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Associate Professor Yolanda van Heezik

Job title
Associate Professor
Telephone
+64 3 479 4107
Email
yolanda.vanheezik@otago.ac.nz
Department
Zoology
Division
Division of Sciences
Campus
Dunedin

Expertise

Environment and Ecology

Conservation
  • Penguin foraging ecology; reproductive startegies, population dynamics
  • Impacts of predators; i.e. cats, possums, hedgehogs, rats
  • Urban conservation - green spaces, birds, predators
Environment and Ecology - General/Other
  • Urban ecology; biodiversity evaluation
  • Socio-ecology: human values, attitudes, knowledge of green spaces within urban environments
Wildlife Management
  • Estimation of species diversity, community structure,
  • Species abundance estimation, species distributions.
  • Animal movements, resource selection