Articles by Author: J K Turpie
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Socio-economic characteristics of gillnet and beach-seine fishers in the Western Cape, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Marine ScienceData collected by questionnaire and telephone surveys conducted during 1998 and 1999 are used to describe the socio-economic characteristics of inshore netfishers in the Western Cape. Approximately two-thirds of netfishers work or have worked in other fishing sectors and a... -
Use of a small, intermittently-open estuary by waterbirds: a case study of the East Kleinemonde Estuary, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic ScienceLittle is known of the use and importance of South African small, intermittently-open estuaries to waterbirds. Waterbird activities were monitored in a section of the East Kleinemonde Estuary on the south-east coast of South Africa from June 2004 to May... -
FORAGING BEHAVIOUR OF CRAB PLOVERS <em>DROMAS ARDEOLA</em> AT MIDA CREEK, KENYA
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African OrnithologyHockey, P.A.R., Plagényi, É.E., Turpie, J.K. & Phillips, T.E. 1996. Foraging behaviour of Crab Plovers Dromas ardeola at Mida Creek, Kenya. Ostrich 67:33-44. -
The Role of Estuaries in South African Fisheries: Economic Importance and Management Implications
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine ScienceExisting catch data for 129 of 255 functional estuaries on the South African coastline were reviewed and the relationships between fish catch and estuary size, type and biogeographical region analysed using simple and multivariate models. The best predictive models were... -
Characteristics and value of the Thukela Banks crustacean and linefish fisheries, and the potential impacts of changes in river flow
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine ScienceThis study describes the Thukela Banks crustacean and linefish fisheries and investigates the potential impacts of reduced flow from the Thukela River on the value of these fisheries. Data were obtained from published and unpublished material, key informants and government... -
A review of the ecology and management of temporarily open/closed estuaries in South Africa, with particular emphasis on river flow and mouth state as primary drivers of these systems
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine ScienceResearch in South African temporarily open/closed estuaries that includes studies on the hydrodynamics, sediment dynamics, macronutrients, microalgae, macrophytes, zoobenthos, hyperbenthos, zooplankton, ichthyoplankton, fishes and birds is used as a basis to review the ecology and management of this estuary type... -
Are African penguins worth saving? The ecotourism value of the Boulders Beach colony
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine SciencePopulations of the African penguin Spheniscus demersus have decreased dramatically over the past century, due in part to competition for food with commercial fisheries, and the species is now endangered as a result. Economic arguments are used to favour fisheries... -
Shallow waters: social science research in South Africa's marine environment
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine ScienceThis paper provides an overview of social science research in the marine environment of South Africa for the period 1994–2012. A bibliography based on a review of relevant literature and social science projects funded under the SEAChange programme of the... -
South Africa's coastal-breeding white-breasted cormorants: population trends, breeding season and movements, and diet
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine ScienceWhite-breasted cormorants Phalacrocorax [carbo] lucidus breed around South Africa's coast and at inland localities. Along the coasts of the Northern, Western and Eastern Cape provinces, numbers breeding were similar during the periods 1977–1981 (1 116 pairs at 41 localities) and... -
Wetland birds, habitat resources and conservation implications
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Zoology