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  1. Undermining gender: women mineworkers at the rock face in a Zambian underground mine

    Undermining gender: women mineworkers at the rock face in a Zambian underground mine

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: James Musonda --- , Belgium
    This article examines how women’s increased employment in the stereotypically masculine domain of large-scale underground mining affect gender stereotypes and cultural expectations in the Zambian Copperbelt. Based on three years of ethnographic research under and above the ground, it responds...
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  2. Rediscovery, range extension, habitat and phylogenetic relation of the endemic Scaled Sandveld Lizard <em>Nucras scalaris</em> Laurent, 1964 (Sauria: Lacertidae) in the central Angolan plateau

    Rediscovery, range extension, habitat and phylogenetic relation of the endemic Scaled Sandveld Lizard Nucras scalaris Laurent, 1964 (Sauria: Lacertidae) in the central Angolan plateau

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Herpetology • Authors: Ninda L Baptista --- Instituto Superior de Ciências da Educação da Huíla (ISCED-Huíla), Angola Krystal A Tolley --- South African National Biodiversity Institute, Kirstenbosch Research Centre, South Africa Marc Bluhm --- Biodiversity, Ecology and Evolution of Plants, Institute of Plant Science and Microbiology, University of Hamburg, Germany Manfred Finckh --- Biodiversity, Ecology and Evolution of Plants, Institute of Plant Science and Microbiology, University of Hamburg, Germany William R Branch --- Port Elizabeth Museum (Bayworld), South Africa
    The Scaled Sandveld Lizard Nucras scalaris Laurent, 1964 is a poorly known lacertid endemic to north-eastern Angola and is only known from the type series collected more than half a century ago. The original description provided a comprehensive morphological description,...
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  3. Frequent defoliation rapidly and progressively reduces the vigour of a perennial mesic grassland forb, <em>Thunbergia atriplicifolia</em>

    Frequent defoliation rapidly and progressively reduces the vigour of a perennial mesic grassland forb, Thunbergia atriplicifolia

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Range & Forage Science • Authors: Craig D Morris --- University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Sindiso Nkuna --- University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
    Forbs in South African mesic grasslands are ancient, numerous, and diverse, thriving with fires and light herbivory but declining under chronic, severe grazing and trampling. This study tested the hypothesis that repeated herbivory progressively weakens forbs by reducing their underground...
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  4. Does spring defoliation affect energy reserves in a South African mesic grassland geophyte?

    Does spring defoliation affect energy reserves in a South African mesic grassland geophyte?

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Range & Forage Science • Authors: Craig D Morris --- c/o School of Life Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Sindiso Nkuna --- School of Life Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
    Overgrazing reduces the abundance of mesic grassland forbs, including geophytes. The potential negative effect of spring grazing, aimed at exploiting high-quality grass forage, on energy reserves in underground storage organs (USOs) of a mesic grassland geophyte, Merwilla plumbea (Lindl.) Speta,...
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