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(Wiley, 2022-12)AIM : Aridity gradients are of great interest for understanding the responses of biodiversity to water availability and water stress. However, little is known about the responses of many animal groups, which are crucial ...
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(Elsevier, 2007-04)This paper reports the effects of different diuretic factors on the Malpighian tubules of beetles. Calcitonin (CT)-like peptides from silkmoth and mosquito increase fluid secretion in a dose-dependent manner in the tubules ...
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(Elsevier, 2009)Dry conditions limit microbial decomposition of plant litter in deserts, which leaves a primary role to detritivorous macroarthropods. In the sandy arid strip along the west coast of South Africa, such detritivores include ...
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(Wiley-Blackwell, 2013-02)1. Aridity gradients are paralleled by both reductions in resources and decreased species richness of animals. Across the aridity gradient of the Botswana Kalahari, a reduction in mammal species richness leads to reduced ...
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(Springer, 2013)Understanding pattern and process at both regional and local scales is important for conservation planning although such knowledge of insects is frequently lacking. To assess patterns along a regional gradient of increasing ...
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(Springer, 2020-03)Miocene, Pliocene and Pleistocene changes to the geomorphology, climate and vegetation of southern Africa are considered responsible for radical differences between southwest and northeast dung beetle assemblages (Coleoptera: ...
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(South African National Biodiversity Institute, 2021-11-05)BACKGROUND : Maputo Special Reserve (MSR) in Mozambique lays within the Maputaland Centre of Endemism (MCE) and protects the biota of a habitat mosaic dominated by coastal dune forest and inland sand forest patches of ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2012-06-07)Spirocercosis is a canine disease caused by the nematode parasite Spirocerca lupi (Rudolphi, 1809) (Spirurida: Spirocercidae) and is a potentially fatal condition in domestic dogs (Canis familiaris). The larval life cycle ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2006-12-18)Please read the abstract in the section 00front of this document
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(Springer, 2012-06)Little quantitative evidence exists regarding how effective protected areas are for preserving species. We compared dung beetle assemblages (Coleoptera : Scarabaeidae : Scarabaeinae) inside and outside of the Kruger National ...
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(Wiley, 2013-06)Most adult dung beetles (Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) feed on fresh, wet dung of larger herbivorous or omnivorous mammals. As refractory plant fragments are selected out before ingestion, the food is presumed easily digestible. ...
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(Elsevier, 2007-06)Although insects are crucial for maintaining ecosystem function, our understanding of their overall response to human activity remains limited. This is no less true of dung-burying beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: ...
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(Oxford University Press, 2008)No abstract available.
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(Springer, 2013-03)We questioned the capability of post-mining rehabilitation and successional changes in coastal vegetation to achieve restoration of dune forest, dung beetle assemblages in the Maputaland Centre of Endemism, South Africa. ...
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(Nature Research, 2021-11)Tropical organisms are more vulnerable to climate change and associated heat stress as they live close to their upper thermal limits (UTLs). UTLs do not only vary little across tropical species according to the basal ...
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Morphology and terminology of dung beetles (Coleoptera : Scarabaeidae : Scarabaeinae) male genitalia (Magnolia Press, 2013-03)The external and internal male genitalia of 327 species of 11 tribes of the subfamily Scarabaeinae, including species of Deltochilini, Scarabaeini, Gymnopleurini, Ateuchini, and Coprini, among others, were examined. ...
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(Brill, 2011-07)In this paper we describe new taxa and discuss others previously described from arid south-west Africa. Descriptions are provided for a new monotypic genus (Variuscorpus Deschodt, Davis and Scholtz gen. n.) and three new ...
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(Wiley-Blackwell, 2013-09)1. Circellium bacchus is South Africa’s largest ball-rolling dung beetle and a habitat specialist of dense bush. It is also wingless, a rare phenomenon amongst large dung beetles and, unusual for the group, only females ...
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(Agricultural Research Council, ARC-OVI and the University of Pretoria, 2008-08)Spirocerca lupi (Spirurida: Spirocercidae) is a cosmopolitan parasite, principally of domestic dogs and dung beetles are its main intermediate hosts. In South Africa there has recently been growing concern over the upsurge ...
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(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2015-04-16)Avermectins and milbemycins are commonly used in agro-ecosystems for the control of parasites in domestic livestock. As integral members of agro-ecosystems with importance in maintaining pasture health through dung burial ...
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