Plovers was compared with particular reference to breeding biology, feeding ecology and habitat preference. Crowned and Blackwinged Plovers coexisted in mixed flocks in grasslands which aided predator detect ion and ...

As the requirements for more efficient and economical crop production emerge, so the need for a better understanding of plant growth and development is felt. It is especially the need to understand means by which man may ...

Following preliminary observations in 1975 the Lake Kariba Fisheries Research Institute implemented a research program in March 1976 to investigate various aspects of the biology and population dynamics of the mussel ...

The seasonal production of 11 pastures was evaluated in dryland and irrigated trials at eight sites in the Winter Rainfall Region. These data were related to ...

The distribution of Ricinodendron rautanenii trees is confined to a fairly distinct band across southern Africa. This stretches from South West Africa in the west, through Botswana and Zimbabwe, to Mozambique in the ...

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The genus Ancilla Lamarck, 1799, contains 34 valid species and subspecies; 41 names previously applied to the group are reduced to 23, and 11 new species described (Kilburn, 1977, 1980, 1981). A provisional subgeneric ...

The primary objective of this study was to increase net farm income in the Highland Sourveld of Natal by developing pasture based fat lamb production systems. Secondary objectives included (a) determination of ...

Tissue culture studies were carried out on two ornamental plant species, Strongylodon macrobotrys A. Gray and Peperomia clusifolia Hook. Successful in vitro regeneration of plantlets was achieved in the latter species, using ...

Felis caracal, despite heavy hunting pressure, is common and widespread throughout the Cape Province. Caracal are considered to be the principal wild predator of domestic livestock (goats and sheep) by most farmers ...