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How to build science-action partnerships for local land-use planning and management: Lessons from Durban, South Africa
(Resilience Alliance, 2016)
The gap between scientific knowledge and implementation in the fields of biodiversity conservation, environmental
management, and climate change adaptation has resulted in many calls from practitioners and academics to ...
Antimicrobial resistant Gram-positive cocci in pregnant mothers with aerobic vaginitis
(Infection Control Africa Network (ICAN), 2016)
The vaginal microbiota of a healthy asymptomatic woman consists of an extensive diversity of anaerobic and aerobic bacterial genera and species dominated by the microaerophilic genus Lactobacillus , known to inhibit the ...
Identifying global priorities for the conservation of vipers
(Elsevier, 2016)
Vipers are among the most misunderstood and persecuted animals. They occupy most terrestrial ecosystems around the world, often at high population densities. However, certain aspects of their biology (e.g., low fecundity ...
nIFTy galaxy cluster simulations – V. Investigation of the cluster infall region
(Oxford University Press, 2016)
We examine the properties of the galaxies and dark matter haloes residing in the cluster
infall region surrounding the simulated cold dark matter galaxy cluster studied by Elahi
et al. at z = 0. The 1.1 × 1015 h−1M ...
Quantification of radicals generated in a sonicator
(Iranian Chemical Society, 2016)
The hydroxyl radical (OH•) is a powerful oxidant produced as a consequence of cavitation in water. It can react nonspecifically in
breaking down persistent organic pollutants in water into their mineral form. It can also ...
Conservation status and threats for African reptiles
(Elsevier, 2016)
The assimilation of information on taxonomy, distribution, basic ecology and conservation status of Africa's reptiles lags far behind that for most other continents. Many regions of mainland Africa are rarely surveyed, ...
Scale-dependent orientation in movement paths: a case study of an African viper
(Wiley, 2016)
Decisions relating to the orientation of movement by animals and how this translates into movement patterns can occur at multiple spatial scales simultaneously, but this interaction is poorly understood for many groups of ...
Snake body size frequency distributions are robust to the description of novel species
(Ecological Society of America, 2016)
The accurate interpretation of body size frequency distributions (BSFDs) has important implications
for understanding large-scale
ecological and evolutionary patterns because they are shaped
by ecological and evolutionary ...
Sublittoral seaweed communities on natural and artificial substrata in a high-latitude coral community in South Africa
(National Inquiry Services Centre (NISC), 2016)
Coral mortality may result in macroalgal proliferation or a phase shift into an alga dominated state. Subtidal, high-latitude western Indian Ocean coral communities at Sodwana Bay on the KwaZulu-Natal coast, South Africa, ...
An in-depth study of the ICT ecosystem in a South African rural community: unveiling expenditure and communication patterns
(Routledge, 2016)
There is no doubt of the contributions made by mobile phones and mobile network operators in increasing access to communications in rural areas of developing countries. Yet how affordable is this ubiquitous access in such ...