Margaret Smith Library, SAIAB: New books: December 2022

The blue economy, comprising coastal and marine resources, offers vast benefits for sub-Saharan Africa: of the 53 countries and territories in the region, 32 are coastal states; there are 13 million square km of maritime zones; more than 90% of the region's exports and imports come via sea; and the African Union hails the blue economy as the 'new frontier of African renaissance'.

Effective scientific communication is a skill highly-prized by potential employers, and is central to success during postgraduate study. This title is a straightforward, practical guide to the skills you should master to get the most out of your study and research, to pave the way to a successful career.

Concepts in Bioinformatics and Genomics takes a conceptual approach to its subject, balancing biology, mathematics, and programming while highlighting relevant real-world applications and providing students with the tools to compute and analyze biological data.

Marine and freshwater systems are being placed under pressure like never before. A bigger and more demanding human population has meant increased utilization of aquatic systems and, as such, the need for sustainable solutions to allow the development and conservation of these systems has become an international priority.

Although it is the defining organ of Chordates, the notochord is perhaps the least understood of vertebrate organs because it is usually considered a transient structure only present in early embryonic development. Most tetrapods replace the notochord with cartilaginous or bony vertebral bodies and remnants of the notochord persist as intra- or intervertebral spaces and intervertebral discs.

Human-wildlife conflict (HWC) has classically been defined as a situation where wildlife impacts humans negatively (physically, economically, or psychologically), and where humans likewise negatively impact wildlife. However, there is growing consensus that the conflict between people about wildlife is as important as the conflict between people and wildlife.

Interrelationships of the Platyhelminthes elucidates the role of the flatworms in the animal kingdom. It brings together results from an international group of experts, spanning many disciplines, who give evidence for the phylogeny of flatworms and constituent major taxa.

The ideal text for biology students encountering bioinformatics for the first time, Introduction to Bioinformatics describes how recent technological advances in the field can be used as a powerful set of tools for receiving and analyzing biological data.

An Introduction to Conservation Biology is well suited for a wide range of undergraduate courses, as both a primary text for conservation biology courses and a supplement for ecological and environmental science courses. This new edition focuses on engaging students through videos and activities, and includes new pedagogy to scaffold students' learning.

This book explores the PhD experience as never before and provides a 'survival guide' for current and prospective PhD students. The book investigates why mental health issues are so common among the postgraduate population, going beyond the statistics, looking at lived experience of both the author as well as current PhD students, who have found balancing mental wellness with the PhD endeavour challenging.

This textbook is organized into three parts. The first explores processes that generate pattern in benthic communities. The middle examines the ecology of specific marine benthic community types, ranging from rocky shores and soft substrate habitats to kelp forests and coral reefs.

Nature-Based Solutions and Water Security: An Action Agenda for the 21st Century presents an action agenda for natural infrastructure on topics of standards and principles, technical evaluation and design tools, capacity building and innovative finance.

This text preserves the basic elements of the physical, chemical, and geological aspects of the marine sciences, and merges those fundamentals into a broader framework of marine biology and ecology. Existing textbooks on oceanography or marine biology address the companion field only cursorily: very few pages in oceanography texts are devoted to marine biology, and vice versa.

Nematodes (Nematoda) represent one of the most important groups of fish parasites. Many species are highly pathogenic, often causing serious diseases or even death to their fish hosts; some of them are transferable to other animals of economic importance or to man.

Mainland South Africa has a coastline of over 3600 km and more than a million square kilometres of marine area within its 200 nautical mile Exclusive Economic Zone. The continental shelf is narow on the east coast, intermediate on the west coast and extends to 260 km offshore to form the Agulhas Bank in the south, with the greatest depth recorded at 5 700 m.

Against the background of unprecedented rates of urbanisation in the Global South, leading to massive social, economic and environmental transformations, this book engages with the dire need to understand the ecology of such settings as the foundation for fostering sustainable and resilient human settlements in contexts that are very different to the Global North.