Publications
POPULAR ARTICLES:
FBIS – helping to collate quality data for the preservation of SA’s freshwater biodiversity (The Water Wheel March/April 2024)
How the great sandfish rescue is saving one of SA’s most endangered freshwater fish (News24/April 2024)
SCIENTIFIC PAPERS:
Cerrilla C, Flemming L, Griffiths CL, Impson D, Jordaan MS, Kajee M, Paxton BR, van der Walt JA, Whitehead TO, Shelton JM. 2023. Using a head-start conservation intervention to boost spawning numbers of the endangered Clanwilliam sandfish. Conservation Science and Practice. Volume6. Issue1. https://doi.org/10.1111/csp2.13065
Kajee M, Dallas HF, Griffiths CL, Kleynhans CJ and Shelton JM. 2023. The Status of South Africa’s Freshwater Fish Fauna: A Spatial Analysis of Diversity, Threat, Invasion, and Protection. Fishes 8 (12): 571. https://doi.org/10.3390/fishes8120571.
FILMS:
FBIS Mobile App
The Life of a Data Point
Saving sandfish | EP5 | Onderbek se Kind
REPORTS:
Shelton J, Snaddon K, Paxton B. 2022. Monitoring freshwater biodiversity responses to invasive alien plant removal in catchments surrounding Theewaterskloof Dam. Prepared for The Nature Conservancy by the Freshwater Research Centre. 53 pp
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS:
Rivers-Moore NA and Dallas HF. 2022. Quantifying climate change impacts on river system ecology in South Africa. In. Climate Change Impacts on Water Resources: Implications and Practical Responses in Selected South African Systems. (Ed. Petja BM). Water Research Commission Report no. SP 155/22, Water Research Commission, Pretoria, South Africa.
Jordaan M, Shelton J, Chakona A, van der Colf D. 2022. Under water and out of sight: the hidden world of the threatened freshwater fishes of the Cape Fold Ecoregion Elephant. In: M.T. Sethusa, D.L. Dalton & C Pretorius (eds), South African animals at risk of extinction. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria, South Africa.
POPULAR ARTICLES:
Giant Redfin: Conserving South Africa’s Native Fish (The Nature Conservancy’s Cool Green Science Blog, 21 March 2022)
Safe havens: Conserving endangered Clanwilliam sandfish, pool by pool (UCT News, 22 April 2022)
Scientists, farmers team up to save one of SA’s most threatened fish (News 24, 1 April 2022)
Red die onderbekvis (Landbou Weekblad, 22 April 2022)
Saving South Africa’s most threatened fish (Getaway, 2022)
The unprecedented effort to save one of Africa’s most threatened fish (National Geographic, 2022)
Clear Water Revival (bioGraphic 2022)
Saving the Sandfish – a case study in biodiversity (Investec 2022)
South Africa’s sandfish are on the brink of extinction: how farmers are helping rescue them (The Conversation 2022)
FILMS:
Diving In: Students Document River Habitats in South Africa
REPORTS AND THESES:
Shelton J, Snaddon K, Paxton B. 2021. Freshwater biodiversity and habitat monitoring at mainstem sites in the Theewaterskloof Catchment, South Africa. Prepared for The Nature Conservancy by the Freshwater Research Centre, August 2021. Pp 56.
POPULAR ARTICLES:
South Africa’s freshwater fish face extinction (Mail and Guardian 2021)
Conserving one of the world’s most threatened migratory fish (The Fisheries Blog 2021)
Helen Dallas – A career dedicated to the conservation of southern Africa’s freshwater systems. (Water Wheel Page 24)
FILMS:
Dr Jeremy Shelton Freshwater Scientist and photographer
Van Deventer H, Naidoo L, Cho M, Job N, Linstrom A, Sieben E, Snaddon K and Gangat R. 2020. Establishing remote sensing toolkits for monitoring freshwater ecosystems under global change. WRC Report No. 2545/1/19.
POPULAR ARTICLES:
Scientists jump in as alien invaders threaten to leave sandfish up creek (Times live 2020)
Searching for sandfish (The Mission 2020)
FILMS:
Krom River – Where science and education meet
Saving Sandfish | EP1 | Meet Onderbek
Snaddon K, Shelton JM, Frenzel P and Paxton BR. 2019. A Baseline Assessment for Freshwater Biodiversity Conservation in the Riviersonderend Catchment, South Africa. Report 1. River Health. Prepared for The Nature Conservancy by the Freshwater Research Centre. Pp 67.
Ewart-Smith J, Ross-Gillespie V, Grainger C. 2019. Towards the use of periphyton as indicators of flow and nutrient alterations for the management of water resources in South Africa. WRC Report TT 784/18. Water Research Commission, Pretoria, South Africa.
POPULAR ARTICLES:
Cape’s endemic fish swimming for survival (Water Wheel December 2019)
FILMS:
Warming Waters
Odume ON, Ntloko P, Akamagwuna FC, Dallas HF, Barber-James H. 2018. Development of macroinvertebrate trait-based approach for assessing and managing ecosystem health in South African rivers – Incorporating a case study in the Tsitsa river and its tributaries, Eastern Cape. Water Research Commission Project K5/7157. Water Research Commission, Pretoria, South Africa.
Snaddon K, Dietrich J, Forsythe K, Turpie J. 2018. Prioritisation of wetlands for water security in priority dam catchments in the Western Cape Water Supply System. Report submitted to The Nature Conservancy by the Freshwater Research Centre, October 2018. 82 pp.
POPULAR ARTICLES:
Below the Surface of South Africa’s Worst Drought On Record (The Fisheries Blog, August 2018)
The Maloti minnow, a fish out of water
River and Redfin (2018 Net vir Pret Giant Puppet Parade Barrydale)
Fish have prepared for Cape drought for millions of years (Sunday Times Daily, 2018)
POPULAR ARTICLES:
What climate change means for our freshwater fish
Plenty more fish in the fynbos? What climate change means for our freshwater fish (Table Mountain Fund, WWF 2017)
FILMS:
Living Labs
POPULAR ARTICLES:
Trout in the fynbos (Flyfishing April 2015)
REPORTS AND THESES:
Clark B, Shelton JM and Sephaka T. 2014. Biological Resources Monitoring within Phase 1 of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project Catchments 2013-14. Report 5a: Fish Katse Catchment Specialist Report 57pp.
Clark B, Shelton JM and Sephaka T. 2014. Biological Resources Monitoring within Phase 1 of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project Catchments 2013-14. Report 5b: Fish Mohale Catchment Specialist Report 52pp.
POPULAR ARTICLES:
Redfins a Conservation Story (Cape Town Green Map, 2014)
Ewart-Smith J and King J. 2012. The relationship between periphyton, flow and nutrient status in South-Western Cape foothill rivers and the implications for management. WRC Report 1676/1/12. Water Research Commission, Pretoria, South Africa.