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Plastic ingestion by estuarine mullet Mugil cephalus (Mugilidae) in an urban harbour, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
(National Inquiry Services Centre (NISC), 2016)
Coastal urban environments have high plastic pollution levels, and hence interactions between plastic debris and marine life are frequent. We report on plastic ingestion by mullet Mugil cephalus in Durban Harbour, ...
Riverine dominance of a nearshore marine demersal food web: evidence from stable isotope and C/N ratio analysis
(National Inquiry Services Centre (NISC), 2016)
The Thukela Bank, KwaZulu-Natal, supports a diverse ecosystem and South Africa’s only prawn fishery. Oceanographic studies suggest riverine input is not important for the biology of this system, whereas biological studies ...
Essential metal and metalloid elements in the Philippi Horticultural area, and their uptake into selected vegetable crops
(Taylor & Francis, 2018)
This study evaluated Co, Cr, Mn, Ni, Se, Sn and V status in the soils of the PHA, as well as the vegetables produced on these soils. We also determined the agronomic sources of these elements to the soils in the PHA. ...
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 ...
Felicia douglasii (Asteraceae-Astereae), a distinctive new species from the Cape Floristic Region, South Africa
(Elsevier, 2017)
Felicia Cass. (Asteraceae) is the largest of the African members of tribe Astereae, and comprises ±90 species from southern and tropical Africa to Arabia. As currently circumscribed, it is rather weakly diagnosed by the ...
First record of epizootic ulcerative syndrome from the Upper Congo catchment: an outbreak in the Bangweulu swamps, Zambia
(Wiley, 2017)
We report on the first outbreak of epizootic ulcerative syndrome (EUS) amongst
wild fish populations in the Bangweulu swamps, an inland delta, in the north of
Zambia during 2014. The area supports a large and diverse ...
Summer and winter differences in zooplankton biomass, distribution and size composition in the KwaZulu-Natal Bight, South Africa
(National Inquiry Services Centre (NISC), 2016)
Zooplankton biomass and distribution in the KwaZulu-Natal Bight were investigated in relation to environmental parameters during summer (January–February 2010) and winter (July–August 2010). Mean zooplankton biomass was ...
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 ...