdf	139.45 KB

Castro-Prieto A, Wachter B, Melzheimer J, Thalwitzer S, Sommer S 2011. Diversity and evolutionary patterns of immune genes in free-ranging Namibian leopards (Panthera pardus pardus). Journal of Heredity 102 (6) 653-665

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