Network analysis of trophic linkages in two sub-tropical estuaries along the South-East coast of South Africa

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: pdf
Publisher: Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
Publisher: Faculty of Science
Language: English
Rights: Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University

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