Abstract The Indian Ocean presents two distinct climate regimes. The north Indian Ocean is
dominated by the monsoons, whereas the seasonal reversal is less pronounced in the …

Bedform-related roughness affects both water movement and sediment transport, so it is
important that it is represented correctly in numerical morphodynamic models. The main …

The surface current speeds within the Pemba channel were examined using 24 years of
drifter data received from the Global Drifter Program. This study aimed to uncover varying …

Abstract The North Kenya Banks (NKBs) have recently emerged as a new frontier for food
security and could become an economically important fishery for Kenya with improved …

A rapid increase in population size along with expansion in hotel investment have been
identified as key drivers of marine pollution in Zanzibar coastal waters. A validated high …

The aim of this work was to explore the feasibility of using plant functional traits to identify
differences in sediment organic carbon (OC) storage within seagrass meadows. At 19 sites …

Abstract The East African Coastal Current (EACC) is the dominant oceanographic influence
along the coastlines of Tanzania and Kenya yet formal descriptions of the biogeochemical …

This study is the first large‐scale genetic population study of a widespread climax species of
seagrass, Thalassia hemprichii, in the Western Indian Ocean (WIO). The aim was to …

A high-resolution, two-way nested Regional Ocean Modeling System, forced with monthly
climatologies, has been set up for the Sofala Bank and adjacent deeper ocean of the …

The persistence of a mangrove ecosystem depends on the potential of its propagules to
disperse. In case of the Rhizophoraceae mangrove species, propagules are elongated …