Published 2021
Common terns (Sterna hirundo) are amber listed as species of conservation concern with the breeding population in Chichester Harbour having declined in sightings by the Chichester Conservancy. The current research project looks to utilise the context of the small breeding colony under conservation management to study aspects of foraging strategy by nesting terns as central place foragers...
Published 2021
Historically, ecological research has been conducted in laboratories or in the field where phenotypic data is obtained through the observation of organism physiology, behaviour and morphology (Freeland et al., 2011). This type of data has provided information leading to some of the most important ecological theories in history. For example, the variation in beak morphologies observed by Darwin in the Galapagos finches assisted the development of his theory of adaptive radiation (Beer, 2008)...
Published 2021
South Africa currently accounts for 75% of Africa’s rhino population (Emslie et al. 2019), and despite an upward trend in numbers of South Africa’s black rhino (Diceros bicornis), the species remains critically endangered on the IUCN Redlist (Emslie, 2020b) while the white rhino (Ceratotherium simum), currently decreasing in numbers, remains near threatened (Emslie, 2020a)...