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Relationships between herbivores and Colophospermum mopane of the Northern Tuli Game Reserve, Botswana /
Dissertation (MSc (Zoology))--University of Pretoria, 1993.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/83174 Relationships between herbivores and Colophospermum mopane of the Northern Tuli Game Reserve, Botswana / Skinner, J.D. (John Dawson), 1932- Styles, Christopher Vaughan UCTD Relationship Herbivores Colophospermum mopane Northern Tuli Game Reserve Botswana Dissertation (MSc (Zoology))--University of Pretoria, 1993. This study elicits the resilience of Colophospermum mopane as a tree. Elephant impact is extremely important in creating and maintaining niche requirements of other organisms, especially insects, associated with mopane trees. The value of mopane as a browse is documented seasonally, this resource proving to have been previously underrated. Plant apparency results from mopane trees having different insect associations. These insect associations are of great ecological importance, and their relationships with elephants, previously overlooked, are documented. Mopane moth caterpillars, absent from within the confines of the NTGR for almost twenty years, are often encountered just outside the NTGR. Factors hypothesized to be responsible for their local extinction include ant predation, edaphic factors and browse quality differences, between mopane trees in the NTGR and those in adjoining areas. This study concludes that large mammals, especially elephants, are managing the resources of the NTGR. Zoology and Entomology MSc (Zoology) Unrestricted 2022-01-12T05:59:59Z 2022-01-12T05:59:59Z 19/8/2021 1993 Dissertation * http://hdl.handle.net/2263/83174 en © 2021 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Relationship Herbivores Colophospermum mopane Northern Tuli Game Reserve Botswana Relationships between herbivores and Colophospermum mopane of the Northern Tuli Game Reserve, Botswana / |
| title | Relationships between herbivores and Colophospermum mopane of the Northern Tuli Game Reserve, Botswana / |
| title_full | Relationships between herbivores and Colophospermum mopane of the Northern Tuli Game Reserve, Botswana / |
| title_fullStr | Relationships between herbivores and Colophospermum mopane of the Northern Tuli Game Reserve, Botswana / |
| title_full_unstemmed | Relationships between herbivores and Colophospermum mopane of the Northern Tuli Game Reserve, Botswana / |
| title_short | Relationships between herbivores and Colophospermum mopane of the Northern Tuli Game Reserve, Botswana / |
| title_sort | relationships between herbivores and colophospermum mopane of the northern tuli game reserve botswana |
| topic | UCTD Relationship Herbivores Colophospermum mopane Northern Tuli Game Reserve Botswana |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/83174 |