Managing the st. lucia estuary—messages from the mud

Southern African Journal of Aquatic Sciences

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 114-118

  Owen, R K ^a   Forbes, A T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZULULAND   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Beam trawling; Dredging; Floods; Hypersalinity; Infaunal macrobenthic community; KwaZulu Natal; Macrobenthos; Management; Mouth closure; Paratylodiplax blephariskios; Salinity; St Lucia estuary

Indexed keywords

EID: 84966697607     PISSN: 10183469     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10183469.1997.9631392     Document Type: Article

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3. Hay D.G. (1985). The macrobenthos of the St Lucia Narrows. Unpublished MSc thesis. University of Natal. Pietermaritzburg.
4. Hutchison I.P.G. (1974). St Lucia Lake and Estuary-Hydrographic Data. Report no. 3/74. Hydrological Research Unit, Department of Civil Engineering, University of the Witwatersrand.
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6. Owen R.K and A.T. Forbes (1997). Salinity, floods and the infaunal macrobenthic community of the St Lucia estuary, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Southern African Journal of Aquatic Sciences 23: 14-30.