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Dean was awarded the Gill Memorial Medal at the
Annual General Meeting of BirdLife South Africa held in
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Dr
W. Richard J. Dean
MSc (Natal), PhD (Cape Town)
Tel
/ Fax: +27 (0)23 541 1828 (Prince Albert)
Fax: +27 (0)21 650 3295 (Fitztitute)
Email:
lycium@telkomsa.net
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Activities and
research interests
Plant-animal interactions, nesting and
foraging ecology of birds, effects of land-use
on birds, evolution of nomadism.
Richard
Dean completed his MSc on ant-plant interactions
at the University of Natal. He completed his PhD
at the Fitztitute in 1995 on the conservation of
nomadic birds in the Karoo. Richard has collected
and observed bird nesting behaviour in Angola,
Botswana and Zimbabwe. He has worked on the
management of protected waterbird areas in
the Northwest and Limpopo Provinces and Mpumalanga, and
on the Land-use effects on insects and birds in
the Karoo and Kalahari. His sabbatical research
was on birds and ants in set-aside lands in
central Germany. He has also edited a Cambridge
University Press synthesis of Karoo ecological
research, is the scientific editor of BirdLife
South Africa's journal, the Ostrich, and
has run a field course in ecology for
postgraduates.
Research programmes
Climate Change Vulnerability & AdaptationRecent
Publications
2009
Dean, W.R.J. 2009. Gill Memorial
Medal Address: What birds do and where they go in the Karoo.
Ostrich 80:vii-ix.
Dean, W.R.J. 2009. Book Review: Lost land of the Dodo by
Anthony Cheke and Julian Hume. T & A.D. Poyser, 2008. Ostrich
80:69-70.
Dean, W.R.J., Barnard, P. &
Anderson, M.D. 2009 When to stay, when to go: trade-offs for
southern African arid-zone birds in times of drought. South
African Journal of Science 105:24-28.
2008 Dean, W.R.J. & Milton, S.J. 2008.
Changes in the species composition of a Karoo avifauna over time:
a case study from Deelfontein, South Africa. Ostrich
79(2):227-234.Dean, W.R.J. & Le Maitre, D.C.
2008. The birds of the Soyo area, northwest Angola. Malimbus
30:1-18.
Mills, M.S.L., Pinto, P. and Dean,
W.R.J. 2008. The avifauna of Cangandala National Park, Angola.
Bulletin of the African Bird Club 15:113-120.
2007 Dean, W.R.J. 2007. Type
specimens of birds (Aves) in the Transvaal Museum collection.
Annals of the Transvaal Museum 44:67-121.Dean, W.R.J. 2007. Book review:
The birds of Săo Tomé and Príncipe with Annobón by Peter Jones
and Alan Tye. Ostrich 78:109.
Dean, W.R.J. & Milton, S.J. 2007.
Avifaunal specimens from northern Mozambique in museum
collections. Durban Museum Novitates 32:1-37. Dean, W.R.J. & Milton, S.J.
2007. Some additional breeding records for birds in Angola.
Ostrich 78(3):645-647. Dean, W.R.J. & Roche, C.J. 2007.
Setting appropriate restoration targets for changed ecosystems
in the semiarid Karoo, South Africa. In Aronson, J., Milton, S.J.
& Blignaut, J.N. (eds). Restoring natural capital: science,
business, and practice. Island Press, Washington D.C., pp.
57-63. Mills, M. S. L. & Dean, W. R. J. 2007. Notes on Angolan birds:
new country records, range extensions and taxonomic questions. Ostrich 78:55-6.
Milton, S.J., Dean, W.R.J., O’Connor, T.G. & Mills, A.J.
2007. Scaling up from site-based research to a national research
and monitoring network: lessons from Tierberg Karoo Research
Centre and other design considerations. South African Journal
of Science 103:311-317.
Milton, S.J., Dean, W.R.J. & Rahlao, S.J. 2007. Evidence for
induced pseudo-vivipary in Pennisetum setaceum (Fountain
grass) invading a dry river, arid Karoo, South Africa. South
African Journal of Botany 74:348-349.Milton, S.J., Wilson, J.R.U.,
Richardson, D.M., Seymour, C.L., Dean, W.R.J., Iponga, D.M. &
Procheş, Ş. 2007. Invasive alien plants infiltrate bird-mediated
shrub nucleation processes in arid savanna. Journal of
Ecology 95(4):648-661. Steinheimer, F.D. & Dean, W.R.J.
2007. Avian type specimens
and their type localities from Otto Schütt's and Friedrich von
Mechow's Angolan collections in the Museum für Naturkunde of the
Humboldt-University of Berlin. Zootaxa 1387:1-25.
This list includes only
recent peer-reviewed publications. For a more
comprehensive list go to Fitz Publications. Reprints can be obtained from the librarian.
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