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Human-mediated drivers of change — impacts on coastal ecosystems and marine biota of South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: A Mead --- Centre for Invasion Biology, South Africa C L Griffiths --- Centre for Invasion Biology, South Africa G M Branch --- Department of Biological Sciences, South Africa C D McQuaid --- Department of Zoology and Entomology, South Africa L K Blamey --- Department of Biological Sciences, South Africa J J Bolton --- Department of Biological Sciences, South Africa R J Anderson --- Department of Biological Sciences, South Africa F Dufois --- Marine Research Institute, South Africa M Rouault --- Marine Research Institute, South Africa P W Froneman --- Department of Zoology and Entomology, South Africa A K Whitfield --- South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity, South Africa L R Harris --- Department of Zoology, South Africa R Nel --- Department of Zoology, South Africa D Pillay --- Department of Biological Sciences, South Africa J B Adams --- Department of Botany, South AfricaCoastal ecosystems are highly vulnerable to human-mediated drivers of global change because they are located at the land–ocean interface and often host centres of urbanisation and development. The South African coastline comprises several distinct coastal ecoregions that support a wide... -
Eucalypt pests and diseases: growing threats to plantation productivity
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern Forests: a Journal of Forest Science • Authors: MJ Wingfield B Slippers BP Hurley TA Coutinho BD Wingfield J RouxPlantations of eucalypts (species of Eucalyptus and Corymbia), particularly in the tropics and Southern Hemisphere, have expanded dramatically during the course of the last 100 years. The nature of these plantations has changed substantially as selection, breeding, hybridisation, vegetative propagation... -
Rats and prions at Tristan da Cunha Island
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Ben J Dilley --- , South Africa Delia Davies --- , South Africa Julian Repetto --- , United Kingdom (South Atlantic Ocean) George Swain --- , United Kingdom (South Atlantic Ocean) Peter G Ryan --- , South AfricaTristan da Cunha is a 96 km2 volcanic island in the South Atlantic Ocean. Black Rats Rattus rattus reached the island from a shipwreck in 1882 and their depredation of seabirds’ eggs and chicks are likely partly responsible for the...