A comparison of bird foraging preferences for fruits of indigenous and alien shrubs and seed dispersal potentials in the Cape Floristic Region
Thesis (PhD)--Stellenbosch University, 2012. === ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study tested the proposal that fleshy-fruited alien shrubs competed more effectively for avian dispersal services than indigenous shrubs. Several different quantitative measures of increasing complexity were applied to test bi...
Main Author: | Mokotjomela, Thabiso Michael |
---|---|
Other Authors: | Musil, Charles F. |
Format: | Others |
Language: | en_ZA |
Published: |
Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University
2012
|
Subjects: | |
Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/20374 |
Similar Items
-
Comparative impacts of fragmentation on birds in two bioregions in a biodiversity hotspot, the Cape Floristic Region
by: Kieck, Marius Burger
Published: (2009) -
Comparative impact of invasive alien trees and vineyards on arthropod diversity in the Cape floristic region, Western Cape
by: Magoba, Rembuluwani Norman Nicholas
Published: (2010) -
Conservation in human-influenced areas : epigaeic arthropods in the Cape Floristic Region Lowlands
by: Boonzaaier, Carmen
Published: (2012) -
The conservation value of habitat remnants for flower visiting insects in the lowlands of the Cape Floristic Region
by: Vrdoljak, Sven Michael
Published: (2010) -
Response of bird assemblages to the invasion and clearing of alien trees in the Western Cape, South Africa
by: Mangachena, Joy Rumbidzai
Published: (2018)