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Do indigenous street trees promote more biodiversity than alien ones? evidence using mistletoes and birds in South Africa [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Trees in urban landscapes provide a range of ecosystem services, including habitat, refugia,food, and corridors for other fauna and flora. However, there is some debate whether the richness and abundance of other biodiversity supported is influenced by ...
Charlie Shackleton   +1 more
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Mistletoes, their host plants and the effects of browsing by large mammals in Addo Elephant National Park

open access: yesKoedoe: African Protected Area Conservation and Science, 1991
There are at least four plant hemiparasites [=mistletoes, viz. Viscaceae (3 species), Loranthaceae (1 species)] within the Addo Elephant National Park. Highly selective utilisation of these plant parasites by large browsing animals has resulted in severe
J.J. Midgley, D. Joubert
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Host-preference and density of woodrose-forming mistletoes (Loranthaceae) on savanna vegetation, South Africa [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
In the Bushbuckridge region of South Africa host preference and density of two woodrose-forming mistletoes, Erianthemum dregei (Eckl. and Zeyh.) V. Tieghem and Pedistylis galpinii (Schinz ex Sprague) was quantified in relation to land-use (harvested or ...
Witkowski, Ed T F   +2 more
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Mistletoes of the Annapurna Conservation Area, central Nepal Himalayas [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
An inventory of the diversity, distribution and host trees of mistletoes of the Annapurna Conservation Area, Central Nepal Himalayas yielded a total of twelve mistletoe species, eight belonging to five genera in the family Loranthaceae and four belonging

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Mistletoes Play Different Roles in a Modular Host-Parasite Network [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Antagonistic interactions between host plants and mistletoes often form complex networks of interacting species. Adequate characterization of network organization requires a combination of qualitative and quantitative data.
Paulo R. Guimarães Jr   +10 more
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Infestation of Common Mistletoe and Nutrition Status of Silver Fir in Gorski Kotar (Croatia)

open access: yesCroatian Journal of Forest Engineering, 2011
In the region of Gorski Kotar 6 sites (localities) of Silver fir (Abies alba Mill.) were selected to investigate the health status of trees, the infestation by common mistletoe (Viscum album L. ssp. abietis /Wiesb./ Abromeit), and to reveal the nutrition
Danko Diminić   +3 more
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Anticancer activity of three African mistletoes [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Three African mistletoes: Globimetula braunii, Tapinanthus bangwensis, and Tapinanthus globiferus used in the West African ethnomedicine for the management of diabetes, rheumatic pain, infections and tumours were investigated for anticancer activity ...
Arthur, G   +2 more
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Comparison of two roadside survey procedures for dwarf mistletoes on the Sawtooth National Forest, Idaho [PDF]

open access: yes, 1996
Two roadside surveys were conducted for dwarf mistletoes parasitizing lodgepole pine and Douglas-fir on the Sawtooth National Forest, Idaho. One survey used variable-radius plots located less than 150 m from roads.
Mathiasen, Robert L.   +3 more
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Características del establecimiento e historia de vida de Misodendrum punctulatum (Misodendraceae) un muérdago de Sudamérica austral Establishment and life history characteristics of the southern South American mistletoe Misodendrum punctulatum (Misodendraceae)

open access: yesRevista Chilena de Historia Natural, 2004
Aprovechando la formación de anillos anuales de crecimiento en los hospedadores y que el sistema haustorial de los muérdagos va quedando sincrónicamente embebido en el xilema del hospedador, analizamos características edad dependientes de la historia de ...
Norlan Tercero-Bucardo   +1 more
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Occurrence of mistletoes on shea trees in Northern Ghana [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
In an attempt to establish the cause of reported death of shea trees at Maluwe and Gindabo in the Northern Region of Ghana, a survey of mistletoes on shea trees was conducted.
Asare, E.K.   +3 more
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