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 - Nikita 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)
PhD - Eleonora Puccinelli (MSc, Pisa)
Some recent publications
Schapira M, McQuaid CD, Froneman PW, 2012. Metabolism of free-living and particle-associated prokaryotes: consequences for carbon flux around a Southern Ocean archipelago. J Mar Sys 90: 58-66
Nakin MDV, Booth AJ, McQuaid CD, 2012. Species-specific effects of marine reserves: mortality and growth differ within and among heavily exploited and rarely exploited limpets. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 445: 53–63
Ludford A, Cole VJ, Porri F, McQuaid CD, Nakin MDV, Erlandsson J, 2012. Testing source-sink theory: the spill-over of mussel recruits beyond marine protected areas. Landscape Ecol 27:859-868
Schapira M, McQuaid CD, Froneman PW, 2012. Free-living and particle-associated prokaryote metabolism in giant kelp forest: implications for carbon flux in a sub-Antarctic coastal area. Estuar Coast Shelf Sci 106: 69-79
Moseley C, Gremilllet D, Connan M, Ryan PG, Mullers RHE, van der Lingen CD, Miller TW, Coetzee JC, Crawford RJM, Sabarros P, McQuaid CD, Pichegru L, 2012. Foraging ecology and ecophysiology of Cape gannets from colonies in contrasting feeding environments. J Exp Mar Biol Ecol 422–423: 29–38
Bonnevie BT, Connan M, McQuaid CD, 2012. Effects of re-breeding rates on population size estimation of biennial breeders: results from a model based on albatrosses. Ibis 154: 499-507
Von der Meden CEO, Porri F, Radloff S, McQuaid CD, 2012. Settlement intensification and coastline topography: understanding the role of habitat availability in the pelagic-benthic transition. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 459: 63-71
Von der Meden CEO, Porri F, McQuaid CD, 2012. New estimates of early post-settlement mortality for intertidal mussels show no relationship with meso-scale coastline topographic features. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 463: 193–204
Cole VJ, McQuaid KA, McQuaid CD, 2012. Examination of small- and large-scale influences on the diet of an omnivorous polychaete indicates weak effects of upwelling. J Exp Mar Biol Ecol 436-437: 28–35
Teske PR,Papadopoulos I, Barker NP, McQuaid CD 2012. Mitochondrial DNA paradox: sex-specific genetic structure in a marine mussel – despite maternal inheritance and passive dispersal. BMC Genetics 13:45. (6pp)
Pineda MC, McQuaid CD, Turon X, Lopez-Legentil S, Ordonez V, Rius, M. Tough adults, frail babies: an analysis of stress sensitivity across early life-history stages of widely introduced marine invertebrates. PLoS One 7(10): e46672. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0046672
Nicastro KR, Zardi GI, McQuaid CD, Pearson GA, Serrao EA (2012) Love thy neighbour: group properties of gaping behaviour in mussel aggregations. PLoS ONE 7(10): e47382.doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0047382
Jackson JM, Rainville L, RobertsMJ, McQuaidCD, LutjeharmsJRE. Mesoscale bio-physical interactions between the Agulhas Current and the Agulhas Bank, South Africa. Cont Shelf Res 49: 10-24
