Email bruce.robertson@otago.ac.nz
Publications:
Dr Robertson's research and publications are available here
Teaching:
- WLM401 Principles of Wildlife Management (Course Coordinator)
Research Interests:
- Wildlife management
- Conservation biology
- Molecular Ecology
- Behavioural Ecology
- Evolutionary Biology
Current Projects:
Kakapo:
- Pedigree reconstruction among the 51 founder individuals
- Role of genetic similarity/heterozygosity in poor hatching success
- Immunocompetence and Mhc variation
- Genetic management of kakapo recovery
Kea:
- Phylogeography and population genetic structure of kea
New Zealand storm-petrel / southern hemisphere storm-petrels:
- Is the NZ storm-petrel back from the grave?
- Phylogenetic affinities of the NZ storm-petrel
- Genetic variation and population size of the NZ storm-petrel
- Taxonomy of storm-petrels on Gough Island, South Atlantic
New Zealand fur seals:
- Population genetic structure of NZ fur seals
- Genetic assignment of NZ fur seals killed as bycatch in NZ trawl fisheries to colonies of origin
New Zealand sea lions:
- Population genetic structure of NZ sea lions
- Fine-scale genetic structure of a breeding colony
- Correlates of reproductive success in breeding males
Current Postgraduate Students
- Nicolas Dussex (PhD): Conservation genetics of the alpine parrot, the kea Nestor notabilis
- Nathan McNally (PhD): Survival, recruitment, and breeding behaviour of male New Zealand sea lions
- Jolene Sutton (PhD): Characterization of neutral and MHC diversity, along with malaria resistance, in New Zealand saddlebacks and robins
- Elaine Leung (PhD): Ontogeny of diving and juvenile survival of threatened New Zealand sea lions Phocarctos hookeri
- Amy Marshall (PhD): Variation at functional genes in the NZ sea lion (Advisory committee)
- John Evans (PhD): The historical, current and future distribution of the Canada goose in New Zealand (Advisory committee)
- Matthew Taylor (MSc): Population genetic structure of the New Zealand sea lion
- Ludovic Breton (MSc): project to be determined
- Emily Brunner (MSc): project to be determined
Past Postgraduate Students
- Thorsten Horn (PhD, University of Canterbury): Molecular aging of kakapo
- Sandra Negro (PhD, University of Canterbury): Molecular ecology of New Zealand fur seals (associate supervisor)
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