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Influence of seasonal flooding on soil total nitrogen, organic phosphorus and microbial populations in the Okavango Delta, Botswana
(Journal of Arid Environments. http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/622855/description#description, 2003)
The effect of flooding on soil total nitrogen, phosphorus and microbial
population in different vegetation zones (floodplain, island and woodland)
and profile depth (0?1, 0?5, 2?0, 3?0, 4?0 and 5?0m) of the Okavango ...
Fire and its influence on microbial community structure and soil biochemical properties in the Okavango Delta, Botswana
(Academic Journals. http://www.academicjournals.org/SRE, 2007)
The influence of wild fires on microbial community structure, soil organic matter, sulphur oxidising and
nitrifying microbial populations in the floodplains of the Okavango Delta of Botswana was assessed.
Microbial ...
Cryptic indicators of provenance from the geochemistry of the Okavango Delta sediments, Botswana
(Elsevier; http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/503361/description#description, 2005)
[Please note that chemical formulae do not display properly]:The siliciclastic sediments of the Okavango inland Delta of northwest Botswana have a modal composition of quartz arenites and result from a complex history, ...
The Okavango; a river supporting its people, environment and economic development
(Elsevier; www.elsevier.com/locate/jhydrol, 2006)
The Okavango basin comprises the Cuito and Cubango active catchment areas in Angola, in addition to the Kavango's Okavango non-active catchment in northern Namibia and Botswana. The Okavango River water and its ecosystem ...
HIV/AIDS and access to water: a study of home-based care in Ngamiland, Botswana
(Elsevier Ltd; www.elsevier.com/locate/pce, 2006)
This case study investigates access to potable water in HIV/AIDS related home-based care households in five rural communities in Ngamiland, Botswana. Primary data collected from five villages, consisted of two parts. The ...
Use of the geochemical and biological sedimentary record in establishing palaeo-environments and climate change in the Lake Ngami basin, NW Botswana
(Elsevier; http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/865/description#description, 2007-02-07)
[Please note chemical formulae do not display correctly in this abstract]. Sediment samples from a continuous 4.6m profile in the dry bed of Lake Ngami in NW Botswana were analysed for geochemistry and dated using both 14C ...
Temperature-Emissivity separation with ASTER and LANDSAT 7 validation on the fringe of the Okavango Delta, Botswana
(SPIE, http://link.aip.org, 2004)
Land surface temperatures are important in global change studies, in estimating radiation budget, heat balance studies and as control for climate models. Several algorithms for estimating land surface temperature and ...
The Southern African Regional Science Initiative (SAFARI 2000): wet season campaigns
(Wageningen Institute for Environment and Climate Research, http://library.wur.nl/, 2002)
The Southern African Regional Science Initiative (SAFARI 2000) involved two wet season and one dry season field campaigns. This paper reports on the wet season campaigns. The first was conducted at five sites along the ...
Deltamethrin in sediment samples of the Okavango Delta, Botswana
(South African Water Research Commission http://www.wrc.org.za, 2006)
Deltamethrin concentrations were determined in 35 sediment samples collected from three different habitats: channel, lagoon and pool sites from Xakanaxa in the Okavango Delta, NW Botswana. The samples were Soxhlet-extracted ...
Effects of global positioning system collar weight on zebra behavior and location error
(Wildlife Society http://joomla.wildlife.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=43, 2008)
Global Positioning System (GPS) collars are increasingly being used to study fine-scale patterns of animal behavior. Previous studies on GPS collars have tried to determine the causes of location error without attempting ...