Ecology and Conservation of Estuarine Ecosystems: Lake St Lucia as a Global Model - Hardcover

Edited By Renzo Perissinotto , Derek D. Stretch , Ricky H. Taylor

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1107019753 ISBN 13: 9781107019751

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2013

Synopsis

An integrated synthesis of scientific knowledge and management information concerning the world's first protected, and Africa's largest, estuarine system.

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About the Authors

Renzo Perissinotto is Professor of Marine Biology and Academic Leader in the School of Life Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa. He has published 110 articles in primary peer-reviewed literature and is the senior editor of a book on South African temporarily open/closed estuaries, published in 2010.

Derek D. Stretch is Professor of Hydraulics and Environmental Fluid Mechanics, the eThekwini-sponsored Chair in Civil Engineering and Director of the Centre for Research in Environmental, Coastal and Hydrological Engineering in the School of Engineering, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa.

Ricky H. Taylor was Park Ecologist for the iSimangaliso Wetland Park at Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife, St Lucia Estuary. He has 37 years of experience at the interface between science and management and has completed a PhD on the St Lucia system through the Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1107019753
• ISBN 13: 9781107019751
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 450