Professor

Professor Tim Crowe PhD (Cape Town) Tel: +27 (0)21 650 3292/1 Fax: +27 (0)21 650 3295 John Day Building: 2.01 email: timothy.crowe@uct.ac.za

Activities and research interests

Wildlife Resource Management, particularly gamebird biology, systematics and molecular biology, ecology management and sustainable utilization.

Professor Timothy Michael Crowe was born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, on 5 July 1948. He went to public school in Boston and studied for his BA in Biology at the University of Massachusetts - Boston, graduating magna cum laude with honours in 1970. He studied for an MSc in Biology at the University of Chicago, graduating in 1972. From 1973 to 1976 he worked as a contract gamebird biologist for De Beers Consolidated Mines Ltd investigating the management and sustainable utilisation of Helmeted Guineafowl Numida meleagris while registered as a PhD student at the Percy FitzPatrick Institute, University of Cape Town. He was awarded a PhD in Zoology in 1978. Since 1976 he has worked as a research officer at the Fitztitute, being promoted ad hominem to Associate Professor in 1988 and to full professor in 2003. His primary research areas are systematics, biogeography and conservation biology (based on the premise of sustainable utilisation of natural resources). In these areas, he has published more than 130 scientific papers, chapters in books and contributions to conference proceedings, and has presented the results of his research at more than 50 local and international scientific conferences. He has supervised the research of 22 MSc and eight PhD students. Within the Percy FitzPatrick Institute, he heads research and educational programmes in systematics & biogeography and gamebird biology, and is the Coordinator of the MSc Programme in Conservation Biology. Research in both of these programmes is conducted from both organismal and molecular perspectives. Since 1988, he has attracted grants, donations and investments well in excess of R3 000 000 to support these programmes, with the amount for 2003 alone exceeding R1 000 000.

Research programmes

Current students

PhD

Potiphar Kaliba: Faunal turnover between east and southern African birds and small mammals: is Malawi the geographical break? (Supervisors: Rauri Bowie, Tim Crowe)

Graeme Oatley: Exploring species boundaries within the Cape White-eye Zosterops virens and Orange River White-eye Z. Pallidus complex using organismal and molecular evidence (Supervisor: Tim Crowe)

MSc

Recent publications

2009

Crowe, T.M. 2009. Book Review: Reproductive biology and bird phylogeny. Miles to go before we sleep. Cladistics 25:105-106.

2008

Dyke, G.J. & Crowe, T.M. 2008. Avian paleontology: opinions and quasi-phenetics versus characters and cladistics. Cladistics 24:77-81.

Junker, K., Davies, O. R., Jansen, R., Crowe, T. M. & Boomker, J. 2008. Nematodes from Swainson's spurfowl Pternistis swainsonii and an Orange River francolin Scleroptila levaillantoides in Free State Province, South Africa, with a description of Tetrameres swainsonii n. sp (Nematoda: Tetrameridae). Journal of Helminthology 82:365-371.

Prinsloo, H., Harley, V., Reilly, B. & Crowe, T. 2008. The diet of helmeted guineafowl (Numida meleagris) in the Riemland of the north-eastern Free State, South Africa. South African Journal of Wildlife Research 38:88-92

2007

Delport, W., Crowe, T.M., Lloyd, P. & Bloomer, P. 2007. Population growth confounds phylogeographic inference in Namaqua Sandgrouse. Journal of Heredity 98(2):158-164.

This list includes only recent peer-reviewed publications. For a more comprehensive list go to Fitz Publications. Reprints can be obtained from the librarian.