Ryan Wasserman

Ryan Wasserman (Marine Biology)

MSc Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University

Marine Biology PhD

'phone +27 [0]46 603-8525
FAX +27 [0]46 622-8959
e-mail g11w7283@campus.ru.ac.za

Thesis title

Trophic cascading in estuarines. Supervisor: Professor William Froneman

Recent publications

WASSERMAN, R.J. & STRYDOM, N.A. (2011). The importance of estuary head waters as nursery areas for young estuary- and marine-spawned fishes in temperate South Africa. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, doi:10.1016/j.ecss.2011.05.023

WASSERMAN, R.J., WEYL, O.L.F. & STRYDOM, N.A. (in press). The effects of in-stream barriers on the distribution of migratory marine-spawned fishes in the lower reaches of the Sundays River, South Africa. WATER SA.

WASSERMAN, R.J., STRYDOM, N.A. & WEYL O.L.F. (in press). Diet of largemouth bass, Micropterus salmoides (Centrarchidae) in the lower reaches of an Eastern Cape River, South Africa. African Zoology.

WASSERMAN, R.J., STRYDOM, N.A. & WOOLDRIDGE, T.H. 2010. Larval fish dynamics in the Nxaxo-Ngqusi Estuary Complex in the warm temperate-subtropical transition zone of South Africa. African Zoology 45(1): 63-77.