S. L.  Chown and Davis, A. L. V., ?Discontinuous gas exchange and the significance of respiratory water loss in scarabaeinae beetles?, The Journal of Experimental Biology, vol. 206, pp. 3547-3556, 2003.

A. L. V.  Davis, ?Biogeographical groups in a southern African, winter rainfall, dung beetle assemblage (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) - consequences of climatic history and habitat fragmentation?, African Journal of Ecology, vol. 31, pp. 306-327, 1993.

A. L. V.  Davis, ?Annual age structure patterns in Afrotropical dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) under winter rainfall climate?, Journal of African Zoology, vol. 107, pp. 397-411, 1993.

A. L. V.  Davis, ?Habitat fragmentation in southern Africa and distributional response patterns in five specialist or generalist dung beetle families (Coleoptera)?, African Journal of Ecology, vol. 32, pp. 192-207, 1994.

A. L. V.  Davis, ?Community organization in a South African, winter rainfall, dung beetle assemblage (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)?, Acta Oecologica, vol. 15, pp. 727-738, 1994.

A. L. V.  Davis, ?Daily weather variation and temporal dynamics in an Afrotropical dung beetle community (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)?, Acta Oecologica, vol. 16, pp. 641-656, 1995.

A. L. V.  Davis, ?Diel and seasonal community dynamics in an assemblage of coprophagous, Afrotropical, dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae s. str., Aphodiidae, and Staphylinidae: Oxytelinae)?, Journal of African Zoology, vol. 110, pp. 290-308, 1996.

A. L. V.  Davis, ?Methods for the inventory and ecological monitoring of dung beetles, butterflies and termites in the East Usambaras?, Proceedings of the Workshop on Ecological Monitoring for Biodiversity in the East Usambaras (July 8-13, 1996), pp. 35-46, 1996.

A. L. V.  Davis and Dewhurst, C. F., ?Climatic and biogeographical associations of Kenyan and northern Tanzanian dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)?, African Journal of Ecology, vol. 31, pp. 290-305, 1993.

A. L. V.  Davis, Scholtz, C. H., and Harrison, Jdu G., ?Cladistic, phenetic and biogeographical analysis of the flightless dung beetle genus, Gyronotus van Lansberge (Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae), in threatened eastern Afrotropical forests?, Journal of Natural History, vol. 35, pp. 1607-1625, 2001.

J. M.  Lobo and Davis, A. L. V., ?An intercontinental comparison of dung beetle diversity between two mediterranean-climatic regions: Local versus regional and historical influences?, Diversity and Distributions, vol. 5, pp. 91-103, 1999.

P.  B. Tshikae, Davis, A. L. V., and Scholtz, C. H., ?Trophic associations of a dung beetle assemblage (Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) in a woodland savanna of Botswana?, Environmental Entomology, vol. 37, pp. 431-441, 2008.