In a study conducted in Nigeria, 11 acid soil-tolerant multipurpose trees and shrubs (MPTS) were assessed for preference and palatability with mature West African Dwarf (WAD) sheep using the cafeteria method. Approximately 500 g each of the MPTS were weighed in triplicates into plastic feeding...

The ant mosaic in the edge of a Cameroonian rainforest was studied along 500 m of a dirt road in order to compare it to that of the canopy in the same forest (Dejean et al. 2000; 167 trees studied). The plant species diversity was low (369 plant individuals belonging to 48 species and 28 families). ...

Results from the in vitro antiamoebic activity (against Entamoeba histolytica) of some Congolese plant extracts used as antidiarrhoeals in traditional medicine indicated that of 45 plant extracts tested, 35 (77.78%) exhibited an antiamoebic activity and 10 (22.22%) were inactive. The highest...

During the period February to July 1992 the incidence of attacks by insect pests on 10 cultivated browse species was studied at Obio Akpa, in humid SE Nigeria. Two of the browse species (Gliricidia sepium and Leucaena leucocephala) were exotic and 8 (Alchornia cordifolia [Alchornea cordifolia],...

In Sierra Leone the chief insect pests of Citrus continue to be fruit-piercing Lepidoptera [cf. R.A.E., A, xviii, 98], of which the Noctuids, Achaea catocaloides, Gn., and Othreis fullonica, L., were the most important during 1932 The larvae of the former fed on the euphorbiaceous tree, Phyllanthis ...