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The Importance of Maintaining a Mosaic of Different Plant Communities for Arthropod Biodiversity Conservation at the Vaalputs Radioactive Waste-Disposal Site, Bushmanland, South Africa
TLDR
Investigation of the influence of plant community characteristics on arthropod diversity, abundance and community composition at the radioactive waste-disposal facility of the South African Nuclear Energy Corporation (NECSA), Northern Cape Province finds a mosaic of different plant communities is needed for the effective conservation of arthropode biodiversity.
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Rapid Range Expansion of the Invasive Wasp Polistes dominula (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Polistinae) and First Record of Parasitoids on this Species and the Native Polistes marginalis in the Western Cape…
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Biological control initiatives are largely geared to reconnect IAS with their natural predators and parasites, but this necessitates the release of yet another alien organism.
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Better colony performance, not natural enemy release, explains numerical dominance of the exotic Polistes dominula wasp over a native congener in South Africa
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Contrary to expectation, the exotic species suffered significantly higher parasitism than the native species, however, P. dominula is able to reach much greater population size than P. marginalis despite higher parasitoid pressure and similar individual size due to better colony performance.
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Invaded range and competitive ability of the newly invasive Polistes dominula compared to that of its native congener species in the Western Cape, South Africa
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