Fatty acid analyses provide novel insights on hippo defecation and consequences for aquatic food webs

Multiscale drivers of hippopotamus distribution in the St Lucia Estuary, South Africa

(2020) Alexa S Prinsloo et al.   AFRICAN ZOOLOGY

Spatial and temporal variability in the nutritional quality of basal resources along a temperate river/estuary continuum

(2018) Nicole B. Richoux et al.   ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY

Effects of the hippopotamus on the chemistry and ecology of a changing watershed

(2018) Keenan Stears et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Organic matter loading by hippopotami causes subsidy overload resulting in downstream hypoxia and fish kills

(2018) Christopher L. Dutton et al.   Nature Communications

Trophic structure of an African savanna river and organic matter inputs by large terrestrial herbivores: A stable isotope approach

(2018) Frank O. Masese et al.   FRESHWATER BIOLOGY

Food web interactions determine energy transfer efficiency and top consumer responses to inputs of dissolved organic carbon

(2017) R. Degerman et al.   HYDROBIOLOGIA

The importance of high-quality algal food sources in stream food webs - current status and future perspectives

(2016) Fen Guo et al.   FRESHWATER BIOLOGY

Evidence of El Niño driven desiccation cycles in a shallow estuarine lake: The evolution and fate of Africa's largest estuarine system, Lake St Lucia

(2016) M.S. Humphries et al.   GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE

The role of seagrass meadows, mangrove forests, salt marshes and reed beds as nursery areas and food sources for fishes in estuaries

(2016) Alan K. Whitfield   REVIEWS IN FISH BIOLOGY AND FISHERIES

Investigation into the mortality of mangroves at St. Lucia Estuary

(2016) J.B. Adams et al.   SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Declines in benthic macroinvertebrate community metrics and microphytobenthic biomass in an estuarine lake following enrichment by hippo dung

(2016) Jessica Dawson et al.   Scientific Reports

Sediment resuspension in a shallow lake with muddy substrates: St Lucia, South Africa

(2015) Vulindlela Zikhali et al.   CONTINENTAL SHELF RESEARCH

Assessing the role of large herbivores in the structuring and functioning of freshwater and marine angiosperm ecosystems

(2015) Elisabeth S. Bakker et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Are Large Herbivores Vectors of Terrestrial Subsidies for Riverine Food Webs?

(2015) Frank O. Masese et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Production, distribution, and abundance of long-chain omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids: a fundamental dichotomy between freshwater and terrestrial ecosystems

(2015) Stefanie M. Hixson et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEWS

Global nutrient transport in a world of giants

(2015) Christopher E. Doughty et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Production, distribution, and abundance of long-chain omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids: a fundamental dichotomy between freshwater and terrestrial ecosystems

(2015) Stefanie M. Hixson et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEWS

Carbon stable isotopes suggest that hippopotamus-vectored nutrients subsidize aquatic consumers in an East African river

(2015) Douglas J. McCauley et al.   Ecosphere

The hippopotamus conveyor belt: vectors of carbon and nutrients from terrestrial grasslands to aquatic systems in sub-Saharan Africa

(2014) Amanda L. Subalusky et al.   FRESHWATER BIOLOGY

Evidence of spatial and temporal changes in sources of organic matter in estuarine sediments: stable isotope and fatty acid analyses

(2014) Leandro Bergamino et al.   HYDROBIOLOGIA

DifferingDaphnia magnaassimilation efficiencies for terrestrial, bacterial, and algal carbon and fatty acids

(2013) Sami J. Taipale et al.   ECOLOGY

The influence of bacteria-dominated diets on Daphnia magna somatic growth, reproduction, and lipid composition

(2012) Sami J. Taipale et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Survival, growth and reproduction of Daphnia galeata feeding on single and mixed Pseudomonas and Rhodomonas diets

(2012) ANJA WENZEL et al.   FRESHWATER BIOLOGY

Lake St Lucia, Africa’s largest estuarine lake in crisis: Combined effects of mouth closure, low levels and hypersalinity

(2011) Digby Cyrus et al.   SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE

The comparative diet of the dominant zooplankton species in the St Lucia Estuary, South Africa

(2010) N. K. Carrasco et al.   JOURNAL OF PLANKTON RESEARCH

Trophic ecology of Grey-headed albatrosses from Marion Island, Southern Ocean: insights from stomach contents and diet tracers

(2010) Nicole B. Richoux et al.   MARINE BIOLOGY

A review of the importance of freshwater inflow to the future conservation of Lake St Lucia

(2009) A. K. Whitfield et al.   AQUATIC CONSERVATION-MARINE AND FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEMS

Phytoplankton, not allochthonous carbon, sustains herbivorous zooplankton production

(2009) Michael T. Brett et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Trophic Transfers from Seagrass Meadows Subsidize Diverse Marine and Terrestrial Consumers

(2008) Kenneth L. Heck et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Trophic ecology of dominant zooplankton and macrofauna in a temperate, oligotrophic South African estuary: a fatty acid approach

(2007) NB Richoux et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES