All Stories

  1. Cape plants reveal how and when landscapes and climates evolved along the South African coast

    Article • PLoS ONE, September 2015, PLOS

    Dr Fenton P D Cotterill

  2. Lake Tanganyika—A 'Melting Pot' of Ancient and Young Cichlid Lineages (Teleostei: Cichlidae)?

    Article • PLoS ONE, April 2015, PLOS

    Dr Fenton P D Cotterill

  3. Rodents of Sub-Saharan Africa

    Article • January 2015, De Gruyter

    Dr Fenton P D Cotterill

  4. The Present Day Drainage Patterns of the Congo River System and their Neogene Evolution

    Article • December 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Fenton P D Cotterill

  5. Molecular and morphological evidence for a Pleistocene radiation of laminate-toothed rats (Otomys: Rodentia) across a volcanic archipelago in equatorial Africa

    Article • Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, July 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Fenton P D Cotterill, Peter Taylor

  6. Climate change effects on animal and plant phylogenetic diversity in southern Africa

    Article • Global Change Biology, April 2014, Wiley

    Dr Fenton P D Cotterill

  7. Why One Century of Phenetics is Enough: Response to "Are There Really Twice As Many Bovid Species As We Thought?"

    Article • Systematic Biology, January 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Fenton P D Cotterill

  8. Conservation of Protists: The Krauthügel Pond in Austria

    Article • Diversity, May 2013, MDPI AG

    Dr Fenton P D Cotterill

  9. DYNAMIC EVOLUTION OF THE ZAMBEZI-LIMPOPO WATERSHED, CENTRAL ZIMBABWE

    Article • South African Journal of Geology, December 2012, GeoScienceWorld

    Dr Fenton P D Cotterill

  10. Four New Bat Species (Rhinolophus hildebrandtii Complex) Reflect Plio-Pleistocene Divergence of Dwarfs and Giants across an Afromontane Archipelago

    Article • PLoS ONE, September 2012, PLOS

    Dr Fenton P D Cotterill, Peter Taylor

  11. Repeated trans-watershed hybridization among haplochromine cichlids (Cichlidae) was triggered by Neogene landscape evolution

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, September 2012, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Fenton P D Cotterill

  12. THE EVOLUTION AND AGES OF MAKGADIKGADI PALAEO-LAKES: CONSILIENT EVIDENCE FROM KALAHARI DRAINAGE EVOLUTION SOUTH-CENTRAL AFRICA

    Article • South African Journal of Geology, September 2012, GeoScienceWorld

    Dr Fenton P D Cotterill

  13. Cryptic Diversity of African Tigerfish (Genus Hydrocynus) Reveals Palaeogeographic Signatures of Linked Neogene Geotectonic Events

    Article • PLoS ONE, December 2011, PLOS

    Dr Fenton P D Cotterill

  14. GEOECODYNAMICS AND THE KALAHARI EPEIROGENY: LINKING ITS GENOMIC RECORD, TREE OF LIFE AND PALIMPSEST INTO A UNIFIED NARRATIVE OF LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION

    Article • South African Journal of Geology, December 2011, GeoScienceWorld

    Dr Fenton P D Cotterill

  15. Phylogeography and cryptic diversity of the solitary-dwelling silvery mole-rat, genus Heliophobius (family: Bathyergidae)

    Article • Journal of Zoology, September 2011, Wiley

    Dr Fenton P D Cotterill

  16. A Recent Inventory of the Bats of Mozambique with Documentation of Seven New Species for the Country

    Article • Acta Chiropterologica, December 2010, Museum and Institute of Zoology at the Polish Academy of Sciences

    Dr Fenton P D Cotterill

  17. A pervasive denigration of natural history misconstrues how biodiversity inventories and taxonomy underpin scientific knowledge

    Article • Biodiversity and Conservation, October 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Fenton P D Cotterill

  18. Southern African topography and erosion history: plumes or plate tectonics?

    Article • Terra Nova, August 2009, Wiley

    Dr Fenton P D Cotterill

  19. Landscape evolution in Zimbabwe from the Permian to present, with implications for kimberlite prospecting

    Article • South African Journal of Geology, March 2009, GeoScienceWorld

    Dr Fenton P D Cotterill

  20. Victoria Falls: Mosi-oa-Tunya – The Smoke That Thunders

    Article • January 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Fenton P D Cotterill

  21. Controls on post-Gondwana alkaline volcanism in Southern Africa

    Article • Earth and Planetary Science Letters, April 2008, Elsevier

    Dr Fenton P D Cotterill

  22. Taxonomic status and conservation importance of the avifauna of Katanga (south-east Congo Basin) and its environs

    Article • Ostrich, April 2006, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Fenton P D Cotterill

  23. A new species of horseshoe bat (Microchiroptera: Rhinolophidae) from south-central Africa: with comments on its affinities and evolution, and the characterization of rhinolophid species

    Article • Journal of Zoology, February 2006, Wiley

    Dr Fenton P D Cotterill

  24. The Upemba lechwe, Kobus anselli: an antelope new to science emphasizes the conservation importance of Katanga, Democratic Republic of Congo

    Article • Journal of Zoology, February 2005, Wiley

    Dr Fenton P D Cotterill

  25. The reptiles of southeast Katanga, an overlooked ‘hot spot’

    Article • African Journal of Herpetology, June 2004, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Fenton P D Cotterill

  26. Postmodernism and African conservation science

    Article • Biodiversity and Conservation, January 2000, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Fenton P D Cotterill

  27. Reproductive ecology of Commerson's leaf-nosed batsHipposideros commersoni(Chiroptera: Hipposideridae) in South-Central Africa: interactions between seasonality and large body size; and implications for conservation

    Article • South African Journal of Zoology, January 1999, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Fenton P D Cotterill

  28. Female Reproduction in Two Species of Tropical Horseshoe Bats (Rhinolophidae) in Zimbabwe

    Article • Journal of Mammalogy, December 1998, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Fenton P D Cotterill

  29. The state of biological knowledge

    Article • Trends in Ecology & Evolution, May 1997, Elsevier

    Dr Fenton P D Cotterill

  30. Thermoregulation in two population of the Matabeleland mole-rat (Cryptomys hottentotus nimrodi) and remarks on the general thermoregulatory trends within the genusCryptomys(Rodentia: Bathyergidae)

    Article • Journal of Zoology, May 1996, Wiley

    Dr Fenton P D Cotterill

  31. On the occurence of a short period of delayed implantation in Schreibers’long-fingered bat (Miniopterus schreibersii) from a tropical latitude in Zimbabwe

    Article • Journal of Zoology, January 1996, Wiley

    Dr Fenton P D Cotterill

  32. Systematics, biological knowledge and environmental conservation

    Article • Biodiversity and Conservation, March 1995, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Fenton P D Cotterill

  33. The colony structure and reproductive biology of the afrotropical Mashona mole-rat,Cryptomys darlingi

    Article • Journal of Zoology, November 1994, Wiley

    Dr Fenton P D Cotterill

  34. Capturing free-tailed bats (Chiroptera: Molossidae): the description of a new trapping device

    Article • Journal of Zoology, December 1993, Wiley

    Dr Fenton P D Cotterill

  35. Seasonally Polyestrous Reproduction in a Free-Tailed Bat Tadarida fulminans (Microchiroptera: Molossidae) in Zimbabwe

    Article • Biotropica, December 1993, JSTOR

    Dr Fenton P D Cotterill

  36. Poikilothermic traits and thermoregulation in the Afrotropical social subterranean Mashona mole-rat (Cryptomys hottentotus darlingi) (Rodentia: Bathyergidae)

    Article • Journal of Zoology, October 1993, Wiley

    Dr Fenton P D Cotterill

  37. The Zambezi River

    Article • Wiley

    Dr Fenton P D Cotterill