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A new species of Lovenula Schmeil (Copepoda, Calanoida, Diaptomidae) from the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa

scientific article published in 2015

A re-examination of the type material of Entomoneis paludosa (W Smith) Reimer and its morphology and distribution in African waters

article

A study of the ichthyofauna of a small tropical reservoir, south-eastern lowveld, Zimbabwe

scholarly article by Tatenda Dalu et al published 29 November 2013 in African Journal of Aquatic Science

Additive multiple predator effects of two specialist paradiaptomid copepods towards larval mosquitoes

scientific article published in 2019

Africa: Restrict bush fires used in animal hunts

scientific article

Agricultural intensification and drought frequency increases may have landscape-level consequences for ephemeral ecosystems

scientific article published on 21 November 2016

Alternative prey impedes the efficacy of a natural enemy of mosquitoes

scientific article published on 11 November 2019

An Assessment of the Effect of Rotenone on Selected Non-Target Aquatic Fauna

scientific article published on 5 November 2015

An assessment of chlorophyll-aconcentration spatio-temporal variation using Landsat satellite data, in a small tropical reservoir

Application of the Lake Habitat Survey method on the tropical Malilangwe reservoir, south-eastern lowveld, Zimbabwe

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Aquatic Macrophytes Metal and Nutrient Concentration Variations, with Implication for Phytoremediation Potential in a Subtropical River System

scientific article published in 2023

Are nest sites a limiting resource for speleophilic nesting fishes in sand dominated temporarily open/closed estuaries?

article by Ryan J Wasserman et al published 23 December 2016 in Environmental Biology of Fishes

Assessing drivers of benthic macroinvertebrate community structure in African highland streams: An exploration using multivariate analysis

scientific article

Assessing factors driving the distribution and characteristics of shoreline macroplastics in a subtropical reservoir

scientific article published on 19 August 2019

Assessing macroinvertebrate communities in relation to environmental variables: the case of Sambandou wetlands, Vhembe Biosphere Reserve

scientific article published in 2019

Assessing multiple predator, diurnal and search area effects on predatory impacts by ephemeral wetland specialist copepods

scientific article published in 2019

Assessing phytoplankton composition and structure within micro-estuaries and micro-outlets: a community analysis approach

article

Assessing sediment particle-size effects on benthic algal colonisation and total carbohydrate production

scientific article published on 28 December 2019

Assessing the effectiveness of pollutant removal by macrophytes in a floating wetland for wastewater treatment

article by Meera Prajapati et al published 23 September 2017 in Applied water science

Assessing the effects of native and alien plant ash on mosquito abundance

scientific article published in 2022

Assessing variation in below-ground organic matter dynamics in the Ramsar-declared Nylsvley Wetland system, South Africa

scientific article published in 2022

Assessment of river quality in a subtropical Austral river system: a combined approach using benthic diatoms and macroinvertebrates

Assessment of the spatial and temporal variations in periphyton communities along a small temperate river system: A multimetric and stable isotope analysis approach

scientific article published in 2015

Assessment of water quality based on diatom indices in a small temperate river system, Kowie River, South Africa

article

Balloon milkweed Gomphocarpus physocarpus distribution and drivers in an internationally protected wetland

scientific article published on 26 August 2020

Benthic diatom-based indices and isotopic biomonitoring of nitrogen pollution in a warm temperate Austral river system

scientific article published on 22 September 2020

Biological monitoring in southern Africa: A review of the current status, challenges and future prospects

article

Black in Nature

scientific article published on 01 October 2020

Calanoid Copepods: An Overlooked Tool in the Control of Disease Vector Mosquitoes

scientific article published on 01 October 2018

Can δ15N and δ13C stable isotopes and fatty acid signatures indicate changes in phytobenthos composition on an artificial substrate?

article

Cattle dung in aquatic habitats alters mosquito predatory biocontrol dynamics

scientific article published in 2022

Cattle-induced eutrophication favours disease-vector mosquitoes

scientific article published on 25 January 2020

Challenges to Implementing an Environmental Flow Regime in the Luvuvhu River Catchment, South Africa

scientific article published on 30 September 2019

Characterisation of selected micro-estuaries and micro-outlets in South Africa using microalgal, zooplanktonic and macrozoobenthic assemblages

Colonisation and community structure of benthic diatoms on artificial substrates following a major flood event: A case of the Kowie River (Eastern Cape, South Africa)

Colour and size influences plastic microbead underestimation, regardless of sediment grain size

scientific article published on 19 November 2018

Combined impacts of warming and salinisation on trophic interactions and mortality of a specialist ephemeral wetland predator

scientific article published in 2019

Community structure and environmental factors affecting diatom abundance and diversity in a Mediterranean climate river system

scientific article published on 13 December 2021

Complementary impacts of heterospecific predators facilitate improved biological control of mosquito larvae

scientific article published in 2020

Corrigendum to "Functional response quantifies microplastic uptake by a widespread African fish species" [Sci. Total Environ. 700 (2020) 134522]

scientific article published on 29 July 2020

Corrigendum to “Assessing drivers of benthic macroinvertebrate community structure in African highlands: an exploration using multivariate analysis” [Sci. Total Environ. 601–602 (2017) 1340-1348]

scholarly article published in Science of the Total Environment

Cyanobacteria dynamics in a small tropical reservoir: Understanding spatio-temporal variability and influence of environmental variables

scientific article published on 27 June 2018

Decision support tools for invasive alien species management should better consider principles of robust decision making

scientific article published in 2023

Detecting the impact of heavy metal contaminated sediment on benthic macroinvertebrate communities in tropical streams

scientific article

Diatom-based water quality monitoring in southern Africa: challenges and future prospects

article

Diet composition changes in tigerfish of Lake Kariba following an invasion by redclaw crayfish

scientific article published in 2017

Diet of Glossogobius callidus (Teleostei: Gobiidae) in freshwater impoundments in the Sundays River Valley of the Eastern Cape, South Africa

scientific article published on 05 November 2019

Distribution of benthic diatom communities in a permanently open temperate estuary in relation to physico-chemical variables

scientific article published in 2016

Distribution, drivers and population structure of the invasive alien snail Tarebia granifera in the Luvuvhu system, South Africa

scientific article

Does invasive river red gum (Eucalyptus camaldulensis) alter leaf litter decomposition dynamics in arid zone temporary rivers?

scientific article

Drivers of aquatic macroinvertebrate communities in a Ramsar declared wetland system

scientific article published in 2022

Ecological Assessment of Two Species of Potamonautid Freshwater Crabs from the Eastern Highlands of Zimbabwe, with Implications for Their Conservation

scientific article published on 11 January 2016

Editorial: Freshwater science in Africa

scientific article published in 2023

Editorial: Freshwater science in the tropical anthropocene

scientific article published in 2023

Effects of environmental variables on littoral macroinvertebrate community assemblages in subtropical reservoirs

scientific article published in 2021

Effects of substrate on essential fatty acids produced by phytobenthos in an austral temperate river system

article

Effects of wildfire ash from native and alien plants on phytoplankton biomass

scientific article published on 18 April 2022

Emergent effects of structural complexity and temperature on predator-prey interactions

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Examining intraspecific multiple predator effects across shifting predator sex ratios

scientific article published in 2020

Fish communities in small subtropical reservoirs subject to extensive drawdowns, with focus on the biology of <i>Enteromius paludinosus</i> (Peters, 1852) and <i>Clarias gariepinus</i> (Burchell, 1822)

scientific article published in 2017

Food web properties vary with climate and land use in South African streams

scientific article

Functional Responses and Additive Multiple Predator Effects of Two Common Wetland Fish

scientific article published on 24 February 2022

Functional response quantifies microplastic uptake by a widespread African fish species

scientific article published on 08 October 2019

Get it before it gets to my catch: misdirection traps to mitigate against socioeconomic impacts associated with crayfish invasion

scientific article published in 2023

Global economic costs of aquatic invasive alien species

scientific article

Highways to invasion: Powerline servitudes as corridors for alien plant invasions

scientific article published in 2023

Identifying environmental drivers of chlorophyll-a dynamics in Austral subtropical ephemeral ecosystems

scientific article published in 2019

Illegal mining impacts on freshwater Potamonautid crab in a subtropical Austral highland biosphere reserve

scientific article published in 2023

Impact of irrigation based sugarcane cultivation on the Chiredzi and Runde Rivers quality, Zimbabwe.

scientific article

Impacts of non-native fishes under a seasonal temperature gradient are forecasted using functional responses and abundances

scientific article

Implications of increasing temperature stress for predatory biocontrol of vector mosquitoes

scientific article published on 01 December 2020

Influence of intra- and interspecific variation in predator-prey body size ratios on trophic interaction strengths

scientific article published on 01 June 2020

Informing spread predictions of two alien snails using movement traits

scientific article published on 14 December 2021

Inter-Population Similarities and Differences in Predation Efficiency of a Mosquito Natural Enemy

scientific article published on 27 May 2020

Intermediate predator naïveté and sex-skewed vulnerability predict the impact of an invasive higher predator ⬇️

scientific article published in Scientific Reports

Inter‐specific differences in invader and native fish functional responses illustrate neutral effects on prey but superior invader competitive ability

scientific article

Invasive carp alter trophic niches of consumers and basal resources in African reservoirs

scientific article published on 25 December 2021

Lack of prey switching and strong preference for mosquito prey by a temporary pond specialist predator

scientific article published in 2019

Land use effects on water quality, habitat, and macroinvertebrate and diatom communities in African highland streams

scientific article published in 2022

Leaf inputs from invasive and native plants drive differential mosquito abundances

scientific article published on 28 June 2019

Limited plankton community shifts over winter inundation events in Austral temporary wetlands

scientific article published in 2022

Long-term mammal herbivory on arthropod assemblages at Kruger National Park, South Africa

scientific article published in 2023

Macroinvertebrate colonisation associated with native and invasive leaf litter decomposition

scientific article published in 2020

Macroinvertebrate functional feeding group alterations in response to habitat degradation of headwater Austral streams

scientific article published on 14 August 2019

Massive economic costs of biological invasions despite widespread knowledge gaps: a dual setback for India

scientific article published in 2022

Metal and non–metal dynamics and distribution in soil profiles across selected pans in the Ramsar declared subtropical within a national protected area

scientific article published in 2023

Microphytobenthos diversity and community structure across different micro-estuaries and micro-outlets: Effects of environmental variables on community structure

scientific article published on 31 January 2020

Modeling sedimentation rates of Malilangwe reservoir in the south-eastern lowveld of Zimbabwe

scholarly article by Tatenda Dalu et al published 28 December 2012 in Applied water science

Muddy waters: Efficacious predation of container-breeding mosquitoes by a newly-described calanoid copepod across differential water clarities

scientific article published in 2018

Muddy waters: Mega‐herbivores as agents of change in African shallow freshwaters

scientific article published in 2023

Natural nutrient enrichment and algal responses in near pristine micro-estuaries and micro-outlets

scientific article

Nature and source of suspended particulate matter and detritus along an austral temperate river–estuary continuum, assessed using stable isotope analysis

Nowhere to go! Microplastic abundances in freshwater fishes living near wastewater plants

scientific article published in 2023

Numerical Assessments of Leaf Area Index in Tropical Savanna Rangelands, South Africa Using Landsat 8 OLI Derived Metrics and In-Situ Measurements

scientific article published on 08 April 2019

Nutrient Release Dynamics Associated with Native and Invasive Leaf Litter Decomposition: A Mesocosm Experiment

scientific article published in 2020

Overview and status of estuarine microphytobenthos ecological research in South Africa

scientific article published in 2018

Persistent effects of historical sea levels on the population structure of a temporary wetland copepod

scientific article published in 2023

Phylogenetic placement of the enigmatic Floodplain water snake, Lycodonomorphus obscuriventris FitzSimons, 1964 ⬇️

scientific article published on 28 June 2022

Predator density modifies mosquito regulation in increasingly complex environments

scientific article published on 13 January 2020

Preventing and controlling nonnative species invasions to bend the curve of global freshwater biodiversity loss

scientific article published in 2023

Prey and predator density‐dependent interactions under different water volumes

scientific article published in 2021

Quantifying Metal Contamination and Potential Uptake by Phragmites australis Adans. (Poaceae) Along a Subtropical River System

scientific article published on 04 July 2020

Quantifying reproductive state and predator effects on copepod motility in ephemeral ecosystems

scientific article published in 2019

River nutrient water and sediment measurements inform on nutrient retention, with implications for eutrophication

scientific article published on 22 May 2019

River sediment metal and nutrient variations along an urban-agriculture gradient in an arid austral landscape: implications for environmental health

scientific article

Sacrificial males: the potential role of copulation and predation in contributing to copepod sex-skewed ratios

scientific article published in 2018

Seasonal variation and drivers of zooplankton, macroinvertebrate and littoral fish communities from irrigation ponds in a semi-arid region in the Eastern Cape (South Africa)

scientific article published on 07 June 2021

Sex and species specific isotopic niche specialisation increases with trophic complexity: evidence from an ephemeral pond ecosystem

scientific article

Sex demographics alter the effect of habitat structure on predation by a temporary pond specialist

article published in 2019

Sex‐skewed trophic impacts in ephemeral wetlands

Shifting interaction strength between estuarine mysid species across a temperature gradient

scientific article published on 21 July 2018

Sinks and sources: Assessing microplastic abundance in river sediment and deposit feeders in an Austral temperate urban river system

scientific article

Site and species selection for religious release of non-native fauna

scientific article published on 04 January 2019

Spatial Characterisation of Vegetation Diversity in Groundwater-Dependent Ecosystems Using In-Situ and Sentinel-2 MSI Satellite Data

scientific article published on 23 June 2022

Spatiotemporal variation in microplastic contamination along a subtropical reservoir shoreline

scientific article published on 16 April 2020

Spatio–temporal variation of vegetation heterogeneity in groundwater dependent ecosystems within arid environments

scientific article published in 2022

Stable isotope evidence of food web connectivity by a top predatory fish (Argyrosomus japonicus: Sciaenidae: Teleostei) in the Kowie Estuary, South Africa

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The complete mitochondrial genome of Africa's largest freshwater copepod, Lovenula raynerae

The complete mitogenome of an undescribed clam shrimp of the genus <i>Gondwanalimnadia</i> (Branchiopoda: Spinicaudata), from a temporary wetland in Central District, Botswana

scientific article published on 28 February 2020

The complete mitogenome of the fairy shrimp <i>Streptocephalus cafer</i> (Lovén, 1847) (Crustacea: Branchiopoda: Anostraca) from an ephemeral pond in Botswana, southern Africa

scientific article published on 14 January 2020

The diet of an invasive crayfish, Cherax quadricarinatus (Von Martens, 1868), in Lake Kariba, inferred using stomach content and stable isotope analyses

scientific article published in 2018

The global social-economic dimension of biological invasions by plankton: Grossly underestimated costs but a rising concern for water quality benefits?

scientific article published in 2022

The influence of microplastics on trophic interaction strengths and oviposition preferences of dipterans

scientific article published on 12 October 2018

Toward an integrated framework for assessing micropollutants in marine mammals: Challenges, progress, and opportunities

Trophic ecology of co‐occurring fishes in the Sundays River Valley irrigation ponds, assessed using stable isotope and gut content analyses

scientific article published on 22 March 2023

Trophic interactions in an austral temperate ephemeral pond inferred using stable isotope analysis

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Trophic isotopic carbon variation increases with pond's hydroperiod: Evidence from an Austral ephemeral ecosystem.

scientific article published on 8 August 2017

Turtle‐mediated dispersal of anostracan dormant eggs: Evidence for dominance hierarchy effects

scientific article published in 2023

Understanding communities’ perceptions, demographics and uses of wetlands in Vhembe Biosphere Reserve, South Africa

scientific article published in 2022

Unexpected survival of sharptooth catfish Clarias gariepinus (Burchell 1822) during acute rotenone toxicity trials will complicate management of invasions

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Use of Diatom Communities as Indicators of Conductivity and Ionic Composition in a Small Austral Temperate River System

scientific article published in 2017

Using functional responses to assess predator hatching phenology implications for pioneering prey in arid temporary pools

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Using functional responses to quantify interaction effects among predators

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Using functional responses to quantify notonectid predatory impacts across increasingly complex environments

scientific article published in 2019

Using multivariate analysis and stable isotopes to assess the effects of substrate type on phytobenthos communities

article by Tatenda Dalu et al published 1 October 2014 in Inland Waters

Validation of growth zone formation in <i>Oreochromis mossambicus</i> otoliths collected from an irrigation pond in the Sundays River Valley, Eastern Cape, South Africa

scientific article published on 2 January 2023

Variation partitioning of benthic diatom community matrices: Effects of multiple variables on benthic diatom communities in an Austral temperate river system

scientific article

Warming mediates intraspecific multiple predator effects from an invasive crustacean

scientific article published on 19 February 2021

Water or sediment? Partitioning the role of water column and sediment chemistry as drivers of macroinvertebrate communities in an austral South African stream

scientific article published on 07 July 2017

Water volume differentially modifies copepod predatory strengths on two prey types

scientific article published in 2020

Zooplankton grazing pressure is insufficient for primary producer control under elevated warming and nutrient levels

scientific article published on 11 September 2018

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