Lecturer in Zoology
PhD Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (2017)
Phone: + 27 (0) 46 603 7708
Email: n.mgqatsa@ru.ac.za
Office: F14, First floor, Life Sciences Building
Teaching Interests
- Vertebrate diversity
- Biogeography
- Behavioural ecology
- Conservation biology
- Ecology of African mammals
Research interests
- Large herbivore ecology
- Plant-animal interactions
- Ecological cascading effects
Research collaboration
Snapshot Safari – South Africa. This is a countrywide occupancy assessment and monitoring of mammals (https://www.facebook.com/SnapshotSouthAfrica/)
Students
Undergraduates
- Ramagogodi Ofentse (3rd year, Rhodes University) – Habitat selection by large herbivores in Shamwari Private Game Reserve. (completed, 2018)
- Zabo Sophakama (3rd year, Rhodes University) – Site fidelity in small mammals. (Completed, 2018)
- Skinner Daniella (3rd year, Rhodes University) – The environmental and economic effect of the introduction of extralimital species in the Eastern Cape Province. (Completed, 2019)
- Evers Emma (3rd year, Rhodes University) - Spotted on camera: Comparing un-baited and baited camera trap methods to estimate leopard (Panthera pardus) density. Co-supervisor. (Completed, 2019)
- Mhatu Fika (3rd year, Rhodes University) - Spatial use and diet of donkeys in Grahamstown. Co-supervisor. (Completed, 2019)
- Keitumetse Meko (3rd year, Rhodes University) – Determining the role of insect colonization and insect succession patterns on carrion. Co-supervisor. (Completed, 2019)
Honours
- Bowers Kaylen (Rhodes University) – Diet of chacma baboon in the Eastern Cape. (Completed, 2018)
- Kitching Lana (Rhodes University) – The use of aardvark burrows by vertebrate communities. (Completed, 2018)
- Hunter Amy (Rhodes University) – Feeding ecology of aardvark at Great Fish River Reserve. (Completed, 2018)
- Amanda Nzimande (University of KwaZulu-Natal) - The browsing impact of goats on three Acacia species in Msinga, KwaZulu-Natal. Co-supervisor. (Completed, 2019)
Masters
- Unathi Kraai (University of KwaZulu-Natal) - Woody plant density in mesic savannas – are bush pigs and Cape porcupines relevant? Co-supervisor. (Ongoing)
Doctural
- Comley Jess (Rhodes University) - Carnivore intra-guild competition in Selati Game Reserve, Limpopo Province, South Africa. Co-supervisor. (Completed, 2019)
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