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How to build science-action partnerships for local land-use planning and management: Lessons from Durban, South Africa
(Resilience Alliance, 2016)
The gap between scientific knowledge and implementation in the fields of biodiversity conservation, environmental
management, and climate change adaptation has resulted in many calls from practitioners and academics to ...
In quest of contact: phylogeography of helmeted terrapins (Pelomedusa galeata, P. subrufa sensu stricto)
(PeerJ, 2018)
Based on rangewide sampling and three mitochondrial and two nuclear markers
(together up to 1,850 bp and 1,840 bp, respectively), we examine the phylogeography
of two helmeted terrapin species (Pelomedusa galeata and P. ...
South African seaweed aquaculture: A sustainable development example for other African coastal countries
(Academic Journals, 2013)
The green seaweed Ulva is one of South Africa's most important aquaculture products, constituting an
important feed source particularly for abalone (Haliotis midae L.), and utilized as a bioremediation tool
and other ...
Salinity of irrigation water in the Philippi farming area of the Cape Flats, Cape Town, South Africa
(Water Research Commission, 2013)
This paper explores the nature, source and spatial variation of the salinity of water used for irrigation in a coastal urban farming area in Cape Town, South Africa, where water from the Cape Flats aquifer is drawn into ...
Two new nematode species from Saldanha Bay, South Africa: Perepsilonema benguelae sp. nov. and Leptepsilonema saldanha sp. nov. (Nematoda, Epsilonematidae)
(Magnolia Press, 2010)
Perepsilonema benguelae sp. nov. and Leptepsilonema saldanhae sp. nov. are described and illustrated from coarse sand sediments in Saldanha Bay, along the west coast of South Africa. Perepsilonema benguelae sp. nov. is ...
Taxonomic studies of the genus Rhynchosia Lour. (Phaseoleae, Fabaceae) in South Africa: A review of section Chrysoscias
(Elsevier, 2018)
BACKGROUND: A taxonomic study of the genus Rhynchosia section Chrysoscias is presented. The section (as classified by Baker) comprises five taxa (four species and one variety). Previous revisions of the section by various ...
Will climate warming exceed lethal photosynthetic temperature thresholds of lichens in a southern African arid region?
(Wiley, 2013)
Predicted elevated temperatures and a shift from a winter to summer rainfall pattern associated with global warming could result in the exposure of hydrated lichens during summer to more numerous temperature extremes that ...
Biodiversity: so much more than legs and leaves
(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2013)
Microorganisms inhabit virtually every possible niche on Earth, including those at the outer envelope of survival. However, the focus of most conservation authorities and ecologists is the ‘legs and leaves’ side of biology ...
Self-maintaining or continuously refreshed? The genetic structure of Euphausia lucens populations in the Benguela upwelling ecosystem
(Oxford University Press, 2013)
Populations of Euphausia lucens over the shelf of the southern Benguela upwelling
region could be self-maintaining. Alternatively, they could be continually refreshed
by expatriates from the SWAtlantic that enter the ...
Climate change in coastal waters: Time series properties affecting trend estimation
(AMS, 2016)
In South Africa, 129 in situ temperature time series of up to 43 years are used for investigations of the
thermal characteristics of coastal seawater. They are collected with handheld thermometers or underwater
temperature ...