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Kevan 1954 , Nakata amp UG Maa 1974 5. Bormansia africana Verhoeff, 1902 6. Bormansia impressicollis Verhoeff, 1902 8. Diplatys macrocephalus Palisot de Beauvois, 1805 9. Diplatys pictus Zacher, 1910 10. Diplatys ugandanus Hincks, 1955 11. Haplodiplatys kivuensis Hincks, 1951 12. Lobodiplatys coriaceus Kirby, 1891 13. Echinosoma afrum Palisot de Beauvois, 1805 14. Echinosoma wahlbergi Dohrn, 1863 15. Dacnodes caffra Dohrn, 1867 16. Dacnodes separata Burr, 1908 _
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Figure 3. Open Water Areas at central Inland Delta for August 24, 2002, December 20, 2002, and April 01, 2003. special case of SAVI. The stronger the influence of the soil component the higher values should be used for L. As the vegetation cover is not dense at all, we decided to work with L 1. eq. 1 SAVI-, 'NIR RED gt 1 L NIR RED L 7 As an example for the situation during inundation serves Figure 4. This displays SAVI for Dec. 20, 2002. A comparison of NDVI with SAVI in Figure 5 indicates that...
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We are grateful to the following people and institutions for having given access to their collections Paula Jenkins and Daphne Hills Natural History Museum, London, UK , Chris Smeenk National Museum of Natural History, Leiden, Holland , Wim Van Neer and Wim Wendelen Mus e Royal d'Afrique Centrale, Tervuren, Belgium , Georges Lenglet and Georges Coulon Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Brussels, Belgium , Manfred Ade and Irene Thomas Museum f r Naturkunde, Humboldt University,...
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Figure 6. Difference Image. SAVI Dec. 20, 2002 minus SAVI Aug. 24, 2002. Figure 6. Difference Image. SAVI Dec. 20, 2002 minus SAVI Aug. 24, 2002. detecting annual variations in vegetation cp. biomass cycle for wetlands in semi-arid regions. The low spatial resolution limits classification prospects mainly for open water surfaces. To reduce the huge amount of data within the 15 highly correlated MERIS bands a principal component analysis might be worth the effort, that is necessary to resolve...
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Scorpionidae and Buthidae respectively comprise 42 and 34 of the southern African scorpion species, whereas Liochelidae and Bothriuridae respectively comprise 22 and 2 thereof Fig. 1 Table 1 . Despite a similar proportion of species, buthids comprise 54 of the southern African scorpion genera, whereas scorpionids comprise only 8 liochelids and bothriurids respectively comprise 22 and 15 thereof. Eighty-one percent of the southern African scorpion species belong to four genera Opistophthalmus,...
Monitoring Landcover Changes Of The Niger Inland Delta Ecosystem Mali By Means
Ralf Seiler1, Elmar Csaplovics2, and Elisabeth Vollmer Department of Geosciences, University of Dresden, Helmholtzstrasse 10 13, D-01062 Dresden, Germany, E-mail Abstract The Niger Inland Delta is one of the most fragile ecosystems in the Sahelian zone of Africa. Annual flooding of vast plains during September to December depends on water levels of the main rivers Niger and Bani. The interaction among pre-flood, flood and post-flood conditions strongly affects land cover patterns in and around...
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Commemorating Martin Eisentraut 19021994 Important Explorer Of Tropical African
Zoologisches Forschungsinstitut und Museum Alexander Koenig, Adenauerallee 160, 53113 Bonn, Germany, E-mail w.boehme.zfmk uni-bonn.de Abstract The present paper was read as a plenary lecture during the 5th ZFMK International Symposium on Tropical Biology African Biodiversity to commemorate the scientific life and legacy of Professor Martin Eisentraut, who was director of ZFMK from 1957 - with two years interruption - to 1977. The paper is aimed to show appreciation to his many scientific...
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In May 2004, the Alexander Koenig Zoological Research Museum hosted the Fifth International Symposium on Tropical Biology. This series was established at the ZFMK in the early 1980s, and has variably focused on systematics and ecology of tropical organisms, with an emphasis on Africa. Previous volumes are those edited by Schuchmann 1985 , Peters and Hutterer 1990 , Ulrich 1997 , and Rheinwald 2000 . The symposium in 2004 was organized by the Entomology Department under the direction of Michael...
Results
The species richness for forest birds in Africa Fig. 2 peaks on the transition between the Congolian rainforest and the Albertine Rift region, where lowland and highland rainforest is present in the same 1-degree cells. This corresponds to the western part of our eastern African study area Fig. 3 . The highest richness is in the Semliki forest on the Congo Uganda border, with 214 forest species in a 15' cell, followed by 192 species in Bwindi forest, and 150-180 species per 15' cell also in the...
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION 31 Ploceus aureonucha
This taxon was described by Sassi 1920 from specimens collected in the Ituri region of the Democratic Republic of Congo by Grauer. The type and two other specimens are in the Natural History Museum in Vienna a fourth specimen initially identified as belonging to this species was later assigned to Ploceus flavipes by Stresemann 1925 . I have not seen the material in Vienna, but Dr Walter Sontag sent me photographs of these specimens, and Dr Anita Gamauf provided measurements I took my own...
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New classification of the genus Genetta, with distribution, habitat and discriminative diagnosis for each species. Genetta abyssinica Ruppel, 1836 Abyssinian genet Distribution Djibouti A. Laurent, Toulouse, pers. comm. 2001 , Erytrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan. Habitat from high Ethiopian plateaux montane moorland and grassland to steppe and sub-desert areas on plains Yalden et al., 1996 Diaz Behrens and Van Rompaey, 2002 . Sympatric species G. genetta, G. maculata. Identification body and coat...
Grubb 2004 Genetta Maculata
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wasps and bees which are integrated into the other suborder Apocrita. The abdomen of sawflies is broadly attached to the thorax. Females possess a saw-like ovipositor which facilitates the insertion of eggs into plant tissue, hence the English common name sawflies. The shape of the ovipositor is of taxonomic significance. The larvae of most sawfly species feed externally on plant foliage. The taxonomy of the Afrotropical sawflies is partly outdated, incomplete and in some cases incorrect. In...
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South African Animal Life Results Of The Lund University Expeditsion
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1864 Matschie, 1902 Allen, 1939 Roberts, 1951 Wenzel and Haltenorth, 1972 Rosevear, 1974 Coetzee, 1977 Crawford-Cabral, 1981 Schlawe, 1981 Crawford-Cabral and Pacheco, 1992 Wozencraft, 1993 Kingdon, 1997 Crawford-Cabral and Fernandes, 2001 . Recent advances in the systematics of the genus Genetta have been made possible by the use of an integrative approach i.e. combination of independent data sets . A molecular phylogenetic analysis cytochrome b allowed the redefinition of the boundaries of...
Madagascar As A Model Region For The Study Of Tempo And Pattern In Adaptive
Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, Zoological Museum, University of Amsterdam, 1092 AD Amsterdam, The Netherlands E-mail vences science.uva.nl Abstract The comparative study of adaptive radiations is a fruitful field that allows to test hypotheses and predictions of evolutionary theory. Madagascar is ideal for such studies because a large number of such radiations evolved on this island in isolation. In vertebrates, the historical biogeography of many Malagasy groups has...
The Bolivia Chaco Expedition 1930
When in Ibiza, Eisentraut received a telegram inviting him to participate in a zoological expedition to the Gran Chaco of Bolivia, and he accepted at once. Remarkably, his wife followed him some months later, travelling alone by boat from Hamburg to Buenos Aires, then by train to the Bolivian border where her husband expected her with two horses Fig. 4 . Among the numerous results of this expedition see the bibliography compiled by B hme and Hutterer 1997 , two aspects were most interesting...
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I would like to thank my supervisor, Professor Peter L dders from the Fachgebiet Obstbau, Landwirtschaftlich-G rtnerische Fakult t of the Humboldt-Universit t zu Berlin. In Ethiopia, research was supported by Dr. Stephen Sandford and Kefale Alemu from FARM-AfTica in Sodo Welaita, Mrs. Sue Edwards and Professor Sebsebe Demissew from the National Herbarium Ethiopia in Addis Ababa, and Dr. Jean Hansen and Abate Tedla from ILRI Addis Ababa and Debre Zeit. To all of them I would like to express my...
Osteology
The skeletons are highly conservative variable elements principally the skulls, femora and dorsal vertebrae fall into four recent groups corresponding to morphotypes Gerlach and Canning, 1998 . At least some characters defining these groups could result from environmental factors principally diet but examination of skeletons of D. dussumieri with carapace morphology typical of severe metabolic bone disease shows that these have abnormally porous bones and rough outer surfaces typical of bones...
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Forsius eleven specimens are reported from the beginning of the last century Koch, 1996 . A personal field trip to Mount Mulanje in 2001 with the aim of recording these species, proved unsuccessful. A reason for the absence of these species could be the extensive destruction of the primary forest and the later reforestation with Pinus on large tracts of land including the mountain top. A similar example for species with one or very few records is Trisodontophyes afra Konow . In contrast to the...
Contributing Authors
Viale Venezia 45, 25123 Brescia, Italy Wolfgang B hme Zoologisches Forschungsinstitut und Museum Alexander Koenig, Adenauerallee 160, 53113 Bonn, Germany Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, ABBE, Terre Haute, IN 47803, USA Nina Sh. Bulatova Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky prospect 33, Moscow, 119071 Russia Department of Zoology amp Entomology, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, 6140, South Africa Department of Geosciences, University of Dresden,...