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School of Biological Sciences
Department of Zoology and Entomology

Postgraduate Student Research Projects 2005

Dissertations/Theses: [15]

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)

Keith M: Conservation assessment of South African mammals (Prof AS Van Jaarsveld, Prof CT Chimimba, Dr B Reyers)

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)

Rösch (Warren) M: Abundance and occupancy: use of a mesocosm to test pattern and process (MA McGeoch, Prof SW Nicolson, Prof SL Chown)

Sole CL: Phylogeography of Scarabaeus (Pachysoma) MacLeay (Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) (Dr AD Bastos, Prof CH Scholtz)

Constanzo M: Aspects of memory in the Damaraland mole-rat Cryptomys damarensis: spatial learning and kin recognition (Prof NC Bennett)

Lubbe A: The phenomenon of Apis mellifera capensis laying workers in Apis mellifera scutellata colonies in the summer rainfall region of South Africa (Prof RM Crewe, Dr P Kryger)

Lubisi BA: Molecular epidemiology of African swine fever in East Africa (Dr AD Bastos, R Dwarka)

Maude G: The comparative ecology of the brown hyaena (Hyaena brunnea) in Makgadigadi National Park and a neighbouring community cattle area in Botswana (Prof JT du Toit, Dr MGL Mills)

Saccaggi DL: The vine mealybug Planococcus ficus (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae): Genetic identification and variation (Dr G Petersen, Dr K Krüger)

 

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