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My research focuses on space use in large mammals and factors influencing it at various spatial scales, and integrates remote sensing with the more traditional field of behavioural ecology; with the aim of better understand conservation in fragmented landscapes. The journey that has allowed me to shape my research career along these lines started with a move to South Africa from Italy, to undertake a PhD at Wits, after completing a Biology degree at the University of Firenze. The opportunity to join Wits is what really shaped my career as a researcher and an academic. My PhD on the foraging ecology of sable antelope in a relatively small insular reserve gave me the opportunity to pursue my interests in the behavioural ecology of mammalian herbivores and prompted me to ask the question that is still the focus of my research: how do animals in small reserves cope? It is during those years that I developed a keen interest in direct and indirect herbivore-resources relationships and the integration of factors governing decisions at the small spatial scale through to landscape level, with particular attention to fragmented landscapes. Small populations of large herbivores in isolated areas may be excluded from access to seasonal key resources, and are extremely susceptible to local extirpation risk due to environmental, demographic, and genetic stochasticity, and due to potential exacerbation of intra- and interspecific competition. Investigating the scales of resource use and selection within protected areas is therefore fundamental in order to understand the long-term viability of herbivore populations, and to prevent the risk of local population extirpation.
STUDENT SUPERVISION:
Completed: 5 PhD, 23 MSc, 26 Honours
Current PhD:
Haylock, K. Movement responses of sable antelope over diel and seasonal cycles.
Patel, T. Spatio-temporal patterns of herbivory in relation to climate gradients and land use.
Panaino, W. Body temperature and activity patterns of free-living ground pangolins (Smutsia temminckii) in arid environments.
Arumoogum, N. The ecology of sable antelope in Gorongoza National Park.
Ribeiro, P. Resource limitation, range overlap and competition between Hartmann’s mountain zebra and plains zebra at Tswalu Kalahari Reserve.
Ngwenya N. The ecology of African elephants in adjacent hunting and non-hunting areas: the case of the Zambezi Valley, Zimbabwe.
Seithlamo W. Title to be defined.
Mariotti E. How do elephants choose between risky outcomes? Estimating a structural model of risk preferences for African elephants.
Uakendisa M. Spatial Overlap of Livestock and Human Settlement within Wildlife Demarcated Areas: Factors contributing to human predator conflict, in three conservancies of the Northwest, Kunene Region, Namibia.
Uiseb K. Investigating factors leading to range overlap with implications for potential hybridization between Hartman’s mountain zebra and plain zebra in western Etosha National Park. (Other supervisor: Prof. Kark Kuhn, Technische Universitat Munchen).
Current MSc:
Ngubane N. Matching land surface phenology with phenology of net ecosystem exchange (NEE) in the Kruger National Park, South Africa.
Mann R. Population restoration of cheetah in South Africa.
Nkile K. Elephants effects on seedlings regrowth.
Gorima P. Elephant’s space and habitat use.
De Villiers H. Rail ecology
DuPre-Reynolds A. Title to be defined.
Engelbrecht, M. Rare antelopes in Kruger.
Moutzouris, L. The influence of poaching on black and white rhino space use.
Damant R. Scaling up of phenology. Venter J. Back rhino diet and habitat use in Malawi.
POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATES:
Tesfai, E. 2021. African wild ass conservation in Eritrea (Nationality: Eritrea)
Boyers, M. 2018 –2021. Large herbivores movement patterns (Nationality: South Africa)
Yiu, SW. 2017 –2019. Carnivores movement patterns. (Nationality: Hong Kong).
García-Rovés, MM. 2011-2015. Large herbivores ecological and community interactions (Nationality: Spain).
TEACHING:
Behavioural Ecology (3rd year course), Evolution (2nd year course), Biotic Diversity large mammals section (2nd year course), Introductory Life Sciences Ecology section (1st year course), Animal Behaviour and Ecology (Honours course).
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