Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

Ayers, M.J. & U. Scharler (2011) Use of sensitivity analysis in constructing plausible trophic mass-balance models of a data-limited marine ecosystem – the KwaZulu-Natal bight, South Africa. Journal of Marine Science In Press

Barlow, R., Keywalyanga, M., Sessions, H., van den Berg, M. & T. Morris (2008) Phytoplankton pigments, functional types, and absorption properties in the Delagoa and Natal Bights of the Agulhas Ecosystem. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 80: 201-211.

Barlow, R., Lamont, T., Kyewalyanga, M., Sessions, H. & T. Morris (2010) Phytoplankton production and photophysiological adaptation of the southeastern shelf of the Agulhas Ecosystem. Continental Shelf Research 30 (2010): 1472-1486.

Barlow, R., Lamont, T., Kyewalyanga, M., Sessions, van Den Berg, M. & F. Duncan (2011) Phytoplankton production and adaptation in the vicinity of Pemba and Zanzibar islands, Tanzania. African Journal of Marine Science 33(2): 283-295.

Bolton, J.J., Andreakis, N. & R.J. Anderson (2011) Molecular evidence for three separate cryptic introductions of the red seaweed Asparagopsis (Bonnemaisoniales, Rhodophyta) in South Africa. African Journal of Marine Science 33(2): xxx-xxx.

Sebastián, C.R., Sink, K.J., McClanahan, T.R. & D.A. Cowan (2009) Bleaching response of corals and their Symbiodinium communities in southern Africa. Mar Biol. June 2009

Chenuil, A., Hoareau, T., Egea, E., Penant, G., Rocher, C., Aurelle, D., Mokhtar-Jamai, K., Bishop, J.D.D., Boissin, E., Diaz, A., Krakau, M., Luttikhuizen, P.C., Patti, F.P., Blavet, N. & S. Mousset (2010) An efficient method to find potentially universal population genetic markers, applied to metazoans. BCM Evolutionary Biology. 10: 276

De Lecea, A.M., Cooper, R., Omarjee, A. & A.J. Smit (2011) The effects of preservation methods, dye and acidification on the isotopic values (15N and 13C) of two zooplankton species from the KwaZulu-Natal Bight, South Africa. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry 25: 1853-1861.

De Lecea, A.M., Smit, A.J., & S.T. Fennessy (2011) The effects of freeze/thaw periods and drying methods on isotopic and elemental carbon and nitrogen in marine organisms, raising questions on sample preperations. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry 25: 3640-3649.

Dos Santos S.M.R., Klopper, A.W., Oosthuizen, C.J. & P. Bloomer (2008) Isolation and characterization of polymorphic tetranucleotide microsatellite loci in the pelagic perciform fish Pomatomus saltatrix (Linnaeus, 1766) from South Africa. Molecular Ecology Resources 8: 1065-67.

Grantham, Hedley S., Edward T. Game, Amanda T. Lombard, Alistair J. Hobday, Anthony J. Richardson, Lynnath E. Beckley, Robert L. Pressey, Jenny A. Huggett, Janet C. Coetzee, Carl D. van der Lingen, Samantha L. Petersen, Dagmar Merkle, & Hugh P. Possingham (2010) Accommodating dynamic oceanographic processes and pelagic biodiversity in marine conservation planning. PLoS ONE 6(2): e16552.

Green A. N. & R. Uken (2008) Submarine landsliding and canyon evolution on the northern KwaZulu-Natal continental shelf, South Africa, SW Indian Ocean. Marine Geology, 254, 152–170.

Green A.N., Ovechkina M. & R. Uken (2008) Nannofossil age constraints for the northern KwaZulu-Natal shelf-edge wedge: Implications for continental margin dynamics, South Africa, SW Indian Ocean. Continental Shelf Research, 28, 2442–2449.

Green A.N., Uken, R., Ramsay P., Leuci, R. & S. Perritt (2009) Potential sites for suitable coelacanth habitat using bathymetric data from the western Indian Ocean. S. Afr. J. Sci. 105, 151-154.

Green, A.N. (2009b) Pelaeo-drainage, incised valley fills and transgressive system tract sedimentation of the northern Kwa-Zulu Natal continental shelf. South Africa, SW Indean Ocean. Marine Geology 263: 46-63.

Green, A.N. (2011) Submarine canyons associated with altering sediment starvation and shelf-edge wedge development: Northern Kwa-Zulu continental margin, South Africa. Marine Geology 284: 114-126.

Green, A. (2009) Sediment dynamics on the narrow, canyon-incised and current-swept shelf of the northern KwaZulu-Natal continental shelf, South Africa. Geo-Mar Lett. 29: 201-219.

Green, A.N., Goff, J.A. & R. Uken (2007) Geomorphological evidence for upslope canyon-forming processes on the northern KwaZulu-Natal shelf, SW Indian Ocean, South Africa. Geo-Marine Letters 27, 399-409.

Hoareau, T.B & E. Boissin (2010) Design of phylum-specific hybrid primers for DNA barcoding: addressing the need for efficient COI amplification in the Echinodermata. Molecular Ecology Resources 10: 960-967.

Kyewalyanga, M., Naik, R., Hegde, S., Raman, M., Barlow, R. & M. Roberts (2007) Phytoplankton biomass and primary production in Delagoa Bight, Mozambique: application of remote sensing. Est. Coast. & Sh. Sc. 74, 429-436.

Lamont, T., Roberts, M., Barlow, R., Morris, T. & M. van den Berg (2010) Circulation patterns in the Delagoa Bight, Mozambique, and the influence of deep ocean eddies. Afr. J. Mar. Sc. 32(3): 553-562.

Lutjeharms J.R.E. & T.G. Bornman (2010) The importance of the greater Agulhas Current is increasingly being recognised. South African Journal of Science 106 (3/4), Art. #160, 4 pages. DOI: 10.4102/sajs.v106i3/4.160.

Lutjeharms, J. R. E., J. V. Durgadoo, M. Schapira & C. McQuaid (2010) First oceanographic survey of the entire continental shelf adjacent to the northern Agulhas Current. South African Journal of Science 106 (9/10)

McClanahan, T.R., Ateweberhan, M., Ruiz Sebastian, C., Graham, N.A.J., Wilson, S.K., Bruggeman, J.H. & M.M.M. Guillaume (2007) Predictability of coral bleaching from synoptic satellite and in situ temperature observations. Coral Reefs 26: 695-701.

Modisakeng, K.W., Jiwaji, M., Pesce, E-R., Robert, J., Amemiya, C.T., Dorrington, R.A. & G.L. Blatch (2009) Isolation of a Latimeria menadoensis heat shock protein 70 (Lmhsp70) that has all the features of an inducible gene and encodes a functional molecular chaperone. Molecular Genetics and Genomics 282: 185-196.

Ovechkina, M.N., Bylinskaya, M.E. & R. Uken (2010) Planktonic foraminiferal assemblage in surface sediments from the Thukela Shelf, South Africa. African Invertebrates. 51(2): 231-254

Ovechkina, M.N., Green, A.N. & G.L. Garlick (2010) Calcareous nannoplankton from the Holocene off the eastern coast of South Africa. In: Quaternary stratigraphy and paleontology of the Southern Russia: connections between Europe, Africa and Asia. Rostov-on-Don: Russian Academy of Sciences, pp. 113–114. (ISBN 978-5-902-98283-8).

Samaai, T., Gibbons, M.J., Kerwath, S., Yemane, D. & K. Sink (2010) Sponge richness along a bathymetry gradient within the iSimangaliso Wetland Park, South Africa. Marine Biodiversity 40: 205-217.

Teske, P.R., Barker, N.P. & C.D. McQuaid (2007) Lack of genetic differentiation among four sympatric southeast African intertidal limpets (Siphonariidae): phenotypic plasticity in a single species? Journal of Molluscan Studies 73(3): 223-228.

Teske, P.R., Papadopoulos, I., McQuaid, C.D., Newman, B.K. & N. Barker (2007) Climate change, genetics or human choice: why were the shells of mankind’s earliest ornament larger in the Pleistocene than in the Holocene? PLoS ONE 2(7): e614.

Van der Merwe, M. (2010) The use of learning support materials in rural schools of Maputaland, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Southern African Journal of Environmental Education 27: 21-37.

Vousden, D., Scott, L., Sauer, W., Bornman, T.G., Ngoile, M., Stapley, J. & J.R.E. Lutjeharms (2008) Establishing a basis for ecosystem management in the western Indian Ocean. South African Journal of Science 104: 417 – 420.


Conference Proceedings and Posters

Ayers, M.J. & U.M. Scharler (2011) Comparative ecosystem analysis of a data-limited marine ecosystem – the KwaZulu-Natal Bight, South Africa. South African Marine Science Symposium, Rhodes University, Grahamstown 4-7 April 2011.

Barlow, R. & T. Lamont (2011) Phytoplankton absorption and pigment photoadaptation on the Natal Bight. South African Marine Science Symposium, Rhodes University, Grahamstown 4-7 April 2011.

Bolton, J.J., Smit, A.J., Anderson, R.J. & M. Roberts (2011) Correlation of seaweed biogeography diversity patterns with a new dataset of coastal temperatures along the South African coast: modeling the potential effects of marine climate change on seaweed distribution. South African Marine Science Symposium, Rhodes University, Grahamstown 4-7 April 2011.

Brown, C.M., Bolton, J.J., Anderson, R.J. & C.J. Ward (2011) Algal epiphytes on the seagrass, Thalassodendron ciliatum (Cymodoceaceae), on rocky shores in South Africa: a biogeographic and ecological investigation. South African Marine Science Symposium, Rhodes University, Grahamstown 4-7 April 2011.

De Lecea, A.M., Omarjee, A., Cooper, R. & A.J. Smit (2011) The effects of preservation methods and dyes on the isotopic values (δ15N and δ13C) of two zooplankton species from the KwaZulu-Natal Bight, South Africa. South African Marine Science Symposium, Rhodes University, Grahamstown 4-7 April 2011.

De Lecea, A.M., Smit, A.J. & S. Fennessy (2011) The effects of freeze-thaw preservation events and desiccation by oven- and freeze-drying on isotopic and elemental carbon and nitrogen values of marine organisms. South African Marine Science Symposium, Rhodes University, Grahamstown 4-7 April 2011.

Du Plessis, N., Ansorge, I., Bornman, T., Read, J. & J. Lutjeharms (2011) The hydrology and biogeochemistry across the Subtropical Convergence Zone in the Southwest Indian Ocean region. South African Marine Science Symposium, Rhodes University, Grahamstown 4-7 April 2011.

Fennessy, S., Hayes, D. & C. Wilkinson (2011) From coast to canyon – the nature of soft-sediment demersal communities off central KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. South African Marine Science Symposium, Rhodes University, Grahamstown 4-7 April 2011.

Gersun, L., Bolton, J.J. & R.J. Anderson (2011) Subtidal pioneers: abundance and diversity patterns of seaweed communities on dead corals at Sodwana Bay, South Africa. South African Marine Science Symposium, Rhodes University, Grahamstown 4-7 April 2011.

Guastella, L., Roberts, M. & F. Shillington(2011) Dynamics and role of the Durban cyclonic eddy in the KwaZulu-Natal Bight ecosystem. South African Marine Science Symposium, Rhodes University, Grahamstown 4-7 April 2011.

Hall, M., Porri, F. & C.D. McQuaid (2011) Distribution of native and invasive mussels on the south coast of South Africa: competition and abiotic factors as potential causes. South African Marine Science Symposium, Rhodes University, Grahamstown 4-7 April 2011.

Hampton, S.L., Moloney, C., Bloomer, P. & C. D. van der Lingen (2011) Investigating stock structure in Sardinops sagax in the southern Benguela region using microsatellites. South African Marine Science Symposium, Rhodes University, Grahamstown 4-7 April 2011.

Hein, L. & F. Mackay (2011) A first look at cross-shelf macrobenthic diversity of the Natal Bight. South African Marine Science Symposium, Rhodes University, Grahamstown 4-7 April 2011.

Hoareau TB (2011) The role of paleoclimates in shaping the biodiversity of tropical marine species: a review. South African Marine Science Symposium, Rhodes University, Grahamstown 4-7 April 2011.

Huggett, J.A., Ockhuis, S. & T. Lamont (2011) Zooplankton biomass and community structure associated with mesoscale eddies in the Mozambique Channel. South African Marine Science Symposium, Rhodes University, Grahamstown 4-7 April 2011.

Kunnen, T.H., Muir, D. & U. Scharler (2011) Bacterial Numbers and Biomass within the KwaZulu-Natal Bight: ACEP Cruise # 176, Leg 1 - Synoptic Survey. South African Marine Science Symposium, Rhodes University, Grahamstown 4-7 April 2011.

Lamont, T. & R. Barlow (2011) Primary Production and Phytoplankton physiology in the KwaZulu-Natal Bight. South African Marine Science Symposium, Rhodes University, Grahamstown 4-7 April 2011.

Malauene, B.S., Roberts, M., Shillington, F. & C. Moloney (2011) Shelf-edge upwelling off northern Mozambique. South African Marine Science Symposium, Rhodes University, Grahamstown 4-7 April 2011.

Mayekiso, S., Mwale, M. & Vumazonke, L. (2011) Genetic variation and biogeography of two coral reef fishes (Thalassoma spp.) in the Western Indian Ocean. South African Marine Science Symposium, Rhodes University, Grahamstown 4-7 April 2011.

Ockhuis, S., Huggett, J.A., Verheye, H.M., Lebourges-Dhaussy, A., Gildas Roudat & M. Worship (2011) A comparison of three different techniques to analyze abundance, size composition and vertical distribution of zooplankton associated with mesoscale eddies in the Mozambique Channel. South African Marine Science Symposium, Rhodes University, Grahamstown 4-7 April 2011.

Omarjee, A. & A.J. Smit (2011) Phytoplankton studies in the Natal Bight. South African Marine Science Symposium, Rhodes University, Grahamstown 4-7 April 2011.

Omarjee, A. (2011) Phytoplankton studies on the Natal Bight. South African Marine Science Symposium, 4-7 April, 2011. Grahamstown. Poster.

Oosthuizen, C.J., Mann, B.Q. & P. Bloomer (2011) Genetic diversity of Polysteganus undulosus after stock collapse. South African Marine Science Symposium, Rhodes University, Grahamstown 4-7 April 2011.

Ovechkina, M.N., Bylinskaya, M.E. & Uken, R. (2010). Planktonic Foraminifera in surface sediment from the Thukela Shelf, South Africa. Poster. International Symposium on Foraminifera FORAMS 2010 (Bonn, Germany; September 5-10, 2010). Poster.

Ovechkina, M.N., Green, A.N. & Garlick, G.L. (2010) Calcareous nannoplankton from the Holocene off the eastern coast of South Africa. Quaternary stratigraphy and paleontology of the Southern Russia: connections between Europe, Africa and Asia, 2010 annual meeting International INQUA-SEQS (Rostov-on-Don, Russia; June 21-26, 2010). Poster.

Ovechkina, M.N., Green, A.N., Uken, R. & Mostovski, M.B. (2010) Quantitative changes of calcareous nannoflora from the Holocene off the Eastern coast of South Africa. 16^th Conference of the Palaeontological Society of Southern Africa (Howick, South Africa; August 5-8, 2010). Poster.

Ovechkina, M.N., Uken, R. & M.B. Mostovski (2011) Agglutinated foraminifera in surface sediments from the Thukela Shelf, South Africa. South African Marine Science Symposium, Rhodes University, Grahamstown 4-7 April 2011.

Parker, D. (2011) The effects of the tongue-replacing isopod Cymothoa sp. on largespot pompano (Trachinotus botla) from the northern KwaZulu–Natal. South African Marine Science Symposium, Rhodes University, Grahamstown 4-7 April 2011.

Parkinson, M. (2011) Aspects of the dynamics of the primary producers in Sodwana Bay, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. South African Marine Science Symposium, Rhodes University, Grahamstown 4-7 April 2011.

Pretorius, M. (2011) Copepod biomass distribution over a wet and dry season in the KwaZulu-Natal Bight. South African Marine Science Symposium, Rhodes University, Grahamstown 4-7 April 2011.

Reid, K., Hoareau, T. & P. Bloomer (2011) Population genetic structure of the hottentot seabream Pachymetopon blochii (Valenciennes, 1830) along the coast of South Africa based on newly developed microsatellite markers. South African Marine Science Symposium, Rhodes University, Grahamstown 4-7 April 2011.

Roberts, M.J., van Ballegooyen, R., & C. Nieuwenhuys (2011) Influence of the Agulhas Current on circulation patterns, hydrological structures and retention of shelf waters in the KZN Bight, South Africa. South African Marine Science Symposium, Rhodes University, Grahamstown 4-7 April 2011.

Roman, R.E. & J.R.E. Lutjeharms (2011) Flow and transport of the East Madagascar Current system. South African Marine Science Symposium, Rhodes University, Grahamstown 4-7 April 2011.

Schapira, M., McQuaid & J.R.E. Lutjeharms (2011) Spatial dynamic of picophytoplankton communities along the continental shelf adjacent to the Northern Agulhas Current. South African Marine Science Symposium, Rhodes University, Grahamstown 4-7 April 2011.

Sibiya, N.S., Scharler, U.M. and J.S. van der Molen. 2009. A first survey of protists (autotrophs and heterotrophs) of the Natal Bight, South Africa. Conference of the Microscopic Society of Southern Africa, Durban, South Africa, 8-11 December 2009. Poster.

Springbok, N., Mwale, M., Gouws, G. & O. Gon (2011) Regional connectivity and differentiation of three goatfishes (Parupeneus spp.) within the Western Indian Ocean. South African Marine Science Symposium, Rhodes University, Grahamstown 4-7 April 2011.

Uken, R. & Mkize, N. (2011) Sediment and heavy mineral distribution within the KwaZulu-Natal Bight. South African Marine Science Symposium, Rhodes University, Grahamstown 4-7 April 2011.

Untiedt, C. & F. Mackay (2011) The influence of the Thukela River on macrobenthic trophic guild communities in the central KwaZulu-Natal Bight. South African Marine Science Symposium, Rhodes University, Grahamstown 4-7 April 2011.

Van Ballegooyen, R.C., Roberts, M.J., Meyer, A., Nieuwenhuys, C. & S. Taljaard (2011) Temporal variability of nutrient fluxes onto the northern KwaZulu-Natal Bight offshore of Richards Bay and from adjacent catchments South African Marine Science Symposium, Rhodes University, Grahamstown 4-7 April 2011.

Van der Merwe, M. & B. Snow (2011) The use of learning support materials in the rural schools of Maputaland, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa. South African Marine Science Symposium, Rhodes University, Grahamstown 4-7 April 2011.

Van der Molen, J. (2011) Microphytoplankton diversity and distribution of the Natal Bight, South Africa. South African Marine Science Symposium, Rhodes University, Grahamstown 4-7 April 2011.

Vousden, D., Bornman, T.G. & M. Ngoile (2011) Towards an effective management and governance approach within Large Marine Ecosystems based on predictive monitoring and early warning systems. South African Marine Science Symposium, Rhodes University, Grahamstown 4-7 April 2011.

Wartenberg, R. (2011) Comparing three underwater transect techniques for surveying reef fishes at Sodwana Bay, South Africa. South African Marine Science Symposium, Rhodes University, Grahamstown 4-7 April 2011.

Popular Articles

Fennessy, S.T. 2011. Life on a muddy bottom. The Oricle. Newsletter of the Oceanographic Research Institute, April 2011. 56: 1

Fennessy, S.T. 2010. Soft sediment studies reveal surprising symbioses. SANCOR Newsletter 193: 3-4.

Fennessy, S.T. 2010. Towards understanding the marine ecosystem off central KwaZulu-Natal. The Oricle. Newsletter of the Oceanographic Research Institute, May 2010. 54: 3.