Contact details:
Department of Botany & Zoology
University of Stellenbosch
Private Bag X1
Matieland 7602
South Africa
Tel: +27 21 808-3221
Fax: +27 21 808-2405
E-mail: ajr@sun.ac.za
Prof AJ Reinecke
Reseach interests
As principal NRF grantholder the research focuses on Ecotoxicology; the effects of environmental pollutants on the form and functioning of ecosystems; the development of soil ecotoxicity tests; cellular biomarkers and bioindicators; influence of agricultural chemicals and heavy metals on aquatic and terrestrial fauna; influence of agricultural practices on soil biological activity; food chain transfer and secondary poisoning of heavy metals. Environmental protection and sustainable use of land.
Current students, associates and fields of study
Dr. Rudolf Maleri (Postdoctoral fellow): Factors affecting bioavailability of toxicants for earthworms
OJ Owojori (PhD) The influence of clay content and salinity on the bioavailablity and toxicity of metals (cu and Zn) to soil organisms. (Supervisor). With Dr. A. Rozanov, (Soils Science) as co-supervisor.
RMC Albertus (PhD) Ecotoxicity and environmental fate of diesel and diesel blends produced by Fischer-Tropsch processes using natural gas and coal as well as biodiesel and biodiesel blends. (Supervisor). With Dr. LG Phillips (SASOL) as co-supervisor.
Frana Fourie (PhD): Evaluating invertebrate responses on various organisational levels to develop a species sensitivity model for ecological risk assessment in soils (Co-supervisor)
Patricks Voua-Otomo (MSc): The effects of long-term exposure to cadmium on the earthworm Eisenia fetida (Oligochaeta): An investigation of the development of genetic metal resistance. (Co-supervisor).
Publications
Published, in print and under review during 2007
- REINECKE, SA and REINECKE, AJ 2007 Using biomarkers to study effects of chlorpyrifos on the earthworm Aporrectodea caliginosa in microcosms. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety 66, 92-101.
- REINECKE, SA and REINECKE, AJ 2007 The impact of organophosphate pesticides on earthworms in orchards in the Western Cape, South Africa. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety 66, 244-251.
- Maleri, R, Reinecke, SA., Mesjasz-Przybylowicz,. J., Reinecke, A.J. 2007 Growth and reproduction of earthworms in ultramafic soils. Archives Environmental Contamination and Toxicology 52, 363-370.
- FOURIE, F, REINECKE, SA and REINECKE, AJ 2007: The determination of earthworm species sensitivity differences to cadmium genotoxicity using the comet assay. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety 67, 361-368.
- MALERI, RA., REINECKE, AJ, MESJASZ-PRZYBYLOWICZ, J 2007 Metal uptake of two ecophysiologically different earthworms ( Eisenia feti da and Aporrectodea caliginosa ) exposed to ultramafic soils. (Submitted)
- REINECKE, AJ, REINECKE, SA, MABOETA, MS, ODENDAAL, JP, SNYMAN, RG 2007 Die inkorporering van biomerkers in die assessering van die risiko wat chemiese kontaminante vir bodembiodiversiteit inhou. SA Tydskrif vir Natuurwetenskap en Tegnologie, 26:120-137.
- REINECKE, AJ, ALBERTUS, RMC, REINECKE, SA, LARINK, O. 2007? Effects of organic and conventional management practices on soil biological activity in vineyard soils. African Zoology. (In press).
- REINECKE, AJ, SCHOEMAN, W, REINECKE, SA 2007? Using cellular biomarker response to measure cadmium sensitivity in intertidal limpets (Mollusca). (Submitted).
- MALERI, RA, REINECKE, SA, MESJASZ-PRZYBYLOWICZ, J, REINECKE, AJ 2007 The environmental availability of metals in ultramafic soils from the Barberton Greenstone Belt, Mpumalanga, South Africa. (Submitted)
- MALERI, RA, REINECKE, AJ, REINECKE, SA. 2007 A comparison of nickel toxicity to earthworms ( Eisenia fetida , Olgiochaeta) in different test substrates. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. (In press).
- ODENDAAL, JP, REINECKE, AJ 2007 Quantitative assessment if effects of Zinc on the histological structure of the hepatopancreas of terrestrial isopods. Arch. Environ. Contam. Toxicol. (In press)
Other recent papers
JAGER, T, REINECKE, S.A . and REINECKE A.J. 2006 Using process-based modelling to analyse earthworm life cycles. Soil Biology and Biochemistry (38:1-6)
SNYMAN, R.G., REINECKE A.J. and REINECKE , S.A. 2005. Quantitative changes in the digestive gland cells of the snail Helix aspersa after exposure to the fungicide copper oxychloride. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety. 60:47-52
REINECKE, S.A . 2005. Ou en nuwe tendense in die ekotoksikologie: Die relevansie van stres- ekologie en ekotoksikogenomika. Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir Wetenskap en Tegnologie. 14:52 - 59
REINECKE, S.A. and REINECKE, A.J. 2004 The comet assay as biomarker of heavy metal genotoxicity in earthworms. Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology. 46:208 - 215
SNYMAN, R.G., REINECKE A.J. and REINECKE, S.A . 2004. Quantitative changes in the digestive gland cells of the snail Helix aspersa after exposure to the fungicide copper oxychloride. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety. 60:47-52
MABOETA, M.S., REINECKE, S.A. and REINECKE, A.J. 2004 The relation between biomarker and organismal responses in an acute toxicity test with Eisenia fetida (Oligochaeta) exposed to the fungicide copper oxychloride). Environmental Research. 96: 95 - 101
REINECKE, A.J. and REINECKE, S.A. 2004. Die bepaling van ekotoksikologiese risiko vir die beskerming van biologiese diversiteit deur gebruik te maak van die gevoeligheidsvariasie van spesies vir tolksiese stowwe. Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir Wetenskap en Tegnologie. 22(4): 94-102.
REINECKE, A.J. & REINECKE, S.A. 2003 The influence of exposure history to lead (Pb) on the lysosomal response in Eisenia fetida (Oligochaeta).. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety . 55:30 -37
MABOETA, M.S., REINECKE, S.A. & REINECKE, A.J. 2003 Linking lysosomal biomarker and population responses in a field population of Aporrectodea caliginosa (Oligocheata) exposed to the fungicide copper oxychloride. Ecotoxocology and Environmental Safety. 56: 411-418
REINECKE, S.A ., HELLING, B. & REINECKE, A.J. 2002 Lysosomal response of earthworm ( Eisenia fetida ) coelomocytes to the fungicide copper oxychloride and relation to ecologically relevant endpoints. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 21: 1026 – 1031.
REINECKE, AJ, MABOETA, MS, VERMEULEN, LA and REINECKE, SA 2002. Assessment of lead nitrate and Mancozeb toxicity in earthworms using the avoidance response. Bulletin of Environmental Toxicology and Contamination 68: 779 – 786.
REINECKE, A.J, HELLING, B, LOUW, P.J.E., FOURIE, J. & REINECKE, S.A. 2002 The impact of different herbicide treatments and cover crops on soil biological activity vineyards in the Western Cape, South Africa. Pedobiologia 46: 475 - 484
MABOETA, M.S. REINECKE, SA. & REINECKE, AJ. 2002 The relation between lysosomal biomarker and population responses in a field population of Microchaetus sp (Oligochaeta) exposed to the fungicide copper oxychloride. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety 52 :280-287.
SNYMAN, R.G., REINECKE, A.J. & REINECKE, S.A . 2002. The field application of a lysosome assay as biomarker of copper oxychloride exposure in the snail, Helix aspersa. Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology 69:117-122
REINECKE, A.J., REINECKE, S.A ., & MABOETA, M.S. 2001. Cocoon production and viability as endpoints in toxicity testing of heavy metals with three earthworm species. Pedobiologia. 45:61- 68
REINECKE, A.J., REINECKE, S.A ., MUSIBONO, D.E. & CHAPMAN, A.A. 2001. The transfer of lead (Pb) from earthworms to shrews (Myosorex varius ). Arch. Environ. Cont. Toxicol . 39: 392–397
VERMEULEN, L.A. , REINECKE, A.J. & REINECKE, S.A . 2001. Evaluation of the fungicide manganese-zinc ethylene bis dithiocarbamate) (Mangozeb) for sublethal and acute toxicity to Eisenia fetida (Oligochaeta). Ecotox. Environ. Safety 48:183-189
HELLING, B., REINECKE , S.A. & REINECKE, A.J. 2000. Effects of the fungicide copper oxychloride on the growth and reproduction of Eisenia fetida (Oligochaeta). Ecotox. Environ. Safety. 46: 108 -116.
SNYMAN, R.G., REINECKE, S.A . & REINECKE, A.J. 2000. Haemocytic lysosome response in the snail Helix aspersa after exposure to the fungicide copper oxychloride. Ecotox. Environ. Safety. 39:480 - 485.
Recent Books:
REINECKE, A.J . & REINECKE, S.A. 2004 Earthworms as test organisms in ecotoxicological assessment of the impact of toxicants on ecosystems. In: Earthworm Ecology. C.A. Edwards (Ed.) CRC Press, Boca Raton. pp.299-327.
REINECKE, A.J, VAN GESTEL, C.A.M. & REINECKE, S.A. 2004. Using biomarkers in soil organisms for assessing bioavailablity and toxicity of environmental toxicants. In Soil Animals and Sustainable Development, W. Z. Mikhail (ed), Inst. of African Research and Studies, Cairo University, Egypt. 427 - 447.
Current International Collaboration
The Netherlands
Dr.Ir. C.A.M. (Kees) van Gestel
Department of Animal Ecology,
Institute of Ecological Science
Vrije Universiteit
Amsterdam
Prof. Dr. Herman Eijsackers
Voorsitter Wetenschappelijke Adviesraad
Wageningen Universiteit & Researchcentrum
Wageningen
Germany
Prof. Dr. Otto Larink
Zoologisches Institut der TU Braunschweig
Spielmannstr.
8 38106 Braunschweig
France
Dr. Annette Gomot-de Vaufleury
Department of Biology and ecophysiology
University of France-Compte
Besançon
Norway
Prof. Joergen Stenersen
Biologisk Institutt,
Program for Toksikologi og økofysiologi
Blindern
Oslo
Current National Collaboration
Dr. Reinette Snyman
Department of Biodiversity and Conservation,
Cape Peninsula University of Technology
Cape Town
Dr. MS Maboeta
School of Environmental Science and Development
Northwest University,
Potchefstroom Campus.
Dr. JP Odendaal
Departement van Omgewings- en Beroepsgesondheidstudies,
Kaapse Skiereiland Universiteit van Tegnologie,
Kaapstad