Class of 2008 graduates

15 Jun 2009
15 Jun 2009

The 2008/2009 Conservation Biology Masters Class graduated at UCT's June graduation ceremony. They are:

  • Aphiwe Bewana: A re-assessment of the state of marine protected area management in South Africa (Supervisor: Colin Attwood)
  • Justine Cordingley: Hot, hotter, gone? Predicting climate-induced species losses from hot African ecosystems. (Supervisor: Phil Hockey)
  • Tsholofelo Ditlhobolo: Does protection from grazing alter the species composition and improve grazing value of the semi-arid Karoo rangeland? (Supervisors: Graeme Cumming and Sue Milton)
  • Simon Dures: Assessing the impact of management practices on avian taxonomic and functional richness across Cape Town's biodiversity network (Supervisor: Graeme Cumming)
  • Maike Hamann: Evaluating competition between Cape cormorants and purse-seine fisheries in the southern Benguela (Supervisors: Peter Ryan, Lorien Pichegru and David Grémillet).
  • Clifton Meek: Effects of anthropogenic land use on the composition of alien species in riparian zones (Supervisors: Dave Richardson, Ladislaw Mucina and John Hoffmann)
  • Alexander Menayas: Detecting multiple paternity in four shark species (Supervisor: Jacqui Bishop)
  • Tendai Musvuugwa: A geographical analysis of the breeding effort and success of ground nesting birds and gamefowl (Supervisor: Phil Hockey)
  • Tiwonge Mzumara: Habitat use and conservation requirements of Malawi's endemic Yellow-throated Apalis Apalis flavigularis. (Supervisor: Phil Hockey)
  • Tarryn Quayle: Comparison of movement patterns and activity budgets of monitored vs unmonitored baboon troops (Supervisor: Justin O'Riain)
  • Jessica Shaw: Towards the effective mitigation of avian collisions with overhead power lines: testing and refining a spatial risk model for the blue crane in the Overberg (Supervisors: Andrew Jenkins and Peter Ryan)