James Probert
Fire and Herbivory in the Western Serengeti, Tanzania
j.probert@liverpool.ac.uk
My PhD research is based in Grumeti and Ikorongo Game Reserves to the west of Serengeti National Park, Tanzania. It focuses on the effect of fire on both resident mammalian herbivores, migratory wildebeest and zebra, the structure, community composition and nutritive quality of vegetation and the relative importance of invertebrates as consumers in the Serengeti ecosystem. I am supervised by Kate Parr at the University of Liverpool and Colin Beale at the University of York.
I have previously worked on the conservation of the hirola, a Critically Endangered African antelope, human-elephant conflict in Assam, monitoring elephant, gorilla and chimpanzee populations in the Congo, tiger conservation in the Sundarbans of Bangladesh and creating an ecological monitoring strategy for the Kenya Wildlife Service.
Publications
Probert, J., Evans, B., Andanje, S., Kock, R. and Amin, R. (2014) Population and habitat assessment of the Critically Endangered hirola Beatragus hunteri in Tsavo East National Park, Kenya . Oryx, available on CJO2014. doi:10.1017/S0030605313000902.
Vanleeuwe, H. and Probert, J. (2014) Decay rate of elephant dung in Conkouati-Douli National Park, Republic of the Congo. Pachyderm 55: 89-91.
Probert, J., Evans, B. and Amin, R. (2013) New information on captive hirola supports current conservation actions. GNUSLETTER, IUCN Antelope Specialist Group 31: (1) 15.
Rahman, Md. A., Lahann, P., Hossain, A. N. M., Ahsam, M., Chakma, S., Probert, J., Mahmud, S., Habir, A. H.,Karim, R., Habir, G. M. A., Hossain, S. A., Kuddus, R., Rahman, M., Howlader, A., Khan, T., Islam, K., Sobahan, Md., Barlow, A. C. D, Greenwood, C. J., Islam, Md. A. (2012) Bangladesh Sundarbans Relative Tiger Abundance Survey Technical Report 2012. Sundarbans Tiger Project, Bangladesh.
Education
2014 – Present: PhD candidate, University of Liverpool
2010 – 2011: MSc Conservation Science (Distinction), Imperial College London
2006 – 2009: BSc (Hons) Zoology (2:1), University of Bristol
j.probert@liverpool.ac.uk
My PhD research is based in Grumeti and Ikorongo Game Reserves to the west of Serengeti National Park, Tanzania. It focuses on the effect of fire on both resident mammalian herbivores, migratory wildebeest and zebra, the structure, community composition and nutritive quality of vegetation and the relative importance of invertebrates as consumers in the Serengeti ecosystem. I am supervised by Kate Parr at the University of Liverpool and Colin Beale at the University of York.
I have previously worked on the conservation of the hirola, a Critically Endangered African antelope, human-elephant conflict in Assam, monitoring elephant, gorilla and chimpanzee populations in the Congo, tiger conservation in the Sundarbans of Bangladesh and creating an ecological monitoring strategy for the Kenya Wildlife Service.
Publications
Probert, J., Evans, B., Andanje, S., Kock, R. and Amin, R. (2014) Population and habitat assessment of the Critically Endangered hirola Beatragus hunteri in Tsavo East National Park, Kenya . Oryx, available on CJO2014. doi:10.1017/S0030605313000902.
Vanleeuwe, H. and Probert, J. (2014) Decay rate of elephant dung in Conkouati-Douli National Park, Republic of the Congo. Pachyderm 55: 89-91.
Probert, J., Evans, B. and Amin, R. (2013) New information on captive hirola supports current conservation actions. GNUSLETTER, IUCN Antelope Specialist Group 31: (1) 15.
Rahman, Md. A., Lahann, P., Hossain, A. N. M., Ahsam, M., Chakma, S., Probert, J., Mahmud, S., Habir, A. H.,Karim, R., Habir, G. M. A., Hossain, S. A., Kuddus, R., Rahman, M., Howlader, A., Khan, T., Islam, K., Sobahan, Md., Barlow, A. C. D, Greenwood, C. J., Islam, Md. A. (2012) Bangladesh Sundarbans Relative Tiger Abundance Survey Technical Report 2012. Sundarbans Tiger Project, Bangladesh.
Education
2014 – Present: PhD candidate, University of Liverpool
2010 – 2011: MSc Conservation Science (Distinction), Imperial College London
2006 – 2009: BSc (Hons) Zoology (2:1), University of Bristol
