Christopher McQuaid

PhD University of Cape Town (1980)
FRSSAf

Chair of Zoology and SARCHI Research Chair in Marine Biology

'phone +27 [0]46 603 8535
Fax +27 [0]46 622-8959
e-mail c.mcquaid@ru.ac.za

Research interests

Intertidal Biology
Southern Oceans research

Teaching interests

Intertidal biology
Marine Biology

Professional memberships

Personal interests

Post-graduate supervision

Current students

MSc - Lukholo Macala (BSc Hons, Walter Sisulu University)

MSc - Caroline Bell (BSc Hons, UKZN, Pietermaritzburg)

MSc - Madison Hall (BSc, Georgia Institute of Technology)

MSc - Nikite Steel (BSc Hons, Rhodes)

PhD - Bruce Mostert (BSc Hons, Rhodes)

PhD - Given Matumba (MSc, Cape Town)

PhD - Lucas Mmonwa (MSc, Rhodes)

PhD – Austin Humphries (MSc, Louisiana State University)

PhD - Pamela Cramb (BSc Hons, St Andrews)

PhD - Patricia Blasquez Cernuda (BSc)

PhD - Simone Baldanzi (MSc, Genoa)

Some recent publications

Marshall DJ, McQuaid CD, 2011. Warming reduces metabolic rate in marine snails: adaptation to fluctuating high temperatures challenges the metabolic theory of ecology. Proc Roy Soc B 278: 281-288

Zardi GI, Nicastro KR, McQuaid CD, Hancke L, Helmuth B, 2011. The combination of selection and dispersal helps explain genetic structure in intertidal mussels.  Oecologia 165: 947?958

Porri F, Hill JM, McQuaid CD, 2011. Associations in ephemeral systems:  the lack of trophic relationships between sandhoppers and beach wrack. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 426: 253-262

Erlandsson JF, McQuaid CD, Stanczak S, 2011. Recruit/algal interaction prevents recovery of overexploited mussel beds: indirect evidence that post-settlement mortality structures mussel populations. Estuar Coast Shelf Sci 92: 132-139.

Diaz ER, McQuaid CD, 2011. A spatially explicit approach to trophic interactions and landscape formation: patchiness in small-scale variability of grazing effects along an intertidal stress gradient.  J Ecol 99: 416-430.

Hill JM, McQuaid CD, 2011. Stable isotope methods: the effect of gut contents on isotopic ratios of zooplankton.  Estuar Coast Shelf Sci 92: 480-485.

Connan M, Kelly CMR, McQuaid CD, Bonnevie BT, Barker NP,  2011.  Morphological versus molecular identification of Sooty (Phoebetria

fusca) and Light-mantled (P. palpebrata) albatross chicks.  Polar Biol 34 : 791-798

Teske PR, von der Heyden S, McQuaid CD, Barker NP, 2011. A review of marine phylogeography in southern Africa.  S Afr J Sci 107 : Art 514, 11pp.

Cole V, McQuaid CD, Nakin MDV, 2011. Marine Protected Areas export larvae of infauna, but not of bioengineering mussels to adjacent areas.  Biol Conserv 144: 2088-2096

Reaugh-Flower K, Branch GM, Harris JM, McQuaid CD, Currie B, Dye A, Robertson B,  2011. Scale-dependent patterns and processes of intertidal mussel recruitment around southern Africa.  Mar Ecol Prog Ser 434: 101-119

Teske PR, Rius M, McQuaid CD, Styan CA, Piggott MO, Benhissoune S, Fuentes-Grunewald C, Walls K, Page M, Attard CRM Cooke GM, McClusky CF, Banks SC, Barker NP, Beheregaray LB, 2011.  "Nested" cryptic diversity in a widespread marine ecosystem engineer: a challenge for detecting biological invasions.  BMC Evol Biol 11:176 doi:10.1186/1471-2148-11-176. 13pp.

Kohler SA, Connan M, Hill JM, Mablouké C, Ludynia K, Kemper J, Huisamen J, Underhill LG, Cherel Y,  McQuaid CD, Jaquemet S, 2011. Geographic variation in the trophic ecology of an avian rocky shore predator, the African Black Oystercatcher, along the southern African coastline. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 435: 235-249

Marshall DJ, Dong Y, McQuaid CD, Williams GA, 2011.Thermal adaptation in the intertidal snail Echinolittorina malaccana contradicts current theory by revealing the crucial roles of resting metabolism.  J Exp Biol 214: 3649-3657

Rius M, Heasman KG, McQuaid CD, 2011. Long-term coexistence of non-indigenous species in aquaculture facilities.  Mar Poll Bull 62: 2395 - 2403

Teske  PR, Papadopoulos, I, Mmonwa KL, Matumba TG, McQuaid CD, Barker NP, Beheregaray LB, 2011. Climate-driven genetic divergence of limpets with different life histories across a southeast African marine biogeographic disjunction: different processes, same outcome.  Mol Ecol 20: 5025-5041

Erlandsson J, McQuaid CD, Sköld M, 2011. Patchiness and co-existence of indigenous and invasive mussels at small spatial scales: the interaction of facilitation and competition PLoS One 6(11): e26958. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0026958

Diaz, ER, Erlandsson J, McQuaid CD, 2011. Detecting spatial heterogeneity in intertidal algal functional groups, grazers and their co-variation among shore levels and sites.  J Exp Mar Biol Ecol 409: 123-135

Cole VJ, McQuaid CD, 2011. Broad-scale spatial factors outweigh the influence of habitat structure on the fauna associated with a bioengineer.  Mar Ecol Prog Ser 442: 101-109