Author:Geldenhuys, CJDate:Jan 1994A hypothesis is developed that environmental factors (rainfall and substrate) determine the potential limits of forest distribution, but that actual forest location pattern is determined by the fire pattern, which in turn is determined by the ...Read more
Author:Sinclair, BJ; Scott, MB; Klok, CJ; Terblanche, JS; Marshall, DJ; Reyers, B; Chown, SLDate:Sep 2006The distribution and abundance of free-living arthropods from soil and under stones were surveyed at the Cape Hallett ice-free area (ASPA No. 106), North Victoria Land, Antarctica. A total of 327 samples from 67 plots yielded 11 species of ...Read more
Author:Scott, L; Vogel, JCDate:Nov 2000C-13/C-12 ratios in plants depend on factors like temperature, evaporation or seasonal moisture distribution. Fluctuations of C-13/C-12 in Procavia capensis (hyrax) dung samples from different vegetation zones and various ages over the last ...Read more
Author:Robinson, TP; Harris, RS; Hopkins, JS; Williams, BGDate:Jun 2002In many African countries where both Government resources and donor aid for the control of tsetse-transmitted trypanosomiasis are declining, there is an increasing need to identify areas where intervention is most likely to be technically, ...Read more
Author:Shackleton, CMDate:Mar 1999Woody community phenology was studied in the central lowveld, South Africa, over a twelve month period at three sites along a rainfall gradient, with both toplands and bottomlands sampled at each site. Each month, individual plants, in ...Read more