Professor

Professor Tim Crowe PhD (Cape Town) John Day Building: 2.01 Tel: +27 (0)21 650 3292/1 Fax: +27 (0)21 650 3295 Email: timothy.crowe@uct.ac.za

Activities and research interests

Wildlife resource management, particularly gamebird biology, systematics and molecular biology, ecology management and sustainable utilization.

Professor Timothy Michael Crowe was born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, on 5 July 1948. He went to public school in Boston and studied for his BA in Biology at the University of Massachusetts - Boston, graduating magna cum laude with honours in 1970. He studied for an MSc in Biology at the University of Chicago, graduating in 1972. From 1973 to 1976 he worked as a contract gamebird biologist for De Beers Consolidated Mines Ltd investigating the management and sustainable utilisation of Helmeted Guineafowl Numida meleagris while registered as a PhD student at the Percy FitzPatrick Institute, University of Cape Town. He was awarded a PhD in Zoology in 1978. Since 1976 he has worked as a research officer at the Fitztitute, being promoted ad hominem to Associate Professor in 1988 and to full professor in 2003. His primary research areas are systematics, biogeography and conservation biology (based on the premise of sustainable utilisation of natural resources). In these areas, he has published more than 130 scientific papers, chapters in books and contributions to conference proceedings, and has presented the results of his research at more than 50 local and international scientific conferences. He has supervised the research of 22 MSc and eight PhD students. Within the Percy FitzPatrick Institute, he heads research and educational programmes in systematics & biogeography and gamebird biology, and is the Coordinator of the MSc Programme in Conservation Biology. Research in both of these programmes is conducted from both organismal and molecular perspectives. Since 1988, he has attracted grants, donations and investments well in excess of R3 000 000 to support these programmes.

Research programmes

Gamebird Research, Systematics and Biogeography

Current students

Doctoral

Potiphar Kaliba: Faunal turnover between east and southern African birds and small mammals: is Malawi the geographical break? (Supervisors: Rauri Bowie, Tim Crowe)

Masters

Recent peer-reviewed publications (2010/2011)

2011

Crowe, T. 2011. What kind of fowl am I? Poultry in motion. Proceedings of the Congresses of the Southern African Society for Systematic Biology, Grahamstown 19-21st January 2011, hosted by the Department of Zoology and Entomology, Rhodes University. (Abstract) No IF

Davies, O.R., Crowe, T.M. & Bowie, R. 2011. Taxonomy, systematic and biogeography of ‘marsh cisticolas’, Cisticola spp. Proceedings of the Congresses of the Southern African Society for Systematic Biology, Grahamstown 19-21st January 2011, hosted by the Department of Zoology and Entomology, Rhodes University. (Abstract)  No IF

Fuchs, J., Crowe, T.M. & Bowie, R.C.K. 2011. Phylogeography of the fiscal shrike (Lanius collaris): a novel pattern of genetic structure across the arid zones and savannas of Africa. Journal of Biogeography 38:2210–2222. IF 4.273

Little, R. & Crowe, T. 2011. Gamebirds of southern Africa. 2nd edition. Cape Town: Random House Struik. No IF

Mandiwana-Neudani, T.G., Kopuchian, C., Louw, G. & Crowe, T.M. 2011. A study of gross morphological and histological syringeal features of true francolins (Galliformes: Francolinus, Scleroptila, Peliperdix and Dendroperdix spp.) and spurfowls (Pternistis spp.) in a phylogenetic context. Ostrich 82:115-127. IF 0.338

Oatley, G., Bowie, R.C.K. & Crowe, T.M. 2011. The use of subspecies in the systematics of southern African white-eyes: historical entities or eco-geographic variants. Journal of Zoology, London 284:21–30. IF 1.787

2010

Crowe, T. 2010. Phylogenetic affinities of enigmatic African galliforms: the Stone Partridge Ptilopachus petrosus and Latham's and Nahan's 'Francolins' Francolinus lathami and F. nahani. Cladistics 26:206-206. (Abstract) IF 4.929