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NON PEER-REVIEWED PUBLISHED CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
Cooper, J. 2006. Reconciling international agreements with national and regional approaches to reducing seabird mortality in longline fisheries. In: Parks NM (ed.) Proceedings of the Second International Fishers Forum. November 19–22, 2002. Hawaii Convention Center, Honolulu, Hawaii. Honolulu: Western Pacific Regional Fishery Council: 49–51.
Cui, Y.H., Guo, R. and Dunne, T.T. 2006. Spline Functions in Grey Relation Analysis and Applications in System Reliability Improvements. Proceedings of 1st International Conference on System Integration and Reliability Improvements SIRI 2006, Hanoi, Vietnam, 146-151.
Guo, R., Cui, Y.H. and Dunne, T.T. 2006. Dynamic Grey Quality Control Chart with Sparse Data. Proceedings of 1st International Conference on System Integration and Reliability Improvements SIRI 2006, Hanoi, Vietnam, 152-156.
Guo, R., Guo, D. and Li, X. 2006. Bivariate Credibility-Copulas. Proceedings of 1st International Conference on System Integration and Reliability Improvements SIRI 2006, Hanoi, Vietnam, 119-123.
Kirkman, S.P., Oosthuizen, W.H., Meÿer, M.A. 2006. The seal population of Seal Island, False Bay. In: Nel DC, Peschak TP (eds) Finding a balance: white shark conservation and recreational safety in the inshore waters of Cape Town, South Africa: proceedings of a specialist workshop held on 29 & 30 May 2006. WWF South Africa Report Series – 2006/Marine/001. Die Boord, South Africa: WWF South Africa: 83–93.

PUBLISHED CONFERENCE ABSTRACTS
Wiysonge, C.S., Ntsekhe, M., Gumedze, F.N., Maartens, G., Volmink, J., Commerford, P.J. and Mayosi, B.M. 2006. Excess mortality in presumed tuberculous pericarditis. European Heart Journal 27 : 958.
Wiysonge, C.S., Ntsekhe, M., Gumedze, F.N., Maartens, G., Volmink, J., Commerford, P.J. and Mayosi, B.M. 2006. Excess mortality in presumed tuberculous pericarditis. European Heart Journal 27: 958.

THESES AND DISSERTATIONS PASSED FOR HIGHER DEGREES
Parsons, N.J. 2006. Quantifying abundance, breeding and behaviour of the African Black Oystercatcher Haematopus moquini: 1-v; 1-190. PhD.
Kemper, J. 2006. Heading towards extinction? Demography of the African Penguin in Namibia: 1-234. PhD.
Le Roux, J. 2006. The Swift Tern Sterna bergii in southern Africa: growth and movement: 1-90. MSc.
Paterson, B.J. 2005. A transdisciplinary study on developing knowledge based software tools for wildlife management in Namibia: 1-280. PhD.
Staverees, L. 2006. Breeding productivity of Cape Gannets Morus capensis at Malgas Island, 2002/03: 1-78. MSc.

UNIVERSITY PUBLICATIONS AND WORKS OF A POPULAR NATURE
Banks, M.A., Bellinger, R. and Young, D.J. 2006. Blue Crane population genetics proposal - what 'story' will the genes and genetic diversity reveal? Indwa 5: 16-19
Cooper, J. 2006. Book review: Albatrosses and petrels across the world. Polar Record, 42(221): 173-174.
Cooper, J., Hentley, M. and Glass, J.P. 2006. Tristan da Cunha celebrates 500 years of environmental progress with a new Conservation Ordinance and membership of the international Albatross and Petrel Agreement. Forum News (United Kingdom Overseas Territories Conservation Forum September 2006: 1,16
Cooper, J., Oschadleus, H.D. and Underhill, L.G. 2006. Waders and other coastal birds of Shi Jiu Tuo ("Happy Island"), Bohai Wan, Yellow Sea, China: a potential Ramsar Wetland of International Importance. Wader Study Group Bulletin 110: 67-68
De ponte Machade, M. 2006. Update on the pelican project. SANCOR Newsletter 182: 2-3
Harebottle, D.M. and Gibbs, D.G. 2006. At what age do African Sacred Ibis breed? Promerops 265: 13
Harrison, J.A. 2006. Amphibians. African Wildlife 59 (4): 32-35
Harrison, J.A. 2006. The Southern African Reptile Conservation Assessment and its virtual museum. African Herp News 39: 5-7
Mecenero, S. 2006. An inventory of long-term environmental datasets in South Africa. SANCOR Newsletter 181: 8
Mecenero, S. 2006. Students, join the SAEON Graduate student Network!. SANCOR Newsletter 181: 16
Oatley, T. 2006. Long-billed Crombec. Africa Birds & Birding 11 (5): 26-27
Oatley, T., Boix-Hinzen, C. and Boorman, M. 2006. Origin of the Ovambo race of the White-browed Scrub Robin. Honeyguide 55: 44-46
Oschadleus, H.D. 2006. 2005 ringing recoveries for the Eastern Cape. Bee-eater 57: 29
Oschadleus, H.D. 2006. Gradual extinction of Cape Weaver colony in Claremont. Promerops 265: 11
Oschadleus, H.D. 2006. Juvenile Klaas's Cuckoo food. Promerops 267: 16
Oschadleus, H.D. 2006. Request for Cape Weaver breeding sites on the Peninsula. Promerops 267: 17
Oschadleus, H.D. 2006. Southern Red Bishop flock at Rondevlei. Promerops 266: 13
Oschadleus, H.D. 2006. The case for bird ringing. Africa - birds & birding 11 (3): 78
Oschadleus, H.D. and Oschadleus, T. 2006. Birdwatching on horseback. Promerops 266: 15
Swanepoel, D. and Brooks, M. 2006. Cattle Egret falls prey to Subarctic Skua. Promerops 265: 12
Ward, V. 2006. Austral winter records of the Grey Phalarope Phalaropus fulicarius in southern Africa. Wader Study Group Bulletin 109: 123-124
Ward, V.L. and De Villiers, M. 2006. Records of Kelp Gulls and Subantarctic Skuas drowning and eating Hartlaub's Gulls. Promerops 266: 13
Ward, V.L. and Underhill, L.G. 2006. Previous sightings of the leucistic Malachite Sunbird on Robben Island. Promerops 266: 12
Ward, V.L. and Ward, V. 2006. How significent are "rail kills"? Promerops 268: 14-15
Whitelaw, D., Summers, R.W. and Underhill, L.G. 2006. Tribute to a wader man. Promerops 268: 10-11
Williams, A.J. 2006. Seen any Benguelan or Khoisan Gulls lately? Promerops 265: 18-19
Wolfaardt, A. and Williams, A.J. 2006. Sealed off: predation threatens seabirds and tourism. Africa - birds & birding 11 (2): 60-67
Wolfaardt, A. and Williams, A.J. 2006. Sealed off: seals diplace the gannet colony at Penguin Island, Lambert's Bay. Africa Birds & Birding 11 (2): 60-67

ONLINE WORKS
Cooper, J. 2006. The IOTC adopts a resolution that aims to reduce the incidental catch of seabirds in the Southern Ocean. www.acap.aq.

Extension and Development Work
Angel, A., Brown, D.A., Cooper, J., Hilton, G. and Sanders, S. 2006. The introduced rodents of Tristan de Cunha and Gough islands (South Atlantic): Impacts and management options. RSPB Research Report no. 17. Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.
Berruti, A., Baker, N., Buijs, D., Colahan, B.D., Davies, C., Dellegn, Y., Eksteen, J., Kolberg, H., Marchant, A., Mpofu, Z., Nantongo-Kalundo, P., Nnyiti, P.Y., Pienaar, K., Shaw, K., Tyali, T., Van Niekerk, J., Wheeler, M.J. and Evans, S.W. 2005. International Maccoa Duck Oxyura maccoa Action Plan. African Gamebird Research Education and Development.

Bruinzeel, L.W., Navarro, R.A., Harebottle, D.M. and Underhill, L.G. 2006. Distribution of wild birds as potential avian influenza vectors in KwaZulu-Natal. ADU Research Report 71. Dept of Health.

Harrison, J.A. 2006. A concept development plan for Reins Private Nature Reserve: faunal constraints. Dennis Moss Partnership, Stellenbosch. Dennis Moss Partnership
Harrison, J.A. 2006. An assessment of a development plan in Steenberg with respect to the Endangered Western Leopard Toad: potential impacts, constraints and recommended mitigations. CNdV africa, Cape Town.
Harrison, J.A. 2006. Koeël Bay, Cape Peninsula: scoping report on fauna and faunal ecology. Seaton Thomson & Assoc., Pretoria.
Harrison, J.A., Burger, M., Dorse, C., Rothwell, E. and Navarro, R.A. 2006. Report on a survey of the Western Leopard Toad in Noordhoek, Cape Peninsula. Noordhoek Conservacy, Noordhoek Environmental Acti.
Harrison, J.A., Maciver, M., Mbewu, S., Wheeler, W., Freeman, B. and Magazi, T. 2006. Bird monitoring on Intaka Island during 2005/05, and an overview of nine years of bird monitoring. Blouvlei Environmental Committee.
Republic of South Africa. 2006. Report of the Republic of South Africa on the conservation of albatrosses and petrels on its efforts in implementing the Agreement’s action plan. Second Meeting of Advisory Committee of the Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels, Brasilia, Brazil, 5–8 June 2006. [written by J Cooper].
Republic of South Africa/Australia. 2006. Choosing candidate species for future inclusion within the Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels. Second Meeting of Advisory Committee of the Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels, Brasilia, Brazil, 5–8 June 2006. [written by J Cooper & B Baker].
Rice, J., Cooper, J., Medley, P. and Hough, A. 2006. Surveillance report: South Georgia Patagonian Toothfish longline fishery. Moody Marine Ltd.
St. Helena Government. 2006. Conservation of Native Organisms and Natural Habitats (Tristan da Cunha) Ordinance 2006. The St. Helena Government Gazette Extraordinary Vol. XLIV, No. 13, 3 February 2006. [written by J Cooper]
Underhill, L.G. 2006. Index numbers for waterbird populations IV. Implementation of a modified imputing algorith, a full bootstrap procedure, and the introduction of alert limits. pp. 71-104 in: Baillie SR, Rehfish MM (eds) National and site-based alert systems for UK birds. BTO Research Report 226. Alert Recommendations Group, BTO.

CONSULTANCY AND OTHER ACTIVITIES BASED ON EXPERTISE DEVELOPED IN RESEARCH
Ward, C.L., Mertens, J.R., Flisher, A.J., Bresick, G.F., Sterling, S.A., Little, F., Weisner, C. and Ammon, L. 2006. Substance use and HIV risk behaviours in community health centres in Cape Town. Report to District and Metro Health Services and Local Authority Health Services. Cape Town: Human Sciences Research Council, Kaiser Permanente, University of Cape Town and University of California, 2006.
Department of Zoology

Research Report 2006
(Including the Marine Biology Research Centre, the Freshwater Research Unit, DST-NRF Centre of Excellence in Birds as Keys to Biodiversity Conservation at the Percy FitzPatrick Institute, the Small Mammal Research Unit and the Weed Biological Control Unit)
Head of Department: Associate Professor J.A. Day
Departmental Profile
The Zoology Department houses the Marine Biology Research Centre (MBRC), the Percy FitzPatrick Institute, DST/NRF Centre of Excellence (PFIAO), the Freshwater Research Unit (FRU), the Small Mammal Research Unit (SMRU), the Weed Biological Control Unit (WBCU) and groups involved in physiological, biochemical, ecological and ethological research. It has the largest postgraduate school and is the most productive department, in terms of publication output, in the University. Scientists in the MBRC work on the ecology and physiology of rocky-shore, sandy-shore and estuarine organisms, fisheries management and policy and mariculture, marine protected areas, pollution, invertebrate systematics and the biology of the Benguela upwelling system. Research in the FRU centers on the ecology of freshwater ecosystems, and on the conservation and management of rivers and wetlands. The SMRU enjoys international repute for its behavioural ecology, systematic and evolutionary research on small mammals including molerats, moles, bats and primates. Palaeobiological research in the department focuses on a comparative understanding of bone biology in extant and extinct vertebrates, factors that affect bone depositional rates in modern birds and reptiles, and in the biological signals recorded in the fossil bones of non-mammalian therapsids, dinosaurs and other archosaurs. The Weed Biological Control Unit researches the use of natural enemies to reduce the abundance and invasiveness of alien invasive plant species. Biological control has been used against more than forty plant species in South Africa. Researchers at UCT are predominantly involved with the Australian Acacia species but work has also been conducted on cactus and other weeds. Of particular interest is the measurement of the effectiveness of introduced biological control agents, especially the use of insect herbivores that reduce the seeding capacity of the problematic plant species. Physiological and biochemical research is carried out on how small peptide hormones produced in nerve cells regulate energy metabolism, growth, development and reproduction in insects and crustaceans. At present this is mainly to investigate flight, flight metabolism and its hormonal regulation in hemipteran insects including the giant water bugs. The model species to study growth, development and reproduction in crustaceans is the rock lobster, Jasus lalandii. There is also active research into the so-called waste products of the rock lobster industry, how these can be used and the development of economically viable methods to use astaxanthin and chitin from such waste. Also based in the Department is the semiautonomous consulting company, Anchor Environmental Consultants. This company undertakes contract research in the fields of coastal, estuarine and marine biology, natural resource management, conservation planning and natural resource economics.
Departmental Statistics
Permanent and Long-term Contract Staff

Professors	7
Associate Professors	5
Senior Lecturers	8
Lecturers	1
Research Staff	22
Librarian	1
Technical Support Staff	5
Administrative and Clerical Staff	5
Laboratory Assistants	2
Total	56

Honorary Staff

Research Associates	39
Emeritus Professors	2
Professors	2
Total	43

Students

Postdoctoral	10
Doctoral	40
Masters	25
Honours	16
Undergraduate	442
Total	534

Research Fields & Staff
Permanent Staff
Professor George Branch

Rocky-shore ecology; estuarine and lagoonal ecology; invertebrate fisheries

management; fisheries policy; subsistence fisheries; impacts of

diamond-mining; coastal ecology

Dr Gary Bronner

Senior Lecturer; systematics, ecology and conservation biology of

African small mammals, with emphasis on endemic and threatened golden moles;

Scientific Editor: African Zoology

Professor Anusuya Chinsamy-Turan

Comparative bone and teeth histology of extant and extinct vertebrates;

palaeobiology
Professor Timothy Crowe

Evolution; systematics; gamebird management; sustainable utilization of wildlife

Professor Graeme Cumming

Landscape Ecology, Conservation Biology, Community Ecology, Resilience and Complex Systems Theory

Associate Professor Jenny Day

Head of Department; Director of the Freshwater Research Unit; freshwater ecology;

ecotoxicology; crustaceans; temporary and saline waters; conservation and

management of inland water ecosystems; water chemistry and water quality

Professor Morné du Plessis

Director of the DST/NRF Centre of Excellence at the Percy FitzPatrick Institute; avian evolutionary biology; behavioural ecology; cooperative breeding; latitudinal

comparisons of life-history strategies; conservation approaches in the context of

Africa
Professor John Field

Dynamics of marine ecosystems; benthic ecology; oceans and climate change;

marine foodwebs and fisheries

Professor Gerd Gäde

Invertebrates; isolation and characterisation of neuropeptides; intermediary

metabolism; anaerobic metabolism; insect flight and its control by hormones; mode of

action of invertebrate neuropeptide hormones; phylogeny; industrial use of lobster

waste; chitin and astaxanthin isolation
Dr Anesh Govender

Senior Lecturer; stock assessment modelling; population dynamics; fisheries;

fisheries management; subsistence and line fisheries
Associate Professor Charles Griffiths

Director of the Marine Biology Research Centre; aquatic invasive alien species;

biodiversity and endemicity patterns of African marine fauna; coastal marine ecology;

amphipod taxonomy

Associate Professor Philip Hockey

Avian evolutionary biology; shorebirds; migration; community ecology; behaviour

Associate Professor John Hoffmann

Integrating biological control into the management of alien invasive weeds in South

Africa
Associate Professor David Jacobs

Evolutionary biology; behavioural ecology, systematics and sociobiology; bats and other mammals

Dr Penn Lloyd

Manager of the DST/NRF Centre of Excellence at the Percy FitzPatrick Institute;

Avian evolutionary ecology; life-history & breeding strategies; demography;

gamebird management

Dr Mike Lucas

Senior Lecturer; biological oceanography; biogeochemical cycling; Benguela

upwelling and Southern Ocean ecosystems; JGOFS, GLOBEC and LOICZ climate

change programmes of the IGBP

Dr Heather Marco

Lecturer; Neuropeptide purification/biochemistry; crustacean neuro-endocrinology;

Convenor of first year Biological Diversity course
Dr Coleen Moloney

Senior lecturer; plankton ecology; ecosystem dynamics; fisheries ecology; ecological

modeling
Dr Justin O'Riain

Senior Lecturer; social mammals; behavioural ecology; vertebrate reproduction

Dr Mike Picker

Senior lecturer; insect ecology; insect biodiversity

Dr Peter Ryan

Senior Lecturer; seabird-fishery interactions; avian evolutionary biology; marine

pollution; behavioural ecology; island conservation
Dr Jane Turpie

Senior Lecturer; estuarine ornithology and ecology; conservation biology;

resource economics

Contract Research Staff
Dr Lutz Auerswald

Invertebrate physiology and biochemistry

Dr Barry Clark

Management of marine systems; Cape Peninsula National Park

Dr Richard Dean

Dryland community ecology

Ms Candace Hill

Freshwater invertebrate assemglages

Dr Ken Hutchings

West Coast net fisheries; biology of Baardman (Umbrina spp)

Dr Andrew Jenkins

Manages and oversees the suite of projects that make up the Western Cape

Raptor Research Programme
Dr Jackie King

Freshwater ecology; integrated river flow management

Dr Heather Malan

Aquatic pollution; water quality; wetlands

Mr Bruce Paxton

River fish ecology, environmental flows

Ms Geordie Ractliffe

Management and rehabilitation of rivers, and their invertebrate assemblages

Mr Karl Reinecke

Riparian plants; rehabilitation of aquatic ecosystems

Mr Barry Watkins

Research officer; seabird interactions with hake trawl warps

Honorary Professors
Emeritus Associate Professor B R Davies

River ecology; water demand management; ecosystem processes; ecological effects of dams and rivers; wetland ecology

Emeritus Associate Professor Jennifer Jarvis

Small and subterranean mammal ecophysiology and ethology

Professor Suzanne Milton

Arid zone disturbance and rehabilitation ecology

Professor David Cummings

Influence of land use policy and practice on biodiversity and resilience in social-ecological systems

Honorary Research Associates
Professor V.C. Moran

Biological control of weeds

Research Associates
Ms Lara Atkinson

Marine consultant

Dr Johan Augustyn

Fisheries biology

Dr Phoebe Barnard

Biodiversity and global change: research, planning and policy

Dr Paulette Bloomer

Molecular evolution at and below the species level

Dr Rauri Bowie

Evolutionary Biology, molecular ecology & conservation genetics

Dr Cate Brown

River management

Dr Andy Cockcroft

Marine Coastal Management; Jasus stock assessment

Dr Leonard Compagno

Shark taxonomy and biology

Dr Peter A Cook

Mariculture

Dr Helen Dallas

Water quality and biomonitoring

Dr Jeremy David

Seal biology

Dr Liz Day

Urban rivers and wetlands; rehabilitation

Ms Justine Ewert-Smith

Wetland ecology

Mr W.S. Grant

Marine fish population genetics

Dr David Grémillet (Visiting Research Associate)

Functional ecology of marine birds

Ms Pippa Haarhoff

Vertebrate paleaontology

Dr Bill Harding

Ecology and management of lakes; phytoplankton

Dr Jean Harris

Intertidal ecology

Professor Klaus H. Hoffman

Invertebrates; isolation and characterisation of neuropeptides

Dr Butch Hulley

Pelagic fish and fisheries

Dr Larry Hutchings

Marine biodiversity and ecology; line fish biology

Mr Dean Impson

Freshwater fishes

Dr Alan Kemp

Systematics and behavioural ecology in Hornbills, birds of prey and Owls

Mr Andrew Knight

Terrestrial conservation planning and natural resource management

Dr Amanda Lombard

Marine and terrestrial conservation planning

Mr Rembu Magoba

River management

Dr Andrew McKechnie

Physiological and behavioral traits that shape the ways in which birds interact with physical environments

Dr Antoni Milewski

Comparative ecology of Mediterranean Australia and South Africa; interactions

between plants and megaherbivores
Mr Dean Ollis

Freshwater biology

Mr Charles Pemberton

River management

Dr Hamish Robertson

Ant taxonomy

Dr Tammy Robinson

Marine invasive species

Ms Martina Roeleveld

Cephalopod taxonomy

Dr Rob Simmons

Climate change adaptations by southern African birds; ecology, conservation and evolution of raptors; small mammal-predator arms races; sibling aggression in eagles; population ecology and genetics of Etosha’s Blue Crane

Ms Kate Snaddon

Freshwater ecology and management

Dr Nina Steffani

Coastal management

Ms Jo G. van As

Rocky-shore ecology

Dr Simon van Noort

Wasp ecology and taxonomy