报告题目：Opportunities and challenges related to community sustainable livelihoods and freshwater crab conservation
报告人：Tatenda Dalu 博士、教授（南非姆普马兰加大学）
主持人：吴乃成 博士、教授
报告时间：2024.01.24（星期三）13:30-15:00
报告地点：宁波大学西校区载物楼315会议室(腾讯会议：180337513)
报告人简介：Senior Lecturer, School of Biology and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture and Natural Sciences, University of Mpumalanga, South Africa.
Dr Dalu is a Senior Lecturer who completed a PhD Marine Biology (2015) which focused on phytoplankton and phytobenthos community structuring along a river-estuary continuum from the Department of Zoology and Entomology, Rhodes University, South Africa and is international recognised scientist (i.e., ranked amongst the top 2% of scientist globally). Dr Dalu’s research focuses on exploring and quantifying the extent to which aquatic faunal communities are sustained by transfers of organic matter between aquatic and terrestrial habitats and assessing the impact of anthropogenic disturbances on the aquatic ecosystems. To date, much of his work has assessed interactions between fish predators and invertebrate prey, within the contexts of risk effects, trophic cascading and predator recognition; water quality, biodiversity and ecological assessments using plankton, macroinvertebrates and fish as model organisms. This type of work has applications for understanding how issues such as pollution, habitat degradation and the introduction of non-native fauna can affect aquatic food web dynamics. He has co-/supervised 4 PhD and 26 MSc to completion, co-edited 2 books, co-authored 10 book chapters, 206 papers and commentary/editorial in ISI peer-reviewed journals [including 66 first author + 74 senior author] (Google H-index 35, i10 index: 112, citations = 4219). He has published in some of the leading environmental/water journals such as The Lancet Planetary Health, Water Research, Global Change Biology and Science of the Total Environment. Dr Dalu has secured funding independently or as part of teams from various grant bodies, including JRS Biodiversity, JW Oppenheimer, Water Research Commission, National Research Foundation, Hidroelectrica de Cahora Bassa and Rufford Foundation totaling over ZAR 20 000 000.00 (>RMB 7.5M). He has also described two new invertebrate species (i.e., copepod Lovenula raynerae Suárez-Morales, Wasserman and Dalu 2015; fairy shrimp Streptocephalus sangoensis Nhiwatiwa, Dalu and Brendonck 2017) working with colleagues. He was part of the team that reviewed the genus Triops spp. in Africa.