Tony Henninger

Tony Henninger (Marine Biology)

MSc Rhodes University
PhD Rhodes University (2009)

Research Officer

'phone +27 [0]46 603-8533
FAX +27 [0]46 622-8959
e-mail tony.henninger@ru.ac.za

Research interests

Estuarine ecology
Rocky shores/intertidal ecology
Sandy beach ecology

Some recent publications

Froneman P.W. & Henninger T.O (2008). Hyperbenthos (Littoral zone). In: Freshwater requirements of intermittently open Cape estuaries. Water Research Commission Report 1581/2/08. Pretoria, South Africa, 92 – 100.

Henninger T.O., Froneman P.W., and Hodgson A.N. (2008). The population dynamics of the estuarine isopod Exosphaeroma hylocoetes (Barnard, 1940), within three temporarily open/closed southern African estuaries. African Zoology 43: 202 -217.

Henninger, T.O., Froneman, P.W., Richoux, N.B. and Hodgson, A.N. (2009). The role of macrophytes as a refuge and food source for the estuarine isopod Exosphaeroma hylocoetes (Barnard, 1940). Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 82: 285 - 293.

Froneman P.W. & Henninger T.O. (2009). The influence of prolonged mouth closure on selected components of the hyperbenthos in the littoral zone of the temporarily open/closed Kasouga Estuary, South Africa. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 83: 326 - 332.

Henninger, T.O., Froneman, P.W., Booth, A.J. & Hodgson, A.N. (2010). Growth and longevity of Exosphaeroma hylocoetes under varying physico-chemical conditions. African Zoology 45: 41 – 51.

Froneman P.W. & Henninger T.O. (2010). Feeding dynamics of Palaemon peringueyi (Decapoda, Caridea) in the temporarily open/closed Kasouga Estuary, South Africa. African Journal of Aquatic Science 35: 193 -198.

Henninger T.O., Froneman P.W. (Submitted). Long-term changes in the macrobenthic community composition in the littoral zone of a permanently open freshwater-deprived southern African estuary. African Zoology

GF Matcher, RA Dorrington, TO Henninger and PW Froneman (In Press). Insights into the bacterial diversity in a freshwater-deprived permanently open Eastern Cape estuary, using 16S rRNA pyrosequencing analysis. Water SA