Browsing Research Articles (Bioversity and Conservation Biology) by Subject "Fishing"

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    • Infaunal benthic communities from the inner shelf off southwestern Africa are characterised by generalist species 

      Steffani, Nina; Sedick, Safiyya; Rogers, John (Public Library Science, 2015)
      Infaunal communities of benthic macro-organisms ( 1mm length) were studied from 81 samples collected across nine sites to the north and south of the Orange River in the Benguela upwelling ecosystem in 2003, with a view ...

    • Reviewing evidence of marine ecosystem change off South Africa 

      Moloney, C. L.; Fennessy, S. T.; Gibbons, Mark J.; Roychoudhury, A.; Shillington, F. A.; von der Heyden, B. P.; Watermeyer, K. (National Inquiry Services Centre, 2013)
      Recent changes have been observed in South African marine ecosystems. The main pressures on these ecosystems are fishing, climate change, pollution, ocean acidification and mining. The best long-term datasets are for trends ...