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Elisa Sandoval-Serés, Moreangels Mbizah, Shepherd Phiri, Simbarashe Pride Chatikobo, Marion Valeix, Esther van der Meer, Egil Dröge, Daphine Madhlamoto, Hillary Madzikanda, Peter Blinston, Andrew J. Loveridge (2024) Food resource competition between African wild dogs and larger carnivores in an ecosystem with artificial water provision. Wiley Online Library - Ecology and Evolution.
Van der Meer, E., Mutonhori, T., Ngwenya, N., Madzikanda, H. (2022) Coprophagy of African wild dog faeces by spotted hyaenas and hooded vultures in Mana Pools National Park, Zimbabwe. African Journal of Ecology 60: 87-90.
Elisa Sandoval-Seres, Washington Moyo, Daphine Madhlamoto, Hillary Madzikanda, Peter Blinston, Robynne Kotze, Esther van der Meer, Andrew Loveridge. (2022) Long-distance African wild dog dispersal within the Kavango-Zambezi transfrontier conservation area.
Pays, O., Blanchard, P., Chamaillé-James, S., Valeix, M., Macdonald, D.W., Périquet, S., van der Meer, E., Duncan, P., Mtare, G., Fritz, H. (2020) Disentangling the roles of bottom-up and top-down drivers in the trade-off between food acquisition and safety in prey with multiple predators. Functional Ecology, 35: 435-449.
Van der Meer, E., Hennessy, C., Mpofu, J., Blinston, P. (2019) African wild dogs kleptoparasitizing cheetahs in Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe. CATnews, 70: 8-9.
Van der Meer, E., Lyon, N., Mutonhori, T., Mandisodza-Chikerema, R., Blinston, P. (2019) Dangerous game: preferential predation on baboons by African wild dogs in Mana Pools National Parks, Zimbabwe. Behaviour, 156: 37-58.
Armstrong, E.E. et al. (2018) Cost-effective assembly of the African wild dog (Lycaon pictus) genome using linked reads. GigaScience, 8: 1-10.
Van der Meer, E., Rasmussen, G.S.A., Fritz, H. (2015) Using an energetic cost–benefit approach to identify ecological traps: the case of the African wild dog. Animal Conservation 18: 359-366.
Van der Meer, E., Fritz, H., Pays, O. (2015) Anti-predator behaviour of kudu and impala in response to mimicked African wild dog presence: do age and sex matter? Behaviour 152: 1209-1228.
Van der Meer, E., Fritz, H., Blinston, P., Rasmussen, G.S.A. (2013) Ecological trap in the buffer zone of a protected area: effects of indirect anthropogenic mortality on the African wild dog Lycaon pictus. Oryx 48: 285-293.
Van der Meer, E., Mpofu, J., Rasmussen, G.S.A., Fritz, H. (2013) Characteristics of African wild dog natal dens selected under different interspecific predation pressures. Mammalian Biology 78: 336-343.
Van der Meer, E., Rasmussen, G.S.A., Muvengwi, J., Fritz, H. (2013) Foraging costs, hunting success and its implications for African wild dog (Lycaon pictus) conservation inside and outside a protected area. African Journal of Ecology 52: 69-76.
Van der Meer, E., Pays, O., Fritz, H. (2012) The effect of simulated African wild dog presence on antipredator behaviour of kudu and impala. Ethology 188: 1-12.
Van der Meer, E., Moyo, M., Rasmussen, G.S.A., Fritz, H. (2011) An empirical and experimental test of risk and costs of kleptoparasitism for African wild dogs (Lycaon pictus) inside and outside a protected area. Behavioral Ecology 22: 985-992.
Van der Meer, E. (2011) Is the Grass Greener on the Other Side? Testing the Ecological Trap Hypothesis for African Wild Dogs (Lycaon pictus) in and Around Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe. PhD thesis, l’Université Claude Bernhard – Lyon1, Lyon, France.