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Bacterial diversity in the waterholes of the Kruger National Park : an eDNA metabarcoding approach Farrell, Maxwell J.; Govender, Danny; Hajibabaei, Mehrdad; Van Der Bank, Michelle; Davies, T. Jonathan (NRC Research Press, 2019)Bacteria are essential components of natural environments. They contribute to ecosystem functioning through roles as mutualists and pathogens for larger species, and as key components of food webs and nutrient cycles. ...
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D'Souza, Michelle L.; Van der Bank, Michelle; Shongwe, Zandisile; Rattray, Ryan D.; Stewart, Ross; Van Rooyen, Johandre; Govender, Danny; Hebert, Paul D.N. (Elsevier, 2021-04)Reflecting their species richness and ecological diversification, insects play a central role in terrestrial ecosystems but difficulties in species-level assignments have restricted large-scale analysis of their community ...
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Hoffman, Louwrens C.; Van As, Jan S.; Gouws, Pieter A.; Govender, Danny (Southern African Wildlife Management Association, 2020)In contrast to other game species and domestic livestock, there is a paucity of evidence concerning yields and thus meat obtained from the African savanna buffalo (Syncerus caffer caffer ). The aim of our study was to ...
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Krol, Louie; Gorsich, Erin E.; Hunting, Ellard R.; Govender, Danny; Van Bodegom, Peter M.; Schrama, Maarten (BMC, 2019-04)BACKGROUND: Mosquito population dynamics are driven by large-scale (e.g. climatological) and small-scale (e.g. ecological) factors. While these factors are known to independently influence mosquito populations, it remains ...
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Kerr, Tanya J.; Matthee, Conrad A.; Matthee, Sonja; Govender, Danny; Engelbrecht, Susan (Southern African Wildlife Management Association, 2017-10)To obtain more insights into the prevalence and diversity of species-specific Feline Immunodeficiency Virus (FIV) strains in naturally occurring felid species, 26 leopards (Panthera pardus) from the Kruger National Park ...
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Zaffarano, Gianluca P.; De Klerk-Lorist, Lin-Mari; Junker, Kerstin; Mitchell, Emily P.; Bhoora, Raksha Vasantrai; Poglayen, Giovanni; Govender, Danny (Elsevier, 2021-04)Despite being a parasitic disease known since ancient times, some epidemiological aspects of cystic echinococcosis (CE) remain unclear. Many studies describe its prevalence and genotyping in populations of domestic animals ...
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Junker, Kerstin; Boomker, Jacob Diederik Frederik; Govender, Danny; Mutafchiev, Yasen (Springer, 2019-06)Sixteen Nile crocodiles were collected in the Kruger National Park, South Africa and vicinity during 2010 and 2011. A total of 11 nematode species representing six families were recovered. Heterocheilids were the dominant ...
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Riddell, Eddie S.; Govender, Danny; Botha, Judith; Sithole, Hendrik; Petersen, Robin M.; Shikwambana, Purvance (Elsevier, 2019-11)The Kruger National Park (KNP) is a savanna ecosystem situated in the middle reaches of five large, dynamic and biologically diverse transboundary river systems. The KNP has been at the forefront of applied river ecosystems ...
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Reflecting on research produced after more than 60 years of exclosures in the Kruger National Park Wigley-Coetsee, Corli; Strydom, Tercia; Govender, Danny; Thompson, Dave I.; Govender, Navashni; Botha, Judith; Simms, Chenay; Manganyi, Adolf; Kruger, Laurence; Venter, Jacques; Greaver, Cathy; Smit, Izak P.J. (AOSIS, 2022-02-28)Herbivores are a main driver of ecosystem patterns and processes in semi-arid savannas, with their effects clearly observed when they are excluded from landscapes. Starting in the 1960s, various herbivore exclosures have ...
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