Trishan Naidoo
Lecturer in Zoology
PhD 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 of Kwa-Zulu Natal (2018)
Research interests
- Marine Pollution
- Microplastic pollution and impacts on fish
- Estuarine ecology
- Mangrove ecology
Current students
Riaan Labuschagne: Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网- The quantification and characterisation of plastic leachates on water hyacinth on the Nahoon Estuary. (on going).
Yashmika Ramlakhan: 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 of KwaZulu-Natal. The quantification and characterisation of microplastics at litterbooms in riverine environments. A case study of the Umgeni River, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal (2021-2022).
Joelene Govender: 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 of KwaZulu-Natal. Towards characterising pollution in mangroves in the context of anthropogenic disturbance: A South African case study (April 2022).
Recent publications
Munien S, Adhikari PL, Reycraft K, Mays TJ, Naidoo T, Pruitt, Arena J, Sershen, (2024). Application and efficacy of management interventions for the control of microplastics in freshwater bodies. Water 1-34. https://doi.org/10.3390/w16010176
Nel H. A, Naidoo T, Akindele E. O, Nhiwatiwa T, Fadare O. O, Krause S, (2021). Collaboration and infrastructure is needed to develop an African perspective on micro(nano)plastic pollution. Environmental Research Letters.16, 021002
Govender J, Naidoo T, Rajkaran A, Cebekhulu S, Bhugeloo A, Sershen, (2020). Towards characterising microplastic abundance, typology and retention in mangrove-dominated estuaries. Water.12, 1-25.
Naidoo T, Rajkaran A., Sershen, (2020). Impacts of plastic debris on biota and implications for human health: A South African perspective. South African Journal of Science.116, 1-8.
Naidoo T, Sershen, Thompson R. C, Rajkaran A., (2020). Quantification and characterisation of microplastics ingested by selected juvenile fish species associated with mangroves in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Environmental Pollution 257, 113635
Naidoo T, Glassom D., (2019). Decreased growth and survival in small juvenile fish, after chronic exposure to environmentally relevant concentrations of microplastic. Marine Pollution Bulletin 145, 254 – 259.
Naidoo T, Glassom D., (2019). Sea-surface microplastic concentrations along the coastal shelf of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Marine Pollution Bulletin 149:110514.
Naidoo T, Kimerra G, Glassom D (2017). Are nitric acid (HNO3) digestions efficient in isolating microplastic from juvenile fish? Water, Air and Soil Pollution 228: 470.
Naidoo T, Smit A. J, Glassom D (2016) Plastic ingestion by estuarine mullet Mugil cephalus (Mugilidae) in an urban harbour, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. African Journal of Marine Science 38 (1): 145 – 149.
Naidoo T, Glassom D, Smit AJ (2015) Plastic pollution in five urban estuaries of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Marine Pollution Bulletin 101: 473 - 480.
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