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The relationship between elephants and the riverine tree communities of the Northern Tuli Game Reserve, Botswana
Dissertation (MSc (Zoology))--University of Pretoria, 1993.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/83258 The relationship between elephants and the riverine tree communities of the Northern Tuli Game Reserve, Botswana McKenzie, A.A. Malan, John Willam UCTD Relationship elephants and the riverine tree communities Northern Tuli Game Reserve Botswana Dissertation (MSc (Zoology))--University of Pretoria, 1993. The species composition, and relative impact of elephants, on the riverine tree Northern Tuli Game Reserve, communities Botswana, in the Were investigated. Elephants showed tortilis, A. nigrescens, A. a preference for Acacia albida and Schotia brachypetala. Croton megalobotrys rarely showed bark damage. Debarking predisposes trees to mortality. Relatively high mortality rates were recorded for preferred species. The dominance of C. megalobotrys may be attributable to a relatively low mortality rate, associated with a low level of bark utilization, and an apparently high recruitment. The riverine tree communities seem to have a retrogressive succession pattern towards monospecific C. megalobotrys stands, facilitated by elephant activity. The energy, phenolic or crude protein content of bark does not explain the species preference of elephants. Species and pliable preferred pliable. bark was preferred. However, species was not necessarily with strong the bark of strong and pliable. Zoology and Entomology MSc (Zoology) Unrestricted 2022-01-12T06:00:54Z 2022-01-12T06:00:54Z 19/8/2021 1993 Dissertation * http://hdl.handle.net/2263/83258 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 elephants and the riverine tree communities Northern Tuli Game Reserve Botswana The relationship between elephants and the riverine tree communities of the Northern Tuli Game Reserve, Botswana |
| title | The relationship between elephants and the riverine tree communities of the Northern Tuli Game Reserve, Botswana |
| title_full | The relationship between elephants and the riverine tree communities of the Northern Tuli Game Reserve, Botswana |
| title_fullStr | The relationship between elephants and the riverine tree communities of the Northern Tuli Game Reserve, Botswana |
| title_full_unstemmed | The relationship between elephants and the riverine tree communities of the Northern Tuli Game Reserve, Botswana |
| title_short | The relationship between elephants and the riverine tree communities of the Northern Tuli Game Reserve, Botswana |
| title_sort | relationship between elephants and the riverine tree communities of the northern tuli game reserve botswana |
| topic | UCTD Relationship elephants and the riverine tree communities Northern Tuli Game Reserve Botswana |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/83258 |