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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"South African estuaries"”.
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Mangrove population dynamics in relation to disturbance and recruitment within South African estuaries
… of four mangrove sites on the eastern coast of South Africa. Observational quantitative data was used for disturbances, disease indicators and the population structure and recruitment status of the forests and respective species. Disturbance was quantified by ranking it on a scale from 0 to 4 …
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Comparative age and growth of juvenile dusky kob (Argyrosomus japonicus) in three South African estuaries, with notes on diet and temperature effects
… commercial and recreational linefish species in South Africa. It has a wide distribution range from Cape Agulhas to the Mozambique border. Juveniles A. japonicus <1070 mm) occur inshore and in estuaries where surf-zone and estuarine anglers target them. Adult A. japonicus (> 1070 mm) are caught …
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Foraminiferal species distributions and sedimentological dynamics of the Knysna Estuary, South Africa
… the larger benthic invertebrates of any of the South African estuaries and it is open to the sea throughout the year.
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Persistent pharmaceutical concentrations in an urban Western Cape Estuary and the effects on microalgal assemblages
… effects on ecological processes and biota in estuaries is severely lacking in South Africa. Therefore, the consequences for key estuarine biota and the functions they provide are largely unknown, to the best of my knowledge. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to address the …
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Morphological, ethological and genomic discrimination of functional stocks of spotted grunter, an estuarine-dependent fish
… commersonnii from two biogeographically distinct South African estuaries, 800 km apart, and relates these differences to the environmental properties of these estuaries, in particular turbidity. Understanding both the phenotypic and genotypic mechanisms that structure spotted grunter populations …
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Macrobenthic community and ecotoxicological status of the Nhlabane Estuary
… than in regional anthropogenically influenced estuaries. Normalization of Nhlabane Estuary sediment metal concentrations to background concentrations for uncontaminated KwaZulu- Natal coastal areas showed the system to be uncontaminated, with dune mining not being the cause of pollution in the …