Protected and un-protected urban wetlands have similar aquatic macroinvertebrate communities: A case study from the Cape Flats Sand Fynbos region of southern Africa

• Michelle Blanckenberg,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, Cape Town, South Africa

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• Musa C. Mlambo ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: musa.mlambo@gmail.com

  Affiliations Department of Freshwater Invertebrates, Albany Museum–a Rhodes University Affiliated Research Institute, Makhanda (Grahamstown), South Africa, Department of Zoology and Entomology, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7624-5686

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• Denham Parker,

  Roles Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, Cape Town, South Africa, Department of Environmental Affairs, Branch: Fisheries Management Research and Development, Cape Town, South Africa

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• Samuel N. Motitsoe,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Biological Control, Department of Zoology and Entomology, Rhodes University, Makhanda (Grahamstown), South Africa

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• Cecile Reed

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, Cape Town, South Africa

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