Wildlife Ecology Lab
@WildEcoLabNMU
Wildlife Ecology Lab @MandelaUni | Applied research | Carnivore ecology 🦁🐆 | Snapshot Safari: South Africa 🇿🇦📸 | Ungulate ecology 🐘🦏 | Honours, MSc & PhD
🚨 New #OA paper from @WildEcoLabNMU in @ConservationSP 🤩 Led by Marna Visagie, @HoniballT & @RobDavis1104 we estimate spotted hyaena population density in @SANParksAENP and assess the influence of sex on SCR parameters! 📸🐾
Wow! 🤩 Some of our lucky students got to go on this incredible trip to the Skeleton Coast!
After #SAWMA2024, the @WildEcoLabNMU took to the riverbeds of Namibia. An incredible trip, wild camping near the skeleton coast. A lot was learnt, a lot was shared. 10/10 recommend. Thank you to the Skeleton Coast Brown Hyaena Project for hosting us!!
Exchanging knowledge on indigenous forest ecology between South Africa and Sweden. Of course, very different systems, but many overlaps as well and opportunities for collaborations. Exciting times! @MandelaUni @_SLU @SLUwildresearch @MandelaScience
@WildEcoLabNMU are on their way to #SAWMA2024 in Namibia! 🇳🇦 1,000km+ yesterday and camping on the Orange River before crossing the border into Namibia today! 🇳🇦 Arriving in Windhoek tomorrow! 🤩🇿🇦🇳🇦
We had an amazing week at the @SAWMA_wildlife conference 2024 in Windhoek! 🇳🇦🦓 From the road trip up to Windhoek (via Sossusvlei), to an excellent and jam packed conference excellently hosted by @Save_Giraffe 🦒, the whole week was a blast! 🤩 Some great lab presentations too!
Today I was fortunate enough to present some findings from my PhD project at #SAWMA2024 in Windhoek, Namibia! Looking forward to the rest of the conference and the interesting discussions to come.
#AfriMove workshop on the go in Windhoek, Namibia. Some great projects happening and exciting opportunities! Great way to end off #SAWMA2024 @SAWMA_wildlife @WildEcoLabNMU
Day 1 of #SAWMA2024 in Namibia. I'll be talking about spotted hyaena movement at different scales in fenced reserves in South Africa, on Wednesday. Looking forward to connecting throughout the event!
🎉 Proud to see my photo of Chacma baboon on the cover of October issue 🎉
Our October issue is here! 🐒 This month we're covering a range of topics, including: 👉Monitoring fungal diversity via aerial eDNA 🍄 👉Conservation triage in action 💭 👉Using mixed-effect models to estimate smolt-to-adult survival 📊 Read more here: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/13652664/2…
It's been fantastic having Julien here and our students have learnt so much! 🤩 Thanks for braving the infamous cold and wet George weather for it @FatBear_bio! 😂🌧️🥶
Aaaand it's a wrap! 3 days of intense R-ing spatial and movement data to model animal space use, habitat selection and movement corridors @WildEcoLabNMU George, South Africa. I thoroughly enjoyed leading these sessions. Some brains have melted, but all students have survived!
Read the @JAppliedEcology blog on @alice_bernard14 recent paper investigating how life-history traits are associated with the persistence of mammal species in human-dominated habitats in the Garden Route! 📸🐾🇿🇦
Integrating mammal occurrence data from camera traps & an online survey in the Garden Route Biosphere Reserve reveals that specific life history traits were selected in anthropogenic landscapes 📸 This has direct implications for land-use planning! 📑 🔗 bit.ly/4gDhyxs
We're really looking forward to @FatBear_bio joining us in 🇿🇦 for the next ten days! Exciting research and teaching coming up! 🤩
It's happening! Boarding in a few to go to my second❤️home and meet and work and brainstorm and teach @WildEcoLabNMU 🇿🇦 and conference @SAWMA_wildlife 🇳🇦 ! 🥳🥳 An exciting 3 weeks ahead!
It was great to have Nic Elliot from @LionRecovery and @ArjunGswamy join us in Kruger to share their insights and advice while we finish up our lion survey of southern Kruger! 🦁🐾 A couple of weeks left on our survey and some great data coming in! 🦁📸
Excited to be attending the inaugural Snare Mitigation Symposium hosted by @CapeLeopardTrst Tomorrow I'll be presenting our work (Cornelia Warrer @elodiebriefer @DamarisRiedner) using citizen science data to identify snare hotspots in Kruger NP 🦁🐆🐾
Congratulations to @alice_bernard14 on this awesome publication! 🤩 Using camera traps and local ecological knowledge, Alice's study investigated how life-history traits are associated with the persistence of mammal species in human-dominated habitats in the Garden Route! 📸🐾
🚨 New paper in @JAppliedEcology integrating #CT and #LEK data @RehabsLab @WildEcoLabNMU 🔗doi.org/10.1111/1365-2…