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Victor Wepener
Researcher at North-West University
Publications - 188
Citations - 3624
Victor Wepener is an academic researcher from North-West University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Water quality & Biology. The author has an hindex of 29, co-authored 165 publications receiving 2884 citations. Previous affiliations of Victor Wepener include University of Johannesburg & Council of Scientific and Industrial Research.
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Prioritizing agricultural pesticides used in South Africa based on their environmental mobility and potential human health effects
James M. Dabrowski,Justinus Madimetja Shadung,Justinus Madimetja Shadung,Victor Wepener,Victor Wepener +4 more
TL;DR: Pesticide use, physicochemical and toxicity data was used to prioritize pesticides in terms of their potential risk to human health, and a principal component analysis identified the indices that were most important in determining why a specific pesticide was included in the final priority list.
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Uptake and distribution of a copper, iron and zinc mixture in gill, liver and plasma of a freshwater teleost, Tilapia sparrmanii
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the time-integrated uptake of individual metals by a freshwater teleost, Tilapia sparrmanii following exposure to a metal mixture containing Cu, Fe and Zn.
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A Conceptual Framework for Using Mussels as Biomonitors in Whole Effluent Toxicity
TL;DR: In this paper, the use of transplanted bivalves, i.e., caged mussels, as a biomonitoring tool in WET testing with special reference to field situations in both freshwater and marine environments.
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Bioaccumulation and human health risk assessment of DDT and other organochlorine pesticides in an apex aquatic predator from a premier conservation area.
Ruan Gerber,Nico J. Smit,Johan H.J. van Vuren,Shouta M.M. Nakayama,Yared B. Yohannes,Yoshinori Ikenaka,Mayumi Ishizuka,Victor Wepener +7 more
TL;DR: Concentrations of the majority of the OCPs including the DDTs were the highest levels ever recorded from South African freshwater systems and in many cases the concentrations were higher than most contaminated areas from around the world.
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An assessment of the influence of multiple stressors on the Vaal River, South Africa
TL;DR: In this paper, a relative risk assessment approach was applied to divide the Vaal River Barrage into four risk regions, and field sampling was undertaken to validate the predicted risks in each region.