Postgraduates
Biplang Yadok
PhD 2018
Ecology of the African Giant Pouched Rat
Since completing his PhD in 2018 Dr Yadok has been working with the Nigerian Montane Forest Project collating and analysing 15 years worth of long-term ecological data on phenology and seed dispersal.Â
Current Students
Sanaz Safavian
PhD
Sanaz is investigating the influence of different anthropogenic disturbances on braided river birds. New Zealand’s unique braided rivers are home to several bird species who depend on the river for survival. Yet the rivers are popular for human recreation. Sanaz’s co-supervisor is Prof. Jim Briskie.
Gboyega Awoku
PhD
Pollination services to subsistence farmers provided by insect pollinators on the Mambilla Plateau, Nigeria. Here he will be looking at the native invertebrate pollinators, measuring their pollination efficiency on crop species and working out what role native forest patches play in harboring potentially important pollinators.Â
Associate supervisor Dr Brad Howlett – Plant and Food Research, Christchurch; Dr Bridget Bobadoye, Forest Research Institute, Ibadan.Â
Joseph Dawson
Diurnal pollinators- moth pollination in the New Zealand High Country.
In this study, Joseph is investigating the role of moths in the pollination of New Zealand high country plants. He will use light trapping and pollen identification to create a moth-pollen network, and combine this with bagging experiments to determine the importance of moth pollination in seed set.Â
Previous Students
Michelle Williamson
MSc
Adaptive variation in Mimulus gutattus, an invasive weed of New Zealand wetlands. Collaborator- Prof. Phil Hulme
Kumilign Asmare
Population genetics of the genus Meterosidros in New Zealand (2014-2017)
Denise Arroyo-Lambaer
PhD
Conserving amphibian diversity- inventory and gene flow studies in fragmented montane forest, Mambilla Plateau, Nigeria. (2012 – 2015)
Lily Braislford
MSc
Population genetics of some common Afromontane forest tree species. (2015-2017)
Sasha Roselli
MSc
Factors limiting species composition and growth rates of naturally regenerating forest in a Nigerian montane grasslands. (2012-2014)
Kelly Hutchinson
MSc
Foraging ecology of the Putty nose Monkey (Cercopithecus nictitans) in collaboration with Prof. Mike Lawes. (2012 – 2014).
Charles Nsor
MSc
Sunbird pollination and fate of strong contributors to mutualistic networks in a West African montane forest. (2011-2014)
Alex Knight
MSc
Gene flow patterns, inbreeding and gender biased dispersal in the Nigerian Cameroon chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes ellioti) (2011-2013)
Paul Dutton
Ecology of the Nigerian/Cameroon Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes ellioti) (2009-12)Â
Collaborators
Professor Colin Chapman
PhD
We collaborate in areas of forest restoration and primate mediated seed dispersal. Currently PhD students interested in such research in Nigeria (where we cannot send students just now) can carry out equivalent field research in collaboration with myself and Colin in Uganda.
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