- Title
- Protected and un-protected urban wetlands have similar aquatic macroinvertebrate communities: a case study from the Cape Flats Sand Fynbos region of southern Africa
- Creator
- Blanckenberg, Michelle
- Creator
- Mlambo, Musa C
- Creator
- Parker, Denham
- Creator
- Motitsoe, Samuel N
- Date Issued
- 2020
- Date
- 2020
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/149288
- Identifier
- vital:38822
- Identifier
- https://0-doi.org.wam.seals.ac.za/10.1371/journal.pone.0233889
- Description
- Rapid urbanisation has led to major landscape alterations, affecting aquatic ecosystems’ hydrological and biogeochemical cycles, and biodiversity. Thus, habitat alteration is considered a major driver of aquatic biodiversity loss and related aquatic ecosystem goods and services. This study aimed to investigate and compare aquatic macroinvertebrate richness, diversity and community structure between urban temporary wetlands, located within protected and un-protected areas. The latter were found within an open public space or park with no protection or conservation status, whereas the former were inaccessible to the public and had formal protected, conservation status.
- Format
- 18 pages
- Format
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Plos one
- Relation
- Blanckenberg, M., Mlambo, M.C., Parker, D., Motitsoe, S.N. and Reed, C., 2020. Protected and un-protected urban wetlands have similar aquatic macroinvertebrate communities: A case study from the Cape Flats Sand Fynbos region of southern Africa. Plos one, 15(5), p.e0233889.
- Relation
- Plos one volume 15 number 5 p.e0233889 May 2020 1932-6203
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- Rights
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