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Dr Stuart Parsons (Senior Lecturer) - My research interest lie in the area of sensory biology. I have spent the majority of my career studying echolocation by bats. This work has included how echolocation calls change with habitat type, and developing computer systems for identifying bats from their echolocation calls. More recently I have begun working in China on the biodiversity of bats, insect hearing and anti-predator behaviour, and bird song. [more] |
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Dr Mark Hauber (Senior Lecturer) - I am a behavioural ecologist focusing on the evolution of recognition systems. Shifting gears between behavioral, developmental, and molecular tools, I have been studying the social and genetic consequences of species recognition in avian brood parasites, such as cuckoos and cowbirds. Brood parasitic birds provide an exciting model system for the evolution of social behaviours because, unlike 98% of bird species, they lay their eggs into nests of other species and are reared by foster parents. [more] |
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Ms Sandra Anderson (Field Ecologist) - My research interest is plant-animal interactions, particularly those involving pollination and seed dispersal, and their importance in the ability of ecosystems to be self sustaining. The implications of both local and national declines in the suite of native pollinators and seed dispersers in New Zealand have been only briefly considered, and the pollination and seed dispersal requirements of many native plant species are still poorly understood. In addition the introduction and naturalisation of a range of bird and insect species, |
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Dr Rochelle Constantine (Senior Tutor) - I am interested in applied behavioural ecology, in particular, the effects of tourism on dolphin behaviour and conservation of large whale populations. My research has been primarily concentrated on the population size, home range, habitat use and effects of swim-with and dolphin-watching tourism on bottlenose dolphin population using the Bay of Islands, New Zealand. This study was initiated in late 1993 and has resulted in a number of graduate student theses on the social associations, genetic relatedness and demographics of this dolphin population. [more] |
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Dr Jean Boubli (Biological Anthropology) - My areas of interest include primate and tropical rainforest ecology and conservation, and more recently the biogeography of Amazonian primates. The questions that interest me the most are those addressing the ecological relationships between primates and their plant foods. Over the course of my career, I had the opportunity to develop projects on Barro Colorado Island, Panama, in the Lomako forest, Democratic Republic of the Congo. [more]
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