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The ability of terrestrial Oligochaeta to survive in ultramafic soils and the assessment of toxicity at different levels of organisation

Maleri, Rudolf A. (Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2006-12)

Metals are natural elements of the earth crust usually present at low concentrations in all soils. Although many metals such as cobalt, copper, iron and zinc are essential to living organisms, at elevated concentrations ...
Ecology and systematics of South African Protea-associated Ophiostoma species

Roets, Francois (Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2006-12)

The well-known, and often phytopathogenic, ophiostomatoid fungi are represented in South Africa by the two phylogenetically distantly related genera Ophiostoma (Ophiostomatales) and Gondwanamyces (Microascales). They are ...
The evolutionary history and taxonomy of the Kobus leche species complex of South-Central Africa in the context of palaeo-drainage dynamics

Cotterill, Fenton P. D. (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2006-12)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This multi-disciplinary study compiled taxonomic and biogeographical data to elucidate the extant diversity of lechwe antelopes (Kobus leche complex), and reconstruct their evolutionary history. Their ...
Genome evolution and systematics of the Paenungulata (Afrotheria, Mammalia)

Pardini, Amanda T. (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2006-12)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Increases in taxonomic sampling and the numbers and types of markers used in phylogenetic studies have resulted in a marked improvement in the interpretation of systematic relationships within Eutheria. ...