- Title
- Adult African sharptooth catfish, Clarias gariepinus, population dynamics in a small invaded warm-temperate impoundment
- Creator
- Booth, Anthony J
- Creator
- Traasg, Graham L
- Creator
- Weyl, Olaf L F
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date Issued
- 2010
- Date
- 2010
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/446759
- Identifier
- vital:74558
- Identifier
- https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15627020.2010.11657279
- Description
- African sharptooth catfish, Clarias gariepinus, is a successful aquatic invader as it has a eurytopic physiology, is highly fecund, grows quickly and has an omnivorous diet. Despite possible threats that include predation of and competition with indigenous species, habitat degradation, and the spread of diseases and parasites, there is a lack of knowledge regarding its ecology and population dynamics within invaded systems. This study presents a mark–recapture experiment to investigate its population structure, natural mortality rate, population size and density within a population inhabiting a small, 76 ha invaded water supply reservoir in the temperate Eastern Cape region, South Africa.
- Format
- 10 pages
- Format
- Language
- English
- Relation
- African Zoology
- Relation
- Booth, A.J., Traasg, G.R. and Weyl, O.L., 2010. Adult African sharptooth catfish, Clarias gariepinus, population dynamics in a small invaded warm-temperate impoundment. African Zoology, 45(2), pp.299-308
- Relation
- African Zoology volume 45 number 2 299 308 2010 2224-073X
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- Publisher
- Rights
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