Oct 10, 2019 | News, sustainability, Uncategorized
Cape Town – A recent FBIP-funded workshop will go down as the first dedicated workshop on marine parasite diversity and its use in applied fisheries research in Africa. The workshop focused on the current state of knowledge of marine parasite biodiversity in...
Aug 26, 2019 | News, sustainability, Uncategorized
Presenter: S. Deyzel – SAEON, Dept of Zoology CMR NMMU Pretoria – The contribution of plankton to biogeochemical cycling and conservation of energy within aquatic food webs is widely recognised, as is their usefulness for monitoring changing environmental...
Jun 21, 2019 | News, sustainability, Uncategorized
Cape Town – A study, using genetic analysis, on the invasive Asian green mussel in South Africa has turned earlier reports on their head with an unexpected discovery. Biological invasions pose a significant threat to South Africa’s ecosystems and the services such as...
Jul 5, 2018 | News, sustainability, Uncategorized
Cape Town – A new species of polychaete has been discovered by chance off the coast of Gansbaai in the Western Cape of South Africa. Polychaetes, more commonly known as bristle worms, are mostly marine segmented worms generally less than 10 cm in length, but with some...