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Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences
School of Biological Sciences
Department of Zoology and Entomology

Biology of fragmented populations; Conservation planning; Conservation and restoration ecology; and Biodiversity and systematics - Postgraduate Student Projects

Dissertations/Theses:
de Nagy Koves Hrabar H: Indirect interactions between elephants (Loxodonta africana and mopane caterpillars (Imbrasia belina through their shared food resource - mopane trees (Colophospermum mopane) (Prof JT du Toit)

Fornara D: Ungulate browsing as an ecosystem process: An investigation into browser-plant-soil interactions in a southern African savanna (Prof JT du Toit)

Guldemond R: The influence of savannah elephants on vegetation: a case study in the Tembe Elephant Park, South Africa (Prof RJ van Aarde)

Janse van Rensburg L: A morphological analysis of weevils from sub-antarctic Prince Edward Islands: an assessment of ecological influences (Prof CT Chimimba, Dr AD Bastos)

Mellet (Mostert) MA: Integrating Bt-cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) and conventional production systems (Dr AS Schoeman)

Morley R: The demography of a fragmented population of the savanna elephant Loxodonta africana (Blumenbach) in Maputaland (Prof RJ van Aarde)

Olwoch JM: Climate change and tick-host relationships in Africa (Prof AS Van Jaarsveld, Prof CH Scholtz)

 

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