PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES
* Journals that are South African Department of Higher Education-accredited but not ISI-rated (all others are ISI-rated)
1985:
1. Taylor, P. J., Jarvis, J. U. M., Crowe, T. M. and Davies, K. C. Age determination in the Cape molerat Georychus capensis. South African Journal of Zoology 20: 261-267.
1989:
2. Taylor, P. J., Campbell, G. K., Meester, J., Willan, K. and van Dyk, D. Genetic variation in the African rodent subfamily Otomyinae (Muridae). I. Allozyme divergence among four species. South African Journal of Science 85: 257-262.
3. Taylor, P. J. and Meester, J. The type locality of Cynictis penicillata coombsii Roberts, 1929 and Gerbillus paeba coombsii Roberts, 1929. Z. Säugetierkunde 54: 329-330.
4. Apps, P. J., Viljoen, H. W., and Taylor, P. Volatile components from the anal glands of the yellow mongoose Cynictis penicillata. South African Journal of Zoology 24: 361-362.
1990:
5. Taylor, P. J., Meester, J. and Rautenbach, I. L. A quantitative analysis of geographical colour variation in the yellow mongoose Cynictis penicillata G. Cuvier, 1829 in Southern Africa. Annals of the Transvaal Museum 35: 177-198.
6. Taylor, P. J., Campbell, G. K., van Dyk, D., Watson, J. P., Pallett, J. and Erasmus, B. H. Genic variation in the yellow mongoose (Cynictis penicillata) in Southern Africa. South African Journal of Science 86: 256-262.
1991:
*7. Taylor, P. J. First record of Welwitsch`s hairy bat (Myotis welwitschii) from Natal. Durban Museum Novitates 16: 35-36.
8. Taylor, P. J., Campbell, G. K., Meester, J. A. J. and Van Dyk, D. A study of allozyme evolution in African mongooses (Viverridae: Herpestinae). Z. Säugetierkunde 56: 135-145.
*9. Van Dyk, D., Campbell, G. K., Taylor, P. J. and Meester, J. Genetic variation within the endemic murid species Otomys unisulcatus F Cuvier, 1829 (Bush Karoo Rat). Durban Museum Novitates16: 12-21.
1992:
10. Contrafatto, G., Meester, J. A., Willan, K., Taylor, P. J., Roberts, M. A., and Baker, C. M. Genetic variation in the African rodent subfamily Otomyinae (Muridae). II. Chromosomal changes in some populations of Otomys irroratus. Cytogenetics and Cell Genetics 59: 293-299.
11. Contrafatto, G., Campbell, G. K., Taylor, P. J., Goossens, V., Willan, K., and Meester, J. A. Genetic variation in the African rodent subfamily Otomyinae (Muridae). III. Karyotype and allozymes of the ice rat, Otomys sloggetti robertsi. Cytogenetics and Cell Genetics 60: 45-47.
12. Contrafatto, G., Meester, J., Bronner, G., Taylor, P. J. and Willan, K. Genetic variation in the African rodent sub-family Otomyinae (Muridae). IV: Chromosome G-banding analysis of Otomys irroratus and Otomys angoniensis. Israel Journal of Zoology 38:277-291.
*13. Meester, J., Taylor, P. J., Contrafatto, G.-C., Campbell, G. K., Willan, K. Lamb, J. M., and Pillay, N. Chromosomal speciation in Southern African Otomyinae (Rodentia: Muridae): a review. Durban Museum Novitates 17: 58-63.
14. Taylor, P. J., Campbell, G. K., Van Dyk, D., Meester, J. and Willan, K. Genetic variation in the African vlei rat Otomys irroratus. Israel Journal of Zoology 38: 293-305.
1993:
15. Bennett, N. C., Taylor, P. J. and Aguilar, G. H. Thermoregulation and metabolic acclimation in the Natal mole-rat (Cryptomys hottentotus natalensis) (Rodentia: Bathyergidae). Zeitschrift für Säugetierkunde 58: 362-367.
*16. Berruti, A., Taylor, P. J. and Vernon, C. J. Morphometrics and distribution of the Knysna Warbler Bradypterus sylvaticus Sundevall and Barratt`s Warbler B. barratti Sharpe. Durban Museum Novitates 18: 29-36.
17. Ellison, G. T. H., Bronner, G. N. and Taylor, P. J. Is the annual cycle in body weight of pouched mice (Saccostomus campestris) the result of seasonal changes in adult size or population structure? Journal of Zoology (London) 229: 545-551.
18. Ellison, G. T. H., Taylor, P. J., Nix, H. A., Bronner, G. N. and McMahon, J. P. Climatic adaptation of body size among pouched mice (Saccostomus campestris: Muridae: Cricetomyinae) within the Southern African subregion. Global Ecology & Biogeography Letters 3: 41-47.
19. Taylor, P. J. and Meester, J. Cynictis penicillata. Mammalian Species No. 432: 1-7.
*20. Taylor, P. J. and Meester, J. Morphometric variation in the yellow mongoose Cynictis penicillata (Cuvier, 1829) in Southern Africa. Durban Museum Novitates 18: 37-71.
21. Taylor, P. J., Meester, J and, Kearney, T. The taxonomic status of Saunder`s vlei rat, Otomys saundersiae Roberts (Rodentia: Muridae: Otomyinae). Journal of African Zoology 107: 571-596.
22. Taylor, P. J. A systematic and population genetic approach to the rabies problem in the yellow mongoose (Cynictis penicillata). Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Science 60: 379-387.
1994:
23. Bernard, R. T. F., Bronner, G. N., Taylor, P. J., Bojarski, C., & Tsita, J. 1994. Aseasonal reproduction in the Hottentot golden mole, Amblysomus hottentotus from the summer rainfall region of South Africa. South African Journal of Science 90: 547-548.
24. Pillay, N., Willan, K., and Taylor, P. J. Comparitive renal morphology of some Southern African otomyine rodents. Acta Theriologica 39(1): 37-48.
*25. Taylor, P. J., Richardson, E. J., Meester, J., and Wingate, L. New distribution records for six small mammal species in Natal, with notes on their taxonomy and ecology. Durban Museum Novitates 19: 59-66.
26. Taylor, P. J., Contrafatto, G. and Willan, K. Climatic correlates of chromosomal variation in the African vlei rat, Otomys irroratus. Mammalia 58: 623-634.
1995:
27. Gelderblom, C., Bronner, G., Lombard, A. & Taylor, P. J. Patterns of distribution and current protection status of the Carnivora, Chiroptera and Insectivora in South Africa. South African Journal of Zoology 30: 103-114.
*28. Richardson, E. J., & Taylor, P. J. New observations on the large-eared free-tailed bat Otomops martiensseni in Durban, South Africa. Durban Museum Novitates 20:72-74.
*29. Taylor, P. J., Rautenbach, I. L., Gordon, D., Sink, K. & Lotter, P. Diagnostic morphometrics and southern African distribution of two sibling species of tree rat. Thallomys paedulcus and Thallomys nigricauda (Rodentia: Muridae). Durban Museum Novitates 20:49-62.
1996:
30. Rowe-Rowe, D. T. & Taylor, P. J. Distribution patterns of terrestrial mammals in KwaZulu-Natal. South African Journal of Zoology 31(3): 131-144.
31. Taylor, P. J. & Contrafatto, G. Mandible shape and size in three species of small musk shrews (Crocidura Wagler, 1832) from southern Africa. Mammalia 60(4): 753-765.
1997:
*32. Harebottle, D., Taylor, P. J. & Berruti, A. The subspecies status of the spotted ground thrush Zoothera guttata guttata (Aves: Turdidae) in South Africa - a multivariate analysis. Durban Museum Novitates 22: 32-36.
*33. Kearney, T. &Taylor, P. J. New distribution records of bats in KwaZulu-Natal. Durban Museum Novitates 22: 53-56.
1998:
*34. Taylor, P. J. Regional patterns of small mammal abundance and community composition in protected areas in KwaZulu-Natal. Durban Museum Novitates 23: 42-51.
*35. Taylor, P. J.& M. Van der Merwe. Taxonomic notes on dark-winged house bats of the genus Scotoecus Thomas 1901, in Malawi. Durban Museum Novitates 23: 64-66.
1999:
36. Bowie, R., Jacobs, D. J. &Taylor, P. J. Resource utilization by two morphologically similar insectivorous bats ( Nycteris thebaica and Hipposideros caffer ). South African Journal of Zoology 34(1): 27-33.
37. Grobler, P., Taylor, P. J., Pretorius, D. M. & Anderson, C. Fluctuating asymmetry and allozyme variability in an isolated springbok (Antidorcas marsupialis) population from the Chelmsford Nature Reserve. Acta Theriologica 44(2): 183-193.
38. Mahida, H., Campbell, G. K. & Taylor, P. J. Genetic variation in Rhabdomys pumilio (Sparrman, 1784). South African Journal of Zoology 34(3): 91-101.
39. Taylor, P. J. The role of amateurs in the growth of bat conservation and research in South Africa. South African Journal of Zoology 34(1): 19-26.
40. Taylor, P. J. Echolocation calls of twenty southern African bat species. South African Journal of Zoology 34(3): 114-124.
41. Taylor, P. J., Cheney, C. & Sapsford, C. Roost habitat evaluation and distribution of bats (Order Chiroptera) in the Durban Metropolitan Region. Durban Museum Novitates 24: 62-71.
42. Taylor, P. J. Problems with the identification of southern African Chaerephon (Molossidae), and the possibility of a cryptic species from South Africa and Swaziland. Acta Chiropterologica 1(2): 191-200.
2000:
43. Taylor, P. J. Patterns of chromosomal variation in southern African rodents. Journal of Mammalogy 81 (2): 317-331.
2001:
44. Bowland, A. E., Bishop, K. S., Taylor, P. J., Lamb, J., Van der Bank, F. H., Van Wyk, E. & York, D. Estimation and management of genetic diversity in small populations of plains zebra (Equus quagga) in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Biochemical Systematics and Ecology 29: 563-583
45. Mullin, S. K., Pillay, N. &Taylor, P. J. Non-geographic morphometric variation in the water rat Dasymys incomtus (Rodentia: Muridae) in southern Africa. Durban Museum Novitates 26: 38-44.
2002:
46. Kearney, T., Volleth, M., Contrafatto, G. &Taylor, P. J. Systematic implications of chromosome GTG-band and bacula morphology for southern African Eptesicus and Pipistrellus and several other species of Vespertilionidae (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae). Acta Chiropterologica 4 (1): 55-76.
47. Mullin, S. K. and Taylor, P. J. The effects of parallax on geometric morphometric data. Computers in Biology and Medicine 32(6):455-464.
48. Mullin, S. K., Pillay, N., Taylor P. J. and Campbell G. 2002. Genetic and morphometric variation in populations of South African Dasymys incomtus incomtus (Rodentia, Murinae). Mammalia 66(3): 381-404.
49. Fenton, M.B., P.J. Taylor, D.S. Jacobs, E.J. Richardson, E. Bernard, S. Bouchard, K.R. Debaeremaeker, H. ter Hofstede, L. Hollis, C.L. Lausen, J.S. Lister, D. Rambaldini, J.M. Ratcliffe & E. Reddy. Researching little-known species: the African bat Otomops martiensseni (Chiroptera: Molossidae). Biodiversity and Conservation 11:1583-1606.
2003:
50. Gaubert, P., M. Tranier, G. Veron, D. Kock, A. E. Dunham, P. J. Taylor, C. Stuart, T. Stuart, W. C. Wozencraft. Viverra maculata Gray, 1830 (currently Genetta maculata; Mammalia, Carnivora): proposed conservation of the specific name and designation of a neotype; Genetta thierryi Matschie, 1902: proposed conservation of the specific name. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 60:45-47.
51. Gaubert P, Tranier M, Veron G, Kock D, Dunham AE, Taylor PJ, Stuart C, Stuart T, Wozencraft WC. 2003b. Nomenclatural comments on the Rusty-spotted Genet (Carnivora, Viverridae) and designation of a neotype. Zootaxa 160: 1–14
*52. Bronner, G.N., Hoffmann, M., Taylor, P.J., Chimimba, C.T., Best, P.B., Matthee, C.A.& Robinson, T.J. A revised systematic checklist of the extant mammals of the southern African subregion. Durban Museum Novitates 28: 56-106.
2004:
53. Fenton, M.B., D.S. Jacobs, E.R. Richardson, P.J. Taylor and W. White. Individual signatures in the frequency modulated sweep calls of African large-eared free-tailed bats (Otomops martiensseni) (Chiroptera: Molossidae). Journal of Zoology (London) 262: 11-19.
54. Jacobs, D. S., Eick, G., Richardson, E. J. &Taylor, P. J. Genetic similarity amongst phenotypically diverse little free-tailed bats, Chaerephon pumilus. Acta Chiropterologica 6: 13-21.
55. Veron, G., Colyn, M., Dunham, A. E., Taylor, P.& Gaubert, P. Molecular systematics and origin of sociality in mongooses (Herpestidae, Carnivora). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 30: 582-698
*56. Taylor, P. J., Cotterill, F. P. D., Van der Merwe, M., White, W. & Jacobs, D.. New biogeographical records and conservation status of five rare species of bats (Chiroptera: Rhinolophidae and Vespertilionidae) from South Africa. Durban Museum Novitates 29: 104-109.
*57. Taylor, P. J., Kumirai, A. & Contrafatto, G. Geometric morphometric analysis of adaptive cranial evolution in southern African laminate-toothed rats (Family: Muridae; Tribe: Otomyini). Durban Museum Novitates 29: 110-122.
58. Taylor, P. J., Denys, C., Mukerjee, M. Phylogeny of the African murid tribe Otomyini (Rodentia), based on morphological and allozyme evidence. Zoologica Scripta 33: 389-402.
59. Mullin, S. K., N. Pillay, N. Taylor, P. J. Cranial variation within the Dasymys rufulus complex (Rodentia: Muridae) based on morphological techniques. Journal of Mammalogy 85(5): 911-923.
60. Mullin, S. K., Taylor, P. J.& Pillay, N. Skull size and shape of Dasymys from sub-Saharan Africa. Mammalia 62(2-3): 185-220.
2005:
61. Gaubert, P., Taylor, P. J., Fernandes, C. A., Bruford, M. W. Veron, G. Patterns of cryptic hybridization revealed using a multidimensional approach: a case study on genets (Carnivora, Viverridae, Genetta spp.) from the southern African subregion. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 86:11-33.
62. Mullin, S. K., Pillay, N. &Taylor, P. J. The distribution of the water rat Dasymys (Muridae) in Africa: a review. South African Journal of Science. 101: 117-124.
*63. Taylor, P. J., Geiselman, C., Kabochi, P., Agwanda, B, & Turner, S. Intraspecific variation in the calls of some African bats (Order Chiroptera). Durban Museum Novitates 30: 24-37.
64. Taylor, P. J., Kumirai, A. & Contrafatto, G. Species with fuzzy borders: the taxonomic status and species limits of Saunders’ vlei rat, Otomys saundersiae Roberts (Rodentia: Muridae: Otomyini). Mammalia 69 (3-4): 297-322.
2006:
65. Markotter, W., Randles, J., Rupprecht, C. E., Sabeta, C. T., Taylor, P. J., Wandeler, A. I. & Nel, L. H. Lagos Bat Virus, South Africa. Emerging Infectious Diseases 12(3): 504-506
*66. Lamb, J. M., Abdel-Rahman, E. H., Ralph, T. Fenton, M. B., Naidoo, A. Richardson, E. J., Jacobs, D. S. Denys, C. &. Taylor, P. J. Phylogeography of southern and northeastern African populations of Otomops martiensseni (Chiroptera: Molossidae). Durban Museum Novitates 31: 42-53.
2007:
67. Colangelo, Paolo, Granjon, Laurent, Taylor, Peter J. and Corti, Marco. Evolutionary systematics in African gerbilline rodents of the genus Gerbilliscus: inference from mitochondrial genes. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 42: 797-806.
*68. Abdel-Rahman, E. H., Lamb, J., Contrafatto, G. &Taylor, P. J. Genetic variation in Arvicanthis (Lesson, 1842) from Sudan: cytosystematic and PCR-RAPD investigations. Durban Museum Novitates. 32: 49-59.
2008:
69. Rahman Ahmed, E. H. A, Ducroz, J-F., Mitchell, A., Lamb, L., Contrafatto, G., Denys, C., Lecompte, E. &Taylor, P. J. Phylogeny and historical demography of economically-important rodents of the genus Arvicanthis (Mammalia: Muridae) from the Nile Valley: of mice and men. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 93: 641-655.
70. Taylor, P. J. & Monadjem, A. Maxillary shape as a diagnostic tool for identifying fruit bats, Epomophorus crypturus and E. wahlbergi (Mammalia: Chiroptera) from museum specimens and in the field. South African Journal of Wildlife Research 38(1): 22-27.
71. Taylor, P. J., Arntzen, L., Hayter, M. Iles, M., Frean, J., & Belmain, S. R. Understanding and managing sanitary risks due to rodent zoonoses in an African city: beyond the Boston Model. Integrative Zoology 3: 38-50.
72. Lamb, J. M., Ralph, T. M. C., Goodman, S. M., Bogdanowicz, W., Fahr, J..Gajewska, M., Bates, P. J. J., Eger, J., Benda, P. &Taylor, P. J. Phylogeography and predicted distribution of African-Arabian and Malagasy populations of giant mastiff bats, Otomops (Chiroptera: Molossidae). Acta Chiropterologica 10(1): 21-40.
2009:
73. Abdel-Rahman, E. H., Taylor, P. J., Contrafatto, G., Lamb, J. M., Bloomer, P, & Chimimba, C. T. Geometric craniometric analysis of sexual dimorphism and ontogenetic variation: A case study based on two geographically disparate species, Aethomys ineptus from southern Africa and Arvicanthis niloticus from Sudan (Rodentia: Muridae). Mammalian Biology 74: 361-373.
74. Abdel-Rahman, E. H.,Taylor, P. J.,Contrafatto, G.& Lamb, J. M. 2009. Geometric morphometric and taxonomic status of the genus Arvicanthis (Rodentia: Muridae) from Sudan.
75. Taylor, P. J., Maree, S., van Sandwyk, J. Kerbis Peterhans, J. C. Stanley, W. T., Verheyen, E., Kaliba, P. Verheyen, W. Kaleme, P. & N. C. Bennett. Speciation mirrors geomorphology and palaeoclimatic history in African laminate-toothed rats (Muridae: Otomyini) of the Otomys denti and O. lacustris species-complexes in the “Montane Circle” of East Africa. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 96: 913-941.
76. Taylor, P. J., Maree, S., Sandwyk, J., Baxter, R. & Rambau, R. V. When is a species not a species? Uncoupled phenotypic, karyotypic and genotypic divergence in two species of South African laminate-toothed rats (Murinae: Otomyini). Journal of Zoology (London) 277(4): 317-332.
77. Ratrimomanarivo, Fanja, H., Goodman, S. M, Hoosen, N. Taylor, P. J.& Lamb, J. Morphological and molecular variation in Mops leucostigma (Chiroptera: Molossidae) of Madagascar and the Comoros: phylogeny, phylogeography and geographic variation. Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museum 105: 57-101.
78. Taylor, P. J., Lamb, J. Reddy, D., Naidoo, T. Ratrimomanarivo, F.& Goodman, S. M. Cryptic lineages of little free-tailed bats, Chaerephon pumilus (Chiroptera: Molossidae) from southern Africa and the western Indian Ocean islands. African Zoology 277: 317-332.
79. Ratrimomanarivo, F. H., Goodman, S. M., Taylor, P. J., Melson, B. & Lamb, J. Morphological and genetic variation in Mormopterus jugularis (Chiroptera: Molossidae) in different bioclimatic regions of Madagascar with natural history notes. Mammalia 73(2): 110-129.
80. Ratrimomanarivo, F. H., Steven M. Goodman, William T. Stanley, Theshnie Naidoo, Peter J. Taylor, & Jennifer Lamb.Patterns of geographic and phylogeographic variation in Chaerephonleucogaster (Chiroptera: Molossidae) of Madagascar and the western Indian Ocean islands of Mayotte and Pemba. Acta Chiropterologica 11(1): 25-52.
81. Enders A. C. Jones C. J. P.,Taylor, P. J., Carter, A. M. Placentation in the Egyptian slit-faced bat Nycteris thebaica (Chiroptera: Nycteridae). Placenta 30 (9):792-799.
82. Taylor, P. J.& Hamer, M. Standing on the shoulders of colourful giants: 50 years of zoological research in southern Africa. African Zoology 43(2): 217-231.
83. Hamer, M. &Taylor, P. J. Trends in zoological research in South Africa between 1980 and 2009. African Zoology 43(2): 232-240.
2010:
84. Goodman, S. G., Buccas, W., Naidoo, T., Ratrimomanarivo, F., Taylor, P. J. & Lamb, J. Patterns of morphological and genetic variation in western Indian Ocean members of the Chaerephon leucogaster/C. pumilus complex (Chiroptera: Molossidae) with the description of a new species from Madagascar. Zootaxa 2551: 1-36.
85. Richards, L. R., Rambau, R. V., Yang, F, Schoeman, M. C. Taylor, P. J., Goodman S. M and Lamb, J. M. Cross-species chromosome painting in bats from Madagascar: the contribution of Myzopodidae to revealing ancestral syntenies in Chiroptera. Chromosome Research 18 (6): 635-653.
86. Monadjem, A. Schoeman, M. C. Reside, A. Pio, D. V. Stoffberg, S., Bayliss, J. Cotterill, F. P. D., Curran, M., Kopp, M. & Taylor, P. J.A recent inventory of the bats of Mozambique with documentation of seven new species to the country. Acta Chiropterologica 12(2): 371-391.
2011:
87. Engelbrecht, A., Taylor, P. J.,Daniels, S. R., Rambau, R. V. Chromosomal polymorphisms in the African vlei rats Otomys irroratus detected using banding techniques and chromosome painting: inversions, centromeric shifts, and diploid number variation. Cytogenetic and Genome Research 133:8–15.DOI: 10.1159/000323416.
88. Bastos, A. D. S, Nair, D.,Taylor, P. J., Brettschneider, H.,Kirsten, F., Mostert, M. E., von Maltitz, E., Lamb, J. M., van Hooft, P., Belmain, S. R., Contrafatto, G., Downs, S.& Chimimba, C. T. Genetic monitoring detects an overlooked cryptic species and reveals the diversity and distribution of three invasive Rattus congeners in south Africa. BMC Genetics12:26 doi:10.1186/1471-2156-12-26.
89. Kearney, T. C. and Taylor, P. J., 2011. Selection of cranial and mandible measurements for traditional morphometric analyses of southern African vesper bats from the genera Eptesicus, Hypsugo, Neoromicia, and Pipistrellus(Mammalia: Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae).Annals of the Ditsong National Museum of Natural History 1: 53–61.
90. Kaleme, P.K., Bates, J.M., Belesi, H.K., Bowie, R.C.K., Gambalemoke, M., Kerbis-Peterhans, J., Michaux, J., Mwanga, J.M., Ndara, B.R.,Taylor P.J. and Jansen van Vuuren B. Origin and colonization routes for invasive rodent taxa in the Democratic Republic of Congo reconstructed using genetic and historical data. African Zoology 46(1): 133-145.
91. Lamb, J.M., Ralph, T.M.C., Naidoo, T., Ratrimomanarivo, F., Taylor, P.J.& Goodman, S.M. 2011. Toward a molecular phylogeny for the Molossidae (Chiroptera) of the Afro-Malagasy region. Acta Chiropterologica 13: 1–16.
92. Solano E, Gilbert C, Richards,L. R., Taylor P. J., Soarimalala V., Engelbrecht, A., Goodman S. M. and Robinson T. J. First karyotypic descriptions of Malagasy rodents (Nesomyinae, Nesomyidae: Muridae) reveal variation at multiple taxonomic levels. Journal of Zoology (London) 285: 110-118. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.2011.00820.x
93. Engelbrecht, A., Taylor, P. J., Daniels, S. R., Rambau, R. V. Cryptic speciation in the southern African vlei rat, Otomys irroratus complex: evidence derived from mitochondrial cyt b and niche modeling. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 104: 192-206.
94.Taylor, P. J., Lavrenchenko, L. A., Carleton, M. D., Verheyen, E. Bennett, N., Oosthuisen, C. & Maree, S. Specific limits and emerging diversity patterns in east African populations of laminate-toothed rats, genus Otomys (Muridae: Murinae: Otomyini): Revision of the Otomys typus complex. Zootaxa 3024: 1-66.
95. Massawe, A.W, Mulungu, L.S, Makundi, R.H, Dlamini, N., Eiseb. S.J., Kirsten, F., Mahlaba, T., Malebane, P., von Maltitz, E., Monadjem. A., Taylor, P.., Tutjavi, V., and Steven R. Belmain. Spatial and temporal population dynamics of rodents in three geographically different regions: Implication for ecologically- based rodent management. African Zoology 46(2): 393-405.
96. Monadjem, A, Mahlaba, T. A., Dlamini, N., Eiseb, S. J.,Belmain, S. R., Mulungu, L. S., Massawe, A. W. Makundi, R. H., Mohr, K. Taylor, P. J. Impact of crop cycle on movement patterns of pest rodent species between fields and houses in Africa. Wildlife Research 38: 603-609.
2012:
97.Taylor , P. J., Downs, S., Monadjem, A., Eiseb, S. J., Mulungu, L. S., Massawe, A. W., Mahlaba, T. A., Kirsten, F., Von Maltitz, E., Malebane, P., Makundi, R. H, Lamb, J.,Belmain, S. R. 2012. Experimental treatment-control studies of ecologically-based rodent management in Africa: balancing conservation and pest management. Wildlife Research 39: 51-61.
98. Goodman, S. M., Taylor, P. J., Ratrimimanarivo, F., Hoofer, S. R. The genus Neoromicia (Family Vespertilionidae) in Madagascar, with the description of a new species. Zootaxa 3250: 1-25.
99. Lamb, J., Naidoo, T., Taylor, P. J, Napier, M., Ratrimomanarivo, F. &. Goodman, S. M. Genetically and geographically isolated lineages of a tropical bat (Chiroptera, Molossidae) show demographic stability over the late Pleistocene. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 106: 18-40.
100. Richards, L. R., Taylor, P. J., Schoeman, M. C., Goodman, S. M.,Van Daele, P. A. A. G., Lamb, J. M. Cranial size and shape variation in Afrotropical Otomops: testing species limits using a morphometric approach. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 106: 910-925.
101.Taylor, P. J., Goodman, S. M., Schoeman, M. C., Ratrimomanarivo, F. H. and Lamb, J. M. Wing loading correlates negatively with genetic structuring in eight species of Afro-Malagasy bats (Molossidae). Acta Chiropterologica 14: 53-62.
102. Taylor, P. J., Stoffberg, S, Monadjem, A,Schoeman, M. C. Bayliss, J. and Cotterill, F. P. D. Four new bat species (Rhinolophus hildebrandtii complex) reflect Plio-Pleistocene divergence of dwarfs and giants across an Afromontane Archipelago. PLoS ONE 7(9): e41744. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0041744
2013:
103. Monadjem, A., Richards, L., Taylor, P. J. and Stoffberg, S. High diversity of pipistrelloid bats (Vespertilionidae: Hypsugo, Neoromica and Pipistrellus) in a West African rainforest with the description of a new species. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 167: 191–207, , https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.2012.00871.x.
104. Taylor, P. J., Monadjem, A. and Steyn, J. N. Seasonal patterns of habitat use by insectivorous bats in a subtropical African agro-ecosystem dominated by macadamia orchards. African Journal of Ecology 51: 552-561, https://doi.org/10.1111/aje.12066.
105. Schoeman, M. C., Cotterill, F. P. D., Taylor, P. J., & Monadjem, A. 2013. Using potential distributions to explore environmental correlates of bat species richness in southern Africa: effects of model selection and taxonomy. Current Zoology 59 (3): 279-293, https://doi.org/10.1093/czoolo/59.3.279.
106. Taylor, P. J., Sowler, S., Schoeman, M. C.& Monadjem, A. Diversity of bats in the Soutpansberg and Blouberg Mountains of northern South Africa: complimentarity of acoustic and non-acoustic survey methods. South African Journal of Wildlife Research 43 (1): 12-26, https://doi.org/10.3957/056.043.0117.
107. Naidoo, T.,Schoeman, M. C.,Taylor, P. J., Goodman, S. M.& Lamb, J. M. Stable Pleistocene-era populations of Chaerephon pumilus (Chiroptera: Molossidae) from south eastern Africa do not display different echolocation characteristics. African Zoology 48 (1): 125-142, https://doi.org/10.3377/004.048.0112.
108. Hurst, Z. M., McCleery, R. A., Collier, B. A., Fletcher, R. J., Silvy, N. J., Taylor, P. J. and Monadjem, A. Dynamic edge effects in small mammal communities across a conservation-agriculture interface in Swaziland. PLoS ONE 8 (9): e74520. Doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0074520.
109. Taylor, P. J., Kearney, T. C., Kerbis Peterhans, J. C., Baxter, R. M. & Willows-Munro, S. 2013. Cryptic diversity in forest shrews of the genus Myosorex from southern Africa, with the description of a new species and comments on M. tenuis. Zoological Society of the Linnean Society 169: 881-902, https://doi.org/10.1111/zoj.12083.
110. Van Heerden, J. van Heerden, C.& Taylor, P. J. Genetic differentiation in Horus Chamberlin (Arachnida, Pseudoscorpiones, Olphiidae) as indicated by mitochondrial DNA studies. African Zoology 48 (2): 351-358.
111. Monadjem, A., Richards, L., Taylor, P. J.,Denys, C.,Dower, A. & Stoffberg, S. Diversity of Hipposideridae in the Mount Nimba massif, West Africa,and the taxonomic status of Hipposideros lamottei. Acta Chiropterologica 15(2): 341-352, https://doi.org/10.3161/150811013X678964.
2014:
112. Hurst, Z. M., McCleery, R. A., Collier, B. A., Fletcher, R. J., Silvy, N. J., Taylor, P. J. and Monadjem, A. Linking changes in small mammal communities to ecosystem functions in an agricultural landscape. Mammalian Biology 79(1): 17-23, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mambio.2013.08.008.
113. Lamb, J. M., Taylor, P. J., Eiseb, S. & Downs, S. Increased geographic sampling reveals considerable new genetic diversity in the morphologically conservative African Pygmy Mice (Genus Mus; Subgenus Nannomys). Mammalian Biology 79(1): 24-35, DOI: 10.1016/j.mambio.2013.08.010.
114. Cotterill, F. P. D.; Taylor P. J., Gippoliti, S., Bishop, J. M., Groves, C. P. Why one century of phenetics is enough: response to `Are there really twice as many bovid species as we thought?`
Systematic Biology 63: 819-832; doi: 10.1093/sysbio/syu003.
115. Pio, D. V.,Engler, R.Linder, P., Monadjem, A.,Cotterill, F. P. D.,Taylor, P.,Price, B.,Villet, M., Salamin, N.& Guisan, A. 2014. Climate change effects on animal and plant phylogenetic diversity in southern Africa. Global Change Biology 20: 1538-1549, doi:10.1111/gcb.12524.
116. Bayliss, Julian; Timberlake, Johnathan; Branch, William; Bruessow, Carl; Collins, Steve; Congdon, Colin; Curran, Michael; De Sousa, Camila; Dowsett, Robert J.; Dowsett-Lemaire, Francoise; Fishpool, Lincoln; Harris, Timothy; Georgiadis, Stephen; Kopp, Miriam; Liggitt, Bruce; Monadjem, Ara; Ribeiro, Daniel; Spottiswoode, Claire; Taylor, Peter; Willcock, Simon; Smith, Paul. The Discovery, biodiversity, and conservation of Mabu forest – the largest medium altitude rainforest in southern Africa. Oryx 48: 177-185, doi:10.1017/S0030605313000720.
117. Solano, E., Taylor, P. J., Rautenbach, A., Ropiquet, A. & Castiglia, R. Cryptic speciation and chromosomal repatterning in the South African Climbing mice Dendromus (Rodentia, Nesomyidae). PLoS ONE 9(2): e88799. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0088799
118. Delcros, G., Taylor, P. J. & Schoeman, M. C. Ecological correlates of small mammal assemblage structure at different spatial scales in the savannah biome of South Africa. Mammalia 79: 1-14. DOI 10.1515/mammalia-2013-0153.
119. Denys C., Missoup A. D., Nicolas V., Fülling O., Delapré A., Bilong Bilong C. F., Taylor P. J. & Hutterer R. 2014. — African highlands as mammal diversity hotspots: new records of Lamottemys okuensis Petter, 1986 (Rodentia: Muridae) and other endemic rodents from Mt Oku, Cameroon. Zoosystema 36 (3): 647-690. http://dx.doi.org/10.5252/z2014n3a6
120. Linden, V. M. G., Weier, S. M.,Gaigher, I., Kuipers, H. I., Weterings, M. J. A. & Taylor, P. J. Changes of bat activity, species richness, diversity and community composition over an altitudinal gradient in the Soutpansberg range, South Africa. Acta Chiropterologica 16 (1): 27-40, doi: 10.3161/150811014X683246.
121. Taylor, P. J., Maree, S., Cotterill,F. P. D.,Missoup, A. D.,Nicolas, V. Denys, C. Molecular and morphological evidence for a Pleistocene radiation of laminate-toothed rats (Otomys: Rodentia) across a volcanic archipelago in equatorial Africa. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 113: 320-344, https://doi.org/10.1111/bij.12317.
2015:
122. Taylor, P. J., Munyai, A., Gaigher, I., Baxter, R. 2015. Afromontane small mammals do not follow the hump-shaped rule: elevational variation in a tropical biodiversity hotspot (Soutpansberg Mountains, South Africa). Journal of Tropical Ecology 31 (1): 37-48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0266467414000613
123. Goodman,S. M. Rakotondramanana, C. F., Ramasindrazana, B. Kearney, T., Monadjem, A., Schoeman, M. C., Taylor, P. J., Naughton, K. and Appleton, B. An integrative approach to characterize Malagasy bats of the subfamily Vespertilioninae Gray, 1821, with the description of a new species of Hypsugo. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 173: 9988-1018, https://doi.org/10.1111/zoj.12223 .
124. Dalton, D. L., Linden, B., Wimberger, K., Nupen, L., Tordiffe, A. S. W., Taylor, P. J., Madisha, M. T. & Kotze, A. New insights into samango monkey speciation in South Africa. PLoS ONE. 10(3): e0117003. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0117003
125. Nengovhela, A., Baxter, R. M. & Taylor, P. J. Temporal changes in cranial size in South African vlei rats (Otomys): evidence for the “third universal response to warming”. African Zoology. 50 (3): 233-239. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15627020.2015.1052014.
126. Ralph, T. M. C., Richards, L. R., Taylor, P. J., Napier, M. C., Lamb, J. M. Revision of Afro-Malagasy Otomops (Chiroptera: Molossidae) with the description of a new Afro-Arabian Otomops species. Zootaxa. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4057.1.1
*127. Taylor, P. J., Richards, L. R., Bayliss, J., Cotterill, F. P.D. Rediscovery of the “extinct” Transvaal free-tailed bat (Tadarida ventralis africana) in South Africa, with an additional record of the Malagasy free-tailed bat (T. fulminans) from northern Mozambique. Durban Museum Novitates 38: 50-55.
2016:
128. Maas, B., Karp, D. S., Bumrungsri, S., Darras, K., Gonthier, D., Huang, J. C.-C., Lindell, C. A., Maine, J., Mestre, L., Michel, N. L., Morrison, E. B., Perfecto, I., Philpott, S. M., Sekercioglu, C. H., Silva, R. M., Taylor, P. J., Tscharntke, T., Van Bael, S. A., Whelan, C. J., Williams-Guillén, K. 2016. Bird and bat predation services in tropical forests and agroforestry landscapes. Biological Reviews 91: 1081–1101. doi: 10.1111/brv.12211.
129. Taylor, P. J., Nengovhela, A., Linden, J. & Baxter, R. M. 2016. Past, present and future distribution of Afromontane rodents (Muridae: Otomys) reflect climate-change predicted biome changes. Mammalia 80: 359-375. DOI 10.1515/mammalia-2015-0033.
130. Naidoo, T., Schoeman, M. C., Goodman, S. M., Taylor, P. J. & Lamb, J. M. Discordance between mitochondrial and nuclear genetic structure in the bat Chaerephon pumilus (Chiroptera: Molossidae) from southern Africa. Mammalian Biology 81: 115-122. DOI: 10.1016/j.mambio.2015.11.002.
131. Naidoo, T., Goodman, S. M., Schoeman, M. C., Taylor, P. J. & Lamb, J. M. Partial support for the classical ring species hypothesis in the Chaerephon pumilus species complex (Chiroptera: Molossidae) from southeastern Africa and the western Indian Ocean islands. Mammalia 80 (6): 627-643. DOI 10.1515/mammalia-2015-0062.
132. Richards, L. R., Rambau, R. V., Goodman, S. M., Taylor, P. J., Schoeman, M. C., Yang, F. & Lamb, J. M. 2016. Karyotypic evolution in Malagasy flying foxes (Pteropodidae, Chiroptera) and their hipposiderid relatives as determined by comparative chromosome painting. Cytogenetic and Genome Research. Vol. 148 (2-3): 185-198. DOI: 10.1159/000446297.
133. Labuschagne, L., Swanepoel, L. H., Taylor, P. J., Belmain, S. R., Keith, M. Are avian predators effective biological control agents for rodent pest management in agricultural systems? Biological Control 101: 94-102, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocontrol.2016.07.003.
134. Cooper-Bohannon, R., Rebelo, H., Jones, G., Cotterill, F., Monadjem, A., Schoeman, M. C., Taylor, P. J., Park, K. Predicting bat distributions and diversity hotspots in southern Africa. Hystrix,doi:10.4404/hystrix-27.1-11722.
135. Ceríaco, L. M. P., Gutiérrez, E. E., Dubois, A. et al. (490 authors including Taylor, P. J.). Photography-based taxonomy is inadequate, unnecessary, and potentially harmful for biological sciences. Zootaxa 4196(3): 435-445, 10.11646/ZOOTAXA.4196.3.9.
136. Bamigboye, S. O., Tshisikhawe P. M. & Taylor, P. J. 2016. Review of extinction risk in African cycads. Phyton International Journal of Experimental Botany 85: 333-336.
2017:
137. Weier, S. M., Linden, V. M. G., Gaigher, I., White, P. J. C. & Taylor, P. J. 2017 Changes of bat species distribution over altitudinal gradients on northern and southern aspects of the Soutpansberg mountain range, South Africa. Mammalia 81: 49-60. DOI 10.1515/mammalia-2015-0055.
138. Taylor, P. J., Ogony, L., Ogola, J., Baxter, R. M. 2017. South African mouse shrews (Myosorex) feel the heat: using species distribution models SDMs and IUCN Red List criteria to flag extinction risks due to climate change and habitat loss. Mammal Research, 62:149-162. DOI 10.1007/s13364-016-0291-z.
139. Swanepoel, L. H. Corrie M. Swanepoel, Peter R. Brown, Seth J. Eiseb, Steven M. Goodman, Mark Keith, Frikkie Kirsten, Herwig Leirs, Themb’alilahlwa A.M. Mahlaba, Rhodes H. Makundi, Phanuel Malebane, Emil F. von Maltitz, Apia W. Massawe, Ara Monadjem, Loth S. Mulungu, Grant R. Singleton, Peter J. Taylor, Voahangy Soarimalala and Steven R. Belmain. A systematic review of rodent pest research in Afro-Malagasy small-holder farming systems: Are we asking the right questions? PLOS ONE 12(3): e0174554. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0174554
140. Groves, C. P., Cotterill, F. P. D., Gippoliti, S., Robovský, J., Roos, C., Taylor, P., Zinner, D. Species definitions and conservation: a review and case studies from African mammals. Conservation Genetics 18 (6): 1247-1256. DOI 10.1007/s10592-017-0976-0.
141. Cotterill, F. P. D., Groves, C. P. & Taylor, P. J. 2017. Taxonomy: refine rather than stabilize. Nature 547: 162. doi:10.1038/547162d.
142. Taylor, P. J., Matamba, E., Steyn, J. N., Nangammbi, T. Zepeda-Mendoza, M. L. & Bohmann, K. Diet determined by Next Generation Sequencing reveals pest consumption and opportunistic foraging by bats in macadamia orchards in South Africa. Acta Chiropterologica 19(2): 239–254. doi: 10.3161/15081109ACC2017.19.2.003.
2018:
143. Taylor, P. J., Alberts, D., Grass, I. Joubert, E. & Tscharntke, T. Economic value of bat predation services - a review and estimates from macadamia orchards. Ecosystem Services 30: 372-381. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2017.11.015
144. Williams, S. T., Maree, N., Taylor, P., Belmain, S. R., Keith, M., Swanepoel, L. H. Predation by small mammalian carnivores in rural agro-ecosystems: An undervalued ecosystem service? Ecosystem Services 30: 362-371. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2017.12.006
145. Grass, I., Meyer, S., Taylor, P. J., Foord, S. H., Hajek, P. and Tscharntke, T. 2018. Pollination limitation despite managed honeybees in South African macadamia orchards. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 260: 11-18. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2018.03.010
146. Monadjem, A., Taylor, P. J., Conenna, I. and Schoeman, M. C. Species richness patterns and functional traits of the bat fauna of arid southern Africa. Hystrix 29: 19-24. https://doi.org/10.4404/hystrix–00016-2017
147. Taylor, P. J., Goodman, S. M., Macdonald, A., Richards, L., Cotterill, F. P. D., Stoffberg, S., Kearney, Monadjem, A. & Schoeman, M. C. Integrative taxonomy resolves species limits and identification of cryptic small rhinolophid bats in Southern Africa, with the description of three new species from Mozambique. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 184 (4): 1249–1276. DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zly024/4984486
148. Foord, Stefan; Swanepoel, Lourens; Evans, Steven; Schoeman, Colin; Schoeman, Corrie; Keith, Mark; Erasmus, Barend; Smith, Alain; Mauda, Evans; Maree, Naudene; Nembudani, Leslie; Munyai, Thinandavha; Taylor, Peter John. Animal taxa contrast in their scale-dependent responses to land use in rural Africa. PLoS One. 13(5): e0194336. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0194336
149. Weier, S. M., Grass, I., Linden, V. M. G. Tscharntke, T. & Taylor, P. J. 2018. Natural vegetation and bugs promote insectivorous bat activity in macadamia orchards, South Africa. Biological Conservation 226: 16–23.
150. Taylor, P. J., Neef, G., Keith, M., Weier, S., Monadjem, A., Parker, D. Tapping into technology and the biodiversity informatics revolution: updated terrestrial mammal list of Angola, with new records of small mammals from the Okavango Basin. ZooKeys 779: 51–88, doi: 10.3897/zookeys.779.25964.
151. Harris, D. J., Halajian, A., Santos J. L., Swanepoel, L. H., Taylor, P. J. and Xavier, R. Diversity of haemoprotozoan parasites infecting the wildlife of South Africa. Folia Parasitologica 65: 1–8. doi: 10.14411/fp.2018.015.
152. Williams ST, Maree N, Taylor P, Belmain SR, Keith M, Swanepoel LH. Camera trap and questionnaire dataset on ecosystem services provided by small carnivores in agro-ecosystems in South Africa. Data in Brief 18:753–759. DOI: 10.1016/j.dib.2018.03.071
153. Monadjem, A., Kane, A. Taylor, P., Richards, L. R., Hall, G., Woodborne, S. Morphology and stable isotope analysis demonstrate different structuring of bat communities in rainforest and savannah habitats. Royal Society Open Science 5(12):180849, DOI: 10.1098/rsos.180849
2019:
154. Taylor, P. J. Denys, C. Cotterill, F. P. D. 2019. Taxonomic anarchy or an inconvenient truth for conservation? Accelerated species discovery reveals evolutionary patterns and heightened extinction threat in African small mammals. Mammalia 83 (4): 313-329, https://doi.org/10.1515/mammalia-2018-0031.
155. Nengovhela, A., Braga,J., Denys, C., De Beer, F. Tenailleau, C., Taylor. P. J. Associated tympanic bullar and cochlear hypertrophy define adaptations to true deserts in African gerbils and laminate-toothed rats (Muridae: Gerbillinae and Murinae). Journal of Anatomy 234: 179–192, DOI:
10.1111/joa.12906.
156. Weier, S., Fraser, M. F., Grass, I., Tscharntke, T., Moodley, Y., Linden, V. M. G., Taylor, P. J. Insect pest consumption by bats in macadamia orchards established by molecular diet analysis. Global Ecology & Conservation, Volume 18, DOI: 10.1016/j.gecco.2019.e00626.
157. Weier, S. M., Linden. V. M. G, Grass, I., Tscharntke, T. and Taylor, P. J. 2019. The use of bathouses as day roosts in macadamia orchards, South Africa. PeerJ 7:e6954 http://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6954
158. Linden, V. M. G., Grass, I., Joubert, E., Tscharntke, T,. Weier, S. M., Taylor, P. J. 2019. Ecosystem services and disservices by birds, bats and monkeys change with macadamia landscape heterogeneity. Journal of Applied Ecology 56: 2069–2078, https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.13424.
159. Taylor, P. J., Macdonald, A., Goodman, S. M., Kearney, T, Cotterill, F. P. D., Stoffberg, S. Monadjem, A., Schoeman, C. Guyton, J., Naskrecki, P., Engelbrecht, A. and Richards, L. R. 2019. CORRIGENDUM: Integrative taxonomy resolves three new cryptic species of small southern African horseshoe bats (Rhinolophus). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 187: 535–537, https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz03.
160. Taylor, P. J., Kearney, K., Dalton, D., Mataruse, G., Kelly, C. M. R. and Barker, N. P. 2020. Biomes, geology and past climate drive speciation of laminate-toothed rats on South African mountains (Murinae: Otomys). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 189: 1046–1066, https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz134.
2020:
161. Taylor, P. J., Vise, C., Krishnamoorthy, M. A., Kingston, T., Venter, S. 2020. Citizen science confirms the rarity of fruit bat pollination of baobab (Adansonia digitata) flowers in southern Africa. Diversity 12: 106; doi:10.3390/d12030106.
162. Linden, B., Foord, S., Horta-Lacueva, Q. J., Taylor, P. J. 2020. Bridging the gap: how to design canopy bridges for arboreal guenons to mitigate road collisions. Biological Conservation, 240, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2020.108560.
163. Bezeng, B. S., Tesfamichael, S. G., Taylor, P. J., Yessoufou, K. 2020. Expected spatial patterns of alien woody plants in South Africa’s protected areas under current scenario of climate change. Scientific Reports. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-63830-x.
164. Constant, N. L., Swanepoel, L., Williams, S. T., Soarimalala, V., Goodman, S. M., Massawe, A. T., Mulungu, L. S., Makundi, R. H., Taylor, P. J., Belmain, S. R. 2020. A comparative assessment on rodent impacts and cultural perceptions of ecologically-based rodent management in three Afro-Malagasy farming regions. Integrative Zoology, https://doi.org/10.1111/1749-4877.12447
165. Weier, S., Neef, G., Keith, M., Parker, D. and Taylor, P. J. 2020. Bat richness and community composition along a mega-transect in the Okavango River Basin. Diversity, 12, 188, doi:10.3390/d12050188.
166. Constant, N. L. & Taylor, P. J. Restoring the forest revives our culture: Ecosystem services and values for ecological restoration across the rural-urban nexus in South Africa. Forest Policy & Economics, 118, doi: 10.1016/j.forpol.2020.102222
167. Taylor, P. J., Nelufule, M., Parker, D. M., Cory Toussaint, D., Weier, S. M. The Limpopo River exerts a powerful but spatially limited effect on bat communities in a semi-arid region of South Africa. Acta Chiropterologica 22(1): 75–86, doi: 10.3161/15081109ACC2020.22.1.007.
168. Nengovhela, A., Denys, C. Taylor, P. J. Life history and habitat do not mediate temporal changes in body size due to climate warming in rodents. PeerJ 8:e9792 http://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9792.
169. Linden, B., Dalton, D. L., Ralph, T. M. C., Silva, I., Kotze, A., Taylor, P. J. 2020. Adding another piece to the Southern African Cercopithecus monkey phylogeography puzzle. African Zoology, 55(4): 351-361, DOI: 10.1080/15627020.2020.1835534.
170. Lee, C., Day, J., Goodman, S. M., Pedrono, P., Besnard, G., Frantz, L., Taylor, P. J., Herrera, M. J. Gongora, J. 2020. Genetic origins and diversity of Malagasy Bushpigs (Potamochoerus larvatus). Scientific Reports, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-77279-5.
171. Eiseb, S. J., Taylor, P. J., Zeller, U. Denys, C. & Nicolas, V. 2021. Peripatric speciation linked with drainage evolution in a rare African rodent, Mastomys shortridgei (Rodentia: Muridae). Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 59: 522– 542, DOI: 10.1111/jzs.12441
2021
172. Rötter, R.P., Nelson, W.C.D. Isselstein, J., Scheiter, S., Pfeiffer, M., Hoffmann, M.P., Ayisi, K., Lindstädter, A., Behn, K., Westphal, C., Grass, I., Feil, J.H., Odhiambo, J., Taylor, P., Twine, W., Merante, P., Bracho Mujica, G., Bringhenti, T., Lamega, S., Yazdan Bakhsh, S., Krieger, W., Linden, V. and Erasmus, B. 2021. Modelling the multi-functionality of African dry savanna land use systems under climate change. Land Degradation & Development 32: 2077–2081, https://doi.org/10.22541/au.161425259.98733826/v1.
173. Brinkley ER, Weier SM, Parker DM, Taylor PJ. 2021. Three decades later in the northern Kruger National Park: multiple acoustic and capture surveys may underestimate the true local richness of bats based on historical collections. Hystrix, the Italian Journal of Mammalogy 32(2), doi:10.4404/hystrix-00319-2020.
174. Williams, S. T., K. S. Williams, N. Constant, L. Swanepoel, P. J. Taylor, S. R. Belmain, and S. W. Evans. 2021. Low-intensity environmental education can enhance perceptions of culturally taboo wildlife. Ecosphere 12(7): e03482.10.1002/ecs2.3482.
175. Weier, S. M., Linden, V. M. G., Hammer, A., Grass, I. Tscharntke, T., Taylor, P. J. 2021. Bat guilds respond differently to habitat loss and fragmentation at different scales in macadamia orchards in South Africa. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, 320, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2021.107588.
176. Mbambala, S. G., Tshisikhawe, M. P., Taylor, P. J., Rahlao, S. 2021. Human settlement, road and rivers rather than climate determine the distribution of Giant Milkweed, Calotropis procera (Apocynaceae) in the Vhembe Biosphere Reserve, Limpopo Province, South Africa. Ecology, Environment & Conservation 27(4): 1551-1562.
2022
177. Linden, B., Dalton, D. L., Van Wyk, A., de Jager, D., Moodley, Y., Taylor, P. J. 2022. Potential drivers of samango monkey (Cercopithecus albogularis) population subdivision in a highly fragmented mountain landscape in northern South Africa. Primates, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10329-022-00981-7
178. Cory-Toussaint, D., Taylor, P.J. & Barnhoorn, I.E.J. Non-invasive sampling of bats reflects their potential as ecological indicators of elemental exposure in a diamond mining area, northern Limpopo Province, South Africa. Environ Sci Pollut Res 29, 13647–13660 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-021-16466-x
179. Marsh, C. J., Sica, Y. V., Burgin, C. J., Dorman, W. A., Anderson, R. C., [Taylor, P. J.] et al. (2022). Expert range maps of global mammal distributions harmonised to three taxonomic authorities. Journal of Biogeography, 49, 979–992. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14330
180. Cory-Toussaint D and Taylor PJ (2022) Anthropogenic light, noise, and vegetation cover differentially impact different foraging guilds of bat on an opencast mine in South Africa. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 10, doi: 10.3389/fevo.2022.752665.
SCIENTIFIC (PEER-REVIEWED) BOOKS
1. Taylor, P. J. 1998. The smaller mammals of KwaZulu-Natal. University of Natal Press, Pietermaritzburg. 141 pp.
2. Taylor, P. J. 2000. Bats of Southern Africa: Guide to their Biology, Identification and Conservation. University of Natal Press, Pietermaritzburg. 206 pp.
3. Monadjem, A., Taylor, P. J., Cotterill, F. P. D. & Schoeman, M. C. 2010. Bats of southern and south-central Africa: A Biogeographic and Taxonomic Synthesis. Wits University Press, Johannesburg. 596 pp.
4. Monadjem, A., Taylor, P. J., Denys, C & Cotterill, F. P. D. 2015. Rodents of Sub-Saharan Africa: A Biogeographic and Taxonomic synthesis. De Gruyter, Berlin.1092 pp. ISBN 978-3-11-030166-3.
5. Monadjem, A., Taylor, P. J., Cotterill, F. P. D. & Schoeman, M. C. 2020. Bats of southern and south-central Africa: A Biogeographic and Taxonomic Synthesis. Second edition. Wits University Press, Johannesburg.640 pp. ISBN 978-1-77614-582-9.
6. McCleery, R., Monadjem, A., Conner, L. M., Austin, J. and Taylor, P. J. 2021. Methods for ecological research on terrestrial small mammals. John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA. ISBN 978-1-4214-4211-2, https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/title/methods-ecological-research-terrestrial-small-mammals
PEER-REVIEWED BOOK CHAPTERS
1. Taylor, P. J. 1997. Classification of Southern African Mammals. Pp. 20-23 In: Mills, G & Hes, L. (eds). The Complete Book of Southern African Mammals. Struik-Winchester, Cape Town.
2. Taylor, P. J. 2003. Evolution and the species concept, in Biological Science Fundamentals and Systematics, [Eds. Giancarlo Contrafatto and Alessandro Minelli], in Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), Developed under the Auspices of the UNESCO, Eolss Publishers, Oxford ,UK, [http://www.eolss.net] [Retrieved August 12, 2012]
3. Taylor, P. J. & Contrafatto, G. 2003. Speciation and infra-specific taxa, in Biological Science Fundamentals and Systematics, [Ed. Masashi Sekiguchi], in Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), Developed under the Auspices of the UNESCO, Eolss Publishers, Oxford, UK, [http://www.eolss.net] [Retrieved August 12, 2012]
4. Taylor, P. J. (Editor). 2005. Order Chiroptera. Pp 256-352 In: J. D. Skinner & C. T. Chimimba (Revisers). The Mammals of the Southern African Subregion. Cambridge University Press, Cape Town.
5. Williams-Guillén, K., Olimpi, E., Maas, B, Taylor, P. J., Arlettaz, R. 2016. Bats in the anthropogenic matrix: challenges and opportunities for the conservation of Chiroptera and their ecosystem services in agricultural landscapes. In: Christian C. Voigt, Tigga Kingston (Eds). Bats in the Anthropocene: Conservation of Bats in a Changing World, Chapter 6: pages 151-186. Springer International Publishing. ISBN: 978-3-319-25218-6.
6. Denys, C., Taylor, P. J., Aplin, K. P., Burgin, C. J., Fabre, P.-H., Haslauer, R., Woinarski, J. C. Z., Breed, W. G. and Menzies, J. I. 2017. Family Muridae (True Mice and Rats, Gerbils and relatives). Pp. 536–884 in: Wilson, D.E., Lacher, T.E., Jr and Mittermeier, R.A. eds. (2017). Handbook of the Mammals of the World. Vol. 7. Rodents II. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.[Taylor wrote 197 species accounts]
7. Beja, P., Vaz Pinto, P., Veríssimo, L. Bersacola, E., Fabiano, E., Palmeirim, J. M., Monadjem, A., Monterroso, P., Svensson, M. S., Taylor, P. J. 2019. Chapter 15. The Mammals of Angola. Pp. 357-444. In: Huntley, B.J., Russo, V., Lages, F., Ferrand, N. (Eds). Biodiversity of Angola, Springer International Publishing, Switzerland, ISBN 978-3-030-03082-7/978-3-030-03083-4, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03083-4
8. Taylor, P. J., Lim, B. K., Pennay, M. Soisook, P., Loureiro, L. O., Moras, L. M. & Kingston, T. 2019. Family Molossidae (Free-tailed Bats). Pp. 598-672 in Wilson, D. E. & Mittermeier, R. A. (Eds). Handbook of the Mammals of the World, Vol. 9. Bats. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona, ISBN 978-84-16728-19-0.
9. Reynolds C., Byrne, M. J., Chamberlain, D. E., Howes, C. G., Seymour, C. L. Sumasgutner, P. & Taylor, P. J. 2021. Urban Animal Diversity in the Global South. pp 169-202 In: Shackleton C.M., Cilliers S.S., Davoren E., du Toit M.J. (eds) Urban Ecology in the Global South. Cities and Nature. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67650-6_7.
10. Weier, S. M., Bringhenti, T., Anders, M., Abdulai, I., Foord, S., Grass, I., Lam, Q. D., Linden, V. M. G., Rötter, R. P., Westphal, C., & Taylor, P. J. Farming system management: Management options for macadamia orchards with special focus on water management and natural pest control. Chapter 3.13, In: (Eds) Von Maltitz, G., Midgley, G., Rötter, R., Brümmer, C., Viehberg, F., Veste, M., Veitch, J., Sustainability of southern African ecosystems under global change: Science for management and policy interventions. Springer