Title of the Talk: Combined impacts of warming and salinisation on trophic interactions in temporary wetland systems

Dr Tatenda Dalu is a Senior Lecturer with a PhD Marine Biology (2015) from Rhodes University. His research focuses on exploring and quantifying the extent to which aquatic faunal communities are sustained by transfers of organic matter and assessing the impact of anthropogenic disturbances on the aquatic ecosystems. He has co-/supervised 4 PhD and 26 MSc to completion, co-edited 3 books, co-authored 22 book chapters, 224 journal articles in ISI peer-reviewed journals. Dr Dalu 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. Dr Dalu is currently the Chair of Aquatic Sciences PAC, South African Council for Natural Scientific Professions (SACNASP), member of the British Ecological Society Grant Committee and Alien Species Risk Analysis Review Panel (ASRARP). Furthermore, he is an Associate Editor for Ecology and Evolution, Aquatic Invasions, BioInvasion Records, African Journal of Ecology and Frontiers in Water – Environmental Water Quality, and Editorial Board Member for Science of the Total Environment and Environmental Advances.