Okavango Delta
Movement patterns and athletic performance of leopards in the Okavango Delta
... the Okavango Delta in order to (a) determine daily activity and distance travelled (b) estimate the energetic locomotor costs, (c) investigate movement spatially with reference to territory boundaries, and ...
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Spatial variation of the influence of distance from surface water on riparian plant communities in the Okavango Delta, Botswana
... Depth to groundwater influences the distribution of plant species, density, and size structure in riparian zones because it determines the availability of a perman- ent surface water source (Stromberg and Richter 1996). ...
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Conflict Resolution and Management between Local Fishers and Tour Operators in the Okavango Delta’s Panhandle, Botswana
... Conflicts among different fisher groups are a global concern, and the Okavango Delta fishery is no exception, which is composed of commercial, subsistence and recreational fishers. Possibly due to ...
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Stand Structure, Diversity and Regeneration Status of Woody Species in Open and Exclosed Dry Woodland Sites around Molapo Farming Areas of the Okavango Delta, Northeastern Botswana
... the Okavango Delta and wind, increasing the chances of seed germination, seedling recruitment, growth and, ultimately, species richness and diversity of the woody ...
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Flooding dynamics in a large low gradient alluvial fan, the Okavango Delta, Botswana, from analysis and interpretation of a 30 year hydrometric record
... The Okavango Delta is a flood-pulsed wetland, which supports a large tourism industry and the subsistence of the local population through the provision of ecosystem ...
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The influence of soil moisture on maize growth and yield in flood recession farming in the Okavango delta: the case of maize
... the Okavango Delta (OD) in Ngamiland: Tubu village (19023ꞌ S and 22013ꞌE), Shorobe village (19050ꞌ S and 23040ꞌ E) and Xobe settlement (20026ꞌ S and 23042ꞌ ...
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Rift Valley fever vector diversity and impact of meteorological and environmental factors on Culex pipiens dynamics in the Okavango Delta, Botswana
... An important observation relative to the trapping results was the overabundance of Cx. pipiens (> 8,000) com- pared to the other species (> 60 %), and especially, com- pared to the small number of Aedes spp. (< ...
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The influence of cultivation frequency on weed species composition and diversity in flood recession farming in the Okavango Delta, Botswana
... The influence of cultivation frequency on weed spe- cies abundance was determined by rank/abundance plots. Five common weed species were selected at each cultivation frequency as also demonstrated by Shemdoe et al. ...
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Employees' Perceptions of Environmental Impacts of Tourism Activities in the Okavango Delta, Botswana
... The Okavango Delta has global, regional and national importance and recognitions which need to be ...inland delta (Okavango Delta), a wetland which support ecological systems in the ...
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Soil Factors That Influence the Abundance and Distribution of Threatened and Endangered Species in the Okavango Delta; with Particular Emphasis on Eulophia angolensis
... The GPS coordinates from the Peter Smith maps and Department of Water Affairs in Maun, Botswana were used to help locate E. angolensis in the Okavango Delta. A survey of the area where the plant was sighted ...
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Combining satellite radar altimetry, SAR surface soil moisture and GRACE total storage changes for hydrological model calibration in a large poorly gauged catchment
... Very few studies have been published on the Okavango catchment. This lack of attention contrasts with the large number of studies on the downstream part of the basin, the Okavango Delta (see Milzow ...
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Assessing basin heterogeneities for rainfall–runoff modelling of the Okavango River and its transboundary management
... transboundary Okavango River basin is one of the largest endorheic river basins in ...The Okavango River has its source in the Angolan Highlands where intense rainfalls during the rainy season generate ...
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Water use practices, water quality, and households’ diarrheal encounters in communities along the Boro-Thamalakane-Boteti river system, Northern Botswana
... Like in other sub-Saharan countries, diarrhea remains a major public health concern in Botswana, particularly among children [22] despite strengthened surveillance and launching of programs such as Integrated Manage- ...
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Possible causes of divergent population trends in sympatric African herbivores
... the Okavango Delta could have a detrimental impact on sedentary species such as tsessebe and wildebeest, especially during prolonged flooding periods lasting several ...the Delta [73], so populations ...
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Historical perspectives on pastoralism and land tenure transformation in Ngamiland, Botswana: What are the policy and institutional lessons?
... This period was characterised by recurrent droughts owing to successive seasons of poor rainfall. Respondents reported that the impact of the 1965/1966 drought was so significant that by the middle of the drought period, ...
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Signed Scale Measures: An Introduction and Application
... For small sample sizes, the common boxplots detects an outlier first (Delta=2), followed by the skew adjusted boxplot (Delta=3) and the signed boxplot (Delta=6)... The effect on the shape [r] ...
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Nabla Hukuhara Differentiability for Fuzzy Functions on Time Scales
... [11] M. Hu, L. wang, “Positive Periodic Solutions in Shifts Delta(+/-) for a Neutral Dynamic Equation on Time Scales”, IAENG International Journal of Applied Mathematics, vol.48 no 2, pp.134-139, 2018. [12] S. ...
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Online Full Text
... The specific age of some of the pipelines are not known, and it was possible to make an objective correlation between the age of pipelines and their rate of rupture [10]. However, a large number of the oil pipelines in ...
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Delta-beta correlation as a candidate endophenotype of social anxiety: A two-generation family study
... Heritability analyses showed that delta-low beta and delta-high 13 beta correlations during anticipation were heritable, suggesting that delta-low beta correlation 14 might be a candidat[r] ...
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A digital signal processing system developed for the optimal use of high density magnetic storage media
... LIST OF SYMBOLS signal to Delta at Input at Integrator at Low filter pass the of output Modulator output theoretical the of Delta Modulator theoretical Delta Modulator AMC Ampex-Miller B[r] ...
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