- Title
- Network analysis of trophic linkages in two sub-tropical estuaries along the South-East coast of South Africa
- Creator
- Vosloo, Mathys Christiaan
- Subject
- Estuaries -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Subject
- Estuarine ecology
- Subject
- Network analysis (Planning)
- Date Issued
- 2012
- Date
- 2012
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Doctoral
- Type
- PhD
- Identifier
- vital:10708
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10948/d1010966
- Identifier
- Estuaries -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Identifier
- Estuarine ecology
- Identifier
- Network analysis (Planning)
- Description
- Estuaries are some of the most productive yet threatened ecosystems in the world. Despite their importance they face significant threats through changes to river flow, eutrophication, rapid population growth long the caost and harvesting of natural resources. A number of international studies have been conducted investigating the structure and functioning of an array of ecosystems using ecological network analysis. Energy flow networks have been contsructed for coastal, lagoonal, intertidial and, most notably, permantently open estuaries. Despite the valualble insights contributed by these and other studies, a lack of information on the majority of estuarine ecosystems exists.
- Format
- xi, 204 leaves
- Format
- Publisher
- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Science
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
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