Wildlife Ecology Lab @WildEcoLabNMU
Wildlife Ecology Lab @MandelaUni | Applied research | Carnivore ecology 🦁🐆 | Snapshot Safari: South Africa 🇿🇦📸 | Ungulate ecology 🐘🦏 | Honours, MSc & PhD wildecolabdotcom.wordpress.com George, South Africa Joined February 2023-
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𝟭 𝗪𝗘𝗘𝗞 𝗟𝗘𝗙𝗧! If you have any records of #leopard sightings or field signs from the Eastern Cape, we’d love to hear from you! – you’ll be contributing to important #leopardresearch &stand a chance of winning awesome prizes!!🐆 More at bit.ly/SpotSnapSubmit… Closes 6 May
Very cool paper by @vermeulen_mika of @WildEcoLabNMU showing how mammals in the Kalahari often forage in hotter conditions to avoid nocturnal predators, Nice natural experiment across sites with and without lions. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…
@WildEcoLabNMU poud to see one of our lab members Dr Werner Conradie graduate with a PhD. His groundbreaking work on reptile and ambhibian diversity in Angola will have a significant conservation impact news.mandela.ac.za/News/Amphibian…
Please submit your #leopard sightings from the #EasternCape! 🐆🐾🇿🇦 The @CapeLeopardTrst competition closes on the 6th May and submitting your sightings is a great way to contribute to conservation research & win great prizes! 🤩
Please submit your #leopard sightings from the #EasternCape! 🐆🐾🇿🇦 The @CapeLeopardTrst competition closes on the 6th May and submitting your sightings is a great way to contribute to conservation research & win great prizes! 🤩
Congratulations to @alice_bernard14 on her new paper in @ConservationSP 🥳 Alice combined #LEK 🗣️ & #cameratrap data 📸 from the #GardenRoute 🇿🇦 & found that both methods effectively detected the large mammal community 🐆🐾🦌 conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…
Congratulations to @alice_bernard14 on her new paper in @ConservationSP 🥳 Alice combined #LEK 🗣️ & #cameratrap data 📸 from the #GardenRoute 🇿🇦 & found that both methods effectively detected the large mammal community 🐆🐾🦌 conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…
Congratulations to the first Wildlife Ecology Lab cohort of Honours graduates who had their graduation ceremony yesterday! 🥳🍾🎓 We're thrilled that so many of you have stayed on to conduct your MSc studies with us! 😊
Congratulations to the first Wildlife Ecology Lab cohort of Honours graduates who had their graduation ceremony yesterday! 🥳🍾🎓 We're thrilled that so many of you have stayed on to conduct your MSc studies with us! 😊
Well done to @vermeulen_mika on acceptance of her first PhD paper , to be published in @Ecol_Evol soon! More details to follow. @JanBuffel @HetemRobyn @WildEcoLabNMU #HerveFritz
You still have till May to submit your #EasternCape leopard sightings! 🐆🇿🇦 But don't leave it too late! Great prizes to be won and the chance to contribute to PhD research!
You still have till May to submit your #EasternCape leopard sightings! 🐆🇿🇦 But don't leave it too late! Great prizes to be won and the chance to contribute to PhD research!
Congratulations to our PhD student @HoniballT for this paper in @TropicalZoology on thanatological behavioural displays in #spottedhyaena! The paper also considers the ethical considerations for management practices of this highly social species. pagepress.org/biology/tz/art…
Remember, if you've seen a #leopard 🐆 (or signs 🐾) in the #EasternCape please submit your sightings to this @CapeLeopardTrst competition! Great prizes on offer AND you'll be supporting an important @WildEcoLabNMU #PhD study! And please share! 👌
Please check out my poster on variation of chacma baboons activity in southern African biomes at the foyer @SANParksKNP,#SSNM2024
2/2 More at bit.ly/SpotSnapSubmit… 𝘛𝘩𝘦 @CapeLeopardTrst 𝘌𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯 𝘊𝘢𝘱𝘦 𝘚𝘗𝘖𝘛 𝘚𝘕𝘈𝘗 𝘚𝘜𝘉𝘔𝘐𝘛! 𝘓𝘶𝘤𝘬𝘺 𝘓𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘶𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 @lalibela_GR 𝘢𝘯𝘥 @KuzukoLodge ~ 𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘬 𝘺𝘰𝘶!
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Dr Julie Ewald @ja_ewald
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pietro di bari @pietrodibariSR
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Mariana Capparelli @marivcap1
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Fabien Marques @fabien_mrqs
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Jason Holmberg @holmbergius
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Lou dHollande @DhollandeLouise
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Rewild My Street @rewildmystreet
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Locadia Dzingwena @LocadiaDzingwe1
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Alex Braczkowski @alexbraczkowski
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Mika Vermeulen @vermeulen_mika
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ICCB @ICCB2025
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International Researc.. @RehabsLab
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Tim R. Hofmeester🐾.. @TimHofmeester
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Chris_brooke🇿🇦 @cb_wildlife
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Francis Brooke (Marte.. @martens_francis
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Rudi Crispin Swart @CrispinRudi
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Hernu Swanepoel @HernuSwanepoel
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Alice Bernard @alice_bernard14
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Amauréé @ajansenvv
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Lain E. Pardo V. @pardo_lain
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Jade Harris @Wildlife_Harris
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W Maartin Strauss, Ph.. @WMaartin
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Lisa Nicvert @lisanicvert
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Terry-Lee Honiball @HoniballT
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Jan A Venter 🇿🇦 @JanBuffel
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Rob Davis @RobDavis1104
935 Followers 852 Following Postdoc @WildEcoLabNMU 🇿🇦🐾📸 • PhD @NTU_ARES 🇲🇼🐆🍪 • carnivore ecology 🦁🐆 • camera traps 📸 • UK/African wildlife 🦊🦔🦡 • @ChelseaFC fan ⚽𝟭 𝗪𝗘𝗘𝗞 𝗟𝗘𝗙𝗧! If you have any records of #leopard sightings or field signs from the Eastern Cape, we’d love to hear from you! – you’ll be contributing to important #leopardresearch &stand a chance of winning awesome prizes!!🐆 More at bit.ly/SpotSnapSubmit… Closes 6 May
Check out all the cool hyaena research going on in @WildEcoLabNMU 🤩🍪🐾
It's #InternationalHyenaDay whoop whoop! 🤩🍪 Always a day we like to use to showcase the ongoing research projects we are undertaking in the lab to advance hyaena ecology and conservation! 🍪🐾 See more below! 🧵 📸 @ajansenvv @RobDavis1104 @HoniballT
Very cool paper by @vermeulen_mika of @WildEcoLabNMU showing how mammals in the Kalahari often forage in hotter conditions to avoid nocturnal predators, Nice natural experiment across sites with and without lions. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…
@WildEcoLabNMU poud to see one of our lab members Dr Werner Conradie graduate with a PhD. His groundbreaking work on reptile and ambhibian diversity in Angola will have a significant conservation impact news.mandela.ac.za/News/Amphibian…
Have you ever seen a #leopard or field signs of #leopards in the Eastern Cape? We’d love to hear from you if you have –you’ll be contributing to important #leopardresearch &stand a chance of winning awesome prizes!!🐆 More at bit.ly/SpotSnapSubmit… @WildEcoLabNMU @RobDavis1104
🚨 New paper in @ConservationSP comparing mammal occurence data obtained from #LEK and #cameratrap in #anthropogeniclandscapes @RehabsLab @WildEcoLabNMU conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cs…
A total of 24 first graduates from the new BSc Honours Natural Resource Management are graduating today 5 April at the University’s George Campus. Read the full story here: news.mandela.ac.za/News/George%E2… #MandelaUniGrad2024
Well done to @vermeulen_mika on acceptance of her first PhD paper , to be published in @Ecol_Evol soon! More details to follow. @JanBuffel @HetemRobyn @WildEcoLabNMU #HerveFritz
Incredible how they have distanced themselves from the man that built up not only @WCSIndia but arguably the backbone of their entire big cat program. Take a stand for good science!
The views and opinions expressed in the attached interview by Dr. K. Ullas Karanth, a distinguished expert, are entirely his own. We wish to clarify that Dr. Karanth has not been associated with WCS-India since 2018, and the perspectives shared during the interview do not, in any…
Please check out my poster on variation of chacma baboons activity in southern African biomes at the foyer @SANParksKNP,#SSNM2024
2/2 More at bit.ly/SpotSnapSubmit… 𝘛𝘩𝘦 @CapeLeopardTrst 𝘌𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯 𝘊𝘢𝘱𝘦 𝘚𝘗𝘖𝘛 𝘚𝘕𝘈𝘗 𝘚𝘜𝘉𝘔𝘐𝘛! 𝘓𝘶𝘤𝘬𝘺 𝘓𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘶𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 @lalibela_GR 𝘢𝘯𝘥 @KuzukoLodge ~ 𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘬 𝘺𝘰𝘶!
Very happy to share my masters paper on The impact of temperature and hikers' disturbance on chamois' activity patterns 🐐🥾🌡️ Better late than never!!! 😆 sciencedirect.com/science/articl… @pm_chamovibex @EcologieAlpine @OFBiodiversite
New in @ESAEcology: Applying the multivariate Hawkes process (originally developed to study earthquakes!) to #CameraTrap data reveals interspecific interactions among savanna predators & prey doi.org/10.1002/ecy.42… W/ #OpenData on @figshare @lisanicvert @JanBuffel @UPWildlife
To conclude, the multivariate Hawkes process is a promising model, but before interpreting the detected patterns as ecological interactions, more work needs to be done (especially since we do not take covariates such as time of day or habitat into account).
Of course, a simulation is just a starting point, so we also test this model on real data collected with the @SnapshotSafari program: and it detects interactions between species. Some of them are expected (like the lion-impala repulsion), other are more surprising (impala-zebra).
This model is nice and all, but does it have a chance to work on ecological data? Simulations suggest that yes, when enough data is collected (and here, this means a lot of data: above 300 days of sampling on 25 cameras).
Say, for instance, you have 5 species interacting as described with graph (a). If they attract each other with the function described by (b), then the corresponding multivariate Hawkes process models the intensity of occurrence of species at a camera trap (c).
In this article, we use the precise time of detection of species at camera traps to infer attractions/repulsions between species. For that, we use the multivariate Hawkes process, a point process that was first used to model aftershocks following earthquakes.
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