0 a valley that has a river that is usually dry except when it has rained, common in desert areas of North Africa and Western Asia --
That is a scheme for controlling floods in one of the wadis.
First, it is clear from the research done so far that the wadi bottoms in the desert are capable of being farmed.
Interestingly, no significant relationships emerged between aggression and the helminth burden of individual hosts, either overall or when high and low abundance wadis were analysed separately.
Significant differences were identified in the abundance of total nematode burdens and the mean helminth species richness between the three wadis which provided multiple captures of mice.
These differences between the wadis may reflect the relative abundance of intermediate hosts and possibly, host intrinsic factors such as genetically determined differences in resistance to parasitic helminths.
Our second objective was to assess whether the helminth component community structures of small rodent populations living in five disparate wadis differed, particularly with respect to the dominant parasite species.
There was no significant effect of resident or intruder wadi on the number of entries to tubes.
Males from each wadi were housed in a separate room on a natural light/dark cycle and at ambient temperature with freely-circulating outside air.
