Groenewald, Johannes Philippus(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-12)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Rûens Silcrete Renosterveld (RSR) is a critically endangered vegetation type in the Overberg region of the Western Cape Province of South Africa. In the last few centuries about 80% of it has been severely ...
Hutton-Squire, James Peter(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-12)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Apis mellifera, the honeybee, is regarded as the most crucial insect pollinator to South African agriculture as it is the only managed pollinator used in the pollination of commercial agricultural crops. ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Ecosystem service research has grown significantly in recent years, highlighting links between ecosystem services and human well-being. Few studies are however, geared towards providing user-friendly, ...
The gap between science and practice has been highlighted in a number of scientific
disciplines, including the newly developing domain of ecosystem service science, posing a
challenge for the sustainable management of ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Restoration practices commonly make use of a reference condition in order to restore a site to a better ecological state than it is currently in. The selection process and relevance of the reference ...
Grant, Paul Brian Charles(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-04)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Soft, serene insect songs add an intrinsic aesthetic value to the landscape. Yet these songs also
have an important biological relevance. Acoustic signals across the landscape carry a multitude
of ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: As the world’s human population increases, more pressure is placed on the management of natural
resources. In response, we need an efficient means of monitoring, not only the quantity of these
resources ...
Da Silva, Jessica Marie(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-04)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: An important prerequisite for evolutionary change is variability in natural populations;
however, when phenotypic and molecular rates of change differ, species delimitation is
problematic. Such discordance ...
Zylstra, Matthew J.(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-04)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Humanity‘s growing separation from nature is central to the convergent social and ecological crises facing earth. This is both a psychological (e.g. perceptual, emotional) and physical (e.g. experiential) ...
Bam, Adrian Jock(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-04)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The aim of the research presented in this dissertation was to investigate localised acridid outbreaks causing damage to sugarcane in Empangeni, Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa. Reports of outbreaks with ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Globally, habitat transformation causes biodiversity loss, with the transformed matrix often affecting the disturbance regime in remnant natural patches. In South Africa, significant parts of the Indian ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Insect pollination contributes in various degrees toward the production of a variety of
agricultural crops that ensure diversity and nutritional value in the human diet. Although
managed honeybees (Apis ...
A mass-rearing facility for Mediterranean fruit fly Ceratitis capitata (Wiedemann) was commissioned in Stellenbosch in 1999 to produce sterile male fruit flies for a sterile insect technique (SIT) project in commercial ...
Hill, Matthew P.Terblanche, John S.(PLoS, 2014-02)
Background: The invasive fruit fly, Bactrocera invadens, has expanded its range rapidly over the past 10 years. Here we aimed to determine if the recent range expansion of Bactrocera invadens into southern Africa can be ...
Malan, Antoinette P.Knoetze, R.Tiedt, L.(Cambridge University Press - CUP, 2012-12)
A new entomopathogenic nematode in the genus Heterorhabditis is described
from South Africa, from two singular isolates found 1000km from each other,
from beneath a fig tree and in a citrus orchard, respectively. ...
Le Vieux, P. D.Malan, Antoinette P.(South African Society for Enology and Viticulture, 2013-08)
Laboratory bioassays were conducted to establish the potential of entomopathogenic nematodes (EPNs) as
biocontrol agents of Planococcus ficus (Signoret). Six indigenous and two commercially available nematode
species ...
Le Vieux, P. D.Malan, Antoinette P.(South African Society for Enology and Viticulture, 2013-02)
The vine mealybug, Planococcus ficus (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae), which is the dominant mealybug
species in South Africa, is a severe wine and table grape pest and disease vector. Their increasing
resistance to chemical ...
Kruger, D. H. M.Fourie, J. C.Malan, Antoinette P.(South African Society for Enology and Viticulture, 2013-08)
Plant-parasitic nematodes are a problem in vineyards worldwide, with some species acting as vectors of
grapevine soil-transmitted viruses. Global pressure on the use of soil-applied chemical nematicides has
led to a ...
Kapp, C.Storey, S. G.Malan, Antoinette P.(South African Society for Enology and Viticulture, 2013-07)
Soil is a non-renewable resource and supports all land-based forms of life. The sustainable production of crops is becoming progressively more critical as human populations increase and viable agricultural land decreases. ...
Ferreira, TiarinVan Reenen, CarolPages, SylvieTailliez, PatrickMalan, Antoinette P.Dicks, Leon M. T.(Society for General Microbiology, 2013-05)
The bacterial symbiont AM7T, isolated from a novel entomopathogenic nematode species of the genus Heterorhabditis, displays the main phenotypic traits of the genus Photorhabdus and is highly pathogenic to Galleria mellonella. ...