Dissertation and project lists

Doctoral theses

Craig, Christie. Sept 2024. Conservation in a changing world: assessing the conservation status of an agriculturally adapted species, the blue crane. (Supervisor: Peter Ryan).

Pattinson, Nick. Sept 2024.  Effects of temperature and food availability on the reproductive ecology of an arid-zone bird. (Supervisors: Susie Cunningham, Andrew McKechnie).

MSc theses

Adelola, Temitope. Sept 2024. Pied crow in South Africa: integrating ecological and social dimensions for effective management. (Supervisors: Robert Thomson, Arjun Amar).

Ramudzuli, Abigail. Sept 2024. Flight feather moult patterns and stable isotope analysis in the Woodland Kingfisher (Halcyon senegalensis) (Supervisors: Peter Ryan, Dayo Osinubi).

Walker, Kyle. Sept 2024. Too hot to handle: How Martial Eagles (Polemaetus bellicosus) manage the heat in Kruger National Park, South Africa (Supervisor: Arjun Amar).

Conservation Biology Masters mini-theses

Adams, Tevin. Sept 2024. Space and resource use of Cape Vultures at an isolated colony in the Western Cape: importance of livestock agriculture to this thriving population. (Supervisors: Arjun Amar, Robert Thomson, Gareth Tate).

Allouchery, Zoe. Sept 2024. Driving giants: spatial and temporal variables influencing giraffe movements in a private protected area (Supervisors: Jacqueline Bishop, Susan Miller, Gabriella Leighton).

Campbell, Abigail. Sept 2024. Long term changes in the incidence and characteristics of plastic ingested by White-chinned Petrels (Supervisor: Peter Ryan).

Mabaso, Xolani. Sept 2024. Under the skin of a culture: perceptions of fake leopard skin alternatives in the Shembe Baptist Church. (Supervisor: Justin O'Riain).

Morch, Casper. Sept 2024. Between a bass and a hard place: the fragmented distribution of an endangered redfin in the Heuningnes river system of the Cape Fold ecoregion (Supervisors: Charles Griffiths, Jeremy Shelton).

Steyn, Lawrence. Sept 2024. Tails through time: Leopard population dynamics in the Little Karoo (Supervisors: Greg Distiller, Kathryn Williams, Anita Wilkinson, Gareth Mann, Sally Hofmeyr).