Browsing Research Articles (University of Pretoria) by UP Author "Raath, Morgan Jade"

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Empty Gonometa postica cocoons function as nest sites and shelters for arboreal ants

Raath, Morgan Jade; Le Roux, Peter Christiaan; Veldtman, Ruan; Campbell, Heather; Buyens, Isabelle Patricia Rita; Greve, Michelle (Elsevier, 2017-09)

Arboreal ants use a variety of plant structures as nesting sites, but may also nest in structures created by arboreal ecosystem engineers. We observed, for the first time, ants using empty cocoons of the economically ...
Incorporating biotic interactions in the distribution models of African wild silk moths (Gonometa species, Lasiocampidae) using different representations of modelled host tree distributions

Raath, Morgan Jade; Le Roux, Peter Christiaan; Veldtman, Ruan; Greve, Michelle (Wiley, 2018-05)

Biotic interactions influence species niches and may thus shape distributions. Nevertheless, species distribution modelling has traditionally relied exclusively on environmental factors to predict species distributions, ...
The influence of life history characteristics on flea (Siphonaptera) species distribution models

Van der Mescht, Luther; Le Roux, Peter Christiaan; Matthee, Conrad A.; Raath, Morgan Jade; Matthee, Sonja (BioMed Central, 2016-03-29)

BACKGROUND : Ectoparasites exhibit pronounced variation in life history characteristics such as time spent on the host and host range. Since contemporary species distribution (SD) modelling does not account for differences ...

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