HYACINTHACEAE AND CRASSULACEAE

Bothalia ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. J. Van Jaarsveld ◽  
A. E. Van Wyk
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Arid Regions ◽  
Semi Arid

TWO NEW CREMNOPHILOUS TAXA FROM SEMI ARID REGIONS IN SOUTH AFRICA

A contribution to the study of the infertility of the subsoil

1926 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 507-521 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. R. Van Der Merwe
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Arid Regions ◽  
Semi Arid

Although the infertility of the subsoil in humid, semi-arid and arid regions has received much attention from investigators in Europe and America, in South Africa, as far as the writer is aware, no such work has been done.

scholarly journals Ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) collected from animals in three western, semi-arid nature reserves in South Africa : research communication

2007 ◽  
Vol 74 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Golezardy ◽  
I.G. Horak
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Tick Species ◽  
National Park ◽  
Arid Regions ◽  
Ixodid Tick ◽  
Nature Reserves ◽  
Wild Animals ◽  
The West ◽  
Hyalomma Truncatum ◽  
Semi Arid

The objective of this study was to make an inventory of the ixodid tick species infesting wild animals in three western, semi-arid nature reserves in South Africa. To this end 22 animals in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, 10 in the West Coast National Park and 16 in the Karoo National Park were examined. Fourteen tick species were recovered, of which Hyalomma truncatum, Rhipicephalus exoph thalmos and Rhipicephalus glabroscutatum were each present in two reserves and the remainder only in one. The distributions of two of the 14 tick species recovered, namely Rhipicephalus capensis and Rhipicephalus neumanni, are virtually confined to the western semi-arid regions of southern Africa. Hyalomma truncatum, R. capensis and R. glabroscutatum were the most numerous of the ticks recovered, and eland, Taurotragus oryx, were the most heavily infested with the former two species and gemsbok, Oryx gazella, and mountain reedbuck, Redunca fulvorufula, with R. glabroscutatum.

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