Table 2.

Functional diversity of nematodes found in four cropping sequences at the University of Limpopo (UL) and at the Agricultural Research Council-Vegetable, Industrial and Medicinal Plants (ARC-VIMP).

Genera	X	Y	Z	SEQ 1	SEQ 2	SEQ 3	SEQ 4
Criconema	0	3	HE	+		+	+
Criconemoides	0	3	HE	+	+
Nanidorus	0	4	HE		+
Tylenchorhynchus	0	3	HE	+	+	+	+
Xiphinema	0	5	HE			+
Paratylenchus	0	2	HE			+
Paratrichodorus	0	4	HE			+
Helicotylenchus	0	3	HSE	+	+	+	+
Telotylenchus	0	2	HSE
Rotylenchus	0	3	HSE	+	+	+
Scutellonema	0	3	HSE	+	+	+	+
Meloidogyne	0	3	HS	+	+	+
Mesorhabditis	1	0	Ba	+	+	+
Panagrolaimus	1	0	Ba	+	+	+	+
Acrobeles	2	0	Ba	+	+
Acrobeloides	2	0	Ba	+	+
Eucephalobus	2	0	Ba		+	+	+
Zeldia	2	0	Ba	+
Elaphonema	3	0	Ba
Cephalobus	2	0	Ba		+	+	+
Aphelenchoides	2	0	Fu		+
Aphelenchus	2	0	Fu	+	+	+	+
Ditylenchus	2	0	Fu	+		+
Eudorylaimus	4	0	Pr	+
Aporcelaimus	5	0	Om				+

x = coloniser-persister class, y = plant-parasitic class, z = Feeding type. HE = herbivores-endoparasites, HSE = herbivores - semi-endoparasites, HS = herbivores - sedentary, Ba = bacterivores, Fu = fungivores, Pr = predators, Om = Omnivores and SEQ = sequence.