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Seasonal nutrient fluctuations in Reticulitermes flavipes workers and soldiers
Eastern subterranean termite, Reticulitermes flavipes Kollar (Blattodea: Rhinotermitidae), colonies forage from multiple wood and soil sources in a...
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The Sudd (South Sudan)
The Sudd is one of the largest floodplains in Africa and one of the largest tropical wetlands in the world. It is located in South Sudan, and forms...
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Hitching a ride: the early history of black rat immigration into southern Africa
Black rats are amongst the most studied mammals in the world due to both their broad distribution and their destructive association with humans. An...
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The long proboscis of the aphid Stomaphis yanonis (Aphididae Lachninae) is advantageous for avoiding predation by tending ants
Whether in ant–aphid mutualism the ants exert evolutionary selection pressure on aphid morphology has not yet been fully tested. Here, we tested...
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Wetlands for Remediation in Africa: Threats and Opportunities
Natural wetlands in Africa continue to decline in surface area and water quality. Still, there is scant information about the nature and causes of...
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Nutrient Composition and Bioactive Components of Kejeik
Sudan has 100 species of fish scattered in the fresh waters of the Nile and its tributaries. However, the number of commercial species of them does...
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Resilience of wetland vegetation to recurrent drought in the Inland Niger Delta of Mali from 1982 to 2014
The response of vegetation to variable flood regimes is an important research question for floodplains in semi-arid sub-Saharan Africa experiencing...
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Intrinsic Values of the African Environment: A Sustainable Perspective
Africa is a continent with immerse renewable and non-renewable resources. The African continent has an excess of 30 million km2 of natural resources...
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Biomes: Concepts, Characteristics and Terminology
A cornerstone of ecology is the map** and classification of biogeographical and ecological diversity, defining patterns in species distribution and...
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Phytoremediation of PAH-Contaminated Areas
Globalization has to leadLead to increased exploitation of our natural resources and thereby contaminating the environment equally. As the term...
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Implications of zero-deforestation palm oil for tropical grassy and dry forest biodiversity
Many companies have made zero-deforestation commitments (ZDCs) to reduce carbon emissions and biodiversity losses linked to tropical commodities....
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Principles, Methods, and Applications of Protein Folding Inside Cells
The complex mechanism of protein folding in cells has intrigued the scientific community for decades. The physical and chemical forces that drive...
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Sugar is an ant’s best friend? Testing food web theory predictions about trophic position and abundance in an invasive ant (Nylanderia fulva)
Classical food web theory predicts that species at the base of food webs will be more abundant than those at the top. Likewise, it’s hypothesized...
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Crop coefficients of natural wetlands and riparian vegetation to compute ecosystem evapotranspiration and the water balance
Wetlands, namely the riparian ones, play a major role in landscape and water resources functionalities and provide enormous opportunities for...
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Route reassessment by transporter ants improves speed and directional accuracy of cooperative transport in Formica japonica
Encircling cooperative transport in ants is categorized into coordinated and uncoordinated types. Coordinated cooperative transport is considered to...
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How on Earth did that get there? Natural and human vectors of aquatic macrophyte global distribution
No previous study has examined the large-scale distributional drivers of the entire global pool of 3,499 macrophyte species, despite the obvious...
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High concentrations of dissolved biogenic methane associated with cyanobacterial blooms in East African lake surface water
The contribution of oxic methane production to greenhouse gas emissions from lakes is globally relevant, yet uncertainties remain about the levels up...
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Nile River Basin
The Nile, the World’s longest river, is well endowed with wetlands, including the Sudd, one of the World’s largest. The wetlands are not only...
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Remote Sensing of Wetland Types: Semiarid Wetlands of Southern Hemisphere
A number of substantive semiarid wetlands occur, with notable examples being in southern Africa and Australia. The seasonal nature of these wetlands...
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The Rio1 protein kinases/ATPases: conserved regulators of growth, division, and genomic stability
The atypical Rio1 protein kinases/ATPases, which exist in most archaea and eukaryotes, have been studied intensely to understand how they promote...
