Peer Reviewed Articles 2023

Peer-reviewed publications by SAIAB Scientists, Honorary Research Associates and Postgraduate Students using SAIAB’s address - 2023.

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Abwe, E., Snoeks, J., Manda, B. K., Mutambala, P. K., Kalumba, L. N., Bragança, P. H. N., Kipanga, K., Mulelenu, C. M., Kayaba, M. K. I., Manda, A. C., & Vreven, E. J. W. M. N. (2023). Checklist of the Fishes of the Kundelungu National Park (Upper Congo Basin, DR Congo): Species Diversity and Endemicity of a Poorly Known Ichthyofauna. Diversity, 15(2).
https://doi.org/10.3390/d15020259

Albano, P. S., Fallows, C., Fallows, M., Williams, L. H., Murray, T., Sedgwick, O., & Hammerschlag, N. (2023). Acoustic tracking of a threatened juvenile shark species, the smooth hammerhead (Sphyrna zygaena), reveals vulnerability to exploitation at the boundary of a marine reserve. Frontiers in Marine Science, 10.
https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2023.1082049

Ayob, N., Burger, R. P., Belelie, M. D., Nkosi, N. C., Havenga, H., de Necker, L., & Cilliers, D. P. (2023). Modelling the historical distribution of schistosomiasis-transmitting snails in South Africa using ecological niche models. PLoS ONE, 18(11 November).
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0295149
 
Baptista, N. L., Pinto, P. V., Keates, C., Lobón-Rovira, J., Edwards, S., & Rödel, M. O. (2023). Two new Poyntonophrynus species (Anura: Bufonidae) highlight the importance of Angolan centers of endemism. Vertebrate Zoology, 73.
https://doi.org/10.3897/VZ.73.E103935
 
Barletta, M., Melo, R. C. B., & Whitfield, A. K. (2023). Past and present conservation of south American estuaries. In Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science (Vol. 295). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2023.108542
 

Bernt, M. J., da Silva Neto, D., Swartz, E. R., & Stiassny, M. L. J. (2023). Rediscovery and range extension for Platyclarias machadoi Poll, 1977 (Siluriformes, Clariidae) in the Kwanza River, Angola. Check List, 19(4).
https://doi.org/10.15560/19.4.541

Bowlby, H. D., Dicken, M. L., Towner, A. v., Waries, S., Rogers, T., & Kock, A. (2023). Decline or shifting distribution? A first regional trend assessment for white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) in South Africa. Ecological Indicators, 154.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2023.110720

Campos, D. S., Ferreira de Oliveira, R., de Oliveira Vieira, L., Negreiros de Bragança, P. H., Silva Nunes, J. L., Guimarães, E. C., & Ottoni, F. P. (2023). Revisiting the debate: documenting biodiversity in the age of digital and artificially generated images. Web Ecology, 23(2).
https://doi.org/10.5194/we-23-135-2023
 
Cerrilla, C., Flemming, L., Griffiths, C. L., Impson, D., Jordaan, M. S., Kajee, M., Paxton, B. R., van der Walt, J. A., Whitehead, T. O., & Shelton, J. M. (2024). Using a head-start conservation intervention to boost spawning numbers of the endangered Clanwilliam sandfish. Conservation Science and Practice, 6(1).
https://doi.org/10.1111/csp2.13065
 
Chakandinakira, A. T., Madzivanzira, T. C., Mashonga, S., Muzvondiwa, J. v., Ndlovu, N., & South, J. (2023). Socioeconomic impacts of Australian redclaw crayfish Cherax quadricarinatus in Lake Kariba. Biological Invasions, 25(9).

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-023-03074-8

Claassens, L., Phillips, B., Ebert, D. A., Delaney, D., Henning, B., Nestor, V., Ililau, A., & Giddens, J. (2023). First records of the Pacific sleeper shark Somniosus cf. pacificus in the western tropical Pacific. Journal of Fish Biology, 103(5).
https://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.15487
 

Conradie, W., Keates, C., Verburgt, L., Baptista, N. L., & Harvey, J. (2023). Contributions to the herpetofauna of the Angolan Okavango-Cuando-Zambezi river drainages. Part 3: Amphibians. Amphib. Reptile Conserv, 17(e325).
https://repository.up.ac.za/handle/2263/86107

Cottrant, E., Drobniewska, N. J., Johnson, T. L., Underhill, L. G., Murray, T. S., Hammerschlag, N., Albano, P. S., Elston, C., McCord, M. E., Cowley, P. D., Fallows, C., & Paulet, T. G. (2023). Network analysis of the endemic spotted gully shark Triakis megalopterus reveals spatial vulnerability to exploitation in the Western Cape, South Africa. African Journal of Marine Science, 45(4).
https://doi.org/10.2989/1814232X.2023.2271959
 

Daly, R., Venables, S., Rogers, T., Filmalter, J., Hempson, T., Murray, T., Hussey, N., Silva, I., Pereira, M., Mann, B., Nharreluga, B., & Cowley, P. (2023). Persistent transboundary movements of threatened sharks highlight the importance of cooperative management for effective conservation. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 720.
https://doi.org/10.3354/meps14413

Day, J. J., Steell, E. M., Vigliotta, T. R., Withey, L. A., Bills, R., Friel, J. P., Genner, M. J., & Stiassny, M. L. J. (2023). Exceptional levels of species discovery ameliorate inferences of the biogeography and diversification of an Afrotropical catfish family. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 182.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2023.107754

de Bragança, P. H. N., van der Zee, J., Lobel, P. S., & Schliewen, U. (2023). Osteology and redescription of the miniature lampeye species of Congopanchax Poll, 1971 with an overview of miniature African freshwater fishes (Teleostei, Cyprinodontiformes, Procatopodidae). Spixiana, 46(1).
 

de Lange, F., Netherlands, E. C., & du Preez, L. H. (2023). Call repertoire of Ptychadena uzungwensis (Anura: Ptychadenidae) to complement molecular and morphological identification of the species from the Soutpansberg, South Africa. African Journal of Herpetology, 72(1).
https://doi.org/10.1080/21564574.2022.2161015

de Necker, L., Dyamond, K., Greenfield, R., van Vuren, J., & Malherbe, W. (2023). Aquatic invertebrate community structure and functions within a Ramsar wetland of a premier conservation area in South Africa. Ecological Indicators, 148.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2023.110135

Devloo-Delva, F., Burridge, C. P., Kyne, P. M., Brunnschweiler, J. M., Chapman, D. D., Charvet, P., Chen, X., Cliff, G., Daly, R., Drymon, J. M., Espinoza, M., Fernando, D., Barcia, L. G., Glaus, K., González-Garza, B. I., Grant, M. I., Gunasekera, R. M., Hernandez, S., Hyodo, S., … Feutry, P. (2023). From rivers to ocean basins: The role of ocean barriers and philopatry in the genetic structuring of a cosmopolitan coastal predator. Ecology and Evolution, 13(2).
https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.9837

Dixon, R. B., Murray, T. S., Mann, B. Q., Cowley, P. D., & Jordaan, G. L. (2023). Movement patterns of the iconic giant trevally Caranx ignobilis from southern Africa, determined using tag-recapture data. Fisheries Research, 263.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fishres.2023.106693

Ebert, D. A., Garcias, A. C., Fahmi, Pestana, A. G., Muñoz, S. H., Leurs, G., & Simeon, B. M. (2023). Searching for lost sharks: extinct or alive? In ORYX (Vol. 57, Issue 4). https://doi.org/10.1017/S0030605323000509
 

Elston, C., Murray, T. S., Parkinson, M. C., Filmalter, J. D., & Cowley, P. D. (2023). Female Diamond Rays Gymnura natalensis and Bull Rays Aetomylaeus bovinus Display Seasonal Philopatry to South African Estuaries. Estuaries and Coasts, 46(7). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12237-023-01239-1

Emami-Khoyi, A., Jooste, C. M., Wasserman, R. J., Dalu, T., Raath-Krüger, M. J., Jansen van Vuuren, B., & Teske, P. R. (2023). Persistent effects of historical sea levels on the population structure of a temporary wetland copepod. Freshwater Biology, 68(8).
https://doi.org/10.1111/fwb.14139

Faure-Beaulieu, N., Lombard, A. T., Olbers, J., Goodall, V., da Silva, C., Daly, R., Jordaan, G., Kerwath, S. E., Kock, A., Mann, B. Q., Murray, T. S., Albano, P., Cliff, G., dos Santos, N. A., Gennari, E., Hammerschlag, N., Bester-van der Merwe, A. E., Watson, R., Andreotti, S., … Harris, J. (2023). A systematic conservation plan identifying critical areas for improved chondrichthyan protection in South Africa. Biological Conservation, 284.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2023.110163

Ferreira, J. A., Alberts, J. A., Smith, G., Bernard, A. T. F., Pereira, M. J., & de Vos, L. (2023). Seasonal changes characterise the shark and ray assemblages in a subtropical shallow sandy habitat in the iSimangaliso Wetland Park, South Africa. PeerJ, 11.
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15636

Fikiye, P. P., Smit, N. J., van As, L. L., Truter, M., & Hadfield, K. A. (2023). Integrative Morphological and Genetic Characterisation of the Fish Parasitic Copepod Ergasilus mirabilis Oldewage & van As, 1987: Insights into Host Specificity and Distribution in Southern Africa. Diversity, 15(9).
https://doi.org/10.3390/d15090965

Fioravanti, T., Maio, N., Psomadakis, P. N., Manzotti, S., Gigante, A. P., Splendiani, A., Bottaro, M., & CaputoBarucchi, V. (2023). The sawfish (Rhinopristiformes, Pristidae) rostrum displayed in the “Basilica Santuario del Carmine Maggiore” in Naples, Italy: A long story of legends and taxonomic errors. Contributions to Zoology, 92(5).
https://doi.org/10.1163/18759866-bja10048

Fowler, A. M., Dowling, N. A., Lyle, J. M., Alós, J., Anderson, L. E., Cooke, S. J., Danylchuk, A. J., Ferter, K., Folpp, H., Hutt, C., Hyder, K., Lew, D. K., Lowry, M. B., Lynch, T. P., Meadows, N., Mugerza, E., Nedreaas, K., Garrone-Neto, D., Ochwada-Doyle, F. A., … Chick, R. C. (2023). Toward sustainable harvest strategies for marine fisheries that include recreational fishing. Fish and Fisheries, 24(6).
https://doi.org/10.1111/faf.12781

Gales, S. M., Parsons, K. T., Biesack, E. E., Ready, J., Siccha-Ramirez, R., Rosa, L. C., Rosa, R., Rotundo, M. M., Bills, R., Rodrigues, A. E. S., Rodrigues-Filho, L. F. S., McDowell, J., & Sales, J. B. L. (2023). Almost half of the Gymnura van Hasselt, 1823 species are unknown: Phylogeographic inference as scissors for cutting the hidden Gordian knot and clarify their conservation status. Journal of Systematics and Evolution.
https://doi.org/10.1111/jse.13027
 
Gerber, R., de Necker, L., van Vuren, J. H. J., Ikenaka, Y., Nakayama, S. M. M., Ishizuka, M., Wepener, V., & Smit, N. J. (2023). A stable isotope analysis of the dietary patterns of the aquatic apex predator, the African tigerfish (Hydrocynus vittatus). Journal of Fish Biology, 103(5).
https://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.15516
 
Glass, J. R., Harrington, R. C., Cowman, P. F., Faircloth, B. C., & Near, T. J. (2023). Widespread sympatry in a species-rich clade of marine fishes (Carangoidei). Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 290(2010).
https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2023.0657
 
Gon, O., Maclaine, J., Collins, M. A., Matcher, G., & Pogonoski, J. J. (2023). The type series of Poromitra crassiceps (Pisces, Melamphaidae) with lectotype designation. Zootaxa, 5389(4). https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5389.4.5
 
Hlungwani, H. A., Marr, S. M., Weyl, O. L. F., & Sara, J. R. (2023). Biological and life-history parameters for Labeo rosae Steindachner, 1894 and Oreochromis mossambicus (Peters, 1852) from Flag Boshielo Dam, Olifants River, South Africa. African Journal of Aquatic Science, 48(2).
https://doi.org/10.2989/16085914.2023.2173136
 
Holmes, M., Campbell, E. E., de Wit, M., & Taylor, J. C. (2023). Analysis of freshwater diatom deformities in the Karoo, South Africa. African Journal of Aquatic Science, 48(4). https://doi.org/10.2989/16085914.2023.2282491
 

Holmes, M., Campbell, E. E., de Wit, M., & Taylor, J. C. (2023). Can diatoms be used as a biomonitoring tool for surface and groundwater? Towards a baseline for Karoo water. South African Journal of Botany, 161.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sajb.2023.08.013

Johnson, J., Peer, N., Sershen, & Rajkaran, A. (2023). Microplastic abundance in urban vs. peri-urban mangroves: The feasibility of using invertebrates as biomonitors of microplastic pollution in two mangrove dominated estuaries of southern Africa. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 196.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2023.115657
 

Jordaan, B. J., du Preez, L. H., & Netherlands, E. C. (2023). Taxonomic re-evaluation of African anuran trypanosomes with the redescription and molecular diagnosis of Trypanosoma (Trypanosoma) nelspruitense Laveran, 1904 and Trypanosoma (Haematomonas) grandicolor Pienaar, 1962. Parasitology, 150(6).
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0031182023000203

Kajee, M., Dallas, H. F., Griffiths, C. L., Kleynhans, C. J., & Shelton, J. M. (2023). The Status of South Africa’s Freshwater Fish Fauna: A Spatial Analysis of Diversity, Threat, Invasion, and Protection. Fishes, 8(12).
https://doi.org/10.3390/fishes8120571
 
Kajee, M., Henry, D. A. W., Dallas, H. F., Griffiths, C. L., Pegg, J., van der Colff, D., Impson, D., Chakona, A., Raimondo, D. C., Job, N. M., Paxton, B. R., Jordaan, M. S., Bills, R., Roux, F., Zengeya, T. A., Hoffman, A., Rivers-Moore, N., & Shelton, J. M. (2023). How the Freshwater Biodiversity Information System (FBIS) is supporting national freshwater fish conservation decisions in South Africa. Frontiers in Environmental Science, 11.
https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2023.1122223
 

Kajee, M., Dallas, H. F., Swanepoel, A., Griffiths, C. L., & Shelton, J. M. (2023). The Freshwater Biodiversity Information System (FBIS) fish data: a georeferenced dataset of freshwater fishes occurring in South Africa. Journal of Limnology, 82(s1).
https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2023.2133

Kalumba, L. N., Abwe, E., Schedel, F. D. B., Chocha Manda, A., Schliewen, U. K., & Vreven, E. J. W. M. N. (2023). Two New Shellear Species (Gonorhynchiformes: Kneriidae), from the Luansa River (Upper Congo Basin): Hidden Diversity Revealed by Integrative Taxonomy. Diversity, 15(10).
https://doi.org/10.3390/d15101044
 

Khosa, D., South, J., Matam, N. Y., Mofu, L., Wasserman, R. J., & Weyl, O. L. F. (2023). The past and current distribution of native and non-native fish in the Kowie River catchment, Makhanda, Eastern Cape. Knowledge and Management of Aquatic Ecosystems, 129(424).
https://doi.org/10.1051/kmae/2022026

Klein, J. D., Maduna, S. N., Dicken, M. L., da Silva, C., Soekoe, M., McCord, M. E., Potts, W. M., Hagen, S. B., & Bester-van der Merwe, A. E. (2024). Local adaptation with gene flow in a highly dispersive shark. Evolutionary Applications, 17(1).
https://doi.org/10.1111/eva.13628
 
Kock, A., Glanville, H. C., Law, A. C., Stanton, T., Carter, L. J., & Taylor, J. C. (2023). Emerging challenges of the impacts of pharmaceuticals on aquatic ecosystems: A diatom perspective. In Science of the Total Environment (Vol. 878).
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.162939
 

Kock, A., Pheiffer, W., Wepener, V., Smit, N. J., & Taylor, J. C. (2023). Using Confocal Microscopy and Pigment Analyses to Detect Adverse Insecticide Effects in non-target Freshwater Diatom species – a proof-of-concept Using Nitzschia palea. Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, 110(6).
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00128-023-03741-5

Landman, W., Verneau, O., Vences, M., & du Preez, L. (2023). Metapolystoma ohlerianum n. sp. (Monogenea: Polystomatidae) from Aglyptodactylus madagascariensis (Anura: Mantellidae). Acta Parasitologica, 68(2).
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11686-023-00668-z

Leeney, R. H., Ebert, D. A., & Grobler, K. (2023). First record of Warren’s sixgill sawshark Pliotrema warreni (Pristiophoriformes: Pristiophoridae) and the West African catshark Scyliorhinus cervigoni (Carcharhiniformes: Scyliorhinidae) in Namibia, and notes on the habitat of the bull shark Carcharhinus leucas (Carcharhiniformes: Carcharhinidae). Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 103. 
 
Lennox, R. J., Whoriskey, F. G., Verhelst, P., Vandergoot, C. S., Soria, M., Reubens, J., Rechisky, E. L., Power, M., Murray, T., Mulder, I., Markham, J. L., Lowerre-Barbieri, S. K., Lindley, S. T., Knott, N. A., Kessel, S. T., Iverson, S., Huveneers, C., Heidemeyer, M., Harcourt, R., … Whoriskey, K. (2024). Globally coordinated acoustic aquatic animal tracking reveals unexpected, ecologically important movements across oceans, lakes and rivers. In Ecography (Vol. 2024, Issue 1).
https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.06801
 
Lignon, J. S., Cohen, S. C., Justo, M. C. N., du Preez, L., Comarella, C. G., Nishimaru, R. A., Souza, P. V. A. M., de Ataíde, M. W., Müller, D. C. de M., Brun, M. V., & Monteiro, S. G. (2023). New species of Polystomoides (Monogenoidea: Polystomatidae) parasitizing the urinary bladder of a freshwater turtle in Brazil. Revista Brasileira de Parasitologia Veterinaria, 32(3).
https://doi.org/10.1590/S1984-29612023045

Lubitz, N., Daly, R., Filmalter, J. D., Sheaves, M., Cowley, P. D., Naesje, T. F., & Barnett, A. (2023). Context drives movement patterns in a mobile marine predator. Movement Ecology, 11(1).
https://doi.org/10.1186/s40462-023-00390-5

Lynch, A. J., Cooke, S. J., Arthington, A. H., Baigun, C., Bossenbroek, L., Dickens, C., Harrison, I., Kimirei, I., Langhans, S. D., Murchie, K. J., Olden, J. D., Ormerod, S. J., Owuor, M., Raghavan, R., Samways, M. J., Schinegger, R., Sharma, S., Tachamo-Shah, R. D., Tickner, D., … Jähnig, S. C. (2023). People need freshwater biodiversity. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water, 10(3).
https://doi.org/10.1002/wat2.1633

Madzivanzira, T. C., Chakandinakira, A. T., Mungenge, C. P., O’brien, G., Dalu, T., & South, J. (2023). Get it before it gets to my catch: misdirection traps to mitigate against socioeconomic impacts associated with crayfish invasion. Management of Biological Invasions, 14(2).
https://doi.org/10.3391/mbi.2023.14.2.10

Mann, B. Q., Daly, R., Dixon, R. B., Filmalter, J. D., Murray, T. S., Cowley, P. D., Kyle, R., Chater, S., & Mann-Lang, J. B. (2023). The fate and movements of aquarium-released giant trevally Caranx ignobilis inferred from acoustic telemetry. Zoo Biology, 42(5).
https://doi.org/10.1002/zoo.21771

Masina, F. M., Wasserman, R. J., Wu, N., Mungenge, C. P., Dondofema, F., Keates, C., Shikwambana, P., & Dalu, T. (2023). Macroinvertebrate diversity in relation to limnochemistry in an Austral semi–arid transboundary aquifer region pan system. Science of the Total Environment, 878.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.163161

Mofokeng, R. P., Faltynkova, A., Alfonso, M. B., Boujmil, I., Carvalho, I. R. B., Lunzalu, K., Zanuri, N. B. M., Nyadjro, E. S., Puskic, P. S., Lindsay, D. J., Willis, K., Adyel, T. M., Serra-Gonçalves, C., Zolich, A., Eriksen, T. S., Evans, H. C., Gabriel, D., Hajbane, S., Suaria, G., … Lobelle, D. (2024). The future of ocean plastics: designing diverse collaboration frameworks. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 81(1).
https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsad055
 
Mofu, L., Dalu, T., Wasserman, R. J., Woodford, D. J., & Weyl, O. L. F. (2023). Validation of growth zone formation in Oreochromis mossambicus otoliths collected from an irrigation pond in the Sundays River Valley, Eastern Cape, South Africa. African Journal of Aquatic Science, 48(1).
https://doi.org/10.2989/16085914.2022.2147131
 
Mofu, L., Dalu, T., Wasserman, R. J., Woodford, D. J., & Weyl, O. L. F. (2023). Trophic ecology of co-occurring fishes in the Sundays River Valley irrigation ponds, assessed using stable isotope and gut content analyses. Journal of Fish Biology.
https://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.15360
 
Mpopetsi, P. P., & Kadye, W. T. (2023). Functional diversity does not explain the co-occurrence of non-native species within a flow-modified African river system. Journal of Fish Biology. https://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.15587
 
Mpopetsi, P. P., & Kadye, W. T. (2023). Colonisation theory and invasive biota: the Great Fish River case history,35 years later. African Journal of Aquatic Science, 48(1).
https://doi.org/10.2989/16085914.2022.2142508

Mungenge, C. P., Wasserman, R. J., Cuthbert, R. N., Dondofema, F., & Dalu, T. (2024). Salinisation of arid temporary pools alters crustacean hatching success but not phenology dynamics. Hydrobiologia, 851(1).
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-023-05325-0

Mungenge, C. P., Wasserman, R. J., Dondofema, F., Keates, C., Masina, F. M., & Dalu, T. (2023). Assessing chlorophyll–a and water quality dynamics in arid–zone temporary pan systems along a disturbance gradient. Science of the Total Environment, 873.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.162272 

Munyai, L. F., Mugwedi, L., Wasserman, R. J., Dondofema, F., Riddell, E., Keates, C., & Dalu, T. (2023). Metal and non–metal dynamics and distribution in soil profiles across selected pans in the Ramsar declared subtropical within a national protected area. Chemistry and Ecology, 39(9).
https://doi.org/10.1080/02757540.2023.2269140
 
Munyai, L. F., & Dalu, T. (2023). Aquatic Macrophytes Metal and Nutrient Concentration Variations, with Implication for Phytoremediation Potential in a Subtropical River System. Sustainability, 15(20). https://doi.org/10.3390/su152014933
 
Munyai, L. F., Mugwedi, L., Wasserman, R. J., Dondofema, F., & Dalu, T. (2023). Assessing Fish and Macroinvertebrates Assemblages in Relation to Environmental Variables in Makuleke Floodplain Pans: Implications for Biodiversity Conservation. Wetlands, 43(7).
https://doi.org/10.1007/s13157-023-01738-8
 

Murray, T. S., Elston, C., Bennett, R. H., Childs, A. R., & Cowley, P. D. (2023). Movement patterns and underestimation of the maximum age of a Vulnerable endemic guitarfish species inferred from mark-recapture studies. African Journal of Marine Science, 45(2).
https://doi.org/10.2989/1814232X.2023.2224829

Mutshekwa, T., Munyai, L. F., Mugwedi, L., Cuthbert, R. N., Dondofema, F., & Dalu, T. (2023). Seasonal occurrence of microplastics in sediment of two South African recreational reservoirs. Water Biology and Security, 2(3).
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watbs.2023.100185
 
Mutshekwa, T., Mugwedi, L., Moyo, B., Madala, N. E., Wasserman, R. J., Dondofema, F., & Dalu, T. (2023). Assessing acetamiprid and chlorpyrifos pesticide concentrations in water and sediments across macadamia orchard and communal area small reservoirs. In Chemistry and Ecology (Vol. 39, Issue 4).
https://doi.org/10.1080/02757540.2023.2199015
 
Mzozo, Z. B., Hugo, S., & Vine, N. G. (2023). The use of chemical and biological settlement cues in enhancing the larval settlement of abalone (Haliotis midae): Implications for hatcheries and ocean ranching. Journal of the World Aquaculture Society, 54(6).
https://doi.org/10.1111/jwas.13001
 

Namiotko, T., de Moor, F. C., Barber-James, H. M., Schön, I., & Martens, K. (2023). Environmental correlates of non-marine ostracod (Crustacea: Ostracoda) assemblages of the Eastern Cape (South Africa). Hydrobiologia, 850(21).
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-023-05282-8

Nel, A., McQuaid, C. D., Duna, O. O., Giménez, L., & Porri, F. (2023). Similar metabolic responses of co-occurring post-settlement mussels to temperature change despite distinct geographical distributions. Marine Biology, 170(1).
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-022-04147-3

Nicolau, G. K., Jackson, E. A., & Wasserman, R. J. (2023). Mass vehicle induced mortalities of Giant Bullfrogs in Nylsvley Nature Reserve. Koedoe, 65(1).
https://doi.org/10.4102/koedoe.v65i1.1760

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