Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa, Volume 72, Issue 3 (2017)

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Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa, Volume 72, Issue 3 (2017)

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The challenges of managing invasive alien plants on private land in the Cape Floristic Region: insights from Vergelegen Wine Estate (2004–2015)
Jacques van Rensburg, Brian W. van Wilgen & David M. Richardson
Pages: 207-216
Published online: 10 Mar 2017
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Modelling Opuntia fulgida invasion in Zimbabwe
Mhosisi Masocha & Timothy Dube
Pages: 217-224
Published online: 11 Apr 2017
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Toxicopathological evaluation of a 28-day repeated dose administration of Zea mays L. (Poaceae), Stigma maydis aqueous extract on key metabolic markers of Wistar rats
Saheed Sabiu, Frans Hendrik O’Neill & Anofi Omotayo Tom Ashafa
Pages: 225-233
Published online: 05 Jul 2017
AbstractforToxicopathological evaluation of a 28-day repeated dose administration of Zea mays L. (Poaceae), Stigma maydis aqueous extract on key metabolic markers of Wistar rats | Full Text | References | PDF (830.1 KB)
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An epidemic uncurbed: tuberculosis in Cape Town, South Africa, 1910–2010
Robin Wood & Linda-Gail Bekker
Pages: 234-241
Published online: 18 Apr 2017
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Medicinal properties of Abrus precatorius L. leaf extract: antimicrobial, cytotoxicity and carbohydrate metabolising enzymes’ inhibitory potential
Kazeem Adekunle Alayande, Saheed Sabiu & Omotayo Tom Anofi Ashafa
Pages: 242-250
Published online: 11 Apr 2017
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Do we really know how common hypertension is?
Aletta E. Schutte
Pages: 251-254
Published online: 23 Mar 2017
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The application of lean design to space planning and construction
A. Fitchett & D. Hartmann
Pages: 255-265
Published online: 12 May 2017
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Influence of environmental variables on plankton community composition in permanent and temporal pans in and around Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe
Stembile Msiteli-Shumba, Shakki Kativu & Florence D. Hulot
Pages: 266-279
Published online: 23 Mar 2017
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Late Quaternary research in southern Africa: progress, challenges and future trajectories
Jennifer M. Fitchett, Stefan W. Grab, Marion K. Bamford & Anson W. Mackay
Pages: 280-293
Published online: 23 Mar 2017
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Graphite oxidation and SEM as a tool for microstructural investigation
Heinrich Badenhorst
Pages: 294-300
Published online: 21 Feb 2017
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Invasion Dynamics
John A. Silander
Pages: 301-302
Published online: 17 Jul 2017
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The Annihilation of Nature: Human Extinction of Birds and Mammals
John M. Anderson
Pages: 303-304
Published online: 25 Jul 2016
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Pioneers of the Field: South Africa’s women anthropologists
Nancy Jacobs
Pages: 305-306
Published online: 10 Feb 2017
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The Johannesburg Gas Works
Hannah le Roux
Pages: 307-308
Published online: 02 Nov 2016
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