"We commit to follow all national and international best practice guidelines where available"

 

Meet the Team

The core IWS team is displayed below. In addition, the team is aided by several field assistants for the various field work tasks required.  The core team members all have Fall Arrest, First Aid and Occupational medical certification.

Caroline Lötter: Managing Director and Senior Zoologist

Trevor Morgan: Senior Technician and Bat Data Analyst

      Jarryd Alexander: Zoologist with avifaunal expertise

Dominique Greeff: Zoologist with bat specialist expertise, and Social Media Administrator 

Myles Bushell: Junior Zoologist

Adam Labuschagne: Independent Field Assistant

Bradwill Petersen: Independent Field Assistant

Timea Greeff: Administrative Assistant

 

 Kate MacEwan: Founding Director, Business Advisor. and Senior Zoologist

Tyron Clark: Independent Field Assistant

 

Publications by the IWS team


  • Alexander, J., Ehlers Smith D., Ehlers Smith, Y., Downs, C.T. (2021). Urban land development for biodiversity: suggested development and management guidelines for eco-estates using case studies from coastal KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Urban Forestry and Urban Greening.
  • Downs, C.T., Alexander, J., Brown, M., Chibesa, M., Ehlers Smith, D., Ehlers Smith, Y., Gumede, T., Hart, L., Maphalala, M., Maseko, M., McPherson, M., Ngcobo, S.P., Patterson, L., Pillay, K., Price, C., Schmidt, W., Senoge, N.D., Shivambu, C., Shivambu, N., Singh, N., Singh, P., Streicher, J., Thabethe, V., Thatcher, H., Zumgu, M.M. (2021). Modification of the third phase in the framework for vertebrate species persistence in urban mosaic environments. Ambio.
  • MacEwan, K.L., Morgan, T.W., Lötter, C.A. & Tredennick, A.T. (2020). Bat activity across South Africa: Implications for wind energy development. African Journal of Wildlife Research 50: 212–222.
  • MacEwan, K., Sowler, S., Aronson, J.& Lötter, C. (2020). South African best practice guidelines for    pre-construction monitoring of bats at wind energy facilities (5th edn). South Africa: South African Bat Assessment Association.
  • Aronson, J., Richardson, E., MacEwan, K., Jacobs, D., Marais,W., Taylor, P., Sowler, S., Hein.C. & Richards, L. (2020). South African good practice guidelines for operational monitoring for bats at wind energy facilities (2nd edn). South Africa: South African Bat Assessment Association.
  • Alexander, J., Ehlers Smith D., Ehlers Smith, Y., Downs, C.T. (2019). A multi-taxa functional diversity assessment of the effects of eco-estate development in the mixed land-use mosaic of the KwaZulu-Natal North Coast, South Africa. Landscape and Urban Planning 192.
  • Alexander, J., Ehlers Smith D., Ehlers Smith, Y., Downs, C.T. (2019). Drivers of fine-scale avian functional diversity: an assessment of eco-estate management and development. Landscape Ecology 34:537-549.
  • Alexander, J., Ehlers Smith D., Ehlers Smith, Y., Downs, C.T. (2019). Eco-estates: diversity hotspots or isolated developments? Connectivity of eco-estates in the Indian Ocean Coastal Belt, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Ecological Indicators 103:425-433.
  •  Scheun, J., Greeff, D., Medger, K., Ganswindt, A. (2019). Validating the use of dermal secretion as a matrix for monitoring glucocorticoid concentrations in African amphibian species. Conservation Physiology 7(1):Coz022.
  • Scheun, J., Greeff, D., Nowack, J. (2019). Urbanisation as an important driver of nocturnal primate sociality. Primates 60(4):375-381.
  • MacEwan, K., Aronson, J., Richardson, K., Taylor, P., Coverdale, B., Jacobs, D., Leeuwner, L., Marias, W. & Richards, L. (2018). South African bat fatality threshold guidelines (2nd edn). South Africa: South African Bat Assessment Association.
  • Aronson, J., Sowler, S.& MacEwan, K. (2018).Mitigation guidance for bats at wind energy facilities in South Africa (2nd edn). South Africa: South African Bat Assessment Association.
  • Alexander, J., Downs, C.T., Butler, M., Woodborne, S, Symes, C.T. (2018). Stable isotope analyses as a forensic tool to monitor illegally traded African grey parrots. Animal Conservation 22:134-143.
  • Scheun, J., Greeff, D., Ganswindt, A. (2018). Non-invasive monitoring of glucocorticoid metabolite concentrations in urine and faeces of the Sungazer (Smaug giganteus). PeerJ 6:e6132

  • Yetman, C.A., Clark, T. & Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. (2017). Pyxicephalidae Pyxicephalus adspersus Tschudi, 1838 Giant Bullfrog Predation. African Herp News 65: 19-22.

  • Sowler, S., Stoffberg, S. MacEwan, K., Aronson, J., Ramalho, R., Forssman, K. & Lötter, C.A. (2017). South African Good Practice Guidelines for Surveying Bats at Wind Energy Facility Developments - Pre-construction. Edition 4.1. South African Bat Assessment Association.

  • MacEwan, K.L. (2016). Fruit bats and wind turbine fatalities in South Africa. African Bat Conservation News, 42, 3–5. 

  • Alexander, J., Symes, C.T. (2016). Temporal and spatial dietary variation of Amur Falcons Falco amurensis in the South African non-breeding range. Journal of Raptor Research 50: 276-288.

  • Sowler, S., Stoffberg, S. MacEwan, K., Aronson, J., Ramalho, R., Forssman, K. & Lötter, C.A. (2016). South African Good Practice Guidelines for Surveying Bats at Wind Energy Facility Development Pre-construction. Edition 4. South African Bat Assessment Association.

  • Scott, E., Visser, J.D., Yetman, C.A., Oliver, L. & Broadley, D.G. (2013). Revalidation of Pyxicephalus angusticeps Parry, 1982 (Anura: Natatanura: Pyxicephalidae), a bullfrog endemic to the lowlands of eastern Africa. Zootaxa 3599: 201-228.

  • Verburgt, L. & Yetman, C.A. (2012). Geographical distributions Amphibia: Anura Pyxicephalidae Pyxicephalus adspersus Tschudi, 1838 Giant Bullfrog. African Herp News 57: 18-20.

  • Yetman, C.A., Mokonoto, P. & Ferguson, J.W.H. (2012). Conservation implications of the age/size distribution of Giant Bullfrogs (Pyxicephalus adspersus) at three peri-urban breeding sites. Herpetological Journal 22: 23-32.

  • Yetman, C.A. (2011). Eight years of Giant Bullfrog (Pyxicephalus adspersus) research revealed. FrogLog 97: 26-28.

  • Yetman, C.A. & Ferguson, J.W.H. (2011). Spawning and non-breeding activity of adult Giant Bullfrogs (Pyxicephalus adspersus). African Journal of Herpetology 60: 13-29.

  • Yetman, C.A. & Ferguson, J.W.H. (2011). Conservation implications of spatial habitat use by adult Giant Bullfrogs (Pyxicephalus adspersus). Journal of Herpetology 45: 56-62.

  • Bateman, P.W., Ferguson, J.W.H. & Yetman, C.A. (2006). Courtship and copulation, but not ejaculates, reduce the longevity of female field crickets (Gryllus bimaculatus). Journal of Zoology, London 268: 341-346.

  • Du Toit, J.T. & Yetman, C.A. (2005). Effects of body size on the diurnal activity budgets of African browsing ruminants. Oecologia 143: 317-325. 

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