Author:Van Niekerk, Lara; Adams, JB; Taljaard, Susan; Huizinga, Piet; Lamberth, SDate:Feb 2020The early 1990s in South Africa were characterised by a strongly hierarchical and technocratic regime where planning and development decisions regarding the environment were made at national government level with little or no public consultation ...Read more
Author:Heydorn, AEFDate:Aug 1986During a meeting of the South African National Committee for Oceanographic Research (SANCOR) Estuaries Programme Committee held on 12 and 13 October 1983 at San Lameer, Natal, consideration was given to a working paper on the freshwater ...Read more
Author:Slinger, J; Taljaard, Susan; D'Hont, FDate:Feb 2020The transdisciplinary research synthesised in this book represents an endeavour by a group of coastal researchers and policy analysts to learn from a cross-comparison of seven international case studies on tidal inlet or estuary mouth management ...Read more
Author:Kupfer, S; Santamaria-Aguilar, S; Pieterse, Amy; Lück-Vogel, Melanie; Vafeidis, ATDate:May 2022Recent studies on compound flooding have considered the interaction of storm-tide and fluvial or pluvial flood drivers, whereas the contribution of waves to compound flooding so far has been neglected. In this study, we investigate compound ...Read more
Author:Lemley, DA; Lamberth, SJ; Manuel, W; Nunes, M; Rishworth, GM; Van Niekerk, Lara; Adams, JBDate:Jun 2021Increased nutrient loading associated with rapid population growth is the leading cause of deteriorating water quality in urbanized estuaries globally. Small estuaries are particularly sensitive to changes when connection with the marine ...Read more
Author:James, NC; Van Niekerk, Lara; Whitfield, AK; Potts, WM; Götz, A; Paterson, AWDate:Oct 2013Estuaries are dynamic and their physical and chemical characteristics can change over a scale of hours to years. Consequently, estuarine fish assemblages often exhibit large temporal variations in abundance and composition related to changes ...Read more
Author:Brown, ACDate:1985This review of international literature on the biological effects of crude oil pollution in the sea relevant to the South African situation is based on some hundred selected referenced.Read more
Author:Van Niekerk, Lara; De Villiers, P; Gordon, A; Lamberth, SJ; Adams, J; Yumat, Z; Olds, ADate:Nov 2017This is the second report on estuaries in the Western Cape State of Biodiversity Report series. Estuaries from an integral part in the ecosystem connectivity between terrestrial systems, freshwater aquatic processes, and the ocean and cannot ...Read more
Author:Taljaard, Susan; Van Niekerk, Lara; Joubert, WRDate:Nov 2009Estuaries are dynamic transition zones acting as filters and transformers of nutrients passing from catchments to the sea. The authors propose an extension to an existing southern hemisphere model on nutrient dynamics in estuaries to include ...Read more
Author:De Lange, Willem J; Nahman, Anton; Theron, ADate:May 2009The valuation of estuarine goods and services serves to highlight the degree to which estuaries contribute to human well-being and to show that the social cost of activities which contribute to estuary degradation could be greater than the ...Read more
Author:Allanson, BR; Whitfield, AKDate:Dec 1983This report is the summary of a larger two-volumed work originally presented to the Coastal Lakes Working Group in 1981. The floodplain is in essence a series of small, shallow lakes, running in an east-west direction between the village of ...Read more
Author:Bowmaker, AP; van der Zee, D; Ridder, JHDate:1987A two day mini-symposium and workshop held in Durban in February 1986 and attended by 70 marine scientists from Natal and KwaZulu is reported on. Summaries of 84 presentations are given, separated into relevant sections. Each section is ...Read more
Author:Jerling, HL; Weerts, Steven PDate:Mar 2018The Kosi coastal lake system, a chain of four interconnected basins, is located in the subtropical north-eastern corner of South Africa. Little information is available on zooplankton of the system and the main aim of this study is to report ...Read more
Author:Kupfer, S; Santamaria-Aguilar, S; Van Niekerk, Lara; Lück-Vogel, Melanie; Vafeidis, ATDate:Oct 2020Extreme coastal flooding along the South African coast can be caused by the co-occurrence of waves, storm surges and tides. Importantly, in low-lying areas such as estuaries, the additional influence of river discharge can further exacerbate ...Read more
Author:Slinger, JH; Taljaard, Susan; Largier, JLDate:Sep 2017Many estuaries are under threat of reduced flows and consequent choking of the mouth by marine sands as more of their natural freshwater supply is abstracted for human use (Barton et al., 2008; Haines et al., 2006). Anticipated sea level rise, ...Read more
Author:Slinger, JH; Taljaard, SusanDate:Oct 1994The hydrodynamics and water quality of the Great Berg Estuary were studied under river flow conditions typical of the winter and summer seasons. Results reflect a strongly seasonal regime with the estuary exhibiting fluvial dominance during ...Read more