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Seasonal abundance and control of economically important ticks on a commercial game ranch, Thabazimbi, Limpopo Province.

M. Tech. Nature Conservation / Ticks are blood feeding external parasites of mammals, birds, and reptiles throughout the world. Tick infestation is considered to be one of the main constraints to successful game ranching in southern Africa. Several blood parasites are transmitted by ticks and have been incriminated as the cause of death in several wildlife species Ticks thus affect wildlife and domestic animal management worldwide, with approximately 850 species of ticks having been described The aim of the thesis is to collect and describe fully the nature and extent of the tick cohort of a semi-intensive and control free game ranch in the Limpopo Province of South Africa farm and to establish the environmental management effects on tick abundances and species.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:tut/oai:encore.tut.ac.za:d1000743
Date January 2012
CreatorsSchroder, Bradley.
Source SetsSouth African National ETD Portal
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeText
FormatPDF

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