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  1. Effects of herbivore grazing on the physiognomy of the coralline alga <em>Spongites yendoi</em> and on associated competitive interactions

    Effects of herbivore grazing on the physiognomy of the coralline alga Spongites yendoi and on associated competitive interactions

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: GW Maneveldt DW Keats
    The territorial gardening limpet Scutellastra cochlear occurs along the south and southern west coasts of South Africa, whereas one of its primary food items, the encrusting coralline alga Spongites yendoi, extends much farther north along the West Coast. A combined...
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  2. Sublittoral seaweed communities on natural and artificial substrata in a high-latitude coral community in South Africa

    Sublittoral seaweed communities on natural and artificial substrata in a high-latitude coral community in South Africa

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: L Gersun --- Department of Biological Sciences and Marine Research Institute, South Africa RJ Anderson --- Department of Biological Sciences and Marine Research Institute, South Africa JR Hart --- Oceanographic Research Institute, South Africa GW Maneveldt --- Department of Biodiversity and Conservation Biology, South Africa JJ Bolton --- Department of Biological Sciences and Marine Research Institute, South Africa
    Coral mortality may result in macroalgal proliferation or a phase shift into an alga-dominated state. Subtidal, high-latitude western Indian Ocean coral communities at Sodwana Bay on the KwaZulu-Natal coast, South Africa, have experienced some mortality because of warm-water anomalies, storms...
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  3. Terrestrial discharge influences microbioerosion and microbioeroder community structure in coral reefs

    Terrestrial discharge influences microbioerosion and microbioeroder community structure in coral reefs

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: SA Mwachireya --- Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute (KMFRI), Kenya M Carreiro-Silva --- Department of Oceanography and Fisheries (IMAR network), Portugal BE Hartwick --- Department of Biological Sciences, Canada TR McClanahan --- Wildlife Conservation Society, Marine Programs, USA
    Microbioerosion rates and microbioeroder community structure were studied in four Kenyan protected coral-reef lagoons using shell fragments of Tridacna giant clams to determine their response to the influence of terrestrial run-off. Fourteen different microbioeroder traces from seven cyanobacteria, three green...
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  4. Serpulid diversity of coralligenous build-ups in the southwestern Ionian Sea

    Serpulid diversity of coralligenous build-ups in the southwestern Ionian Sea

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Rossana Sanfilippo --- University of Catania, Italy Gemma Donato --- University of Catania, Italy Francesco Sciuto --- University of Catania, Italy Adriano Guido --- University of Calabria, Italy Mara Cipriani --- University of Calabria, Italy Valentina Alice Bracchi --- University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy Alfio Viola --- University of Catania, Italy Daniela Basso --- Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Scienze del Mare (CoNISMa), Italy Antonietta Rosso --- University of Catania, Italy
    Coralligenous build-ups in the Ionian Sea off southeastern Sicily, Italy, first discovered about 20 years ago, were recently studied as part of the Italian FISR project ‘CresciBluReef’. Coralligenous build-ups are a priority habitat in the Mediterranean Sea, yet their origin...
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