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Implications of the breakdown in the indigenous knowledge system for rangeland management and policy: A case study from the Eastern Cape in South Africa
(Taylor and Francis Group, 2023)
Communal rangelands in South Africa are generally perceived as overgrazed owing to complexities in their histories and collective utilisation which often leads to improper management. A suitable ...
Initial evaluation of the care and rehabilitation success of Cape Cormorants Phalacrocorax capensis rescued from Robben and Jutten islands, South Africa, in January 2021
(Taylor and Francis Group, 2023)
The population of the endangered Cape Cormorant Phalacrocorax capensis more than halved over the last three decades (BirdLife International 2018a). In January 2021, nearly 2 000 Cape Cormorant chicks were ...
The diurnal activity budgets of extralimital giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis giraffa) in the Western Cape Province, South Africa
(Wiley, 2023)
Despite being an extralimital species in the region, South African giraffes (Giraffa camelopardalis
giraffa, Schreber 1784) are continuously being introduced into the Albany
Thicket Biome of the Western Cape Province of ...
Descriptive epidemiology of and response to the high pathogenicity avian influenza (h5n8) epidemic in South African coastal seabirds, 2018
(Wiley, 2023)
High pathogenicity avian infuenza (HPAI) clade 2.3.4.4b H5N8 virus was detected in coastal seabirds in late 2017 in South Africa,
following a devastating epidemic in the commercial poultry and ostrich industries. By May ...
Taxonomy of the small southern African endemic genus Echiostachys Levyns (Boraginaceae: Boraginoideae)
(South African Journal of Botany, 2023)
The small genus Echiostachys Levyns (Boraginaceae: Lithospermeae) is revised. It was segregated from Lobostemon Lehm. on the basis of the herbaceous habit, radical foliage, spiciform inflorescence, slightly accrescent ...
Nitrogen fertilization increases the growth and nutritional quality of the forage legume, calobota sericea – A preliminary investigation
(Heliyon, 2023)
Calobota sericea is being evaluated as a forage for drought stressed areas. The nutritional quality of C. sericea from native populations are poor, and this is believed to be due to poor soil fertility. Therefore, a ...
A complete guide to the snakes of Southern Africa
(African Journal of Herpetology, 2023)
Background: The new edition of A Complete Guide to the Snakes of Southern Africa represents the third iteration in a series of books that started three decades ago. The latest edition replaces the 2004 edition (Marais ...