Jan A Venter 🇿🇦
@JanBuffel
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Professor in wildlife conservation ecology. @WildEcoLabNMU Also likes history and politics. My views are not my employer's. #Academic
George, South Africa
Joined January 2015
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What happens if you allow elephant populations to grow unchecked in fenced reserves
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African elephants and meso-browsers exert substantial top-down control over the vegetation in African savannas, but their effect on structural relationships in trees remains understudied. Using data...
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Visit George Campus tommorow and Saturday to chat with our staff and students about your conservation career @WildEcoLabNMU @MandelaUni @MandelaUniGC
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New paper from @WildEcoLabNMU global study using our SnapshotSafari data.
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Many species of mammals worldwide are highly plastic in their timing of diel activity, which has unknown fitness consequences.
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Want to learn more how contemporary ecology is used in the Palaeosciences and visa-versa please follow @africanpalaeo.
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RT @JanBuffel: Two postgrad positions up for grabs in @WildEcoLabNMU .
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Postdoctoral Bursary in Quantitative Spatial Ecology (2 Years, Starting 2026) The Wildlife Ecology Lab at Nelson Mandela University (NMU) invites applications for a Postdoctoral Researcher in Quant…
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RT @africageo: Does lion pride behaviour change between fenced & open systems? Researchers monitoring lions in Kruger, Pilanesberg & more a….
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Does lion pride behaviour change between fenced & open systems? Researchers monitoring lions in Kruger, Pilanesberg & more aim to find out
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Update Kruger NP lion count: After a slow start earlier this week we hit the motherload today with 8 different sightings. One a nice pride with 15 individuals. @WildEcoLabNMU @LionRecovery
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Our @WildEcoLabNMU field teams finally on route to Kruger National Park for the lion 🦁 count. They will spend the next 90 days following SECR count protocols counting 🦁 between the 🐘 river and 🐊 river. @LionRecovery
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RT @sarahemilywild: Tomorrow, SA goes to the ballot box. My latest in @Nature about what this means for research.
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I spent some time with some of our @WildEcoLabNMU students in @TswaluFdn Tswalu Kalahari Reserve this past week. Elizabeth (PhD) and Marna (MSc) are working on large carnivores in this interesting ecosystem.
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How many lions in Kruger National Park? Our quest to determine this kicked off yesterday with our @WildEcoLabNMU field teams receiving training from @ArjunGswamy and Nick Elliot on field protocols when using SECR techniques. This project is supported by @LionRecovery
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RT @WildEcoLabNMU: 🚨 New paper led by @HoniballT in @WileyEcolEvol using camera traps 📸 to investigate carnivore dynamics 🦁🐆🐾 around elepha….
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RT @WildEcoLabNMU: Some great images here of @WildEcoLabNMU PhD student, Elizabeth Overton, who is studying the cheetah population in @Tswa….
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RT @WildEcoLabNMU: ⬆️ foraging & activity under high heat loads 🌡️☀️ highlights the need to meet nutritional requirements while avoiding no….
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