The effects of sediment deposits from Namibian diamond mines on intertidal and subtidal reefs and rock lobster populations

The effects of shore-based diamond-divin

The effects of shore-based diamond-diving on intertidal and subtidal biological communities and rock lobsters in southern Namibia

✍ Andrea Pulfrich; Colleen A. Parkins; George M. Branch 📂 Article 📅 2003 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 358 KB

## Abstract Divers mine shallow‐water diamonds on the west coasts of South Africa and Namibia. In the process they cut kelp, suck up gravel that is sorted on the shore and then deposited intertidally, and uncover and overturn subtidal boulders. The impacts of these divers on intertidal and subtida